The Washington times., 1903-05-01
GEORGETOWN'S CREW TO
USE NEW SHELL TODAY
Blue and Gray's Boat Ar.
rived in City Last Night.
Fights PROSPECTS BRIGHT
/. Ball Team Anticipates Hardest Game of
,sT Season Tomorrow With Univer-
Aae 5@ sity of North Carolina


The new cedar eight-oared shell which
Graduate Manager NJ. ]. Thompson, of
Georgetown University. has ordered for
the Blue and Gray crew arrived here last
night, and was taken to the Georgetown
boathouse today. The men who will
compose the. eight will practice in it
this afternoon and every day until the
23d of this month when the collegians
cross oars with the Annapolis cadets
on the Severn River. Manager Thomp-
son and Coach Dempsey are well pleased
with the new shell, and are of the opin-
lon that the men who pull it viii
give a good account of themselves in
the Poughkeepsie race. This years boat
is slight Improvement over the others
used by the Georgetown crews, and with
; the excellent stroke which Coach Demp-
j sey invented for the use of the Blue
and Gray lads there seems to be no
Z treason why the boys should not finish
s ins ide the money, should there be any to
finish inside of.
The new she'll is Of regulation length,
and is made entirely of cedar. 1t
cost $500, exclusive of freight
age, and looks good in the water.
Great things are expected of the new
boat and the Georgetown men who oc-
cupy the eight seats in it. Manager
z Thompson and the popular coach of the
1 crew journeyed over to Philadelphia
: last Saturday to test the merits of the
shell. and were much pleased with their
investigation.
In Philadelphia Saturday the new
shell was tried by the famous Vesper
crew, on the SchuyIkill River. The
vesper crew. under the tutelage of Coach
Jack Dempsey, won the worlds cham
pionship at the Paris Exposition in
1900, and ever SINCE then Jack" has
been in demand For a reason entirely
! his own Dempsey likes Washington and
xisScontent TO coach the Blue and Gray
aacFe&o ~ He is well liked by all Of the
various candidates, and has many
friends in Washington who are much in
terested in his welfare.
s The Georgetowners who have been
turning out regularly for practice, and
will in all likelihood occupy seats in
THE new shell, are Captain Russell,
u
honey Bremner, and another man who
has not yet been chosen. All of these
candidates have done excellent work
AMI have taken spins of from two to
/. five miles three. or four days each week
since March l The candidates for the
second crew have also done good work,
E8nd the coach hopes to make. it inter
testing for the Middies' second crew and
any freshman eight which his proteges
may meet this season. The second creS
will use the shell which the varsity
boys finished sixth in at Poughkeepsie
last year.
Good Ball Game for Saturday.
Coach Bradley. of the Georgetown
baseball team, had his proteges out
bright and early yesterday and today
and practiced them at batting and quick,
accurate fielding for more than two
hours. Georgetown has one of the hard
est games of the season to play satur-
-aeSg-s44ea- meets the University of
: TAeF EniVeEsity of North Carolina is
2 fast moving aggregation this year, and
although the lovers of college baseball
may think they saw hard fought games
when the University of Virginia team
played here, they will in all likelihood
consider those contests tame and slow
when the North Carolina game is ended
Saturday. The Tar Heel Staters wallop-
ed the University of Virginia tribe by
= score OF 100 Wednesday, and George
Green, the Georgetown graduate of 1900,
who moved down the old Dominion
boys VIII occupy the place of promi-
Saturday. The Virginians are
stronger than ever this year, and if the
boys from the Turpentine State drub-
bed them. they Will in all probability
Portable, for the wearers of the Blue
and Gray toys. The strong Brown team.
which Georgetown defeated by a mar
row margin, also met crushing defeat
at the hands of the collegians from sun
ny North Carolina. 1t would require
good1y amount of space to enumerate
the various scalps the North Carolinians
have taken.
4 The team win arrive in this city to-
MORROW morning, and in the afternoon
Just previous to the game the boys will
practice on the Georgetown campus
The entire student body of Georgetown
will turn out TO cheer their fellow
travellers upon the fowery path OF
knowledge to victory. The Georgetown
players viii have all the encouragement
their messmates and followers can give
them, and they hope for the best. Man
Rger Miller and Captain Apperious an
ticipate q hard grueling, and will prob
ably send IN Drill or Fay TO serve up
the benders 10, the North Carolinlans.