Waterbury Democrat., 1900-11-28
ON THE GRIDtRoN.
Thousands of Dollars Spent to Sec the
 Yale Harvard Game.

pleted for the football game to-mor- row afternoon at the Driving park be tween the St Thomas Cadets and the Fifth Artillery of Fort Hamilton. New York. The latter, eighteen strong. will arrive in the city on the II is train and will be met at the Nauga tuck depot by the St Thomas drum corps: thence they will be escorted to their hotel. In the afternoon the teams will reach the field about ? o'clock and the game will commence at 3 o'clock sharp. The grounds are in excellent condition. q force of men having been employed in putting them | ill shape the last few days. The i grounds have been roped off and con- sequently clear field will be afforded i to the players. A sufficient guard of 1 police, under the supervision of C7:>- stable Donahue. will be on .sat, :, , keep in check the large crov : v":,;.1t | is sure to attend In brins.i,S- the i Fifth Artillery eleven here, the cham i pions of the United States army, on | Thanksgiving day. the Cadets are of fering the best card ever afforded the public of Waterbury on a holiday or any other day. The expenses in con nection with the appearance of the team are very heavy and therefore the public ought to turn out in large num- bers to witness the game and thereby prove that they are willing to support good football The lineup of the teams will be the same as appeared in last nights Democrat. Both eleyenS are composed of strong and fast play CTS, as attested by their records this season. The officials for the game have been selected and will be as follows: Referee, Representative-elect Attorney Francis P. Guilfoile: umpire, I. J. Fn1pV. I I Alleney.
 The second Y. NJ. c. A. eleven will journey to Thomaston tomorrow, where they will meet on the gridiron in the afternoon the sturdy eleven of that town. The boys spent several hours in hard practice last evening and are confident of winning. The second Merrimac eleven. under l the management of William McDon- ald. will visit Waterville tomorrow | afternoon and will attempt to defeat | the crack Waterville town team. Tle | Merrinacs though fearing hard | game. intend to return home with one more victory to their credit.
 The Elm football team of this city will play the strong Seymour team on
 
 | victorious. The team has suffered but one defeat this year When they played the Naugatuck team their team 1 was i'll poor condition. out it has been 1 coached into proper shape so that ii they played Naugatuck again the score would be changed around. They played the strong Unionville team and q tie game with Torrington T. A. E. team; and last Saturday won from the N | to .. The team is composed of such players as P. Ileeting, l. b.; P. Coyle l. t.; T. Riordan. J. Cronin. l. g.; D. 1 Buckley, center; NJ. Bunce, r. g.: w. | Dunn, r. t.: w. Guilfoile. NJ. McDon- aid. F. e.: P. Sheehan. J. White, q. b.; J. Hannah. f. b.; D. Cronin, r. h. b.; F Green, l. Il. b.
 The University of Wisconsin eleven has cancelle to-morrow's game With Brown because the players did not care to keep in training. Wisconsin, by the way, made fine record this sea son.
 Providence, Nov 2s.-The Brown eleven, at a meeting yesterday. elected William P. Bates. 'O2. as captain for next year.. Libe Washburn, the pres ent captain, graduates next June, and Bates is considered worthy successor.
 He made the varsity eleven ill his
 freshman year and in the past three
 seasons has established himself in his
 position as full back as q strong line
 bucker and q sure punter.
 W. B. Shoemaker, manager of the
 Columbia varsity eleven, said yester-
 day that the advance sale of seats for
 to-morrow's game with the Indians
 was unprecedented. He said tl.at in-
 dications point to Il crowd of more
 than 15.0OO spectators inside of Colum- bia field. Coach Sanford declares that
 the eleven will be in better shape than
 it was in the games with Yale and
 Princeton. and that the Indians will
 have the hardest kind of q time to
 win.
 That football enjoys popular support !. is shown by the amount Of money eX- pended on Saturday to see the Har- vard-Yale game at New Haven. Abous
 5000 persons went to the scene of ac- ton, from New York and gave up for
 round trip tickets $3 each. Nearly 10.-
 GOO made the trip from Boston and :. back at S7 a head: so that the New York. New. Haven and Hartford rail-
 road took in close to S1OO,O 900. The l. visitors after arriving at New Haven
 had to eat, ride in cabs and pay for other necessares. Rating the eXpen-
 allure at an average of S3 each. q total l of $04 GOO is q fair estimate of the money spent in that city. Twenty-Five ' thousand persons saw the game, the
 bedrock price for tickets being $2. But as many bought seats from speculators
 at advanced rates. 1t is fair to assume
 that $60,O00 was put out for the priv
 ilege of seeing the battle. This would make q grand total of more than $2oO. O00. which is low estimate of the money placed in circulation when il l is considered that those who went tC | New Haven did not limit expense. Tht Yale management increased the seat ing capacity of the stands o.oOo. bu they could have had room for 35.OO' persons and yet have disposed of every ticket This goes, to show that inter :. collegiate football is one of the mos popular sports in America, and that i r the promoters of it were out for bi; profits they could take i'll unlimited coin.