Salt Lake Telegram | 1935-12-26 | Page 13 | Scalpers Ride High on Mounting Prices for Rose Bowl Game

Scalpers Ride High Highl l On Mounting Prices I For Rose Bowl Game By PAUL ZIMMERMAN IAN Associated Press Sports Writer F. F f PASADENA Calif Dec 26 26 In In the poolroom vernacular four forty cents may get you a hundred if you are arc dealing in Rose Bose Bowl tickets of the right l location cation 1 With approximately seals scats available and more than per per- fons ons clamoring to tc see sec the football game jarne ame here New Years Year's da day between Stanford and Southern Methodist the the scalpers arc are riding high 1 One hundred dollars is top price ef cf course but ut a 3 prominent Hollywood Hollywood Holly Holly- wood motion picture producer paid It K with a smile Ho He bought only two tickets 3 M Most t tickets arc are being scalped however howe at from 30 to 50 apiece for the tho best of or the variety with wilh those back of or the goal posts around 10 10 each cacho Small Profit Prom While every ery effort is being made madeo to o keep down scalping the ducat bootleggers report a brisk business Actual profit to each individual in involved involved involved in- in is however small The Tho middleman middleman mid mid- is cutting into the racket One Illicit ticket dealer told of t paying an original purchaser 14 each for eight They burned his jeans for a day until the Christmas rush forced him to un unload unload un- un un-I un load Joad for a 50 profit to a n middleman middleman middle man who was peddling the lithographed lithographed litho litho- graphed pasteboards to a a. prominent tent nent motion picture actor i A checkup showed the actor paid 25 each for the tickets 1 L t While hUe heavy y scalping i is i being done in Hollywood former Texans of Southern California also o ha haer r been searching out the tho bootleggers rith r heavy Y bankrolls and many manyI I horse racing enthusiasts hero here for forthe or the winter meeting at santa anta Anita are arc eager to talk bu business iness At the present trend it was expected ex ex- ex- ex that prices would be out of reach by tho the morning of tho the game with few ew tickets available at any 11 figure re i- i f Texans Get Of the tickets were tent jent to Southern Methodist for distribution distribution dis dis- in Texas While this sum proved pro entirely inadequate It was double the amount any visiting ever requested before Every effort eHart is being made to fortify fortify fortify for for- against gate crashing The fences around the bowl were strengthened this year car and the usual force of or P Pasadena adena police will be augmented by reserves from the fire department