Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-09
ON THE GRIDIRON
Columbus Will Try to Broil the
the Lehighs.
LOCAL FOOT BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
Dispute of the Athletic
Clubs.
THE HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS
,DCAL FOOT BALL CHAMPIONSHIP
THE HIGH SCHOOL TEAMS

Washington is to have it's annual foot ball
game on Thanksgiving day. OF course, the
game will lack some of the enthusiasm dis
played at the acknowledgements game
but Lehigh will find many shouters among
the Washington citizens, as three of the
university's best players are residents of
this city. 1t is likely that the game will be
played at National Park, but If the parties
interested cannot agree on terms, 1t will
be played on Columbia Field. The Column
bias have given Lehigh the asked for guar
antee. and the game may be regarded as a
surety. The captain of the club. L. S. Wells
jr., has the entire affair under his manage
ment. and is also training his men. He has
run over to several of the college games, and
has secured lines on some of the new lodges.
The Lehigh eleven will probably line up as
follows: Oakson, left end; Senior, left tackle;
Trafton, left guard and captain; Keys, CEN
ter; Baldwin, right guard; Gunsauius. right
tackle; Hass. right end: Holderness, quarter
back; Thurston, left half back; Vanduyn,
right half back. and Fitzgerald. full back.
1t Is likely that Barnard will play in the
place of Vanduyn at right half. He is a
much stronger man than the former, but
was injured early in the season.
Barnard, Senior and HaSs are the Washing
ton boys. The two former are particularly
we'll known here from their connection with
the eleven of the Central High School. Bar
Eard played at half and Senior in the line of
the team of 1892. Barnard made the only
touch down on either side in the game of
that year for the championship of the High
Schools, the Eastern winning out through
the two phenomenal goal kicks from field Of
their full back. Geoghegan.
Senior is big. strapping fellow and pos
sesSes an unlimited amount of courage. AS
a whole, Lehigh has a fine team, the game
in which she held the Orange Athletic Club.
one of the strongest elevens in the country,
college or club, down to two points demon
strating this fact.
On the other hand. the Columbus have
also fine team, as the personnel Of the
lineup shows, thong. it is true that they
have not been fully tested. The candidates
for the positions are as follows: Guards,
McConviile. Dickinson and Hecox; tackles.
MCGOWAN and Hooker; center, Busey and
Underwood; ends. Harrison, Welsh and Wis
ner: Davidson. Kohr and Parsons, backs;
Clark, full back. and Stuart Johnson. quar-
ter and captain.
This week, however two old Columbia men
donned a uniform for the first time this
year. and the chances are that they will
play Thanksgiving day. If they do. they
will add considerably the strength of the
team They are Reeve Lewis and Ed. Sef-
ton Seton played last year on one of the
aads. but the year before at quarter. II he
son says that he will go back to quarter, and
he himself act as half, which position he
filled with large amount of credit last year.
Lewis. of course. Is booked for his regular
Clark is likely to be fixture at full, as
Shields declares that he will not play under
any circumstances. Clark has improved
wonderfully over previous years, and, in ad-
dition. can always be depended upon to do
his level best; an excellent thing when
bruises and broken bones may be the prize
Of all earnest players. Dickinson Is very
likely to be one of the guards; In fact, he is
sure of it.
Other likely candidates are Davidson, Har-
rison. Hooker and Busey. the last named
being one of the heaviest men who have yet
shown up for practice.
The Local Championship.
The Orients and. In fact. the Potomacs are
engaged in a wordy war with the Columbus
in regard to the championship Of the Dis
trict. The Potomacs are out Of It now, as
the Columbias badly defeated them this
week. AS for the Orients they think they
have a strong aggregation. and are anxious
to play the men of the winged arrow on
Thanksgiving day.
Capt Wells announces, however, that this
is an impossibility, but said this week that
he is ready to have his men play the Orients
en- any date between now and Thanksgiving
day. except Saturday. November 16 at which
time the C. A. c. play the Baltimore Ath-
letic Club in this city. Manager A. P. ScheIl
of the Capitol Hill boys expected his men
to take trip this week away from home.
playing Saturday with the Baltimore City
College, and winding up in Philadelphia.
Some hitch occurred in the course of nego-
consequence the other dates have been can
celed. On the 10th of this month they play
Gallaudet on the campus of the college,
and have games pending with the Bal
tlmore Athletic Club, Columbian College
and the Potomacs. Manager Schell has sew
eral new men on hand, who will appear in
the line for the Orents the next game they
play. He claims that his eleven would have
defeated POtnmQCc he vi TO-, lima
had been strong enough to hold back their
opponents while Geoghegan, the full back,
kicked. AS 1T was Geoghegan was not able
to punt little bit, and this may in part have
accounted for the tie score, Geoghegan be-
ing one of the best drop kickers in this part
Of the country.
The High School Championship.
Next to the interest displayed as to who
would be the victor between the Columbia
Athletic Club and Georgetown University is
the annual game for the championship OF
the High Schools. The date of this contest
has not been definitely decided but that it
will take place within the near future there
is no manner Of doubt. In fact, the two elev-
ems are just hungering to get at each other
In 1892 the first OF the annual contests was
played between the Central High School
and the Eastern High School. and the latter
came off victor. The next year the Easterns
had weak team. and were easily defeated.
In place Of the Capitol Hill School the Busi-
ness High School and the Central School
game furnished the deciding test. In 1894
the contest was again between the Business
and the Centrals. the Easterns having only a
lightweight aggregation, and not playing a
single game with their brethren of the other
High Schools.
This year the case is reversed. The Bust
ness have probably the weakest team and
the Centrals and the Easterns the two
strongest. l. is rather hard to get line
on either the Centrals or the Easterns, ow-
Ing to the fact that they have not played
many games. 1t would seem, however,
from the scores that each made against
Kendall Green that the latter has a shade
the better of It, In the line the chances are
that Meigs. center,and Mckenzie and Smell,
guards, can be depended upon to hold bet
ter than the center of the Centrals. Back
Of the line, however. Tindall, Central half
back is undoubtedly superior to any man
on either side. He is quick as flash. and
Is noted for the many long runs he makes.
Maxwell. c. H. S. half back. is also fleet
man. Brewer and Hurst are the Easterns
backs. Neither has the experience of his
opponent, and neither has done as we'll
this year as Tindall and Maxwell. When
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