Henry Ford, who had paid $100,000 for radio-broadcast rights, changed seats in his family box to avoid photographers. Babe Ruth sat in the Press box with a white carnation in his buttonhole. In Detroit, Matthew Golden, of Old Saybrook, Conn., proudly announced that he was 72 and had not missed a game since 1903. In Chicago, one George Alms slept on the sidewalk in a tar-paper bag to keep his place at the head of a ticket line. It was the "World Series," between the Chicago Cubs and the Detroit Tigers, for the professional...
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