The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1915-11-24
I'VE BEAT EN- THEM"
IS TARHEEL SLOGAN
Victory Of Ten Years Ago Still Recoected With Fervor BY
Carolina Mountaneers ct ais Optimism Will Not Win
Game For North Staters However
by GUS MALBERT..

rectly but not SO intimately connected
with what has happened. will be play
ing ootball game In retrospect.
Virginia and Carolina will have met.
Hardearned shekels wrung willing
~, more or less. from paternal bank
accounts will have been dissipated by
errant youth gone mad with victory.
or sodden in the throes of defeat
Virginia and Carolina will have met.
Just one decade ago. down in Viz
Einia's foremost city by the sea and
Hopewelrs chiefest rival for urban
honors, down In the city OF Norfolk.
football team from the University
Of North Carolina defeated football
team from the University of Virginia.
From the ocean swept shores OF Will
1nington back into the gnarled hills
OF Ashevtlle they are still talking OF
that victory: from the unmoiested
wineries Of the effete North CAROLYN
ian. east to the freedom OF the moon
shine hills OF the Carolinian west they
are still munching with smacks of
gusto: We beat 'em then
Cruel though It be, truth. truth UNI
vanished and unveneered. must pre-
vail. We wot not what the outcome
will be. come tomorrow. but this we
think: Caroiinians far ana near. af-
ter what our friends call the classic
Of the South. must satiate their CORY
Appetttes once more on the Cruel of
the victory ten yesteryears agone.
Much as we would paint q more
roseate picture for our friends across
the line. much as We would be i'm
pressed by the obvfousness of the will
inEly constructed pail from out the
Virginia environs, much ~ we would
glory in the something up -our-sleeves
of our friendly enemy from the land
OF pines. there liz nothing either in the
definite results of fixed football past
or that can BE- read IN the football
horoscope Of the thirty-six hour long
future. that can possibly be read as
Carolina victory. or near-victory.
A Taxfcei OF Tarhccis.
The buoyant optimism OF the Caro-
lima followers In more tonic than tho
bracing air of the fros;-tinted early
winter mornings, but optimism doesn't
spell victory, except In the case OF our
friend Beebee,
Beebee, as you may have guessed,
~ 4 North Caroiinian. one of those
regular Tarheel- born and Tarheel-
bred and w hen Il m -,ieaa{I'n be Tar
heel-dead kind OF North Caroiinians.
During his sane moments. which
usually last all OF the year until No
eember 10th, he Is positive that North
Carolina hasn't a chance against Nir-
siiata. On November f2th after the
exchange OF many letters in conf
dence with Chapel Hill, he is hopeful
and IL willing 70 take the short end
~ an oddson bet that Carolina will
score. On November i3-fatefui
.iay~-he feels that Carolina has q
chance. Just remote chance TO win
Tn the l4sh he is still hopeful with
q more CHEEKY sort of hopefuinesa
His spirits rise until the fated day.
But he In firm that he will gamble no
money on the result.
Then comes Thank sgiying morn
and with II hundreds OF the same sort
OF Carolinians. Let a crowd of Caro-
linians get together--but any two
(arolinians is a crowd. So on with
II. Bcebee meets a crowd. After two
liquid how -dye-sio's he's Offering odds
that Carolina will shove half OF vir-
gina into the Atlantic ocean and ram
the other half down the mouths Of
the mountains from which she sprang.
Tnrl1ecls Have No Chance.
That's Beenee and friends. that's
every North Caroiinian. until after
defeat and--then they're that way.
But 1t doesn't spell victory.
Tersely North Carolina on the face
Of the returns hasn't a ghost OF q
chance. In no department OF the
game does North Carolina shape up
with the Virginia eleven. In no games
IN which q tentative comparison could
Re made IL there reason to say that
Carolina measures up to Virginia. In
the line Virginia outclassss Carolina
The secondary defense. more nearly
comparable than any other depart
1nent. finds Virginia a good fifty per
cent. stronger than her ancient and
honorable rival On the wings Car
olinA has a sterling end in Homewood,
but that mentions /. ALL In word,
10 far this season. Carolina has de-
velopcd three-mar eleven with
Buck Homewood, Dave Tayloe and
Bix Tandy furnishing the apices of the
triangle. That's the meat of 1t from
the viewpoint Of dope.
So as not to make our stand ir-
reyocable let's add that dope la some
times scrambled seven ways from the
deuce. Yale outircked Princeton
remember that. It may furnish some
heaven for your unrisen bread.
Interest VIII Eot Wane.
But--and this Is the all OF 1.-THE
interest in the Virginia Carolina an
nual football contest will never wane
70 long a. Virginia is Virginia and
Carolina Ia Carolina. They are nat
ural rivals and though Virginia con-
tinue to defeat Carolina time out of
mind. they will continue rivals and
the same crowds will journey to see
them clash and will sympathize with
the serried ranks after the artillery
0re 10 over.
That mysterious, subconscious, In
4e4lnable pressage that I'VE have
s0mething up our sleeves" will bring
ont tho Beebee's and the friends OF
tho Beebee's whose rambler Ia legion.
4ha*,s the pulling force. and that's
Why Richmond and his. best girl, or
Richmond and her best fellow, de-
pending upon how YOU genderixe
Richmond. with the best part Of Car
DINA, will be at the ball yard tomor-
row afternoon.
Both teams arrive today. Virginia
VIII put up at the Country Club, while
Carolina has chosen Murphy's Hotel
- = resting place.
At that. Virginia should win as she
pi0Ases, Buck Mayer or no Buck
Mayer.
No. I'm not betting today. thank
yosi.
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