By Bus, Train, or Plane, It's a 3-Leg Race to Reach Michie Field in Time

West Point is a rugged place to reach by any public transportation. Unless you have your own car or a chartered bus, you have to touch at New York or Albany and change conveyances.

The most stable carrier service is the railroad. The New Haven offers hourly rides to New York City, whence a train leaves for the Point at 10:45 a.m. tomorrow morning, arriving at 1:08 p.m.. The last train from Boston that makes connections with the 10:45 leaves at 12:45 a.m. tomorrow, which will allow you to catch Sarah Vaughn here tonight.

By bus, you can go to Albany or New York. Both are inhumanly inconvenient. If you leave today (any hour on the hour from Park Square), you will have to spend the night in New York.

Then you can board a West Point bus in the Greyhound terminal on Forty- Fourth st, at 10:15 a.m., 11:15 a.m., or 12:15 p.m. tomorrow. Or you can wait until 2:30 a.m. tomorrow morning before leaving Boston, sit up all night, and connect with the 11:15 a.m. bus from New York.

American Airlines will fly you to New York every hour, or to Albany at 8:05 p.m. today or 7:20 a.m. tomorrow. Other lines offer flights from Boston to Albany at 4:30 p.m. or 8:15 p.m. today and 8:30 a.m. tomorrow.

Trains run to the game from Albany at 10:30 p.m. tonight and 3:37 tomorrow morning.

The easiest way out is to buy a seat on the University Travel Service's charter bus, leaving here tomorrow morning and running direct to Michie Stadium