Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-10-27
HIGH TARIFF ON BOX
SEATS FOR A. n. CONTEST
Price for Compartments Seating
Four Placed at $l00
ExORBlTANT SOME CLAIM.
But Service Officers State There is No
Appeal From Scale Fixed BY
Ball Club.

The announcement made on Friday
by the New York Baseball Club
that boxes for the West Point. An
napolis football game 10 be played
on the Polo Grounds on November
20 would be sold for S100 each
occasiontd much unfavorable com.
ment among the persons who con-
template witnessing the big classic,
but who, at the same time, feel that
a charge of 500 for a box seating
four persons is exorbitant.
1t was announced that the seating
arrangements planned for the game
called for seats for "a, 800 persons,
and of this number the Army and
Navy have the first call for $4,000,
leaving only about 5000 for the New
York Baseball Club. The 5000 seats
the club will sell at So each in the
effort to get back the s24, coo guar
ant se il had to make in order to bring
this, the most popular and fashionable
of all the winter athletic events, to
New York.
Whether or not these al 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 ad-
dition to their regular allotment of
seats, the academies also have 144
boxes, each and every one of which,
it is said, has already been assigned
to prominent Government officials.
officers of the Army and Navy and a
few persons who have always evinced
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, a certain
n1mber going to officers who are
members of the athletic association
of one Of the acade mics. Tn athletic
associations of the academies depend
entirely upon the generosity Of their
alumni and friends for the money
needed to carry them through the
athletic seasons.
At West Point lit was said that
il had been agreed that the extra
boxes should go for $100 each and
that neither of the academies had the
power to reduce the price. 1t was
declared that the charge that such
price was exorbitant and that it
would cause many to look upon the
game as money-making affair, pure
and simple, was not just to either of
the academies, or, for that matter, to
the New York Baseball Club, which,
in order to take the game to New
York guaranteed to turn $4,000 into
the Army and the same amount into
the Navy relief funds charitable
funds entirely apart from athletics
at either of the institutions.
The extra boxes, it was said, may
number anywhere from $50 to 500,
and it is believed that when the pub
lie sale of those not needed by the
academies is started there will be
probably 300 for sale at 500 per box !;
that is, provided the public disap-
proval of the price does not become
so vigorous and pronounced as to COM
pei a substantial reduction in the
price.
An Army officer suggested that
sl5 would be-a fair price to charge
for a box, but he added that as at
present arranged, and with the ap-
proval of the authorities in charge of
the game, there was no appeal from
the preyailing scale of urices