The times., 1899-10-21

Oracle. McAfee and Jones will be substi-
tutes.
The Gallaudet College will play one OF
its most important games Of the season
today when il meets the University of Vir-
giniH at Charlottesville Va.
SloWness, which has always been a fault
with the Gallaudets, is the only obstacle
IN the way OF a victory over the Virginians.
This year Gallaudet's team is particularly
strong, and Is composed almost entirely
ot experienced players. Fifteen players
viii b taken TO Charlottesville today. and
the lineup for the game viii be. Centre,
Hemstreet; left guard Wheeler; right
guard, Jones. left tackle Mather; right
tackle, Carpenter; left end, Geilfuss; right
end, Kurath; quarterback CarrelI left
halfback. Barham; right halfback. Andree.
and fullback, Waters; with Worley, Cham
bers, Hewetson. and Nichols as substitutes
Altogether there viii be four games of
football today in which Washington teams
viii be represented. The fourth game is
that Of the Central High School. who will
play the Episcopal High School. in Alex
andria. The following is a list of the
games scheduled for today:
Georgetown-St. Johns Of Annapolis, at
Georgetown.
Y II. c. A.-Maryland Athletic Club. at
the !. n. c. A. grounds.
Central High Episcopal High
3 School. in Alexandria
Gallaudet- University of Virginia in
/ Charlottesville.
+ On paper there is not weak spot In the
! Harvard team. The only doubtful points
were the tackles. These cracks have been
filled by the veterans Donald and Merriam
+ Il took considerable solicitation by the
I coaches 10 get these men out They would
/ not have consented to play but for the
/ serious injuries to Eaton and Swain. the
most promising OF the candidates for
/ tackles.
There is genuine dread at Yale over the
( approaching game with Wisconsin Hard
practice is being taken again in secret.
; While the practice was in progress yester-
4 day several suspicious characters VINO were
found lurking beneath the granEstand were
( ordered out OF the field. Yale's lack OF a
good quarterback so alarmed the coaches
that they fairly begged De Saules 10 re-
turn to his old position despite the objec-
tions of his parents. De Saulles saw the
need Of his services and decided to don the
. football toys again. ar least for the Wis
cousiu game. II is very probable that
CUuha, the big centre and Keane, Adams
and Sharpe viii play against the Badgers.
These men nave been on the hospital list
fer several days, but they are all coming
around nicely. In fact, if necessary, they
could have played for awhile yesterday
Ordway the middle-distance runner was
gwen a chance al halfback. He was in
jured during the practice, ana viii not b.
able TO play again for several days
Manager Mitchell has received a chal-
leHge 10 pit the Columbia varsity against
the scrub team Of Pennsylvania. The chal-
lenge was read aloud az the Columbia
training table and caused much amusement
10 the varsity players. Columbia is per
fectly willing 10 arrange game with the
Quaker varsity and viii wager even money
that Columbia viii win. Several Colum-
bia students expressed the opinion that had
Pennsylvania instead Of Princeton faced
Columbia last Saturday Columbia woulC
have won her first victory against d team
az The big four.