Evening star., 1912-11-17
PARADE BUSINESS SECTION
AND LIVEN UP THE CAFES
Audience at Musical Comedy Proves
to Be the Real Show.
POLICE RESERVES P0WERLESS
Unable to Muffle Exuberance Of
Spirit Voiced by Enthusiasts.
Demonstrative "Near" Col
legians Are Taken in
Tow by Bluecoats.

All that any one had to do last night
70 start violent commotion on Pennsyl-
Vania avenue was to make the inquiry.
What's the matter with Georgetown"
And along the block from corner to cor
ner. the crowd would respond with tre-
mendous enthusiasm, She's all right
Georgetown having dashed the hopes
of the University of Virginia on the foot
bail field to the tune of Is to l3. poured
down from the Hilltop college and took
the downtown district unto itself until
the early hours OF the morning.
And, tsrange to say. Virginia. In her
defeat. was just about as noisy as the
Blue and Gray. With shortened pock-
cts. after the bets had been paid, the
youths from the southern college let 1t
be known that If they cou.d not spend,
they could yell: and yell they did. To
the ear Of a trained observer who had
listened to foot bali celebrations for
dozen yaers past. last nights yowling
reached higher, louder and more gen.
timely intense pitch than anything like
it in the history of local sports.
Cops Fail to Mufle Torrent.
Even the fifty bluecoats who were
transferred for the night to the down.
town sections Uhereby spelling many a
| pinochie game among the reserves) could
| not muffie the noisy torrent. The blue
coats. along with the diplomatic Fowler,
did manage to allow the second act OF
| the musical comedy at the National The
ater to run along uEdisturbed. but the
| first and third acts were conglomera-
tons OF college cheers, with an occa-
sional clear-cut solo from the galleries.
However,, the performance on both sides
or the footitshts seemed to take.
| TWO turkey trotters in the show
stirred the yowlers to their most fiendish
| efforts. They had to dance until they ac-
| tually fell into the wings from exhaus-
| tton, and In the middle of their act n
pair OF hieh-tenored collegiates In the
| balcony yelled:
| "Oh you Chevy Chase lake" and "Gim-
me the next dance"
Noise Starts Early.
+ The noise started early. Pennsylvania
| avenue was thronged with youngsters
who seemed to think their bounden duty
was to let everybody know they had loud
voices. Dinner parties in some OF the
hotels were made memorable by song:
and when a collegiate sings he fees IL
only proper. to stand up. incline his head
toward his neares, neighbOr and search
his, throat for the most unforgivable and
unforgetable discordsr and MINOR chords.
However there seemed to be no bad
feeling between the followers OF the two
institutions. The orange "" arm bands
| were not torn off, and the. gray g" ban
ners were not naun,ed unduiy in tie faces
OF the losers. An occasional southerner
would inquire, satiricaly, where is
Georgetown, anyway and the reply
would be You fellows ought to know
The Georgetown outfit took delight in
counting afrom one to s Xteen, in unison.
| in this joyful way spreading. .the.news OF
the Georgetown score. -
"Near"-Co1legians in Envfdance..:
In addition to.; the. real undergradses
Pennsylvania avenue was thronged with,
an army of, near collegians. 1t costs
but a quarter to- get an. arm band. and
| the number of vnear-Georgetown men
i who made the. night hideous would swell,
| that institution to unbelievable size if all
Of them had really matritulated. Also.
| hundreds of girls oecked themselves with.
coiors and pa adeds They had what some
of them would ! call swell evening""
and were happy in the belief -that~every-
body took them for sisters and sweet.
hearts of the brave men WHO were shout
ing themselves ehoarse in praise of alma
mater
Three of the near-collegians were ar
rested early in the evening. > Their names,
were given at the first precinct police.
station as Messrs. Gallagher. Price and.
McInnes. One of them, with a Virginia
| arm band. started an argument about
| President Lincoln and the :other two
punched. him. Stripped of their arm
i bands they admitted they Wee mechanics.
and clerks. but they made terrific.
mess of the saloon in. which, they were
arrested,
Record Crowd at Game.
The greatest crowd that ever watched
/ a, foot bail game in the National Capital
filed the grands,ands and stood in rows
many deep about the historic Georgetown
gridiron, and watched one of the most
thrilling contests that ever took place be-
tween the teams of those time-honored.
foes, Georgetown University and the Uni-'
versity Of Virginia And when George
tuwn won In the dusk of the Brisk No
kvember evening, the Hilltop cohorts
swept down upon the field and gathered
Ito themselves the-men who had born. tho.
brnnt of the battle. all during the after:
It was a. scene of. wild rejoicing, under
graduates and old grads their. mothers.
their wives and their sweethearts Uniting
for: az moment In great cheer :thSt had
nothing organized about 1t. 1t was sus-
pense. .Ipent-up enthusiasm and JOY all
rolled into one great yell OF joy.
On.the other side of the fiehf the Vir-
ginia college boys and their friends, many
hundreds strong. sat for moment para
lyzed. as the victory, or what was ytr-
tually q victory, was snatcHed from their
team For Virginia. rated..evenf by Its
own supporters far. weaker team. q,
team against which the odds stood " to- l..
had battled the strong GS4ssstown. eleven
I to a standsti,l. tying the score e'onlysa Few
moments before Costello madesthe famous
kick which assured Georgetown its vio-
tory
Poe's, Feat Against Yale Recalled.
.Costellos, feat. recalled to many OF the
followers Of foot ball present the trick
which Poe of .Princeton turned against
Yale In the last half minute Of play In the
1850 game. when he7ljcked similar goal
from field and made the score II to 10
in favor of the Tiger team.
Nearly ~ oooA pegsous saw Tia sanA :