Evening star., 1932-11-26
SPECTATORS GET.
FIRST OPPORTUNITY
Prices Boosted Nearly 100
Fer Cent-Cadets Rule
rs Favorites.
BY HERBERT w. BARKER,
Associated Press Sports Writer.

N VEW YOfIh, NOFtuuUcI Zo.-
M Army and Notre Dame,
1 Y matching foot ball strategy
and power for the nine
teenth time in the Yankee Sta
dunn today, set one seasonal
precedent before a single shot was
fired.
So intense was the demand for
tickets, even at $3.50 and $4.40,
that New York's spectators held
the whiphand over Mr.. John H.
Fan for the first time this season.
1t was a sell-out with prospects of
crowd of 10000 paying an aggregate OF
between 1925, 900 and $350,000 at the
gate
Hoping to recoup some of the losses
they've suffered in year when economic
conditions have struck so sharply at
foot ball attendance that sell-outs have
been virtually non-existent, ticket
grmblers boosted prices for today's
spectacle nearly 100 per cent.
CRANDSTAND ducats marked at
~ S4.4o were on the market at 81.
To buy box seat with face value
of $3.50, fans dug down into their Jeans
for SILL And the specs, whatever the
justification, warned dilatory customers
that prices would soar even higher be-
fore game time.
Although the weather mans most
optimistic prediction was for cold and
rain" the East's largest crowd OF the
season seemed assured.
The dramatic outcome of previous
Notre Dame-Army games, the pageantry
furnished by West Points corps OF
cadets, the certainty OF an exceptional
brand of foot ball. all these contrived
to stir up tremendous interest in the
battle.
Army. as fast and powerful on the
offense as it has been adamant on de-
fense, ruled a 7-to-5 favorite over the
Ramblers, although most contests be-
tween these rivals have been decided
on a single ''break." Each suffered a
defeat at the hands of Pitts Panthers,
but the experts liked the way Army
rebounded from that one reverse.
THE week after Pitt had won an
l. 1918 victory in one Of the most
spectacular games of the season,
Army mopped Yale, 300, and then
reached the peak in handing Harvard
a 46-0 trouncing. Since that game
Army's regulars have played only two
minutes in actual competition, going In
last week just long enough to score the
touchdown that beat West Virginia
Wesleyan.
Army lost some of its defensive
strength in the Harvard game, when
Dick King, crack end, suffered frac-
tured ankle, but Maj. Ralph /. Sasse
has dug up adequate requirements.
Notre Dame, none too impressive in
its winning games against Kansas,
Northwestern and Navy after the Pitt
defeat, also has been handicapped this
week by injuries and illness. George
Melinkovich, great back; Emmett
Murphy, reserve quarterback, and Jim
Harris, tower of strength in the line,
were stricken by influenza, and Ray
Brancheau, halfback; Joe Kurth, mighty
tackle, and the regular ends, Capt. Paul
Hest and Ed Kosky, have been suffering
from injuries. All of these "crtpples,"
however, expected to play at least a
part of the game.
EXPERTS seeking all-America ma
IL terial fixed their gaze on Capt. Mlt
Summerfelt, Army's great guard,
and Felix (Pick) Vidal, the feet little
quarterback, whose pass-catching and
running have been sensational features
of Arny's smashing campaign. Notre
Dame offered, in rebuttal, Kurth and
Melinkovich among others.
OF the 18 games the teams have
played since 1913, Notre Dame has won
IL and Army 5, with one tie.
Game time was las Eastern stand
ard time). The corps of cadets was to
enter the stadium at about 1890. The
contest will be broadcast tStation
WJSV of Washington of the Columbia
chain will hook in on the show at $3.50
Probable line-ups: