Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1902-11-25

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the two months season. AS coaches
on the Harvard and Yale teams get nc
salary. however, the manager charges
to this score only the proportional
share of football for other athletic
trainer, who superintends all the sports
If an unusually competent man for
coach cannot afford to give his time
some OF the alumni may pay him. Elk
penses Of the coaches amount to con-
siderable sum. and, in all, the graduate
manager disburses under this general
head another $4,000. AS all the bic
teams carefully watch the operations OF
their opponents, Harvard, for, instance,
sending coach to see every game Yale
pays, a large part of it goes for rail-
road and hotel bills. And, naturally,
these ambassadors extraordinary do
not journey second class or sneak
round the corner to eat a five-cent
quick lunch.
Ey proxy, at least, the graduate
manager is physician and surgeon to
his charges. When the referee pulls
apart the bunch after a scrimmage on
the held and one does not get up, an
lnconspicuous person running from the
side lines hastily examines the figure
writhing on the ground. The examiner
is doctor. and is the only professional
in the sense of taking money for his
services, on the field. The graduate
manager furnishes all the medicine and
doctors equipment which are essential
to training, at a cost of $500.
He spends some money, too, as SUD-
erih:endent of grounds and printer. A
field constantly plowed by boot-heels
needs much attention to keep it in the
desired smooth, springy condition. 1t
costs him $500 to do this, and when the
manager. turned carpenter, provides
extra stands at an expense of sixty
cents a seat he has further charge
under the head of field expenses. Lit
erature" connected with the game
(tickets, application blanks for them,
postal cards to canvass football candi-
dates) costs 5000. Expenses for police
prctection--for the manager is guard
ian of the peace within the fence-of
ticket selling on the field and allotment
of tickets for the big games, come to
$1,000.
The managers at Harvard have de-
veloped ticket allotment to a smoothly
working system. BY distributing
through the mails all tickets for the
big games, except perhaps a small sur
plusage of undesirable seats, they OBJ
viate the confusion incident to ticket
selling in the old days. They give a
preference to holders of season tickets
on applications for one seat, and so on
to a maximum application for four
seats. Successive managers have
worked to thwart spectators and, step
after step. have gained the present sue
cess. At first this gave holders of sea-
son passes a preference on two re-
served seats and allowed them to apply
in person. So many students bought
the passes on this inducement that the
1 e-comers got much inferior seats. 1t
resulted in picturesque camping out
in front Of the ticket office. where the
pass-holders began to form a line OF
easy chairs twenty or thirty hours be-
fore the office opened, and thus laid
siege a day and a night muff1ed in blan-
kets and lighted by flaring torches.
Now all apply by mail, and the man.
ager employs an extra force of assis-
tants to distribute the coveted paste
board slips. The manager, by recording
all tickets, constitutes himself a detec-
tive to ferret out any who dispose of
them to spectators. and may punish
offenders by publishing their names.
Men interested in all kinds or
schemes besiege the graduate manager,
who ought to be a humorist to get the
most out of his situation. Some bio
graph managers several years ago Of
fered $4,000 for the privilege OF getting
pictures of the game. Visions or large
audiences nightly and two
afternoons weekly delighted at the
great game played before their eyes.
with no discomforts of cold and at a
merely nominal price, tickled the fancy
of the purveyors of public amusement.
One difficulty presented itself-the play
would he constantly passing out OF the
range of the instrument. But the DO
graph managers had fertile inventive
faculty. 1t takes only so many yards
gain to make a touchdown, they SAID,
so lust restrict the play within the
twenty or thirty yards the instrument
covers. and count the gains plus ana
the losses minus till one side has Plus
score large enough to count touch
down. Though the graduate manager
could not dispute the cogency OF the
rea soning. he declined the offer. The
manager takes any reasonable chance'
however. to derive an income from
side issue. Behind the reporters at the
ton of one of the stands, and unno-
ticed by the crowd, series OF teie-
yranh Instruments click bulletins OF
the game all over the country. For the
privilege of having them there the tel
epraph company gives a frank on all
athletic business-a considerable saw
ing.
The managers debit account includes
a large item not strictly an expense Oh
the team, about $1,000 paid in guaran'
ties to visitors. which completes the ex.
nenditure of $4,000. Part of the credi'
balance of from $4,000 to $4,000 sup.
niles deficiencies of the track team ano
other forms Of athletics not self-sup-
norting. When the manager balances
the wears accounts, he still has large
sum left for permanent Improvements
The Harvard Athletic Associatior
boards it's surplus for the constructor
~ stee, stands to take the place OF the
nresent iron structures.