The evening times., 1895-10-19


team on the grou nds at the foot OF Seven
teenth and C streets yesterday afternoon
and gave them a half hours work. The
Columbias are improving daily.
Shuster, left end for the Central High
School team, is a strapping young fellow,
and is put together in way that should
make him very powerful. In the game with
the Blu siness College boys yesterday he
attracted considerable atteut ion, and
played his position IN way that was
highly satisfactory and interesting TO his
friends.
Dan Dougherty and his brother, ]. Dough-
erty have been at work for some time get
ting together football team. The organi-
zation will be made up entirely Of East End
material, and it is predicted will be one of
the very strongest in the city when 1T Is
completed. 1t is to take the place of the
Shamrock team. of last year, which the
Doughcrtys were in, and which was good
one. Others who have gone into the new
team are G. Kennedy, N. Marcum and A.
Sears. Dan Dougherty has these men and
others out nearly every evening at the old
baseball park, getting them into shape.
The team Will probably be filled out within
very few days. Dan Dougherty. although
a rather light mana 12S-pounder-did
splendid work last season. He will be
captain of this years team.
The Dupont Cycle men do not expect to
do great things In the road race TO be
given under their auspices on Monday. Tom
Wood and E. L. Wilson seem to be the riders
the Duponts depend on to make their best
showing. but both Of them are in bad
shape Just now. Wood has a bad foot and
Wilson is loaded with malaria. Besides,
lNo%y 10 ,lairr 1.vvfh hofr
have been handicapped out of the race.
Wilson, however, is going to make a try,
and If he can hold out until the race is over
will. it is believed, make creditable show
ing, with all of his misfortunes.
Sears played in the game OF the business
college boys yesterday and attracted no
little attention. He is rather short and
weighs about 1873 pounds, but he is ver-
table cyclone, and the friends OF his team
howled with delight whenever he made
any sort of play, good, bad or Indifferent
He is regarded as one Of the most promis-
ing of the local players. He has had Of
fers to go into several different teams, but
1t Is said will east his fortunes with the
Shamrocks, now being organized by the
Doughertys.
The grounds near the Monument, where
the high school and business college boys
met yesterday, are anything but good for
football. They are lumpy and hard as a
rock and full of danger
When the misfOrtunes OF last year on the
gridIron were fresh in the minds OF the
people it was freely predicted that foot
ball was done for in this vicinity. That
prediction has fallen. There was prob
ably never as many football teams in this
locality as there are this season. There
is the Columbia Athletic, the Potomac. the
Gallaudet, the Orient, the teams of the
various high schools, the Kendall Green,
the Georgetown teams, the business col
lege, the colored high school team, the
shamrocks and n half dozen or more other
teams, all in full blast, and others coming
| on. There was never more interest taken
in the game than there is at present. For
tunately nothing up to this hour has bap-
pened to put damper on the sport. All
| of the boys and many of the men, and not
| a few of the gentler sex are bound up in
| 1t, and 1t is to be hoped the season will
| go through pleasantly and without casual
| ties of a serious kind.
The teams Of the Potomac Wheelmcn and
the Washington Athletic Club engaged in
| an exciting game of basket ball at the club
house of the latter last evening, which was
woD by the latter. A good audience was
present. who were greatly interested in the
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