The Bridgeport times and evening farmer., 1919-09-17
NO PR0FITEERING SHOWN
 IN COLLEGIATE FOOTBALL
Advance of 50 Cents For Yale-Harvard Seats Only Increase For GridirOn Fans In
 East This Year.

Boston. Sept. 17.-Tho big contrast of the fall season in sport this year will be the ticket prices at baseball and football games. Garry Herr mann's $5.6O tax for graudstand seats to see the Reds play in the worlds series has the fans roaring all around the country. And at 90 time when they are in fever heat over profiteer- ing as it's praCtised in Cincinnati, it wouldn't be out of place to glance at the gridiron tariffs for the coming year.
 They can talk of college football being Commercialized but the folks that run the gridiron games lay off gouging their customers in manner to be commended. And that despite the fact they could easily double the price of tickets and get almost as many spectators.
 Hermann takes his worlds series classic, stretches it to nine games and then slams down a $500 schedule for grandstand seats. It is a question whether he Reds and White Sox can play S5.5O worth of baseball in any afternoon. But the seats in Cincinnati won't all be barren when the series is on, even though there may be a few vacant clusters. You can always get a large army of fans to pay the price, no matter wht the quotations may soar to.
 The opportune time 10 raise the ante is when the fans are Clamoring for an event. That's what they're do- ing in ncinnati-ClamorinE 10 sec the Reds play for the ttle-and Gar ry. coEuizaut of the fact, has pIas- tered on as heavy a tarin as the traf- fC will stand.
 On the football side of the arEu- ment take look at Harvard-Yalo plans for the coming fall. Tho liar vard-YaIe game ls sJro to be a stand ing-room-onIy event. no matter what the price. They could jam the Stad- ium to the very last row even if the tickets retailod 1t S5 c0ch. Many good sport has paid five times that sum. to o spcculator for a ticket to the Harvard-YaIc clash.
 But Harvard and Vale have boost cd the tickets only 5O cents this fan, and an the seats t0 the Stadium will be S2.50 apiece.
 This despite inc fact that athletic treaeIrfos 1t both Cambridge and New Haven arc depleted and arc u-- gently in need of thousands of dol lars
 War times ruined the balance that most colleges had for their sports 1c- counts. Two lean years. when ath- Ietics were Carrfad on at no profit but tu many Casos at tremendous losses. dug holes in tho coIIcgilta bankrolls. And row. when thc teams have chance Co come back at inc |. af cautiously hold themselves in check and refuse to gyp their supporters.
 A learuo season lasts 1tO games at it's shortest Next year viii 500 tho resumption of the 154-r0mc sched- uic. For nearly six consecutive months the baseball m1gnates have a drag on the public. oftcntimcs cashing iu with Sunday games I1 certain cities.
 As against a ball teams TAO games. a college football outfit plays seven. eight or nine games. Harvard with the longest schedule of the Big Three, has only nine games listed this fall or just as many games as are sched- uIed for the worlds series. Yale has eight games and Princeton seven.
 The preliminary games at the Sta dium-and at the Bowl and on scores or OIneT COlleEc 8IlllI'llS dN well are at least as interesting as any games between big league ball teams that are out of the championship running.
 Yet the average prices at most col 1eges for all but the biggest games is lower than the sum for which a fan can gain entrance to a big league park.
 It ia customary for college teams to offer season tickets to their sup porters which bring the average price of admission to each game to a low CT point than the baseball scale of admissions All the preliminary games at Harvard this fall-including Bates, Boston College, Colby, Brown, Nir- Einia- Tufts and Springfield Y. Nj. c. A contests can be seen by a football fan at an average cost of less than 50 cents a game And the fan can sit in the preferred seats of the Sta dium- You get a nice seat in the bleachsrs for half a dollar in any ball park in the country. Grandstand chairs come higher
 When it comes 10 the games that are in big demand-the Harvard Yale, the Ya1e-Princcton and the Harvard Princeton matches - the price doesn't soak simply because the promoters know they can jam the stands The highest point to which the cost mounts is S2.5O a ticket, which is a lot different from Garry Herrmann's arrangements for his be- loved CinCi fans
 Gypping the geese that lay the golden eggs may be fine for the ball rnagnate every autumn when there is a worlds series on tap, but the fans get weary after while. Garry will have a pleasant time next year if his Reds should happen to skid, for in- stance. A goose that lays golden eggs sometimes turns out to be not such a goose after all. They take no chances with killing any kind of fowls in the football league. Garry should study his Aesop's fables.
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