Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 220, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1917 — 283,000 Fans Disappointed; No Seats to Be Had. [ARTICLE]

283,000 Fans Disappointed; No Seats to Be Had.

The tremendous grip that baseball has upon the people of America-’may be realized from the fact that 283,000 applications for reserved seat tickets, received at Comiskey park at Chicago, have been turned down. Comiskey park will hold' but 35,000 people, counting the bleacher seats, while the reserved section will take care of only about 17,500. So, from these figures it may be seen what "SCant chance an individual has to secure a seat for the annual fall classic. Disappointed applicants besieged the 35th street office personally or by telephone all day Monday, only to meet with a second disappointment. They then began assailing the reserved seat trenches by personal friends who thought they had a pull Nothing doing.