New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1916-11-19

less Inere were
,on0b men in big fur coatswho jumped
/ =, At every play play and yelled "Now
20 Of TO obstruct the view of an
sppreciabla percentage.
But why stop at the mention Of the
..ltrv 10000 who sat in the Bowl or
.be Stadium? Why forget the twice
1900 all over the country, in Chicago,
g Louis. san Francisco, Atlanta, who
ratched the same game over the ticker,
or sat in a smoke-fogged room listening
70 Geographic announcements, play by
,lav. or who even stood on the curbing
IN front of newspaper Office and
watched an impartial employee shove
little yellow ball along a blackboard,
usually indicating the direction in
which the real football was not going.
Since it Is so important TO give the eX-
adnumber of people who saw the game.
why not do the thing up right and say:
Returns which are now coming in
fror the Middle West, with some of the
rural districts still to be heard from, in
dicate that at least 1886 people
watched the Yale-Princeton football
gsme Yesterday. Secretary Dinwoodie
Of the San Francisco Yale Club tele-
graphed late last night that the final
count in that city would probably swell
the total to a round 15O,995. This is, or
will be. the largest crowd that ever as
sembled i'm one country to watch a foot
ball game
And watching the game in this vicar
ious manner isn't so bad as the fellow
who has got tickets and carfare to the
real game would like to have it. You
are in a warm room, where you can
stretch your legs and regulate your re-
marks to the intensity of your emotions
rather than to the sex of your neigh
bors. And as for thrills! Dramatic
suspense" was probably first used as a
term in connection with this indoor
sport.
The scene is usually some college club
in the city-a big room full of smoke
and graduates. At one end is score
board and miniature gridiron, along
which a cclored counter is moved as the
telegraph behind the board clicks off the
PLAYS hot from the real gridiron. There
is also an announcer, who, by way of
clarifying the message depicted on the
board. reads the wrong telegram in
loud, clear tone.
Just as the crowd in the football
arena are crouching down in their fur
coats the better to avoid watching the
home team tumble the kickoff, the
crowds two and ten hundred miles away
are settling back in their chairs and
lighting up the old pipes, while the Ger
man-silver-tongued announcer steps to
the front of the platform and delivers
the following:
yale won the toss and chose to de
fend the south goal, Princeton taking
the west
This mistake elicits much laughter,
and a witty graduate who has just had
lunch wants to know, as one man to the
rest Of the house, if it is puss-in-the-cor-
ner that is being plaVed.
The instrument behind the board goes
"Tick-ity-tick- tick-tickety."
There is a hush, broken only by the
witty graduate, who, encouraged by his
first success, wants to know again if it
is puss-in-the-corner that is being
played This fails to gain.
"Gilbick catches the kickoff and
runs the ball back TO his own 3-yard
line, where he is downed in his tracks"
comes the announcement.
There is a murmur OF incredulity at
this The little ball on the board shoots
to the middle of the field
Hey. how about that?' shout several
precincts
The announcer steps forward again.
THAT was the wrong announce
ment," he admits. "Tweedy caught the
kickoff and ran the ball back twenty
G CO. he &c