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Show YALE APPEALS TO GRADUATES Lack of Friends Threatens Serious Delay to Completion Comple-tion of Stadium. NEEDS CONTRIBUTIONS Great "Bowl" to Be Most Pre-tentious Pre-tentious and Commodious Athletic Amphitheatre in World. Now York, Feb. 22. Lack of available avail-able funds threatens to seriously do-lay do-lay the completion of the Yale athletic ath-letic Btadlum which It was expected would be finished in time for the Harvard-Yale football game scheduled sched-uled for Saturday, November 21. The committee of twenty-one in charge of the work on "Tho Bowl," as the new stadium is generally termed, and of the complete athletic equipment which It is planned to inslall, has issued is-sued a circular appeal to graduates, requesting more contributions to finish the work on the football structure struc-ture in time for the Harvard game next fall. It is the ambition of tho committee and all Yale to have the next Yale-Harvard game In the Bowl, but unless more funds are received, this will be impossible, since approximately approx-imately $100,000 must be subscribed within a short time, in order to continue con-tinue the work without interruption. The Yale Bowl, as at present planned, plan-ned, will be the most pretentious and commodious college athletic amphitheatre amphi-theatre in the world. When completed complet-ed It will seat 61,500 spectators and there will still be room for several thousand standees. No provision has been made for either track athletics or baseball In the stadium which h'as caused some little dissatisfaction among the followers of these sports. Even though it Is used exclusively for football it will be the most imposing im-posing and expensive of all the structures struc-tures of similar type in the country. When tho present Harvard tadium was first constructed it had an actual ac-tual seating capacity of 22,000, but since then, by the addition of a colonnade col-onnade and wooden stands at one end of tho field, the original ca- ' paclty has been almost doubled. This i structure is at present tho largest in I tho East and cost $375,000. Syracuse Stadium. Tho re-inforced concrete stadium at Syracuse university Is one of the most notable-products of modern engineering en-gineering and was the first one built In the United States with the playing play-ing field below tho level of tho ground surrounding it. It has a seating seat-ing capacity of 20,000 and was built at an Initial expenditure of $800,000. The Pennsylvania grandstand at Franklin Field Is constructed of stone, brick and wood and Is one of the largest in tho United States, having hav-ing a seating capacity of 24,000. This structure with the adjoining gymnasium gymna-sium cost $500,000, At Cornell work is already under way on an entirely now athletic equipment. There will be three separate sep-arate fields for football, baseball and track which will cost approximately $200,000. Tho football and baseball stand aro to be constructed of concrete con-crete and will have seating capacities capaci-ties of 9000 and 6000 respectively. Th'e training quarters are to bo In a building 200 feet long which will cost $100,000. Ball Trick Not New. , Supporting tho nncient contention that there is notKlng new under the Bun comes a statement from the south that a hidden ball trick in football was not new or the child of Coach Glenn Warner's brain when his Carlisle Indian eleven sprang the trick on Harvard In the early nineties." nine-ties." According to a player 'In the game the trick of hiding a football under a player's jersey was first tried in the Auburn-Vanderbllt contest con-test of 1895. In telling of the origin of this football play ho said recently: "This play was first used In the Auburn-Vanderbllt game In 1895, which was played In a sea of mud and a driving rain, and by the use of this trick I succeeded In getting away for a sixty yard run and a touchdown, which by the way was the only touchdown we made In the game and the only touchdown I scored scor-ed during my football career. "The origin of this play was an accident pure and simple. One night about the middle of the season the coach said: 'Boys, I had a kid ask mo once if it was against the rules to hide the ball and while I don't see anything against It I do not see how the trick could be worked.' "For a minute or two there was silence, which was broken by our captain, who said: 'I've got It. Why not stick the ball under your jersey.' Hardly were the words out of his mouth beforo I was in the next room, where I pulled on a jersey and slipping slip-ping a football under the front of It walked proudly back Into the room. Before we adjourned that night we had worked out the trick as we afterwards af-terwards used it. After we found out that the ball could bo concealed easily easi-ly and quickly, the only thing remaining remain-ing was to so arrange a formation which would cover up the trick and then, to draw the opponents off so that 1 could have a chance to get away." CONSULS SEARCH FOR MISSING MEN Unusual Efforts Being Made to Learn Fates of Four Americans. WITNESSES OF TRAGEDY No Knowledge of Where Ben-ton's Ben-ton's Body Lies Much Pressure Brought to Bear. El Paso, Tex., Feb. 23. Consular authorities at Juarez and Chihuahua today were spurred to unusual efforts to learn the fates of Roger Laurence, GuBtav Bauch, Harry Compton and a rancher named Curtis, all believed to bo victims of General Viltn'n irn I Lato yesterday Consuls Edwards at Juarez, and Letcher at Chihuahua received re-ceived orders from Secretary Bryan of the state department to proceed most diligently In their search for the missing men. In El Paso the feeling is strong that Curtis and Laurence have met the same fate as did William S. Benton, their friend and an Englishman, who was killed by order of General Villa last Tuesday night. In spite of the fact that Consul Letcher had been unable to find trace of Compton In Chihuahua, his friends here profess certainty, that he was taken prisoner there and probably returned to Juarez Juar-ez recently and was executed. Witnesses of Benton Tragedy. It was known that Curtis and Laurence Lau-rence had knowledge of Benton's Intention In-tention to go directly to Villa and "toll him what hQ thought of him," and that they set out after him Immediately Im-mediately to keep him from harm, if possible. This has led to a pronounced pro-nounced opinion that Curtis and Laurence Lau-rence were witnesses to the affair between Villa and Benton and so resulted re-sulted in their arrest, if not their summary sum-mary deaths. Accordingly the growing grow-ing feeling of dlstniBt of General Villa Vil-la has increased and with It the probability prob-ability that the people of El Paso will demand some event on the part of the United States government In retaliation re-taliation for what is considered here as outlawry on the part of the rebels. reb-els. ' j Dispatches from Washington which reached here last night to' the effect- that some members of congress were i chaffing under the restraining of 1 this government's Mexican policy, were greeted with general approba- , tlon, and the keenest interest Is be- J Ing taken In the activities of congress- ! men from the border states. Much pressure was brought to bear j upon authorities to secure the return I of Benton's body to his family here, f but as late as this morning no satis- Is factory results had been obtained, not even the knowledge of where the r Englishman's body now lies. j: The determination of General Villa f to return the Americans who wanted to enlist with rebels, was sanctioned by the State Department at Washr ington. Villa appealed to George C. Carothers, American consular agent at Torreon, but now in this city and , the latter referred the matter to Sev- i retary Bryan, who is said to have 1 considered it wise to drsnorf. the, 5 would-be soldiers of fortune. Mr. P Carother today awaited a reply Jj made on instructions from General 'i Villa, who Is at Chihuahua, to his request made on Instructions from Washington, that the body of Benton be given to the widow. 't |