Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1914-11-27
ORANGE And BLUE
AGAIN VICTOR in
FOOTBALL CLASSIC
TarheeIs Display Old Time
Valor, but Fall Under
Heavy Onslaught.
CROWD OF is, 900 PEOPLE
WITNESSES BATTLE ROYAL
Governors of Both States and
Gold-Braided Stats Cheer
Rival Teams.
SECRETARY DANIELS A RooTER
Comptroller John Shelton Williams
Stands BY to See Alma
Mater Win.
CROWD OF 15, 900 PEOPLE
WITNESSES BATTLE ROYAL
DANIELS A RooTER
Comptroller John Shelton Williams
Stands BY to See Alma
Mater Win.

'FtrSt, last and foremost upon others Y
scenes and In other times, the bat
talioEs OF North Carolina have been;
but when yesterday afternoon the
hosts OF the Old North State met the (
legions of the Old rDominion on the
gridiron tho eleven of Chapel Hill
was only last-last only In the pny
sical sense. for In spirit they were an
beaten still.
Not even Virginia has crushed that
forth the encomium which describes
columns of praise. The score of 20 to
3, which Virginia wrote against her
most distinguished and most reSpect%S
ed rival, does not tell the story It (
Craig. of North Carolina. his heart
overfiowing with pride in his boys,
left the Governor of Virginia between
the halves and went down to. the
bleachers to tell the Carolinians that
the fight had just begun, that he would
OF time that North Carolina had won
thla game than to sit In the Governors
Mansion. NJ "a .s'ss Is; 4. n .yS{,
sEcRETARY DANIELS ,,.i 4 I;sl !s5 IS
Z. -. PROVES GAME LOSER
&. ss, aSss net u tsa, rs 8 81
ahatfe upon his face: went down 81:
those same bieachers and told tiieS
North Ca'llhians that only the hydro
aercplanes had been used In the tirst
half and that tho submarines Nero
yet to come. II cannot recordsh how DR. 3
]. Allison Hodges. president OF tho
North Carolina Society liz Richmond,
urged those boys to root like h
for the team upon the Held
4 lE short, The score can never tell in
It's mere figures how the game was
won and lost. how Captain Mayer and
ripped and cut their way through the
opposing line. rolled UP Its ends aud
outflanked 1t time and time again, nor
how Bridgest Tayioe. Tandy and Hone-
wood, with the odds ever against
them. hurled themselves into the plays,
and repeatedly halted Virginia s for
ward march. That part of the story
VII, he told in other columns. Here
may he told only the tale OF victory.
only the heartbreak of defeat twas
Yirginia's game almost from the be-
ginning. hut 1t was II game as hardly 4
and brayely lost as Il was fairly woii. i
~ was the shrst time In tho history
OF Virginia, the first time In the his
tory of all the South. that two Cover
nors met and sat together with@their
citiZenry and their gold-braitled col.
onels to watch. a football game between
their States. II was the first time
that Cabinet officer witnessed 4 foot s.
bali game in Yirginin, the frat time
mat ComPtroller OF the Currency. sat
WIN ms little children snmong the peo-5
PIE to cheer for the Orange and Blue.
for John Skelton Williams was among
the rooters. His voice was not 40
strong and loud as the voices OF the
children who sat about him. Yet he
rooted. and thereby CAME down to COM
mon things again:
A M ~ & Il ~
ONE, OF THE ROOTERs
University OF North carolina. Vas.
therc, and for while u smile played
about his lips as in the first onr,isl,S
OF Chapel fiIll the VirgInians seemed
70 tall back But. with the coming
gloom OF departing day aud tho quick
en'ms pain OF u seeming victory turned
10 defeat the smile left his face and
nc sought sympathy In Governor
Stuarts kindly eyes. But Secretary
Daniels, even though his promised sub-t
marines failed to mature, smiled on.
apparently ignorant OF tile silent agony
eolonels braided in gold and blue
President Edwin a.. Alderman, or the
University of Virginia, was the ONLY
ono lacking In the party. III health
prevented him from coming to witnoss
u victory repeated since 1905.
The two Governors and their stafrs
PRESIDENT Graham and Secretary. of the
Navy Josephus Daniels sat together 3
In the first three rows In the west oud
OF the grand stand. There were so MANY
fnlntary men that room for others had
10 be made In reserved seats In from.
on the field. Besides the coloneia. whp
don their uniforms only ir, times of
peace. there were real officers OF tie
militia. Major Il. W. Row les, of the \
Richmond Light Infantry Blues, Bat-
talon, and Major Lawrence IT, Price. of
tho Richmond Grays, were there. too.
both dressed In the full regalia Of their
commands. Near the gubernAtorial
party, and half regiment of ,coioneis,
sat the rooters OF tho White and Biue
IN the wes.-slde bleachers
BRASS HANDS HELP
WITH STYRRING MEsIc
On tho opposite side Of the field
were masscd the rooters who had
como down to sec Eirgin,a win again. .s
Each had a; band. and between the q
mournfui melody OF 'csAuld Lang Sync,,ss
with hlwhlch Virginia first greeted her
rivals. and tire tryIpming of carolir,a
drums. their battle cries, ROUNDED y
across tho Held, wei he'd above tho hn.
m9n-tined fences and hoatsd out Il is y
where the hidden stars play theirN
eternal music. 1t was ia, medley f,fIS
sound and color. lEYerywhere h that z.
theyeys turne,n there was u snrging
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