Salt Lake Telegram | 1943-12-27 | Page 12 | Ticket Sales Soar for Annual Cotton Bowl Tilt

i Ticket Sales Soar For Annual Cotton Colon Bowl Till Tilt DALLAS Dec 27 21 UP The P-The The cash register needs a supercharger to keep up with the pace of advance ticket sales for the eighth annual Cotton bowl football game next Saturday between Texas and Randolph Randolph Randolph Ran Ran- dolph field With the game still five days away and the biggest sales days still ahead half as much cash as came in last year already is in inthe inthe inthe the till presaging a crowd of from to Director James H. H Stewart said sales w were re up 50 per cent over the same period last year Half of the crowd is due to be made up of members of the armed services A campaign in which the public was invited to provide tickets for enlisted men and women women wom worn en is expected to admit The military will furnish the be- be tween-halves tween program The Texas squad resumes practice practice tice lice tomorrow Randolph field hasn't let up since closing the regular season The fliers will come to town Wednesday Texas will not be here until Friday since the navy trainees are allowed to tobe tobe tobe be away from the campus only 48 hours Texas has been installed as favorite favorite favorite fa fa- fa- fa because of a better off offensive offensive offen offen- en- en sive record and harder schedule The Longhorns won seven and lost one rolling roIling up 2814 yards rushing and passing for an average average average aver aver- age of per game Randolph won nine and d lost one compiling yards an average of Hockey Standings w L T 0 OG Montreal 14 2 4 92 43 32 Boston 9 8 4 99 22 Toronto 10 10 2 96 92 22 Chicago 10 1 11 0 87 92 20 g Detroit 1 7 8 g 3 65 73 5 i 17 New York 4 4 15 1 73 9 Games This Week Tuesday D Detroit at Boston Thursday Detroit at Montreal Friday Toronto at New York Saturday Toronto at Boston Montreal at Chicago Sunday Boston Bonton at New York Montreal at Detroit WeekEnd End hockey Saturday Montreal 5 5 Chicago 1 1 I New York 5 5 Toronto 3 Sunday New York 7 7 Chicago 8 6 Boston 4 4 DetroIt 4