University Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1908-1916, 1910-11-28
$500 FOR 2 SEATS
SAID HARVARD GRAD
Ticket Seller Day Before Yale
Harvard Game Shook His
Head YEARLY.
STADIUM HOLDS 10000
Seattle Man Offered 81, 900
for Seven In Row and
Was Turned Down.
STADIUM HOLDS 10000

On the day before the Yale-Harvard
football game of last year, a prosper
GUS looking man of middle age rushed
into Boston hotel and made for the
ticket Office. In his fist was a roll
of money big enough to choke the
traditional cow, and he sputtered as
if there was no time to lose: You'll
have to give me two good seats. !
just now discovered that my grad
yates application was mislaid on my
desk and never got into the mail.
What have you got on the Harvard
side, somewhere about the middle of
the field?"
You're too late to be fussy about
where you sit" replied the youth be-
hind the counter. How much do
you want to pay?"
"Oh, I'll go as high as $50 seat
rather than miss the game
The ticket broker looked Slightly
bored, but was courteous enough to
explain:
Il was offered $500 not ten minutes
ago for two choice seats, and there
was nothing doing. l can't get 'em.
All can do is to put your name down
behind twenty or thirty others, and
send you word if l can buy or steal
the seats before tomorrow noon. Have
you tried the sidewalk spectators,
sir?"
$40 For Seat in BIeechers.
Eyes, and the scoundrels want $40
for seat in a wooden grandstand
away down at the end of the field. Two
hundred dollars for pair, you say?
Whew! All right, my son. I'll stand
the gait. Find me what | want, and
will pay $500 for them-understand ?"
Il can't promise, but I'll do my
best" said the other.
The disappointed enthusiast hustled
from the hotel, climbed into an auto
mobile and set out in search of other
Harvard graduates who might listen
to his tale of woe. He found a men,
Der of the Chamber of Commerce who
had been a classmate of his, and this
hardhearted person remarked:
Sorry, but l need my tickets, old
man. Gold can never buy me.
turned down an offer of two hundred
&c inc dc rr-h,p
lives in Seattle, wanted seven seats
together for a bunch of friends he
was bringing on to the game in his
private car. He put up fifteen hun
dred collars two weeks ago, and he
never got nibble.''
Greatest Show on Earth"
The upshot was that the collegian
and his wife had to watch the contest
from what would be thought very
undesirable place on the bleachers of
baseball field, and paid $40 each
for the privilege. This incident, one
of many of the same kind, may serve
to indicate that the Yale-Harvard foot
ball match is the greatest show on
EARTH" measured by the cost of see.
ing it comfortably, and by the almost
incredible eagerness of thousands OF
well-to-do Americans to be among
those favored by admission to the
stately stadium at Cambridge or the
vast wooden amphitheater at New Ha
ven
Although forty thousand people can
be seated within either of these in
closures, yet the pressure for more
room is SO great that the problem
battles the ingenuity of the manage
ment. The task of distributing the
limited number of tickets, of keeping
them in the hands of the college fol
lowing, and of fighting the Spectator
requires enough complicated Office or
ganization to run great business cor
poration.-Ralph D. Paine in Nun
sey's.