The morning times., 1896-11-03
TO KICK INSTEAD OF VOTE
c. A. C.. Play the Maryland
Eleven Today.
FIRST INTER CITY GAME
Winged Arrow Team is Weakened
by Absentees, But Has Lots OF
HOpe-OriOIes Are Strong and
Hot Game Is Looked For-Notes
of the GridirOn.

Tie football team of Columbia Athletic
Club will leave today at LAB O'Clock ior
Baltimore, where they will play the strong
Maryland Athletic Club eleven the first
game of the intercty championship series.
The Columbia team is not in very gOOd
shape for tie game, and the management
IS not very sanguine about the result.
Several members Of the team are III tad
shape, as a result of the two hard games
at Fort Monroe and Hampton, on FRIDAY
and Saturday. In. addition several good
men are unable to get away for the game
Capt Reeve Lewis will not be with the
team, nor Will Dickinson, Rollins, and
Gapen.
However, the defeat of The local boys
is by no means rOregone CONCLUSION. IL
is peculiar thing about football that
teams which are considered badly crippled
often put up fine game. There was
an instance of this in the Saturdays
game bet wecn the c. \. e. and Army teams
The Columbia boys being stiffened and
sore from tie game of the previous DAY,
were booked as sure losers. on the con
trary they put up a much prettier game
and won the fight.
MUCH INTEREST DISPLAYED.
These games for the intercity cham
pionship are arousing great interest," in
the loc al football world. Waslnngton's
city team race championship, ana local
pride, even outside OF football circles.
would find it a source of great satisfaction
If the Washington athletes capture the
championship in the coming contests on
the gridirOn.
The game today viii give football fol
lowers something to figure on regarding the
two games which follow. AT present the
strength of the Baltimore eleven is an
entirely unknown quantity, but there Is
reason to believe that it is the strongest
aggre cation OF players ever gotten to-
gether in the Monumental City.
The best players Of the defunct Baltimore
Athletic Club have mostly joined the VI.
A. Z. This combination ought to furnish
| material for very strong eleven.
PLAY AT PIMLICo.
The game will he played on the NJ. A.
C. grounds outside of the city on the
Pimlico road. Election day is a holiday
in Baltimore, and u large crowd Is expected
at the game.
A special rate for round trip has been
secured, and this in addition to the fact
of its being election day, VIII doubtless
induce large number of the local roUters
to accompany the team.
The Z. A. c. team Will probably be about
like this: Humphreys, left end: Wells,
left tackle: Saunders, left guard; Under
wood center, Brown, or McConville, right
guard: McGowan, right tackle; Curtis, right
end, Parsons, quarterback. Maupin, right
halfback Harper or Watson, left haltback,
and Sims, fullback. Capt. Wells NAV
| not play as he Is handicapped by Il bruised
knee, received in the Fort Monroe game.
The second game of this series will take
place in this city next Saturday. Whatever
the outcome Of the first game may be- there
is sure to be big crowd in attendance to
root for the home team. This game is
bein. extensively advertised, and Manager
Cabrera is actively making arrangements
| for the big crowd, which will test the
| capacity OF Columbia Field.
University of Maryland Defeated.
Fort Monroe, Va, Nov. 2.-The Hampton
| football team defeated the University Of
Maryland today, IS to o.