Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-23
THE GREAT CONTEST,
Tremendous Crowd Expected
at TO-MorrOW's Foot
Ball Game.
BETTING ON THE BIG EVENT
Princeton's Coaches Think That Yale
Will Get a Surprise.
SENSATION AMONG AMATEURS.
SENSATION AMONG AMATEURS.
Results Of the Gutenberg Races, the
FaEorites Winning Well.
GENERAL SPORTING NEWS OF THE DAY

are full OF gossip about the coming Yale
Princeton match, and there are nearly as
many predictions about the outcome of the
thanksgiving Day game as there are mos
qultos In jersey. From as far West as
Kansas City aud as far East as Calais Me-,
there have already come to this city lovers
OF the game who intend to See the struggle
on Manhattan field They are veritable en-
thusiasts who journey So long distance,
but 1t is almost an assured fact that grand
contest will reward them for their trouble.
Granted tina. Thursday is a fine day, Man
haitian field will overflow with throng
such as never invaded it before. But it will
be an uncommonly well-dressed crowd, and
II will be decorous to a nicely In its demon
strations of appreciation for good and clever
plays. The committee in charge of the
sale of admission and grandstsnd tickets
are now able to form some estimate of the
number of persons who will attend the
game, and they predict that the crowd will
be larger than that of any previous year.
Seats Are Selling Fast.
The seats in the other covered stand on
the south side of the field are also gone, SO
that the only stands on which seats can now
be procured are those at either end of the
field. As they command a somewhat in
ferior view of the game those seats have al
ways been the slowest to sell, but fully 100
more had been disposed of to-day than at
the corresponding time last year. Out of
total of q, 600 seats more than "a 600 have
been taken.
Hundreds of persons, the committee says,
have already been turned away disappoint-
ed. The universal desire to see the game,
however, is best shown by the sale of the
admission tickets. There is nding room
ana IN former years the ajority OF those |
who bought admission tickets have done so |
on their way to the game. This year, how |
ever, more than half OF the admission tick
cts have already been sold. |
The bettlng on the game has now become |
nvely. The Yale men are especially an1- |
1ous to avail themselves of any suitable Of |
fers. Tor, although Yale won the game from |
Harvard, they lost slightly on their bets. |
There was more betting-on the score of the |
Sprlngneld game than on its result Many |
OF Yale's supporters who won money on the |
result of the game really lost more than |
they won because Yale failed TO score more |
than six points. |
Betting Their Money Cautiously
They are now anxious to make up their /
losses and the lowering of the odds on the |
Yale-Princeton game, due to the somewhat
poor showing made by Yale at Springfield,
has given them fair opportunity. Several |
small wsgers at odds OF 5 to 4 or 5 to on |
Yale have already been made between the
undergraduates and a pool of nearly $1,000 |
will be sent down from New Haven to-mor-
row to be placed at the best obtainable odds |
There has also been considerable betting |
among the graduates in this city. One prom
1nent Yale graduate has Det 81, 600 to $3.50 that
Yale Will win by at least ten points, num- |
Der Of other bets ranging between s25 and
$500 have also been made, while countless
private wagers have been made on the re- |
suit OF the game,
Despite the talk about McCormick's cool
heRdedness. he really became very much |
ratified at various crisis OF the contest at |
Springfield, and if the spectators had
watched him closely they would have seen |
ing his signals In order that he could see |
what signals two mon in the space set apart |
for the graduate coaches made with their
hands.
Tho Yale eleven will probably line up lust
as they did at Springfield, Laurie Bliss and
Butterworth being all right. Graves may
take Pop" Bliss place, but this is not a
surety.
How Princeton Will Line Up.
Princeton's team will probably line up in
this order: Randolph, left end; Lea, left |
tackle; Wheeler, left guard; Balliett center:
Hall, right guard; Harold, right tackle:
Trenchard, right end: Morse, quarter back:
Poe, left halfDack; King. right hal ack:
Homans. fullback; substitutes, Flint Frscus.
MeCauley. The team took its last practice |
this afternoon. Most OF the evening was |
spent in rehearsing the signals and tricks | ,
that will be used If possible Tomorrow
little or no work Will be done as the mon |
need rest 1t is not settled vet whether |
the team will leave for New York Wednes | ,
day night or Thursday morning but &c is |
most probable they will remain at Prince |
ton until the morning of the game and take | ,
their last meal be ore the big game at the |
Murray Hill Hotel. To-day jack Mchasters | ,
the trainer, said: 1.-THE men are in the best |
possible shape 80 far as training could
make them. Two three of them | ,
have fully recovered from injuries but ,
that is something over which have little ,
control Sprains and broken bones require ,
time. However, 1 can say my boys will
make a gallant fight. and If they must die, ,
they'll die like Spsrtans. There'll be no ,
surrender. Every man will do his duty
They will ali go in to win, and win they will I
if pluck and brains and muscle can do it / |
am satisfied that they will give a good !
account of themselves" :
A coaeher, who desired that his name I
should not be used, said: 1.-THE eleven are
putting up strong game. 1t is 80 per cent !
Detter than Il was eight days ago. We gota | /
pretty good idea OF Yale's game, and will I
spare no effort to beat the blue on Thurs
day. Phil King has several good tricks il he
can get an opportunity to put them into
execution. The only things we have to re-
gret are that our tackles and one OF our ends /
are rather weak. Two or three of the men | ,
have not played for two weeks. Had we all
the men for Thursdays game which we ]
started out with in the early part OF the sea- !
son nothing could prevent our winning the !
pamen |