Stanford Game Site

I imagine that by this time the editor is crazy waiting for this article, for these words are written about a week overdue, and yet there has been a reason for their lateness, for Dartmouth is without a site for the Stanford game this Fall and matters are still very much up in the air.

Not for years has the Daily Dartmouth burst forth with so many caustic editorials, and lately these expressions have reached the point of being so vitriolic that they cannot be reprinted.

Here is the whole matter in a nutshell. A committee of Boston College alumni, headed by Edward A. McLaughlin, their president, approached Mayor James M. Curley of Boston, and pointed out to His Honor that the Stanford-Dartmouth football game would cut into the gate receipts of the Boston College-Holy Cross football game tremendously, which was scheduled for the same day, November 28. Accordingly Mayor Curley refused permission for the game!

Harvard was in a most embarrassing position. The Crimson authorities had offered Dartmouth the full use of the stadium, free, for that game; Dartmouth had accepted and the Boston Dartmouth alumni had planned a National Pow-Wow for that date. Everything was swept aside by a Boston politician who gave as his reason that the two other colleges were entitled "to a little revenue."

The hue and cry which broke could have been heard in Boston. The Dartmouth branded Mayor Curley as the worst sort of politician, "fawning before the Irish" vote, and when the McLaughlin disclosures were made on the third day, the Dartmouth editorially deplored the "dirty commercialism" and laid the blame "at the feet of the Boston College Alumni Association."

But so far all of the wailing has been to no avail and Mayor Curley has stood his ground. The result may be that Boston will lose one of the outstanding intersectional football games of the year. There is still a chance that the Harvard Stadium will be the scene, and the whole matter will be decided before this issue is off the press.

Mayor Curley finally reversed his decisionand the game will be held in the Stadium asscheduled.—Ed.

F. E. PRINCE '33 of Hingham, Mass., Jeff Tesreau's best southpaw candidate for regular pitching assignments