BROKER CALLS IGNITE ROSE BOWL PROBE.Byline: Daily News Wire Services The Tournament of Roses Association has launched an internal investigation into a ticket broker who is offering cash to members for their Rose Bowl tickets. The tickets are sold to tournament members for their face value of $75, but they are now fetching fetch·ing adj. Very attractive; charming: a fetching new hairstyle. fetch  ing·ly adv. from $350 to $650 each on the retail market, commercial ticket brokers said. Members are forbidden from selling their tickets for more than face value, said Jack French, the Tournament of Roses' chief executive officer. The tournament gets about 25,000 tickets for members. Rick Klein Klein , Melanie 1882-1960. Austrian-born British psychoanalyst who first introduced play therapy and was the first to use psychoanalysis to treat young children. , owner of Front Row Center Ticket Service, said he obtained a membership list from a friend and did not pay for it. ``We didn't did·n't Contraction of did not. didn't did not didn't do intentionally in·ten·tion·al adj. 1. Done deliberately; intended: an intentional slight. See Synonyms at voluntary. 2. Having to do with intention. mean to violate anybody's anything,'' he said Wednesday. ``We got a list of prospective Rose Bowl seat sellers and took it upon ourselves to contact those people. If we offended of·fend v. of·fend·ed, of·fend·ing, of·fends v.tr. 1. To cause displeasure, anger, resentment, or wounded feelings in. 2. anybody, I'm sorry.'' Other brokers said they often buy Rose Bowl tickets from tournament members. ``It's an ongoing practice,'' said one, who requested anonymity. ``And they make no secret who they are.'' Tournament officials have opened an internal investigation, said tournament president Gary Dorn. ``It is rather upsetting when we get bookmakers at our front door,'' he said. |
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