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Show BIG DEMAND FOR SEATS PROBLEM No College Stadium Big Enough to Accommodate Big Game Spectators. MANY TURNED AWAY i One Hundred Fifty Thousand Seats Needed Less Than Forty Thousand Available. New York, Nov 22. The enormous demand lor seats at the big Inter varsity var-sity football gamus in all parts of the country this autumn presents new problems for the under-graduatn and graduate managers which they are having great difficulty in solving No college stadium baa yet been built that afforded ample seating accommodations ac-commodations for tho most import ant game of the schedule It Is al ways necessary to curtail the allotment allot-ment of coupons, and in many cases to return hundreds of applications because be-cause of the impossibility of seitlnp the thousands who are willing to pay from two dollars to three dollars for I tickets and spend from fifteen dol lare to fifty dollars additional for I transportation and hotel accommodations accommo-dations previous to the game In no case has the increased seat ing capacity of new stadiums kept pace with tho interest in football and the demanct for tickets The task of handllngthe applications outgrew the undergraduate football manager years ago ajid al present a corps of stenographers and a large clerical force i6 necessary to open, file and roplv to these requests for seai This sltuatiou applies, of course, only to the moBt important and closing games of the reason, but the work and detail required in systematically caring for thousands of applications and tne accompanying checks and postal orders covers several mouths In the case of the Yale-Harvard rmy-Navy, Princeton-Yale and games of similar type, the mall ar rives by bagful in every delivery It remains for the management to ap-lortion ap-lortion ticket-, representing less than 5" per cent of the total application in such a way that undergraduates and alumni may have first call on the coupons. The chance of the av erage outsider may be gleaned when It is stated that witb 45,000 seats available for the Army Navy game, there were 75.000 applications The Harvard stadium, where the Yale-Harvard Yale-Harvard game lg played today holds With temporary additions about 40, i spectators According to Grad uato Treasurer F V. Mcore of the Harvard Athletic association, 150.000 seats would he needed to fully sup ply the demand In writing of the rules governing the distribution ot the tickets and the problem in; general gen-eral Mr .Moore says. The whole object of all these rules, however. Is to distribute an utterly Inadequate supply of seat- in the fairest possible way among Harvard Harv-ard men. Thev are the result of the experience of all the meu who have been connected for the pat twenty years with the handling of our great game Since then our graduate grad-uate list has been growing at tpr rate of nearly a Lbriisand a year, and the proporlion of the younger grad uates who wish to attend the games iu mnrh p-T-.a t t h a n In tho islAam classes because they have been brought up on football In school and college, and naturally have more real Interest in the game itself. "The whole trouble In a nutshell is that we need a hundred and fifty thousands seats and we have less than fortv thousand Even at New Haven, where the price of tickets Is only a small, part of the cost of attending at-tending the game for most of the spectators, the management is building build-ing a collosseum to accommodate nearly seventy thousand people With the game at Cambridge, where tho tickets represent practically the j whole expense to the great majority of those who attend, I am convinced that an unrestrirtc d saie to graduates grad-uates and undergraduates only for the use of themselves and their friends, would dispose of at least a hundred thousand seats." oo CHILD KIDNAPED AND HIDDEN IN TRUNK WHEN ALARM GIVEN Omaha. Neb., Nov. 21 Brownie M. Tennyson, who came to Omaha from Shoshone, Ida., three weeks ago, last night it Is charged kidnaped Harriet Har-riet Johnston, a ft year-old girl from her bed in the Leonard apartment, houso. carried her to the basement of the building, where he bound and gagged her and then hid her In an eld trunk when pursued. The girl was discovered and released and Tennyson was arrested and Jailed, where he still Is. Tennyson is Janitor Jan-itor of the Leonard apartment. Tenny6on gained aece&s to her room the girl said and strangled her I with a towel. The mother, In the I nxt room heard a scuffle and when ' bhe investigated discovered the ah sence of her daughter Sho roused tho other tenants and tho buildlnir was searched, in the baaement Tennyson Ten-nyson assisted in the work. Just as I the party was leaving, under the impression im-pression the girl had been taken I lorm the building. Harriet managed ; Tn remove the gag from hST mouth ( and scream. Tennyson told a ram 1 bling story' about meeting two Strang I era who threatened to kill him un-I un-I less he stole tho girl and brought j her to them The police 6ay they place no credence in his story. |