Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-02
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FOOT BALL BANQUET
Guard Aston Elected Captain
and "Ws" Distributed.

There was the sound of revelry in Car
roll Institute Hall last night So much
noise that the lone cop on the beat thought
or plnch1ng the place seven times over,
but he learned that the Hatchetite foot
ball team was having a quiet meal along,
side of President Needham and a bunch
or husky rooters, so he desisted. Any one
who thinks that university president
throws a damper on the joyous warblings
OF the undergrads ought to have been
there last night when Prexy Needham
stood up and told 'em all that foot ball
was far and away the best game In the
world, and that George Washington Uni
versity had the best team on earth
Talk about cheers. Honest, there were
moments last night when the walls bulged
outward and the noise could be not only
heard, but seen. There were cheers for
the team, cheers for the scrubs. cheers
for the president. cheers for the coach,
cheers for Capt. Sommers. who will have
TO stop playing next year. but will manage
the team: cheers for retiring Manager
Baer, cheers for the new captain, Aston.
and whole lot of cheers for the sake of
making noise.
they were all half an hour late in sit
ing down to the dinner and had just so
much more power in their appetites. The
way the soup and oysters and fish disap-
peared made the head waiter nervous.
and capt S0mmers began to regret that
he had not tasted for a week The food
looked good 20 him and his bunch Of
nushy boys. There was not much doing
while the eats were on the table For a
While 1t looked rather more like the first
meal of an arctic expedition after return
ing from the ice caps, but when coffee
hove in view DR.. w. F. r. Phillips, a
great big man. member of the faculty and
Interested in
pushed his plate back. unbuttoned his
vest and precipitated roaring cheer by
saying that 9. W. u has the bes: team
in the world. DR.. Phillips was toast
master, but he said he was new at that
game. He made good. however, and
helped get things going In fine shape. He
asked Prexy Needham' to make a speech
and Prexy responded like a good fellow
!aking occasion to throw the hooks deep
into Prexy Eliot Of Harvard, who re-
marked recently that foot ball was on the
blink and that checkers is a much better
game.
There is no better means of calling at
tention to any college than a successful
little talk, and then he went on to give
all sorts of praise TO good, clean foot
ball in general and G. w. L. foot ball in
particular.
DR.. Yarrow of the board of trustees
made a speech full Of puns on the names
travesty on that delicious classic, Casey
at the Bat
Then Capt. Sommers spoke He was
frightfully embarrassed and awfully
FUSED, but he got through without break
ing into tears and sat down to his third
plate of ice cream and large fat cigar,
taken from khe same box as the presi-
dents.
Manager Baer spoke briefly, and As
sistant Manager Barnes showed his. YER
satility by making a speech now and
then, leading the cheers and playing the
piano while the whole crowd sang foot
ball songs
Along about II pm. while things were
bowling along without a hitch, great ex-
element was caused by announcing the
winners of the wv" They are Hart,
Thrall. Byrd. Sommers, Aston, Ellis,
Eickhoff. Crafts, Hamilton. Sheridan,
Brooks. Maxcey. Metzker, Witten. Pow
ell, Dougherty, Hooten, Jacobson and
Baer. DR.. Phillips is going to get one
on account Of his work in the interests
of the team, and Coach Nelson is going
to get a sweater with a big IN" for his
own college, Nebraska, on it. &c. w. u
monographs went to the scrubs, as fol-
lows: O'Neill. Horn, Porter. Reese.
Tewksbury. Woods. kenner, Irby, Car
land Curran and Bliss.