Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-08
GRAFT, HURTS. GRID :
TILT IN NEW YORK
political" Grab Of Tickets
Annoys Schools-HeId No
Place for Match.


n YEw YORK, January s.-Thsrs
I'M is 4 Likelihood that the Noxe
Dame-Arny game, which has
come to be regarded as the
great metropolitan foot bail classic, VIII
not be played in New York next FAN.
While facts concerning the confer
ence at South Bend between Army and
Notre Dame athletic authorities a. to
where the 1890 contest will be staged
have been withheld, the writer Is In o
position to say that If certain project
determined upon at the South Bend
meeting goes through the game viii be
played in a place other than the
metropolis
1t is felt, for one thing, both by the
Army and by Notre Dame, that those
who control the ball parks In New York
are not able to handle situation 20 btk
as that involved in such popular con-
test. While West Point and Notre Dame
issued tickets precisely sufficient to seat
all legitimate spectators, all aisles ct
games In recent years have been
crowded with observers who certainly
got into the grounds without the con-
sent or knowledge Of the institutions
involved. And there have been COM
plants of ticketholders finding their
seats occupied and usl1ers unwilling, for
one reason or another, to remove the
squatters.. .s.,
Too Many POLITICAL TicketA
Again, with the demand for tickets
great as IL Is. West Point and Notfe
Dame are unable to- reserve what may
be termed blocks Of POLITICAL seats
seats which city authorities want for
their henchmen-and it Is feared this
has not been pleasing to the local gov!
eminent. -
Before the game this year Boxes were
sent to the mayor and other ofAciAls
here with the request that, In View Of
the. ticket shortage, they be returned
II they were not to be used personally.
In all cases the boxes were promptly
returned, whether in ,ni4ue becAuee
more seats were not sent may, of
course, not be said. b"
The box sent to Mayor walker was
one which would have been used for
the President. Of the United states Or
the governor, Of the State had either
come to the ganle-in other words, the
DeSJ ,DOx IN the BbA0lum.
There was not, as has been stated, an
insufficient police escort for. the two
teams on the day Of the game what
happened was this. Three. days before
the game a. call came into West Point.
The speaker purported to be calling
from Commissioner Whalen's ONCE. He
| wished Ne said, to enter q complaint
about tickets and TO say that~ there
would be no police escort provided on
Saturday. )"
;, Whalens Ticket Late. !, J..
whether this man was speakink for
any one in authority the Army Autliori-
ties :, did not ask. They did diacoyer
that there had been hitch eitaef Ia
sending Commissioner whalen'e .box
| ticket or delay In its transnliSsion. In
any. case, It, did not reach him In seAson
to salve the dignity Of o .hikhe oEaciAl.
This t%As the fanlt, It appears, of the
Army. ~ - :.
At any rate. the foot. BAH teams ana
not know whether there would Be q
police escort until. on Friday, an Official,
not attached to the police, was reached.
who said that the escort would b. On
hand. !. It was. - =
All In all, considering the ticket situ-
alton and other things: In view, also,
Of the desire Of both institutions 70
obtain q more favorable setting for
their game, it may well be that New
York win lose 1t.
Copyright. 1880