Evening star., 1941-12-15
Duke Suggests
Oregon State
Visit Durham
New Site for Shrine
Contest Is Expected
To Be Named Today
BY the Associated Press.

BY the Associated Press.
SAN FRANCISCO, Dec. 15.-The
Vests famous New Year football
classics-the Rose Bowl and the
East-West games-hunted temporary
new homes today as war refugees.
Military eXpediency demanded
blackout of the games. The Army
was firm. Sponsors agreed to CO.
operate fully and Cancelled all local
arrangements.
Then, as Pasadena and San Fran
cisco kissed dreams of thousands Of
tourist dollars good-by, officials went
to work to find other quarters for
the orphaned sports spectacles.
Where the games might be taken
was anybody's guess. Percy Locey,
director of athletics at Oregon State
College, the Vests Rose Bowl rep
resentative, said he was receptive
to offers" of a place to hold the
game, a feature of the annual
Pasadena Tournament of Roses.
Durham Eager to Be Host.
And he got them. officials OF
Duke University, Oregon States
choice to represent the East, sug-
eested that the game be played in
Duke Stadium at Durham, N. C.,
with Rose Bowl sanction or other
wise" Chicago, New York and
Kansas City were mentioned as
other possible sites.
There appeared to be plenty OF
takers for the East-West game, too.
Atlanta, Chicago. Spokane and Nor
man. Okla, home of the University
of Oklahoma, all were reported to
have been in touch with East-West
representatives. A decision on the
East-West encounter, an annual
benefit for the Shriners' Crippled
Children's Hospital here, was ex-
pected today. =,
The financial losses incurred coulo
only be estimated. Based on last
wears figure. Duke would have re-
ceived about 100000 from the
Tournament of Roses Association
oregon State would have taken
s57 600 and nine other Pacific Coast
Conference members would have re-
ceived $500 each. The association
owner of the Rose Bowl, would
have netted 1000. The associa-
ton still owes $4,000 on the bowl
All Money to Be Refunded.
Sixty thousand tickets have been
sold to the Rose Bowl game for
approximately $264, 900. The money
will be refunded by individual check.
oregon State, which already has
spent aboua $4,000 for promotion
and other preliminary work, VIII
foot the stamp bill.
There was no one to say what
division of revenue will be made
should the game be played else
where.
Tickets to 80 per cent of the 10000
seats in Kezar Stadium, site OF the
East-West game, have been sold
Purchasers will be reimbursed ir
full. A reserve fund built up over
the 16 years the game has beer
played will assure the Crippled
Children's Hospital against curtail-
ment of service for lack of finances
In Chicago. Andy Kerr of Col
gate, coach of the Eastern Stars
said it was unlikely that the East
West gone would be staged in Chi
cago's Soldier Field because of the
normal January weather conditions
Kerr Wants Game in South.
IT feel the game should be played
in the South, for climatic reasons,
Kerr said. He said he had been ir
contact with East-West game OH
cials, whom he said were advised Of
the availability of Soldier Field fol
the charity encounter.
Kerr announced that members OF
the East squad would meet in Chi
caro- on Thursday and begin prac-
tices Friday at Northwestern Uni
versity in Evanston.