Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-11-25
Annual Classic Will Bring to a
Close Football Season
of 1914.
ANNAPOLIS IS FAVORITE
Penn. and Cornell Make Ready
for Their Thanksgiving
Day Speciality.

Football lovers are clinging fondly
to the last few days of the rapidly
ebbing season; but two more games
of Importance remain to be played In
the East. The annual contest be-
tween the University of Pennsylvania
and Cornell will ike place Thanks
giving Day at Philadelphia, and the
West Point-Annapolis game will be
staged at the Polo Grounds Saturday.
Bfacing weather has succeeded the
Indian summer conditions which pre-
vailed last week. holding out pros
poets suspicious for the Army Navy
football game next Saturday. The
staging of this gridiron classic within
the arena of the new baseball stadium
at the Polo Grounds will give it a
more, up-to-date setting than the
game has ever had before, and from
all Indications will attract official
Washington and society generally to
an even greater extent than has been
the rule.
1t is announced that practically
every one of the 1900 tickets have
been taken and that the demand is
still SO great that ordinary SO seats
are selling as high as $50 a pair, while
OOACS Gall DO ne ODldlIitu dJ
500.
The list of box-holders on the Army
side of the field was made public to-
day. President Wilson has engaged
his box on this side. and 1t Is under
stood that a reservation of twenty
seven box seats has been made for his
party. which will probably include
the Presidents new son-in-law and
his bride. Mr. and Mrs. Francis Sayre.
This would probably be the first pub
JIG appearance of the couple follow
ing the wedding festivities in Wash
ington today.
Reservations on the Army side have
also been made for practically all of
the members of the present cabinet,
excepting the secretary of navy, who
naturally would find his place on the
opposite side of the field. The repre-
sentatives of the army will include,
in addition to Secretary of War Car
rjson, General Leonard Wood, General
Thomas Fl. Barry, Colonel G. p.
Townsley, superintendent of the
United States Military Academy, and
a number of high ranking officers in
the military service. Boxes have also
been reserved by nearly a score of
United States senators on the Army
side. but there is only a sprinkling
- wow LOih boSiCly oilONh ih0S
section.
With the Navy the general favorite
In the game it is probable that the
midshipmen will have among their
supporters the heavier representation
of those who otherwise would be dis
interested spectators. One of the
conspicuous names of box-holders on
the Army side is Thomas ]. Lynch.
president of the National Baseball
League, who will find 1t a novelty to
witness a great gridiron struggle on
the same grounds where he saw the
National League champions go down
to defeat by the American League
pennant winners early this fall. Gov
ernor Glynn and Mayor Kline. of
New York, will also be on the Army
side.
Choice of seats is not necessarily
an index to favoritism, however, and
while the list of box-holders on the
Navy side may not show quite as dis
tinguished a company 1t is likely to
have support in greater numbers of
loyal enthusiasts.
The midshipmen are an undefeated
eleven, while the Army cadets have
been decisively outclassed by Notre