Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1894-07-14

and by next week at least forty promising
players will be in daily practice. A start
was made on the lawn adjoining the @
street club house on Thursday afternoon
last, when Field Capt. r. M. johnson be-
gan work with the following players: A.
T. Tallmadge. ]. Shields, c. c. Clarke. c.
Royce Hough, George Stratton, Davidson,
e. T. Schaffart. r. f. Bivins. Gordon C.
Hooker. Fred Watts. Mike O'Leary and
Fred Keppler. Among the others who will
be seen at practice are Ed Seton, B. Dick
inson, ]. MCGEE. Craig, Davis, Wines, Ed
win, Thornton, Hecox. e. Won Lindgren.
Strong, Donald Mcdonald. Conner and Car
ter.
Princeton Coming.
A game has been arranged to be played
on October Is. at National Base Ball Park.
with the famous Princeton College eleven.
and the Columbia lads expect to score dur
ing the contest which 10 saying q good
deal.
The team. under Capt. Johnson, will try
conclusions with the Naval Cadets at the
Academy grounds. Annapolis, on October
90 The event Of the season, Of course, Is
to be the annual championship contest on
Thanksgiving day, with the Georgetown
College players. The game will be par
ticularly interesting this year because an
agreement has been reached between the
managers Of the two elevens to play the
game on q purely amateur basis. and no
professional assistance will be secured the
teams being made up Of bona fide members.
The new rules make the game much
more interesting than formerly, as they offer
a wider field for kicking.
The team that Columbia will put in the
field Is to be selected about two weeks be-
fore the game with Princeton. and then it
will practice constantly with q team COM
posed Of the best remaining players. Capt.
Johnson is q well-known and favorite anna
teur athlete, possessing much ability. and
he will have the very best available ma
terial from which to choose his team.
As the Young Mems Christian Associa-
ton has been deprived Of its grounds 1t
will not form q team this season. Many
of its players however. are also members
Of the Columbia Athletic Club, and the
majority Of them will practice with the
Columbia players. -
University Of Pennsylvania Coming.
Though Georgetown College opened her
doors for the session. Of "a and '95 but a
few days ago. spirited activity has already
entered the athletic department. Foot ball
Is the great subject Of conversation as soon
as the classics are laid aside. Georgetown
has determined to turn out this year a team
that will be as near invincible as it can he.
Good material. excellent opportunities for
developing 1t and an ambition to take a
prominent place In the first rank Of college
teams all tend toward an outlook of UNI
usual promise. Some games have already
been arranged with rival colleges.
The first will come Off on October 3. with
the University of Pennsylvania as the an
tagonist. The game will either be played in
Washington or Baltimore.
On October 6 Georgetown will meet the
team from Richmond College, and on the
18th the Naval Cadets from Annapolis will
be played.
A game with swarthmore is booked for
the 27th.
Johns Hopkins team will also be given a
chance to play with Georgetown before the
first part Of the season lie over. Among the
other prominent elevens that the college Is
fixing up dates with are the Elizabeth IN.
j. Athletic Club foot ball team, the Chicago
Athletic Club team. and the c. A. C.'s Of
this city. The games with the Chicagos
and the Columbia boys will probably be the
most interesting ones played, far as in
terest and finances go. The Chicago team
Will play but six games during the entire
year. and they will be with such teams as
the Harvard. Yale, Boston A. A. and
Princeton, together with Georgetown.
The game with the Columbia Athletic
Club, Mr.. Mast, the acting manager of the
Georgetown eleven, thinks. will arouse more
interest this year than has ever yet been
developed In Washington.
Last year there were nearly 1900 per
sons on the field. This Thanksgiving, che
weather favorfng. fully $4,000 are expected.
as arrangements will be made with the rail-
roads entering Washington to run excur-
sion parties through from Philadelphia. Bal
timore. Richmond and neighboring cities at
excursion rates.
The rumor in circulation some weeks ago
to the effect that Georgetown would not
play Columbia this year, owing to the fact
that she had entered an intercollegiate
league which forbade her playing with 9TH
er than college teams, seems to have origi-
nated through the desire Of Cornell to have
Georgetown enter into an agreement to play
the Thanksgiving game with her for three
off in Washington.
The local college, recognizing the fact
that game with the Columbia team would
pull vaster crowd than Cornell-
Georgetown one would. refused to consider
Another game that is expected to arouse
much interest, particularly among college
men; VIII be the one played with the Uni
Versity OF Virginia for the intercollegiate
championship of the SOUTH
"A feature OF the Thanksgiving game will
De bulletin board, on which will be shown
tne progress OF the Yale-Princeton and
Of Pennsylvania games.
Competition of the Team.
The Georgetown College foot bali team
Will this year have the following of last
years men: Mahorney, Carmody, Bahen.
WEIGH. Harley. Sullivan. Murphy and
johnson.
OF the reserves Of last year the following
are this year aspiring for permanent posi-
lions on the team: Vincent Smith. Chas.
burke, Howard Kelly, Ballentyne, Robert
douglass w. OLeary. Tom Nelson. John
oSr len. McAnerney and Bradley.
wonder from one of the northern
colleges named Boyle, who did some sur
prislng work last year. Will also be among
the ones to pick from.
When the medical and law schools open
there will be still more material on hand
Of splendid and useful quality.
Fox. who played full back on the Gin
cinnau College team last year, and a man
Of great promise, together with James
Murrin, who last year captained and play
ed full back with a preparatory college
team, and Benedict Maher. a full back
from Augusta, Me-, will be others at the
top Of the reserve list
DR.. s. B. Newton, late Of the U. of p
team, will coach this year.
The faculty will be more strict than ever
this year in their efforts to keep profess
sional men from getting Into their ranks
on game days.
The Georgetown athletic field, which for