The evening times., 1895-10-31
DOINGS ON The GRIDIRON
Observations About Some Leading
Local Teams and Players.
Columbian Varsity Eleven Wants n
Chance 10 Play Lehigh on Thanks
giving Day.

There is liable to he some feeling stirred
| up in the football ranks over the Thank s.
| giving Day game. IL was said last night
| that the new Columbian Varsity team
would challenge the Columbia Athletic
| Club eleven for n game just rs soon as
/ Coach Lewis gets his men placed and work
| ing together smoothly, and that the game
would decide which team should pla Y
| Lehigh on the holiday, the varsity men
| assuming that they and the athletic club
! men have the best and strongest teams
i in the local contingent.
This claim is quite likely to be vigor-
ousiy disputed by several other teams. but
| il it is not, such u bargain as the varsity
men have in mind Will hardly meet with
| the approval OF the athletic club men.
In fact, q prominent athletic club man who
speaks by the card said TO The Times that
no such agreement would be gone into, be-
cause arrangements ior the Thanksgiving
Day event had gone too tar. The athletic
cIuD team would ne glad tu meet the varsity
boys, but they wouid hold onto the right
to pay the holiday game, win or lose.
Nothing definite has as yet been heard
from Lehigh about Il Thanksgiving Day
game here. Capt. Wells said last even
ing that ne did not know whether the team
would or would not come. The time with
in which final answer is To be given has
not yet expired, sn he Is therefore still in
a quandary as To what her Intentions are.
He is quite anxious Ia sccurc Lehigh,
but If the team finally decides not to ac-
cept, efforts viii be made la arrange a
game for that day with some other good
organization.
Edward Williams, captain and manager
of the Biakcs. is enthusiastic over The good
work being done In practice by his men. IL
they do not make strong sho wing when
he lines them up for actual duty he VIII be
greatly disappointed. The friends of this
team are emphatic in expressions OF the
belief that no eleven In town can down
them. Practice Is done on the triangle
New York avenue and North Capitol street
The outlook for the Columbia Athletic
Club eleven for games with other local
teams does not appear TO be encouraging.
Capt. Wells said yesterday that challenges
had been sent to several of the teams now
in good playing shape. including Gallau-
dct, but that none OF them would agree
TO line mp against his men. Just why this
is so is not explained. but IL is hoped that
the teams challenged will change their
minds and that meetings may be arranged
in the near future.
Among the games being negotiated for
by the Columbian Varsity eleven are those
with the University of Virginia, University
of North Carolina, Virginia Medical Insti-
ette. Speaking of these negotiations and
the Columbian football movement gener-
ally, Mr.. X. s. Barrett, who is heart and
columbian University has an opportu-
nifty such as she may never have again to
win the championship of the South and
make herself name, in an athletic way,
that win last for many year. The ma
terial we have for the team is as fine as
could be wished for, including many men
who have pIayed cd with the Dig Ss9lhleges and
tions of the very best coaches in this cOun-
try. About $500 will be needed to get the
team on the field. The alumni should, and
believe VIII, subscribe this amount with.
ont hesitation
"This football team Will give colum.
bian University an advertisement that will
country to the other. Every man who plays
on the team will be an actual student here.
1t has been fully decided by everybody con-
nected with it that not one man shall be
Adam johnson, the well-l,nown ath-
letic club man, has become interested in the
team. He spent an hour with them last
evening N Capitol Park, and will continue
to give them the benefit of his experience
q nd knowledge. Mr.. johnson will go to New
York to vote next week, and will witness
the Princcton-Harvard game.
The Potomacs, it is said. have declined to
meet the Shamrocks. Why. no one except
the Potomacs, knows. If the local teams
to refuse to try conclusions with
one another there will be few games here
There are four good teams in the city, not
one Of which has had game thus far this
year. They are the Columbia Athletic Club,
shamrocks, and Blakes.
Every one of these teams declare their
readiness to meet any other team, but
they don't get together: Capt.
DOugherty asks The Times 10 say that the
shamrocks are open to pla y any team either
n or out of Washington. ]
Charley Campton, the clever right-end |
for the Canterburys, whose mishap was |
noted some time ago, is indeed in hard |
uck. He was tust beginning to recover
from a bad hurt to his shoulder, received
while in practice, when q runaway horse
struck him and ma lined him worse than ever. |
His injuries are. not dangerous, but they |
are serious enough to put him out of the |
football business during the rest of the |
year. Campton was q new man on the |
staff. but he was regarded |
rs one Of the most promising.
The managers of the new Columbian |
Varsity football team are negotiating for |
lease on the grounds of the Young Mems |
Association. 1t ia said that one |
" the street railway companies is anxious /
or the bargain to be made, and that the l
,orporation Will aid the Coiumbians in |
1nancial way TO help the deal along. It ]