The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-11-22

country this autumn presents new
 problems for the undergraduate and graduate managers which they are
 having great difficulty in solving No college stadium has yet been built that afforded ample seating accommoda- tions for the most important game of the schedule. It is always necessary to curtaiI the allotment of coupons, and in many cases to return hundreds | of applications because of the fmpos- sibility of seating the thousands who are willing to pay from two dollars to three dollars for tickets and spend from fifteen dollars to fifty dollars ad- ditiona1 for transportation and hotel accommodations previous to the game. In no case has the increased seat | ing capacity of new stadiums kept pace with the interest in football and the demand for tickets. The task of handling the applications outgrew the | undergraduate football manager
 stenographers and a large clerical force is necessary to open, file and re- ply to these requests for seats. This situation applies of course, only to the | most important and closing games of the season, but the work and detail re- quired in systematically caring fo= thousands of applications and the &C., companyfng checks and postal orders
 covers several months. In the case of the Ya1e-Earvard, Army-Navy,
 Princeton-Y Yale and games of similar type, the mail arrives by bagfu1 in ev-
 cry delivery. It remains for the man agement to apportion tickets repre- senting less than 50 per cent of the total application in such a way that undergraduates and alumni may have
 first call on the coupons. The chance of the average outsider may be gIean- ed when it is stated that with 45,000 seats available for the Army Navy
 game, there were 75,O0O applications.
 The Harvard stadium, where the Yale-Harvard game is played to-day holds with temporary additions about 10000 spectators. According to Grad uate Treasurer F. W. Moore, of the Harvard Athletic Association, 15O, ,O0O seats would be needed to fully supply
 the demand. Tn writing of the rules
 governing the distribution of the tick
 cts and tke problem in general MT.
 Moore says:
 '"The whole object of all these rules, however, is to distribute an utterly 1 inadequate supply of seats in the fairest possible way among Harvard
 men. They are the result of the ex- perience of all the men who have been connected for the past twnty years
 with the handling of our great game. Since then our graduate list has been
 growing at the rate of nearly a thou
 sand a. year, and the proportion of the younger graduates who wish to at
 
 in the older classes, because they
 have been brought up on football fin school and college, and naturally have
 more real interest in the game itself.
 t'The whole trouble in a nutshell is that we need a hundred and fifty thousand seats and we have less than
 forty thousand. Even at New EIa- ven, where the price of tickets is only
 small part of the cost of attending the game for most of the spectators, the management is building a co1os-
 scum to accommodate nearly seventy thousand people. With the game at Cambridge, where the tickets repre- sent practically the whole expense to the great majority of those who at tend, am convinced that an unre-
 strfcted sale to graduates and under graduates only, for the use of them
 selves and their friends, would dispose
 of at least hundred thousand seats.'' How it feels to play in the Cha1- Ienge round of the Davis Cup, em- bIematic of the worlds tennis cham pionship, is vividly described by Rich ard Norris Williams, second, who with
 Mclaughlin, Hackett and Johnson. formed the United States team that
 regained the famous trophy in Eng land this season. His story as print
 ed in a publication at Harvard Uni versity, where he is a sophomore, is in part as follows:
 ssWe were now in the Challenge Round with the hardest task before us. Six or seven previous American teams had reached just this point in the last eight years, but none had been able to lift the cup. On the
 Saturday after we played Canada, we went down to Folkestone and there spent couple of quiet days, not talk ing or even thinking of tennis. The
 rest did us a lot of good, but the strain was gradually telling No one can imagine the mental strain under
 which we were playing. After two long months of play, a little slip. an 'of' day, an injury to member or the team, might mean the loss of the
 Davis Cup. We all fully realized this, but we went into the matches with confidence. We were determined to do our best, which was all that Amer ica could ask
 4~rhe draw for the Challenge Round was made on the Wednesday before the matches were started. McLough- lin was to play against Parke at 2:3O and I was to follow against C. P. Dix
 on after the first match was over. On
 Friday morning we took things fairly
 easy. Mac had his lunch about 12:30
 and left in the car for Wimbledon at
 about 1:3O. had my lunch when
 Mclaughlin left and then took things
 quietly until BIB, when I followed
 him to Wimbledon.
 s~When reached the court I was
 told that things were not going our
 way. I then spent the worst hour
 and a half one could possibly imagine.
 I was of course, not allowed to watch
 the match, as it is trying on the eyes;
 so I lay down in the dressing room
 while the attendant came to tell me
 now and then how things stood. At
 about o'clock the sound of shouting
 and applause announced McLough- lin's defeat. It was a bad beginning.
 for everybody had expected that Mac
 would win. Later I managed to pull
 the tide our way a bit by beating Dix
 on.
 'sOn Saturday the public certainly got their moneys worth out of the