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Show ! Pasadena Group Objects To Bear Ducat Monopoly By JACK Gl'ENTHER United Press Sports Writer PASADENA, Cal, Dec. 17 (UP) The mounting indignation of Pasadena citizens who have been shut out of their own Rose bowl game flared today in an official protest condemning the method of distributing tickets to the New Year's day football classic. )The All-Year club of Southen California, one of the most power ful tourist promotion agencies Ir the country, addressed an open letter to the Pacific coast confer-: confer-: ence, charging that the present shot-tags is driving away out-of-state visitors, and asking that the system be revised for future games. The protest waa msioa shortly after officials of the University f California Indicated that the game already had been ver-aub-aerlbrd by tha California alumni, and that there would bo na pub-lie pub-lie ticket sale for tha first time la history. Under conference precedent, each alumnus of tha host university Is entitled to six tickets. This year the plan hit a anag, as ths California Cali-fornia Alumni association numbers approximately 30.000 members, larger than similar groups In all conference colleges combined. The 30,000 members were a potential market for 180,000 tickets, and the bowl seats only 8S.000 persons or perhaps M.000 with tha extra bleachers bleach-ers being erected over tha south ' portal ! The All-Year club letter, signed by Managing Director Dan Thomas and ' addressed to Professor Hugh C Wil-lett Wil-lett of University of Southern California, Cali-fornia, conference president, said 1 in part: j In recent years tha purpose af the game ... (to attract tourists aad publicity) . . . aaema to have been forgotten. Na tlcketa are available for vtslUng fane unlrea they ara willing to pay scalpers' prices ... I "Continually- visitors express to us their surprise at finding this typo of hospitality . . . Every day wo receive Instances of trips to tha Paclfio coast being cancelled because of Inability to obtain tickets. "In view of this may wa suggest sug-gest tha conference work out an arrangement whereby not only the local fans who 'carried' tha gams in leaner years, but our -tourist guests aa well may have an oppor-! oppor-! tunity to obtain a portion of the tlcketa." Ths protest was accompanied L with lettera from easterners who had written cancelling their visit because they were unable to buy tickets. For the past two weeks Pasadena officials have been bombarded with pleas for admission to the gams. 1 most of them stating that "money Is no object All have been ineffectual, inef-fectual, including tha request of at least ons governor. Best Indication as to ths acute-ness acute-ness of ths situstion cams from the U. 8. navy. The Pacific fleet requested re-quested a block of 600 tickets and was allotted exactly four. |