Show TICKET SCANDAL LOOMS AGAIN ADAIN IN WORLD SERIES Lack of Space Hampers Attendance Classic Is Regular Circus By HARVEY HAR ANDERSON mEnSON Special Correspondent of or The Standard Examiner Copyright 1927 Consolidated Press Association lion NEW MEW YORK Oct 8 The a.-The The sensa sensa- sensational sensational 1 money mone returns In sports must be ba left to prize fighting Not No even cven the ingenuity ty of Tex Rickard could devise lse a ball bail ballpark ballpark 5 park which would I hold a million dol dol- dollar dollar dol- dol dolL L lar gate S The 1927 1527 world series and every Sw t series in the past has given abundant vS e dant proof of o the theS S 4 pulling power of o S baseball Admission prices p r 1 c e S could be shoved up to some come something comeSS S S thing like Jike fight fiG f i g Is b t I ticket figures for figures for forone S one series perhaps i but but it would kill killI killI I P. Waner taner the game for the rest of o the year jear Seating capacity is now just about up to the limit Tl It would be easy casy enough to build gigantic stands but they would so overshadow o the field as to make playing almost impossible It would be interesting to speculate ec 1 i about a financial n possibilities I of base base- baseball baseball ball if 11 it were not riot for these limits limita ta- ta In this week about in checks was returned to persons seeking tickets Disappointed thousands hung around Forbes Field hoping that some horn of o Jericho would topple the walls and let them in In New York YorI there was as an even eyen greater demand for scats seats Thus o so far as attendance at and re returns re- re returns returns turns are concerned world series base base- baseball baseball ball promises to remain about as it itIs ItIs Is Lv for a long time to come The next big battle of baseball man man- management management management will be against ticket This annual ruction I broke out at Pittsburg with unusual violence lol nce Although Barney Dreyfuss owner of the Pirates is regarded as one of the most trustworthy men in baseball there was a In his ticket dis dis- distribution distribution distribution somewhere some along the line Une and still unexplained which left large and Important sections of nursing grouches which will last through the year While it was true trus that two big corporations took a heavy toll of 01 tickets this was offset oset by the success of o obscure persons while pow pow- powerful powerful powerful erful individuals failed For Instance the entire staff star of the Monongahela bank including the president sent in I their checks for tickets The only ones who got them were two negro porters In New York the rash of speculators also broke out but with less virulence Angry fans will ill be busy for a long time shoving all this up to Judge Landis It has happened many times before However er owners and man man- managers managers managers agers are said to be in earnest rnest this time and it is possible some means of a II fair distribution will mil be found before next year jear REGULAR CIRCUS The insatiable appetite of o the crowd demanded not only a 1 contest con st In this series erles but a spectacle Babe Ruth like the elephant in the circus is al always al- al always always ways a show Lou Gehrig also has become a Gargantuan Gar antuan figure The Waner boys oos Lloyd and Paul from I Oklahoma were sufficiently exciting Ung to draw a few lusty roars from the fans Slender and agile as a pair of o Shubert chorus men and as modest and arid self sel effacing as a II Horatio Alger hero bero these lads the big and little poison polson of the burg team won acclaim from both towns Old Wiley Moore like the Waner boys an Okla Okla- Oklahoma horns homa farmer also fills an important niche c in the baseball hall of rl fame ne When his rod and piston arm pumped the Yanks out of o a hole in Pittsburg New York fans almost yelled them them- themselves themselves themselves selves into the hospital The present outlook that scouting out the brush will be more thorough and energetic from now on than ever er in the past The world series may be a big show bow for the diers who have ha to lay off or and get a manicure every few minutes but the and Moores still come from the sticks sUcks Joe Devine De one of o the most competent ivory hunters in America excavated Paul Waner out ot of San Francisco Calif not that San Francisco is by any means a tank town Speaking of o the coast league there were quite a few detached ob observers ob- ob observers servers ers watching the world series this year rear who figured that some come of the coast engagements ranked up pretty I close to this thU present performance |