Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-14

his rooms in Elihu Dormitery. In a
twinkling his rooms and the halls outside
were blocked with the lads Of Lowell who
had come to welcome the most popular
boy In school, Hughie jenkins.
It was the day Of the opening of the
winter term of the university Hughie
Jenkins had been the successful man
ager for three years of the college base
ball team, and on Thanksgiving day
previous Hughie as captain Of the foot
ball eleven. with the help of the other
members of the team, had won the college
championship for the first time in five
years. The boys of Lowell University
had never been very successful In foot
ball against their old rivals at Jefferson.
and the fellows were SO chuckful of en-
thusiasm over 1t that they had not yet
had enough opportunity to satisfy it. AS
each of the members of the team had
arrived he had been welcomed in much
the same way. but the great welcome
was, of course. given to good old
Hughie," as they called him. and now
that he was with them again it was pos
sible. taking the boys view Of it, for
the work of the university to GO on.
entitled to all the credit we can give
him. He has been wonder at base ball.
because he has always kept the boys
lighting hard to win, no matter what the
score was, and we have won many a
game just because we wanted to do our
best for him, and the way he made us
get out and win in the last few minutes
Of the foot ball game kind of shows that
he knows how to put them over"
That's right" said Kirkpatrick, who
was right end on the team, IF good old
Hughie hadn't put some Of the fight back
in us when that old score was 0 to in
the last five minutes of play and then
himself kicked that field goal from JEFF
ferson's 25-yard line we wouldn't have
won"
We'll" said Hughie. this is fine all
right, boys. We did win. didn't we.
and it's very kind of you to try to give
me all the credit but if it hadn't been
for the other ten fellows on the team l
guess / couldn't have done very much.
and anyway it took eleven pretty good
men to beat that team from JEFFERSON.
Then turning to Johnny Everson, he
said
"Gee, wish the snow would melt. I'd
like to find out what kind Of new fellows
we have who can play base ball.
And that was just like Hughie. Here
it was winter with snow on the ground,
and a month or two of cold weather still
in sight. He had hardly got rested from
the foot ball campaign. and now he was
wishing ii was time to get out the bats.
balls and masks
ut gets me- said Deivin to Gibble over
in one corner. how that old boy hustles
and is thinking about all kinds of things
all the time. but / guess that's the way
to win out
In time of peace prepare for war"
said Hughie. Now l am wondering right
now whom we are going to get to take
the place of old boy Penny on first Erred
Penny had been the sensation of the
will take Johnny Kings place as catcher
and will be able to work that delayed
throw trick with Johnny Everson and the
shortstop, and, by the way, who Is going
to take Joe Drinkers place at short, be-
sides the couple of other places that are
vacant. Boys" continued Hughie, this
is going to be my last year at school
here. You fellows have helped me win
the championship before It's all right
about the foot ball business. but this last
year with you we've simply got to have
another winning nine. Let's give good
old cheer for the foot ball boys, and then
let's give another for the grand old game
of ball, and then you go and tell all the
fellows who can play ball that l want
to see them in the cage next week, and
tell all of them that think they can play
ball to come. too. Sometimes some of
these chaps who think they can do 1t turn
out the best of all.
And that evening when the boys got
talking by themselves they forgot all
about foot ball. and the fellows who had
been to school last year had to tell all
that Lowell boys had pulled off in the
past just as if most of them hadn't heard
them all before.
Say. Johnny said Fred Larke.
junior from Kansas and captain of the
base ball nine, to Johnny Everson. I
was trying to tell Robb (Robb was from
Georgia) how Johnny King and you and
Joe Brinker figured out that delayed
throw to-second trick that won that game
from Princeville last year.
WELL" said Johnny, lit didn't really
win the game. you know. because we
were ahead then. but it kept the other
fellows from winning. You see. some
one said to us in the visitors dressing
room of Bailey Oval that Walker of
Princeville team was a slow thinker.
have a new trick for fellows that can't
think quick said King, the catcher. and
he explained it to us SO we would be on
the job il the chance came. Sure enough
it dil.
In the last half of the ninth inning of
the game with Princeville College the
Lowell boys were one run to the good.
Princeville College was at the bat, OF
course Walker, the first man up. had
gotten to first on hit and reached sec
ond on sacrifice. and he<was the lad
they said didn't think Quic'.. This was
just the thing we figured might happen.
King had said, IF that fellow gets on