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Show GIGANTIC SUMS ARE SPENT FOR FOOTBALL No better illustration of the popularity popu-larity of football need be cited than the crowds and the amount of money spent in attending the Harvard-Yale and Army-Navy games plaved in New York and New Haven on the same day this season. One hundred fifty-three thousand, eight hundred dollars was Eaid in admission charges to the Yale owl and receipts from all Bources, including in-cluding a collection for charity between halves, totaled $168,729. The actual attendance was close to 80,000. The Army-Navy game, played less than 100 miles away, drew about 50,000 spectators, specta-tors, of whom one-third, in round numbers, num-bers, paid $3 each for tickets. The aggregate ag-gregate amount, therefore, ran well over $200,000. This was but a small proportion of the total amount expended by those who witnessed the contests. , Alany came from distant parts of the country and railroad fares, hotel accommodations and meals cost sums far in excess of the actual amounts paid for admission to the Yale bowl and the Polo grounds. It has been estimated that more than $1,000,000 was spent in New York as a result .of the playing of the Araiy-avy Araiy-avy game. It is a fact, notwithstanding notwithstand-ing the great number of hotels in and about the city, that rooms were unavailable un-available at any price on Friday and Saturday nights and many parties were forced to travel to points in Jersey and Pennsylvania for sleeping quarters Similar Sim-ilar conditions, upon a smaller scale, prevailed in New Haven, where, it was stated, the great football throng left close to $500,000 behind it on payment for tickets, hotel accommodations, meals, automobile charges and incidental eleventh-hour purchases. |