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Show mm calls OFF COASJ CHE Railroad Administration Objects to Travel; Pasadena Pasa-dena Still Hopeful. CAMBRIDGE. Mass., Dec. 6. The pro-rosed pro-rosed trip of the Harvard football team to Pasadena, Cal., to play a western unl-ersity unl-ersity eleven on New Year's day was abandoned late today because of objections objec-tions by the railroad administration. "The east vers. is the west game wiU go through as scheduled," said A. J- Bcr-tonncau, Bcr-tonncau, a member of the committee. "Ti e public can count on that. AH possible pos-sible pressure will be brought to bear on the officials of the railroad administration. administra-tion. There is such a demand for the contest tnat tt will be difficult to inter-, inter-, fere with it. "Jf Harvard refuses to come, we'll s!rn-plv s!rn-plv have to get another eastern team." 1 in the event that the Harvard squad . cannot, or will not. come, it is understood under-stood that the committee's second choice . would be Princeton. PASADENA. Cah, Dec. 6. Confidence , that the railroad administration can be pevailed upon to withdraw its objection to the Harvard football team traveling to California for a game with a western opponent at Pasadena on Xew Year's day was expressed by members of the football foot-ball committee of the Tournament of Ptoses association here this afternoon when told of the ruling. CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Dec. 6. Dean De Baron R. Briggs, chairman of the committee com-mittee on athletics, announced the cancellation can-cellation after athletic authorities had conferred by telephone with the fuel administration ad-ministration at "Washington. A telegram was sent immediately to Yv". L. Leishman, chairman of the Carnival of Roses committee com-mittee at Pasadena, by whom Harvard had been Invited to the coast, stating that the engagement had been called off in accordance with the provision in the telegram tele-gram of acceptance for canceling the trip "if the fuel administration restricted transports t ion facilities." One special car. it was sp.id, would have been used by the team. It had been planned to take twenty-four players and several coaches. |