Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-09-20

played at Providence Thanksgiving
day.
We shall probably have the opportu-
nifty of seeing another middle west
star on an eastern gridiron this sea-
son, for oiiphant of Purdue is a can
| didate for the West Point team. Daily,
the old Harvard quarterback and now
| head coach at West Point, was not at
| all behind the other foot ball instruc-
tors in getting his men out early, and,
| beginning the first day of September, in
spite of the heat, his men were at work
not only in the rudiments but in start
! ing on plays. In fact. Daily realizes
| that the first two or three weeks of
| foot ball season can no longer be vast
ed in sending men in simple 1-2-3 plays
when they can combine their knowl-
edge of more advanced plays with daily
the time. There is some good mate
rial for stiffening up the line. and the
backfield are already punting Well
| wonder if the members of the Olym-
, pic committee, who sat and watched
the marvellous fencing entertainment in
their honor in Paris only few weeks
ago. realize that every Frenchman who
engaged in the mimic battle there is
| now facing the foe in a real war, and
that those pretty women at the domino
party, those pantomime actresses who
fitted SO gayly about the private stage
wonder If those who We're in England
realize that those very members of the
Belgian crew who have so many times
pulled themselves to victory on the
water against France and England
have been showing the same pluck in
fighting for their country, which is
now almost q desolate waste 1t does
not seem possible that the very men
we have seen both at Madison Square
Garden and Olympia in London riding
a no of
dying and winning mention for gal
lantry in war. The report is that Capt.
Cheape is now with his regiment, the
1st Dragon Corps, fighting in France;
polo team is leading volunteer cav
airy regiment; that Capt. Lockett and
Edwards are at the front; that many
an old oar and foot ball man and crick-
eter of Oxford and Cam bridge are now
fighting. Yet such is war, and its eff
feet will be seen upon British and con-
tinental sports, as well as those of the
colonies, for some years to come, and
will have it's material effect even upon
sports In our own country.
The leading picture in British Golf
ing, in the issue of the Goth, shows
James Braid and j. H. TAYLOR putting
in their contributions to the collection
box for the Prince of Wales fund at
the exhibition games at Hinault Forest
There is another proposition among the
golfers to contribute a. shilling every
Saturday. This in British clubs alone,
and figuring on an average of only ten
players a Saturday, would produce a
thousand pounds week. There is a
women golfers war fund. with the
Countess of Wilton president, and on
the committee are the champion, Miss
Der of other golfing women of note.
Edward Ray, one of the trio of Brit
ish golfers who were defeated in the
open over here year ago. had engaged
to go to Belgium to lay out a new
course there, but has postponed the
trip in the belief that either the allies
or their enemies have probably made
trenches of the sites he intended using
for putting greens.
Among the Highland regiment that
marched out of Boulogne recently was
a stout chap from St Andrew, who
only month ago was driving q long
ball at Hardelot and teaching little
English girls how to golf, with an Of
Ter from golf professional in the
United States; Kirkaldy (for it was
he, said, But I wasna' going to the
states when there were Germans to
night Colts guild enough. but it can
ing. k1rkaldy was an ex-cavalry man.
but Joined an infantry regiment rather
than be left behind
The Silvertown COMPANY is having
half wages to the wives or dependents
OF all employees that have gone to the
front. in addition promising employ
ment for their help on their return.
Princeton won the intercollegiate
golf championship, breaking the long
string of successes of Yale and Har-
ward. There have been nineteen of
these lntercoliegIate team champion
ships. of which Yale has won twelve
and Harvard six. Princeton has been
a runner-up some half dozen times, but
this year for the first time it has
succeeded in winning the top place. It
was close contest, many of the
matches going to the last green and
some to extra holes
Copyright 1914, Otis F. wond,