The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-10-28
S1OO EACH FOR
ARMy-NAVy GAME
BOXES AT NEW YORK
ADVERSE CRITICISM STARTED.
N. ". BASEBALL CLUB WANTS
$4,000 GUARANTEE.

NEW YORK. Oct. 27.-The an
New York Baseball club that boxes
for the West Point-Annapolis football
game to be played on the Polo
Grounds on November 2sth would be
sold for 800 each occasioned much
unfavorab BILE comment yesterday
among persons who contemplate wit
Messing the Army and Navy classic,
but who. at the same time, feel that
a charge of 500 for a box seating
four persons in exorbitant
1t was announced that the seating
arrangement planned for the game
called for seats for $500 persons,
and of this number the Army and
Navy have the first call for $4,000.
leaving only about 6, 900 for the New
York Baseball club. The 5000 seats
the club will sell at So each in the
effort to get back the $4,000 guaran-
tee II had to make In order to pring
this. the most popular and fashiona-
BILE of all the winter athletic events.
to New York.
Whether or not these 500 seats
include the boxes was not disclosed.
but the opinion seemed to be that it
did not. and that the boxes which are
to be sold by the baseball club at 500
each are the temporary boxes to be
erected around the field. In addition
TO their regular allotment of seats,
the academies also have LA boxes.
each and every one Of which. IL Is
said. has already been assigned TO
prominent government officials. off,
GERS of the army and navy and few
persons who have always evidenced a
deep interest In the affairs of the
military and naval academies.
West Point and Annapolis will not
charge for any of their allotment OF
seats and boxes. and every seat will
be occupied by invitation certain
number going To officers who are
members Of the athletic association
of one of the academies. The athletic
associations of the academies depend
entirely upon the generosity OF their
alumni and friends for the money
needed 10 carry them through the
athletic seasons.
At West Point yesterday IL was said
that il had been agreed that the extra
boxes should so for 500 each, and
that neither of the academies had
the power TO reduce the price. 1t was
declared that the charge that such
a price was exorhitant, and that Il
would cause many to look upon the
game as money making affair, pure
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the academies. or. for that matter,
To the New York Baseball club, which
in order to bring the game TO New
York guaranteed to turn Sl2. geo into
the army and the same amount into
the navy relief funds-two charita-
bic funds entirely apart from ath~
letcs at either OF the institutions.
The extra Boxes. 1t was said. may
number anywhere from $50 to 500.
and il is believed that when the public
sale Of those not needed by the
academies Is started there will be
probably 900 for sale at 500 per box;
that IL, provided the public disap-
prevail of the price does not become
so vigorous and pronounced as to
compel a substa initial reduction In the
price.
An army officer suggested that SIS
would be fair price to charge for a
box. but he added that as at present
arranged and with the approval of
the authorities in charge OF the game
there was no appeal from the pre-
vailing scale of prices.