Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-10-20
Big Elevens in Crucial Tests
Tomorrow.
HARD TASK OF TIGERS
HOWARD GEE LEADS IN QUALIFY
ING ROUND OF COLLEGE GOLF.
Women's Tennis at Hot Spring5+Good
Racing at Jamaica-Bowl-
ing Battles.

No day in the seasons foot ball schedule
thus far this fall has offered such interest
Ing possibilities as does tomorrow Every
one of the big colleges have games which
If they do not result in close contests. will
certainly test the strength OF the larger
teams. more severely than any of the
matches yet played.
The game at Princeton with the Lafay-
cite eleven ought to show whether or not
the big scores made by the Tigers fast
well-organized play were of real value.
There Is nothing a foot ball coach is so
chary about as big scores as they augur a
weak defense as a rule. No team Prince
ton has met this year appeared to be in
trinsically strong, and there is some con-
Germ In Tigerville over the Lafayette game.
1t Is not believed that defeat will be met
with. but there is some anxiety as to
whether or not the structure that has been
building was based on a solid foundation.
The West Point game with Harvard will
also be watched with a great deal of in
terest. Before the season started this
match was looked upon as likely no be the
first real contest of the year The defeat
of the cadets by the Virginia Polytechnic
Institute team, following the long series of
mlshaps that have harassed the army lads
has taken bit of the edge off the anticipa-
tons of the enthusiasts. Though most of
the army cripples are hack in the game,
they are back too recently to be looked to
for their best game, and Harvard will prob
ably get nothing more than the best prac-
tice 1t has had thus far The Crimson
seems now to be rounding into form, and
may show some good foot ball
The Brown game at Philadelphia with the
crippled Quaker eleven affords the strong
est possibility of a reversal of any of the
leading elevenS. The run of Ill luck that
has pursued Penn on the field Is bound to
ha W. had off In of ljnT I,a
The successive losses have set back the
eleven beyond doubt, and-saken some of
its confidence away. The ends and center.
in view of the inexperience of the men play
ing there, will likely be the point of attack
by the Providence eleven. and If they pierce
them at the start there is a fair chance of
defeat being the Quakers portion. Com
ing as it does at this time 1t will be the Sc
verest kind of a test for the FhiladelphianS
which. If passed through well, should do
more for their ultimate success in the big
games to follow than any other thing that
could happen.
to the Columbia squad and the enthusiasm
infused by the election of the new captain
has doomed the Blue and White stock de-
cidedy. The Amherst team Is believed to
be stronger than either Wesleyan or Will
liams. so that the best contest of the year
is looked for at the American League Park.
Coach Morley Is talking much more hope
fully than at any time during the year. and
now believes his team can give Princeton
hard run for victory in the game next
week -a.-.=aE
Yale meets Pennsylvania State. The
Bellefonte collegians usually have strong
team. and have been particularly fortunate
In making a showing against Eli. How
ever, this year they seem to be a bit be-
low par. and Eli ought to have real
difficulty. Cornell plays her first game in
Two weeks-against the Western Universe
fy of Pennsylvania The Ithacans have
spent the time In developing some of the
trick ideas of Coach Warner. AS he is par
ticularly prolific in this line. 1t will be in
teresting to see what his ingenuity has de-
yised this time.