The Washington herald., 1914-11-22
NOISY THRONG
ON HILLTOP
Songs and Cheers, with Huge
Law School Parade, Are
Features of Game.
BY JOHN A. DUGAN.

1t was a rollicking. noisy crowd, that
throng Of $500 who attended the big same
Of the year on the Hilltop yesterday.
Washington and Jefferson this season
replaced Virginia, and on all sides re-
grets were heard. for the Capital takes
kindly to the Charlottesville boys END
their cohorts.
But Virginia is not on Georsetown's
schedule any more. and Washington and
Jefferson was offered as the next best
bet.
The law school crowd behind their big
banner marched through the streets TO
the field and were given a royal recep-
ticn from the college students when they
arrived.
Hilltop cheer leaders were at their hest
The song. set to the music of Heart of
Maryland" made an instantaneous hit,
as did the football words to It's Long.
Long Way to Tipperary."
Here's the Heart of Maryland" war
song:
There's no hope left today for W..
Though we don't like to tell you 30.
When YOU finally get the ball.
You'll find our line 4 wall
That can't be passed by foe.
On! Washington and Jefferson,
We're going for 4 touchdown
When our team goes a-tearing thru the line
Its uctry for old Georgetown.
Boyle Law, I6.
The Georgetown undergraduates and
alumni, as usual, occupied the west stand,
while a little knot of Washington and
Jefferson students, who came down with
the team, were in the east stands.
Prominent Persons Present.
Aponn,r tboSo or tho waSbinOtnn and
Jefferson side were notably Senators PEN
rose and Oliver, the latter being from
Bethany College, West Virginia, and later
confirmed as a spirited rooter for Wash
ington and Jefferson; Hon. George T.
Oliver, who was born in ireland the first
month of the year 1s47, and is a stanch
advocate of the present style OF football
ing. Maryland and Virginia were repre-
sented by a coterie of friends of "Cy''
Cummings, legislator in interstate poll.
tics; Senators John Walter Smith and
William R. Jackson, being accompanied
by the Hons. ]. Harry Covington, ]. Fred
Talbot, John Charles Linthieum, and
David Lewis. a
On the Georgetown side were noticed
John Sharp williams, Edward Douglass
White, Chief Justice United States; Count
Won Bernstorr and Baron Lersher, Of the
German embassy; Sir Cecil Arthur
Spring-Rice and his counselor, Mr.. c.
Barclay; Viscount de Alte, of the Por-
tuguese Legation; Mr.. Paul Ritter OF
John Z. W. Tracy, James
e. Jones, o. F. Jones, Henry Morgen-
thau, of Turkey; Maj. George o. Squier,
military attache Of the British Embassy;
Melvin Hazen, propasator OF horse shows,
by a notable bunch of foot
ball fans from the Municipal ONCE;
Russell A. Oakley, H. p. Springer, for
mer superintendent of mails Of the city
postoffice, and the new superintendent,
W. II. Haycock. Colombia, Brazil, and
Chile were represented in a reserved sec
ton on the west side of the field in the
persons of Isaac A. Manning, Ed P. w.
Tudor, and Percival Gassett. while right
beside them were seated Gen. George
Elliott, Postmaster General BurIeson,
and Secretary of the Navy Josephus
Daniels, the latter being a great advo-
cate of the present style of football since
1855, when he was editor of the Wilson
IN. c. Advance and other papers Of the
South.
1t was absolutely impossible to take
tab of all the notables who attended, as
Billy Butler censored every
scribe doing picket duty on the side lines
that), but 1t was, nevertheless, crafty
ing to know that in our glance at the
many mugs photographed in the rubbish
pile of our brains there were Represented
the real Representatives Of clean and
wholesome sport Of this little baflliwick
OF ours