The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1914-07-26
JOE WOOD, VARSITY COACH,
IS TUTORED BY DR|CKLEY
Captain-Elect OF Harvard Football
Team Is Getting I'm Trim at
Blue Ridge Camp.
TEACHING BOYS THE GAME
Leader Of Crimson Forces Finds No
Trouble In Sending Pigskin True
for Fifty and Sixty Yards-Brick.
ley VIII Aid Virginia Eleven.

charlottesville, Va, July 25.--Almost
In the shadow of the Blue Ridge Noun
tains OF Virginia, Charles e. Brlckley.
captain elect OF the Harvard football
eleven and dropkicker extraordinary,
is daily practicing the art Of booting
the pigskin between the crossbars in
preparation for another active season
on the gridlron.
Bricklcy came South about the 1st
OF July 10 accept a position as one Of
the leaders" at the noted Blue Ridge
Camp. n summer camp and school for
boys conducted by Warner Wood, son
of the late Warner Wood. of Charming
ton" one OF the wealthiest residents
OF this entire section In his day
The Blue Ridge Camp was opened
about Ave years ago. and has been
growing In favor. This year there are
enrolled over half-hundred pupils
from various States in the Union.
Especial attention Is devoted to all out
door sports. Instructors and stud ents
live In tents out I'm the open. though
there is a large building nearby with
pavilion. which is used for various
entertainments. Most OF the morning
Is devoted to tutoring. and the after
noon to pleasure. Baseball. OF course.
has the call. and a match game is
played every day, weather permitting.
Teams from this city and from the
small towns near the camp go In tally
hos to the camp, and return matches
arc scheduled.
Summer before last Toll Pendleton
the noted Princeton athlete. was one
OF the tutors and athletic instructors
At the camp. together with such base
bSll players as Douglas Neff now Of
the Nationals: Bergman Green. back
stop on the Virginia varsity nine:
Billy" Wood. the Princeton twirler
and Joe Wood. former captain and CEN
tire rush of the Virginia football elev-
en- thoth brothers of Warner Wood
headmastcr OF the camp): Watkins
Flanagan. one OF the most promising
young twirlers on the Virginia baseball
squad last spring. and other athletes
from the Episcopal High School and
! Woodbury. Forest. Pendieton played
centre field for the camp team the en-
tire summer. and starred in many Of
the contests played in this State and
West Virginia. The biggest rival of
the Blue Ridge Camp was the nino
from the Greenbricr Camp. in West
Virginia. The series was finally cap
tured by the Nirginians.
H:icklcy now tips the scales at 100,
and seems to be in ideal condition. His
weight during the football season is
close around 1856. He has proven the
| most popular leader" ever on the
camp faculty, and general fayorite
with the boys each afternoon one would
never think that he Is the same man
who has held the centre OF the football
stage for the past two years. He mixes
with the boys as q boy and liz always
ready for romp. He Is as gentle as
girl and has = word for the youngest
pupils in the school. On his first ap.
pcarance In this city on July no
made - hit with local athletes in a
double header ball game played at the
Horse Show Grounds and made many
warm friends. Like Pendleton, he
plays in the outfield. He is sure
catch and extremely fast on the bases.
He Is nov hitting at a pretty fast clip.
In his first week at camp. Brickley
had goal post erected on the camp
grounds. and each day he spends lit
tie time in booting the ball between
| the bars. There Is always a bevy OF
youngsters at his side. anxious TO
catch on TO the secret Of droplsicking
and to each of them Brickley gives of
his time gladly. Those who have seen
Brickley perform this week say that
he is finding no trouble in landing
kicks between the uprights from the
nifty and sixty-yard lines. At any
rate. he Is working hard each day.
and when the Crimson football sea-
son opens this fall. he should be in
tit condition to add other laurels to
those already gained on the gridiron.
with Brickley at the camp is Joe
wood, who was recently chosen head
coach OF the Virginia football team
for the coming season Wood is get
ting pointers from Brickley, and 1t is
safe to predict that the Orange and
Blue squad this fall will be searched
for possible dropkicker. The genial
Crimson leader has consented to spend
several days with portion of the Vir-
slnia football squad, which will be
called to assemble at the university the
last week In August. Brickley's inten-
tion Is to return to Cambridge early
in September.