The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1891-11-21
PRlNCET0N'S BIG GAME
Something of a Scandal About
Ticket Speculation.
special 10 the JERSEY ctr Nsys.

PRINCETON, Nov. 81, 189l.-Only three
more practice games will be played oy
the University football eleven before the
championship game with Yale on Thanks
giving Day. The football enthusiasts
who watched the game Thursday with
the reserves were greatly encouraged
in the development of the team,
and declare that the men are
capable of playing good football II
they have a mind to. Captain duncan
Edwards. of the 'S4 team, has been great
help to the Princeton eleven Ia coaching
the past two or three days. He advocates
running around the ends more than
breaking the centre, and this style OF
play was characteristic of Thursday y
game almost exclusively Inc steady
improvement In interference enabled the
backs frequently to carry the baA thirty
or forty yards before being dewned.
However, the play was little loose at
times, aud an occasional fumbling OF the
ball occurred. An important change ip
the team was made in the game Thur5-
day.
Bowkoutt played left guard on the
Varsity in the place of Wheeler, Who
played opposite him on the reserves. rms
is not supposed TO be permanent, al
though the two men are very evenly
matched and will make hard fight for
this position in the Yale game.
The game wita the Athletic Club ef
the Schuylkill Navy, which was sched>
ulad for yesterday, was Cancelled. The
game with the reserves. Monday the
gates will be closed against every body,
Including the college students. Monday
and Tuesday will be spent in getting ia
miilar with the signals and developing
the specific tricks for the Yale game.
The coachers in town at present are
Duncan Edwards. Tracy. Harris, Cash
and Poe.
SPECULATION IN TICKETS.
Six hundred per cent. profit is Wha'
some speculative students want to make
on tickets for the game. Those who were
not fortunate enough to procure their
tickets at the regular prices OF admission
will be compelled to pay $40 ticket.
When Samuel j. Cornell, of the M. A.
c., assumed charge of the arrangements.
he made the statement that the distribu
| tion OF tickets would be made ia the in.
terests Of the public, and not OF speculat-
ors. After all tine tickets had been sold,
and the spectators effectually shut out,
Mr.. Cornell congratulated himself. as his
work In this particular ended. He seat
400 tickets to Yale and 1000 to Prince
ton. At Yale they were euctioned off to
| the highest bidder, and at Princeton each
student, IN accordance with the directions
of Max Farrand, President or the erlnce'
ton Football Association, was limited to
eight tickets.
1t transpires that some of the students
| have either repeated" or have formed
clubs and have elected one Of their hpm
ber to maze arrangements for the dts
posal of their pasteboards at $40 each.
| They cost originally $1.59. and the price
to be obtained yields prospective pron'
| of S. so each.
The Situation in New York.
A few days ago the clerks of three
prominent hotels in New York. and there
may be more. received letter from
Fred. S. Elder, saying that n,
1 had sixteen seats In the grant
stand for the Princeton game, to sell
and that if he could dispose of them there
would be $25 in it for him. These seat
are now on sale at the Fifth Avenue
Hotel, New York The head clerk of the
second large hotel happened to be New
Yorker, and became indignant at the
proposition.
"It Is likely that the speculators from
Princeton" said a gentleman interest c
| fn the game, will be successful In th'
| little game of hOodwinking the public
Still. it Is rather mean business for any
one. let alone college man"
| But the demands OF the Princeton meE
are modest compared with those Of pro
| fessional ticket speculators. A gentleman
stopping at the Astor House, New York
answered q speculator's advertisement
! and received this reply:-'.The seats are
in section p. lower grand stand. They
| are the choicest seats to be had-four IL
row 2. six in row and six in row 5
| ptfce Sl5 each; no less.