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Show COLLEGE BOWLS I FAR TOO SMALL I Seats for Over 2,00,000 at Big Ten Contests Are Demanded CHICACTO, 111.. Oct. 24 (By the Associated itms.) Football in the midwest Is rapidly assuming tho proportions pro-portions of on Industry a very sue- Ijjj.jj cessful Industry at that and causing I officials of the Western conference to scratch their heads In perplexity over I tho problem of seating between l 2,000,000 and 3.000,000 peoplo this Beason in bleachers designed in the ! days when football was "just another i piece of college foolishness." Between 1,500,000 and 2,000.000 j spectators will get the thrill of Blp J. Ten games this season and, judging from experiences in former years. ?' j conference officials bt'liee that from one-third to one-half that many will be turned away because of the lack of accommodations SSH Receipts from games In the con- BJ!!r ference this sen son will total in ail Imiic probability more than $1. ".00.000. of-flclals of-flclals said today. This much nioi " , . ! Will be expended In building more & h scats to increase the attendance. xrSfc SOLD VT FAR AHEAD. At Ohio Stato university, whore a vat?! new $1,400,000 Stadium seating 63,000 persons was dedicated last 1 Saturday. 72,000 persons jammed their way Into the enclosure and thousands were turned away. The demand de-mand for tickets to the big interse?-tlonal interse?-tlonal clash between Chicago and 'It Princeton here next Saturday was io brisk that all of the seats were 3old 1" nearly thret- weeks before the game f'1'?! and thousands of applications were returned to the unlucky. Stagg Field has a seating capacity of only 31,000. even with the erection of temporary bleachers, but more than 100 000 ap- i r plications, each calling for two or more seats, were received- ftj ?jj All seats also have been sold for the Chicago games with Wlsconsoln and Illinois and there will bo no public pub-lic sale of seats for those contests. Extraordinary crowds ha e turned out at all of the conference games thus far this season. The Iowa-Illlnois Iowa-Illlnois game at I rbana, last Saturday, Satur-day, drew capacity 23,000 while the Wisconsin-Indiana game at Madison drew another capacity crowd 26,000 ASKED TO ItEEP AWAY, c,erK'o ITuff. director of athletics at the University of Illinois, who built Illinois' first bleachers, seatlnc 800 almost 30 years ago, turned the first spadeful of earth for a now stadium seating fi5 000 at Urbana last month. Architects have already completed com-pleted plans which will Include th capacity to SO. 000. If necessary. Last summer, Iowa built her field into a stadium of Steel but even with this added capacity, Hawkeye officials et-pe.-t difficult in satisfying the d3-mand d3-mand for tickets. This demand has attained such tremendous amount of clerical work at some universities that these Institutions Insti-tutions are actually advertising to keep people away from games 'Tb4 |