Where Crowds Are Crowds

A crowd which would fill the new Yankee Stadium, the Polo Grounds and the Yale Bowl, built as one huge amphitheatre, assembled to watch the final football game for the Association Cup at Wembley Stadium, London. The match, between the Bolton Wanderers and the West Ham United, was equivalent to a final World's Series game in America. The King was present.

The new Wembley Stadium was built to hold 120,000. Eighty thousand others, annoyed at their exclusion, forced the gates. Chaos followed, and the police had repeatedly to clear the field. Premature newspaper reports reported thousands injured in the crush. Actually twenty were taken to the hospital and only eight of these remained.