Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-13
GEORGETOWN WILL HOLD BIG
GYMNASIUM MEET DEC. 19
Event Will Be Biggest Affair Of Kind Ever
Held by Blue and Gray-Will Play
Navy Carroll Wins.

much improved form over what It
showed in it's first meeting with the as
ISOLATION men. There was never a
period during the contest when the
Carroll team did not show its superior
ity in almost every department. It
shot goals with more accuracy, passed
the ball with greater facility and dis
played more ability as Individual per-
formers. The fact that it was playing
on It's own floor though, undou tedly
aided the Carroll team to considerable
extent.
The Carroll five will be greatly strength
ened before 1t plays its next game. al
most as much so as it has been since it
was last seen In competition. Jack Mar
tin. who resigned the captaincy of the
Blue and Gray five will play with Prof.
Joyce's bunch. and with S1m at one OF
the forward positions the team will be
much stronger. especially on the offensive.
, While with Georgetown last year Martin
showed much ability, and If he plays up
to the standard shown then while with
the Carroll five there is every likelihood
that he Will make an even better record
in the City League than he did with the
university Quint.
Blewitt, who played fullback for the
Catholic University eleven during the
season just past. has been elected to cap
tain that team during the season Of 1912.
Blewitt made an excellent record during
the past year with the Brooklanders'
ttoilI, dilu tHdt ne SHOulu De given Iu6
greatest honor in the power of his fellow
players to bestow was only to be ex-
peCted.
The new captain has made the state
ment that the Catholic University will
have one of the best teams among the
minor colleges in the south. 1t is a GER
tainty that the largest enrolment in
the history of the school will be had next
fall, and from the influx Of new students
there is every reason to believe that
many new candidates for the 1912 eleven
will be secured.
A boxing match for the heavyweight
championship of the university will be a
feature of the gymnasium meet to be
held at Georgetown December 10. 1t
is planned to bring two of the best men
in the school together for the event.
The decree of the high schools that
students shall not be allowed to COM
pete in scrub foot ball games is I'M
dOubtedly a good one. The fact that
several Of the boys who represented the
scholastic institutions this year were be-
ing offered money to play in games OF
that kind recently became known. 1t was
mentioned that such action would profess
sionalize them both for their high school
and college careers, and this led to the
move on the part Of the authorities to
stop the practice.
There is another element which enters
INTO SuCn Playing, ana tndt Is tndl boys
of sixteen and seventeen were pitted
against men much older, and consequently
it was generally the boys who suffered
by the physical comparison. 1t is in
just such games that foot ball gets its
back eye, and In which the weaker Of the
combatants most often sustains injuries
which are more or less serious. OF
course. the games in which the local
athletic clubs take part are for the most
part we'll conducted, but that does not
alter the fact that a boy of seventeen
years has no business coming into vio-
lent physical contact with a man who is
perhaps ten or fifteen pounds heavier
and probably four or five years older.