Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-11-13
MIDD|ES LESSEN PACE
SECRET WORK ORDERED
Coaches Believe Team is About in
Flower of Condition.
ARMY CADETS PICKING UP.
Demand for Tickets Indicates Record
Breaking Crowd at Coming Strug-
gle in New York.

A lineup between Nne navy var
sity and scrub elevens was again
omitted Tuesday afternoon, the
coaches believing that the team is
fully up to the standard physically
and in general football. and that it
will have to be handled carefully
during the remainder Of the season
for fear OF reaction.
Consequently there will be only
two scrimmages this week-on
Thursday and Friday and this will
be the rlle during the remainder of
the season. Secret practice win be
the program for the rest of the sea-
son. Much time was devoted to kick
ing and receiving pUnts, the oppor-
tunity for practice along these lines
being especially good, as there was a
high wind and the backs had to be
wary to prevent the hall from get
ting away from them.
Vail, Nichols, Failing, Alexander
and Blodgett did most Of the punt
ing, while all of them, with MeReavy,
Harrison, Mitchell, Bates, Miles and
Austin were coached in receiving tbs
kicks. Brown and Vaughn did lot
of place kicking during the after
noon. Leonard, the fast haliback,
who hurt his knee about ten days
ago, is progressing nicely and will
probably be in practice toward the
last of the week He may be in the
game against Pennsylvania State for
short time next Saturday.
The Army showed improvement
when the varsity overcame the scrubs
in short order, scoring twice via the
touchdown route yesterday The
varsity uncovered some new inven-
tions and it was long while before
the scrubs were able to form a new
defense. Hodgson and Hobbs were
pitted against each other in punt
ing duel The former had just shade
the better of it. Meacham was shift
ed to the scrub line, Houston getting
back to his old berth at guard Nc
Evans fine work at center was
pleasing, the big fellow getting into
every play. The coaches are looking
for a hard battle with Villa Nova on
Saturday and every effort will be
made to keep the team on its often
sive toes in the workouts this week
With the first of the two big foot
ball games to be played in New York
set for Saturday, interest in the grid
iron sport there is rapidly rising to
the standard set by college towns.
Despite the overshsdowing effect Of
the Yale-Princetou game at New
Haven, there is big demand for
tickets for the Carlisle Indian Dart
mouth contest at the Polo Grounds
Saturday.
Great as is the interest in this
contest, however, it falls short of
The general enthusiasm anc ticket
Re mand for the Army aud Navy
game on November 20. The enor-
nous seating capacity of the Polo
Grounds stadium has been found
wholly unequal to the demand fol-
coupons. Although it was believed
the move from franklin Field, Phil
adelphia, to the baseball park would
solve the problem of seating all
who desired to witness the football
battle between the soldiers and
sail0rs, such has not been the case.
With approximately 5000 seats
available for the two academies,
their supporters and the general
public, it was thought there would
be no more necessity or refusing
any applications for seats. This
idea was quickly proved erroneous,
for with the game still more than
two weeks away the ticket demand
exceeds the seating capacity by
many thousands. Secretary John B.
Foster, of the New York Baseball
Club, estimstes that close to as, Gee
eat coupons could have been sold had
it beenpossible to acc ommodate such
record gathering Of football 81.
slhuiasts.