Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-10
UMPIRES SELECTED.
Belts and Collifower to Run George.
town Games,


Manager Stuart of the Georgetown
varsity base ball team announced last
night that the men selected to do the
umpiring the coming season are Mr.. Belts
and Mr.. Collifiower, both of this city. The
former. as is well known to supporters OF
the Blue and Gray. has had charge of
the indicator up on the hill for number
of years. His work has always been high
class and. because of his impartiality, he
has always been accepta BILE to the visiting
mines. Besides handling the college bat
ties he also officiates for a number of the
city leagues during the summer months.
Collif1ower, who is to have charge of
those games to which Mr.. Belts cannot
come. is another we'll known arbitrator of
Washington. He also worked most of the
Nays contests at Annapolis last year.
His duties for the collegians will prob
ably be confined to the smaller games. as
most of the visiting managers Of the big
colleges always insist on having Belts in
charge of their battles.
There are two other questions which it
is up to the management to settle before
the season opens, that of uniforms and
that of cheering section. The difficulty
about the uniforms Is a new one. For
years past the Georgetown nine has al
ways been clothed in suits of gray with
blue lettering and trimming, following
strictly the shades of the institutions
IL
have adopted gray for their uniforms and
the result is that when they meet George
town on the heights it is sometimes puZ-
cling for those who do not follow the
games closely to discover just which team
is in the field and which one is at bat
1t has been suggested that blue uniforms
with gray letters would easily solve the
problem, but this color is protested by
all the players because of the extra heat
which it causes. And so the question
stands with very little DrOSDect of IL heing
settled satisfactorily to all concerned.
The cheering section trouble has been
in the air ever since the old hat box"
stand was torn down two years ago. For
long time the rOOterS used to have Spe-
cial possession of these covered seats for
selves, were able to yell vociferously
without interruption. Then the old hat
box was condemned and ordered removed.
much to the disappointment of the old
ant memories. That was the beginning
of a dispute over where to place the root
ers Experience proved that it was not
possible to cOngregate the students in one
section of the grandStand without incOn-
veniencing the other occupants, and they
were requested to sit in the bleachers on
the site of the old box stand. But most
of them refused to stay in these seats I'M
sheltered from the boiling sun when their
tickets admitted them to a shady place.
The result was that about forty or fifty
students would do combined cheering
from the bleachers. while the rest would
be yelling by themselves from the grand
stand. This is hardly the more profitable
way Of encouraging team. so that some
other plan will have to be made to get
all together in one place. AS the only
way seems to call for new hat box"
it is not unlikely that covered roofing
section will be built before the coming
season opens.