Evening star., 1948-12-26
gmda @ @por Time Record Turnout Due for Bowl Battles
Is Games Expected
To Draw 591,400;
Sugar Tilt Booms
BY the Assoeioied Press

BY the Assoeietsd Press
NEW YORK, Dec. u.s. Attend
ance may be sagging in most sports
events, but the football bowl games
still pack wallop at the gate.
An all-time record turnout of 591,-
400 Is expected to pay $2,545, 800 to
watch 16 post-season spectacles
January ! and two minor games
earlier in the week.
This would be around $4,000 more
people than slid through the click
ing gates for is similar attractions
last year. It's figured they'll shell
out . good 0o.oo0 more for their
days fun.
A survey Of the sprawling enter
prises shows that the Sugar Bowl In
New Orleans anticipates one of the
largest gains.
The Crescent City sponsors, who
came up with an outstanding match
in North Carolina and Oklahoma,
are counting on $1,000 customers
and a gate totaling $4,000. Last
years crowd was 72,000.
This expansion, amounting to
about $4,000 in added receipts,
makes the Sugar Bowl real threat
to the long-standing dominance of
the tradition-rich Rose Bowl at
Pasadena.
Rose Bowl Expects $500.
The Rose Bowl is still, however,
the biggest and richest of them all
1t expects 92.500 to pay $450,00o to
watch CALIFORNIA; unblemished Pa
cific coast co-champions tangle with
twice-beaten Northwestern of the
tough Western Conference.
The Orange Bowl at Miami, Cot
ton at Dallas and East-West Shrine
game at San Francisco are other
very lucrative fixtures, each calcu-
lated to attract crowds of $4,000
and above and gates of more than
$500, 900.
The other games, with their in
trigping variety of names which
grow with every year, taper of from
there. The Vulcan Bowl at Birm-
ingham, for example, is preparing
to accommodate only 5000.
Most Of the bowl athletes were
given q rest during the Christmas
weekend. But they had orders to
be back in togs and ready for rough
Skirmishinp tomorrow
The Northwestern Wildcats, a 612-
point favorite over California, have
pitched camp already at Pasadena.
Just before the weekend layoff,
Coach Bob Voigts complained his
Wildcats had lost some of their
earlier zip and performed "like Girl
Scouts" But the boys went about
their work with enthusiasm enough
to sideline two of their number with
minor injuries.
Six thousand Rose Bowl tickets
were sold to the public Wednesday.
The other $4,000, as usual, were
allotted for distribution through the
rival universities and Tournament
of Roses Association.
Sugar Bowl Game Seen Closest.
North Carolina's once-tied Tar
Heels, ranked behind Michigan and
Notre Dame in the seasons final
Associated Press poll, are practicing
at Hammond, La, short trip from
the Sugar Bowl.
The Oklahoma Sooners, who have
been drilling at Norman, will reas-
semble at Biloxi, Miss, today, for
four days of rehearsals. They will
work out in the Sugar Bowl on
December 81 and spend the night
at Algiers. La, Naval Base.
This game between the cham
pions of the Southern and Big
Seven Conferences Is rated the clos
est of the Bowl entanglements.
North Carolina is 1la-point favor
ite and may be no better than even
money at game time.
Southern Methodist and Georgia
are one-touchdown picks over their
foes in the other two of the big
four" bowls. S. M. U. is rated Ga
points better than oregon, co-Pa-
ciflc Coast champion, in the Cotton
Bowl. Georgia, the Southeastern
champ, is given a seven-point edge
over Texas at Miami.
Here are expected attendance and
receipts of bowl games: