New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1905-12-07
CONNECTICUT
BLOW At SPECTATORS.
Ne7c-Hauen officials and Yale Man
agement to Cooperate.

New Haven. Dec. 6 (SpeciaD. Local officials
are planning to stop, if possible. professional
specuIating in tickets for Yale football games
and theatrical attractions. Mayor Studley has
sent a communication to the local Board or
Aldermen in which he calls attention to the
fact that the New-Haven public is DESTROYS OF
abating the specializing business, and in which
he presents definite views as to how this can
best be done If the Mayors plans are carried
out there will soon be an ordinance which viii
end the specializing in tickets which has for
some years annoyed New-Haven.
The Mayors action is directly in line with
the attempt each year of the Yale Football AS
ISOLATION to stop speculation in football tickets.
Four or five years ago the annual trading in
tickets TO the final Yale football games was OF
notable proportions. Scores of professional ticket
traders beseged the campus and streets and
purchased from undergraduates and others large
numbers of tickets TO the games. These they at
once advanced in price. the usual figure Of So
for each seat al the final games often soaring to
S2J and $50. At the Princeton games every
other year the situation was not particularly
bad, because the attendance at those games usu-
ally fell short Of the seating accommodations.
At the Yale-Harvard final game there was such
a rush of legitimate applications from under
graduates and graduates Of both institutions
that the general public, unable to obtain seats
on application to university friends, found II
extremely difficult to secure entrance checks
On these occasions the out Of town spectators
thrived.
Until now there has been no local ordinance
that covered the case. The Yale Football AS
ISOLATION has been obliged to wrestle with the
question by Itself. without the support Of local
regulations. The association managers hava
shown a strong desire to curb the specializing
b1It baJ nj 6se0 a q 10
only course left to the association has been to
issue strict orders that no applicant for tickets
should dispose of them to persons who should
resell them at a profit to the general public.
This has been a hard rule to enforce. The
Yale managers have been compelled to take ex-
IRENE measures to back up their ultimatum.
They have for several years now published at
the end of each football season "black list
which included the names Of all Yale gradu-
ates and undergraduates who had been found
guilty of selling their tickets to spectators.
Those Yale men whose names appeared on this
list were denied the privilege of applying for
tickets to the games for a limited number OF
years but the black list" has all along been
the cause of much trouble. Several Yale men
whose names have appeared there have been
able to prove themselves not guilty, with the
result that more than once civil suits for libel
have been brought against the Yale assOcia- I
ton by discounted subscribers
What has been needed all along has been
of tickets to spectators or by spectators a I
crime punishable by the local courts This has I
been done in Chicago with success Mayor .
StudIey wrote 10 Mayor Dunno of that city I.
when considering the question for New-Haven /
and received reply outlining ChiCago's method /
of dealing with the spectators The reply |
Of Mayor Dunno says that the regulation in /
that city has proved satisfactory, and that [
numerous prosecutions have been made under /
II. The Chicago regulation provides that each /
ticket of admission to any place of amuse- .
ment shall have it's price stamped on its face
and the date for which it is issued. II also pro-
vides that all employees and managers of such I
places OF amusement shall refuse to accept a /
ticket bought from any speculator, provided /
the unlawful purchase of tl-1 ticket is assured. /
1t is believed here that some such method as .
this will have the effect in this city of putting
an end to the specializing in football tickets. .
There has not been until lately, any trouble OF .
Importance with regard to the theatre tickets. (
On occasions, when large Yale audiences have /
been expected for special performances or for (
performances in special college weeks, there has .
been specializing in tickets. The worst case of /
this sort came this fall when practically the /
whole body of the largest theatre here was sold /
to spectators on the occasion of an expected /
large Yale attendance after q football game.
Seats at that performance were sold by these .
spectators at greatly advanced prices and .
scores of Yale undergraduates who had re-
manned i'm line all night iii order to purchase .
seats for their parties unable to get them. .
That caused much protest, and the action of /
the Mayor comes partly as a response to the /
protest at Yale that followed the incident