El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-04
Army-NJavy Players Not Numbered
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Confusion R.ssembled FTarvard-Y ale Game

BY DAMON RUNYON.

will oblige. western colleges, please
7 would like to coach year, and
then I am going into business IN New
York" said the star OF the CRIMSON az
he wedged himself into seat In the
press stand at Philadelphia Saturday
and took pencil in hand. Il did not
get an offer from Iowa, as reported IN
some of the papers, but would IKE
to go out in that part Of the country
Just the same
Brickley asserts that Eddie Mahan is
the greatest footballist in all the lana
today, but he also thinks Wen OF
Tack Hardwick Moreover, he had
a few kind thoughts for Maulbetsch'
The Michigan Mauler"
About Franklin Field.
No excuse can justify the presenta-
ton of a great national sporting spec
tacle such as the Army and Navy loot
/ ball game on a field like Franklin
Field There was a time when the
ward of the University Of Pennsylva-
MIA answered the purpose nicely, but
that time has long since passed, ana
in this day of modern stadiums, with
! their adequate facilities for handing
huge crowds, it is ridiculous to con-
tinue the use Of the field for this par
| ticular event.
We are not arguing that the game
| should be taken away from PhiladeI-
| phia. On the contrary, we contend
! that Philadelphia Is just as much en-
! titled to the famous event as any other
/ city that can be named, and, moreover,
we can say in Philadelphia's favor that
] she offered better accommodations Tor
/ the game this year than could be fur
nished at Franklin Field, but the otGer
/ was declined. Philadelphia offered
/ Shibe park, the home of the AthieIlcss
so not even location can be argued In
favor of the U. of p. yard.
1t might be a different matter II
| Franklin Field belonged to either the
J Army or Navy, if it was home ground
| to one or the other, but it is not, ana
/ there is nothing whatever about the
1 field, or the history Of the field, that
makes it peculiarly appropriate for the
/ game. Old, and dingy, and generally
I unattractive, with its barren gridiron
] and musty stands, it submerged most
Navy crowd Saturday
There is some talk of building a
! stadium to seat $4,000 people in Phil
| adelphia, and 1t is to be hoped that this
plan viii be carried out before it is
| again the Quaker Citys turn to have
! the Army and Navy game.
Up in the Press Stand.
We are not criticising the manage
ment of the game Saturday. The peo-
pie in charge did the very best that
could be done with their limited facili-
I ties. At least wear e giving them the
benefit of the doubt This is particu-
larly true of the press arrangements
and the handling of the press box,
! where a jam and confusion developed
! such as has not been seen at a big
sporting event in many a year-in
| Philadelphia, too, heretofore noted for
handling press people little bit better
than anywhere else in all the land!
The narrow box which hives the no.
bic newspapermen at Franklin Field
was packed until it was almost impos-
sible for any one to move Some one
in authority had evidently overesti-
mated the capacity of that press box
at a ratio of about four to one. No
Horace, the occupants were not all
! newspapermen. Occupants of football
press boxes are never all newspaper
men, any more than the occupants OF
baseball or other press boxes are evel
| all neWspapermen. Newspaper mer
are constantly being heavily outnum-
| bered in press boxes, and there is little
or no prospect of their attaining t.
the majority.
How Others Do It.
At ale, and Harvard. and Prince
ton they get along pretty well witt
their press boxes The management
figure that there should be about one
! football writer to every six loud
voiced friend rof the managen2ent.s ant
one telegraph operator to about ever!
! nine friends. Thus the press boxes
at Yale, and Harvard, and Princeton
! are never more than slightly over
crowded, as they have large pres
boxes at those places, but We do wish
/ and We say this with no feeling o.
! irascibility-we do wish that the man
agements would pick friends whit
eschew onions with their bourbon.
mean fuel economy. R c. Semple. sue
| cessOr Southwestern Fuel Co DhOnl