The Washington herald., 1914-11-13
Homely Quadrangle at Old
Eli Field Passed Out Of
Existence with the Yale
Brown Contest.
new BOWL WILL OPEN
By wILEIAsr PEEr.

With the playing Of the Yaie-Brown
game in New Haven last Saturday the
homely wooden quadrangle. known as
Yale field, where many famous and hard
fought gridiron battles had been staged.
passed quietly out Of existence.
There was no ceremony Of parting.
neither did there appear TO be any wave
OF regret All eyes turned rather to the
new Yale bowl a few blocks away which
will be thrown open to the public for
the first time Saturday week with Har-
ward the Ellis opponent.
Harvard, Princeton and Syracuse have
all discarded the wooden stands In favor
OF concrete and steel Yale simply had
TO fall in line. In fact II has been one
Of the seven wonders of the world how
the ramshackle stands ever stood the
strain OF the masses these five years
past.
The New Bowl willshoI a crowd of
1000 persons. When IL was planned and
campaign started for the purpose OF
raising funds there were many who
cried They will never hll it,
A recent news dispatch gives this the
lie, for II reports are to be credited,
there win be 1000 OF more persons dis
appointed at not being able to see the
Harvard-Yale game this year.
A Boston writer, Ralph McMillIn of
Of the antiquated Yale stands in the
following:
There is nothing particularly
sentimental nbout Wood I'm the
abstract Certainly there In less
In the concrete, n n emay make
baa pun- One may carve ones
initials, to be sure. and embeIhah
bench with sentimental designs
These, however, are Of HttIe bene-
at TO mankind I'm general.
SHather does the constant ex--
ercise of the sentimental Oeeupa-
uon Of leaving ones mark grad
uaIly wear down the structure uR-
I'll. 10 and behold. some day
Watehful mayor shall eondemn Il
and Steel and Stone march In
through the gateway Of n city or
dinanee. Wood Is perishable. Steel
and stone last forever. or nearly.
Moreover, IL Il possible to build
tier upon tier OF Steel and Stone.
to crowd together In one structure
twice OF three times the number of
spectators one may assemble upon
the wooden seats And are there
not many athletes to be fed. and
many campaigns to be waged, and
the ainews of war to be Enrnered.
In some manner or other, In the
harvest timer"
In some quarters the proposed base
beAA PGdNG pAdu5 lOOA ike Lne nklL De-
tween couple OF Kilkenny cats.
They'll eventually swallow each other.
GeoEDstoEn has slipped . good one oTer % the
Washington and Jensrs1n football scouts.
TUnouoW Coach Exendine and Gradirate Manarer
Cha-iJ Cox take = nyfng trip for the purpoe a
Watching Washington and Jeierson 10 action, ob-
tatning information which may be Of value to the
HhitOppzs in its big game Of the yeAr. Saturday
So far As known no Washington and jefferson
scouts have sen Georgetown IN action. and the
chances are that . representative win journey
same bstueen GEORGETOWN and the Maryland
AggieS. a. per schedule
The AGgies cancelled this game last summer and
ecnseuuently the Hfltoppes win remain idle. no
team couh be booked TO III the date.
In place II . football game at GeorEetOEn tcno--
row, the physical drector viii hold 4 big field meet
and couple Of class esTens win face each other On
the Eridiron.
oTgani1ed BASEBALL could desl the Fede-als a BODY
blow b. selling them the Cleveland Maps. Such &C
ton might md the w.E
Billy weart Of the Philadelphia Tesezraph. bring,
up . point IN regard toshifting q players. should
peace Be declared. that has heretofore never been
mentioned. He ays:
IF peace cumes to the baseball world it win be
interesting to know how certain men who ooee wore
the uniform Of the PhiIieS win be taken care Of.
Two Of these are Otto knabe and JacA Dunn The
latter vas the manager OF the Baltimore Interna-
tionAs. . team which driven out Of Baltimore
b knabe's Federal League team last season. 40
eording TO Sory from the West, the two Baltimore
teams wiz be analgamated-
In this case II remains to be seen which Of the
E1nAges viii b retained at Baltimore. Last winter
knAbe signed threeyesr contract with the Balti-
more Federak. He has already received about one
half Of that money that Is coming to him for three
years Of service.
Otto looked upon his berth at Baltimore as being
20 certain that be recently announced his intenhn
Of starting q bowling alley and billiard parior In
that city. There will be some shifts Necessary the
peace pact goes through. One Of the results Of such
an agreement win Be the shifting Of a number Of
rnana1Iprs - walI a. of uiareru