Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-10-31
GREAT DEMAND FOR
ARMY-NAvY TICKETS
Athletic Association Deluged With
Requests for Big Game.
MANY TO BE DISAPPOINTED.
Presence of Atlantic Fleet Nearby viii
Draw Heavily on Nays Allotment
Despite Increased Number.

When the books of the Navy Ath-
letic Association are closed tonight,
the executive committee will find
itself confronted with the usual d.
emma of hcw TO supply the multitude
of demands for tickets to the Army
Navy football game to be played In
Philadelphia November sc, out of
the limited number of the coveted
pasteboards that will be available.
Each year the demand for seats at
the big inter-service game has grown
greater and greater and this year rs
no exception to the condition of
affairs. In fact, the number of re-
quests that have been sent to lieut..
Arthur P. Fairfield, the secretary
and treasurer o! the Association, is
even proportionately greater COM
pared to former years The usual
number of requests have come from
sources that the Association can, I'M
der no circumstances, meet, and con-
sequently they will be ignored entire
| ly, while others that will be given
consideration when the committee
meets to arrange the final distribu-
ton, have been placed on file.
The heavy demand this year is
largely Que to the presence of the
vessels of the Atlantic fleet at nearby
ports, and consequently a greater
number of officers have planned to at
tend the big game, and have, there
| fore, sent in their requests for the
number of tickets to be allotted them.
And the local demand too, is some
what greater, due to the larger num-
her of officers assigned to the Naval
Academy staff this term, together
with those taking the postgraduate
course at the engineering school, and
assigned to the feet of warships at
tached to the local station, which 10
larger now than at this time last
year.
And, despite the fact that the
seating capacity Of Franklin Field,
which is to be the scene of the battle,
is greater by nearly 5000 than last
year, still there will be many of those
who have applied to the Navy end for
tickets, who will be sorely disappoint-
ed at not getting them. The Associa-
ton will, as usual, make every effort
to meet as many requests as is pos
sible, but no bones is made of the fact
that the problem will be a hard one
to solve.
As is generally the case, all mem
bers of the Athletic Association. as
we'll as the midshipmen's Athletic
Association, who contribute their an
nual dues to the support of ath-
letics at the institution, will be
looked after first, and what tickets
are then left will go to he general
public as far as possible. But it is
stated that the number of these will
be very few.
At recent meeting of the execu-
tivs committee, it was decided to al
low each member of the Athletic AS.
ISOLATION three tickets, as formerly.
The same quota will be distributed
among the midshipmen. Members of
the football team and squad will be
given a few more than that, as GUS
tomary, in recognition of their SER
vices during the season.
The distribution Of the tickets will
begin about November Is Many of
the Annapolis contingent who are
planning to see the game are depend
ing upon friends among the corps of
midshipmen and others, to supply
them with coveted card.