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Section 34, with the exception of three bottom rows, was also disposed of. Frank O. Lunden, HAA ticket director, estimated last night that his office had sold some 1240 seats by closing time...
Columbia game tickets, "better than those that will be on sale in New York," according to Lunden, will be available until tomorrow night. Thus far the HAA has sold approximately 7000 tickets for the New York contest, a sale which Lunden says is "very good for an away game...
...guessed very wrong. A fabulous season ticket sale gobbled up 4000 of the seats (those in sections 2, 3, 4, and 6, section 5 being saved for the few undergraduate applicants). Saturday night Lunden totaled up his ticket requests and noted with surprise and horror that he already had 6000 applications for the 5000 seats. In desperation he phoned New York and got three more sections' worth of ducats, the not-so-good tickets in sections 1, 7, and 8. They disappeared yesterday...
...Lunden telegraphed Columbia again last night and 1500 more tickets, also of the not-so-hot variety, go on sale today. Nevertheless, these seats are probably better than any you can got at Columbia before the game...
...Lunden has made an honest mistake. There was no evidence two weeks ago of the unprecedented demand for Columbia tickets. He had to guess and he guessed wrong. Much as it may grieve many of the fire-eaters, you cannot fairly denounce the ticket denounce as a hopeless hungler, especially after Saturday's loss to Stanford. Yet the grotesque situation remains. 9500 people want to go to New York to see the Crimson play Columbia. Only the wiseacre undergraduates, the guys who applied last week and got section 5, or the fifty yard line, will see the game from good...