Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-26
&c. IT, SHOULD SHOW WELL
AGAINST VIRGINIA TONIGHT
Look to Have a Chance to Get
Away With First Contest With Char
lottesville School-Other Gossip.

, scented Georgetown last night We're up
against some of the best men in the coun-
try, men who are practically sure OF
places on the American Olympic team
when it goes to Stockholm next summer
And at that the performance of Eller
last night was exceptionally creditaDle
in that he made the man who beat him
out for first place in the 75-NRrd hun dies
go the distance in record time and then
won by only a few inches.
For the Georgetown-V Virginia game to-
morrow night the Blue and Gray mani
agement has arranged to have about NV
seats reserved and also several boxes.
Each box will hold about six people.
Williams College has about the short
est base ball schedule of any of the north
erh colleges. Only fourteen games have
been listed by the northerners for the
; coming spring. That more games nave
not been secured is not because they are
not wanted by the team and students, but
rather because the faculty is opposed to
a long list of contests A member or the
Williams faculty made the statement
that a sixteen-game schedule would pe
an ideal one. and, acting on that the
captain. and manager of the nine went
! to the board and advised that body that
if two more games would be allowed
flle team would defer practice every day
during the season until after o'clock.
The request was refused.
! base ball schedules for the coming sea-
son, a great contrast is presented, the
two being examples OF what are almost
extremes While Williams will play
but fourteen games, Princeton has thir-
ty-four scheduled, with one or two more
probable 1t rather appears that the
number of games that Princeton VIII
play is too many for college team TO
handle successfully. and yet 1t Is just as
certain that the schedule made by Will
liams is not of sufficient proportions to
guarantee justice being done to the team
itself. With.its limited number OF pitch
ers and specified time that 1t can De
away from the scholastic duties 1t would
seem that a twenty-four or twenty-five
game schedule would be long enough Tor
any collegiate aggregation.
Here is what a Boston paper has to say
of Courtney. who has been teaching the
Cornell crew a few points about now 10
lift an oar properly during the iast
decade, and who has achieved some lit
tie success-yes, some little success-in
that time:
Charles Courtney. Cornelrs famous
rowing COACH is quoted as saying that
junior event he never has had any OF
his boys collapse in a boat race, ana
he advised that boy not to row Con-
ditiOn has been WONDERFUL FACTOR IN
sweep rowing. but while extreme
cases Of collapse may be lacking in the
history of Cornell rowing, there are
those who have followed the crews
from Ithaca for years who might take
exception to Courtney's broad state
ment Courtney has such remark
able record that IL he did have few
cases of collapse it would be no refiec-
ton upon his Judgment as condition
er. His ability to size up material is
one of his greatest assets. and the
same thing is to be said of Jim Wray,
the Harvard coach. Still, it Is long
way to look back over thirty years of
rowing, and the "old man. is to be
pardoned If he played up his record
pretty strong.