The Washington herald., 1915-11-24
Georgetown Has Played
Against Both Teams This
Season and Should Know.
OTHER SPORT GOSSIP
Blue and Gray Squad Will Elect
1916 Leader After St.
Louis Game.
By WILLIAM PEET.

Navy has about as much of chance
TO beat the Army In the annual grid
iron classic between these service teams
/ next Saturday, as did Yale to lick Har-
ward this season.
! At least that's what the Georgetown
players think. and the Hilltoppers are
in a good position to express an oplh-
ion for the reason that during the sea-
son which is nearing a close, George
town has PLAYED both Navy and Army.
q Georgetown defeated the Navy handily,
, but two weeks later lost to West Point
/ by 10 to 0.
ITS not because West Point trimmed
u.s. said Captain Jim Barron, OF the
Hnltoppers that l pick the Army TO
win. but simply because West Point has
the better team and I don't care how
much the Middies may have improved
since We played them, l would bet my
bank roll on the Cadets, If l were a
betting man.
| Georgetown's football eleven is the
only one which has stacked up against
I both the Army and Navy teams this sea
son, and when the Hilltoppers faced
J West Point they were in the midst OF
their only slump this seasonal least so
! the players and coaches say, and there
| is every reason to believe them, when
the record of the West Side collegians
] is taken into consideration.
/ West Points attack with Oliphant car
rying the ball. its quick charging line.
according to Georgetown men, will eff
fectually settle the Navy on the Polo
grounds, New York. next Saturday.
Immediately after the game against
! St. Louis University. in the Mound City
tomorrow, the Georgetown team will
hold an impromptu meeting and elect a
captain for next year. Red" Cusack
| the end: Nahum. the guard: and Bill
Ward the giant tackle a9e tho leading
candidates and it is almost certain that
one of this trio will be chosen to lead
the team in 1916.
Says Ralph Davis. OF the Pittsburgh
Press: Barney Dreyfuss was seated at
his desk. leisurely tearing up attendance
reports at ball games played several
years ago. He came across the reports
of the Pirates Eastern trips in 1910, 1911
and 1912. and commented upon the figures
contained therein.
The attendance at one series in New
York when the Pirates and the Giants
played a single game on Saturday. dou-
ble-headsrs on Monday and Tuesday and
single game on Wednesday, totaled
close to 5000
I'VE were paid over $4,000 for that
SERIES" remarked the Pirate magnate. as
he DESTROYED the slips. They don't come
that way any mOre-anywhere. The
crowds were slim last season. But they'll
come hack. The law of average applies
here as elsewhere. Baseball may have
an off-season or two. but the fans never
forget the sport. and better times always
follow these periods of depression
| The tour Of the All-Americans and the
All-Nationals to the Northwest and the
Pacific Coast has come to an end. The
teams left Chicago a few days after the
world series was over. and they were on
the go until they wound up at San Fran
] cisco last Sunday. The teams encounter
ed the finest brand OF weather that ever
befell n bunch of transformers. not one
game having to be postponed.
| The games were not so well played as
was the case when similar teams toured
that section OF the country one year ago
| The players, however. are said to have
made their expenses and also to have split
neat sum on the side. In addition, they
/ had a lot of fun and saw the Panama Ex-
position without having TO dip into their
seasons savings or their world series
rake-offs.
! Cornell and Pitt. the only Eastern foot
| ball elevens which have not been beaten
! this season, are scheduled to close their
seasons on Thanksgiving Day. Accord
! ing to most critics. each tenn should
close its season with a clean slate, but
that there may be a great upset at Pitts
burgh is the opinion of those who saw
| State in its last two games against
| Lehigh and Lafayette.
| Apparently Cornell is going to have ar
easy time with Penn unless the Red and
Blue shows complete reversal of form
! and develops an ofTense 100 per cent
| stronger than II has shown to date but
Pitt is up against a different proposition.