Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-11-05

Virginia plays of form, as it did
against Georgia.

virginia plays on form, as II oio
against Georgia.
The old-time rivalry between Wes-
leyan and Williams will be fought out
at Middletown. This game is or much
interest to the secondary colleges IN
a direct bearing on their ranking, and
there always has been considerable
rivalry between the two. WESLEYAN
generally is favored to win by those IN
two schools.
Yale will play it's first game under
the new regime of coaching agains.
showing considerable improvement anu -.
much more spirit than usual, anu 10
expecting to win.
Cornell plays one of the big inter inter-
sectional games of the year. meeting I'M;
Michigan at Ann Arbor. None VIZ
doubt the strength Of the thaca ns
after their defeat of Harvard, anu
other than a victory for them over the the
Wolverines. Michigan.s loss to .a Inc
Michigan Agricultural College TOOK
much of the luster from Yosts eleven'
and it would, indeed, be great SCI
back to Cornelrs hopes for cham
pionship rating for it to drop the cor
test. Cornell. if Harvard should WIN
from Princeton. would probably DC
more IN line LOT 1OOL Ddll HOHoiS
any other institution, and even II
Princeton beats Harvard the 1thacans
ought to have quite little claim 10
the title.
Notre Dame goes to West Point to
meet the Army again. This is the
Westerners' third visit to the Point
and the games stand a victory LOT
show as good form as was expected
and lost to the soldiers; now Notre
Dame is more powerful than a year
ago and may win, despite the strength
Of the West Point combination.
Johns Hopkins is to meet another
strong opponent in the Gettysburg
team, The Baltimoreans made splen-
did showing against SWarthmore a
week ago, and figure they can win from
Gettysburg. The Pennsylvanians have a
heavy, fast combination, and they have
consistently defeated the other colleges
in Maryland by decisive scores. Brick
ley has developed the strongest eleven
ord is such as to indicate that it will
meet Gettysburg on better than even
terms.
Washington and Lee and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute play secondary
elevens. The former meets Roanoke at
Lexington and the latter has as its OPP
ponent King College.
Constructive criticism is splendid, and
than delighted to accept. This is to be
the point in that we have been taken
to task by Harold H. Osborn, former
Central High boy. now at Syracuse
University. for not giving Syracuse the
mention it really deserves. For not
tional games" comment last week no
excuse is offered to the youngster who
SO boldly takes up the cudgels for his
university in such a commendable way
other than that the writer is not unlike
other human creatures in that he
makes mistakes once in awhile. How
ever, the hat is off to young Osborn.
and he is hereby assured Syracuse will
get its deserved mention in this col
umn hereafter. Mr.. Osborn's letter fol-
lows:
Syracuse, N. Y. November 2, 1915.
Mr.. H. c. Byrd, Washington. d. c.
Dear Sir: AS 1 am an old Central
High man and regular subscriber to
The Evening Star. I am naturally in
terested in the contents of it's pages.
In reading over the sport sheet 1 fail
to find recognition of Syracuse Univer-
sity as one of the prominent factors on
the gridiron this year, as she always is
AS a university with registration Of
400, it certainly should be heard of
in the District through the papers
l was especially interested in your
article of Thursday. October %, on In
tersectional Games" You speak of
dianapolis and V. P. l. to Ithaca, but
you saynothing of the Syracuse Michi-
gan game at Ann Arbor, by far the
most important intersectional game of
last Saturday. where we defeated the
wolverines by a score of IA to Z.
When speaking of intersectional games
do not forget to mention the trip Of the
Buck ONeil Boys" to South Dakota.
Montana, Oregon and Occidental at Los
Angeles. This trip, the longest taken in
the history of foot ball will begin directly
after the Dartmouth game here Novem-
Der 20. BY the end of the season we will
have played college teams from Provi-
dence. r. l.. to Los Angeles. Cal.
syracuse is not a Conner" she has long
since arrived. Her deeds in basket bali,
base ball and crew, as well as foot ball,
should find recognition in The Star
HAROLD H. OSBORN,
Syracuse, Is.
The Maryland Aggies are to play
Washington College tomorrow In one
of the series CT games for the state
championship. The Farmers are bank
ing on winning. though they are not
means. Washington College was over
whelmed by Hopkins, but is pretty sure
to put up a harder battle against the
College Park eleven than it did in Bal
timore.
Eastern High is not likely to win
from Business today in the battle in
the high school series. The Light Blue
and White has not a team of sufficient
strength to warrant a prediction that
it will do other than make credita-
BILE showing. The work of the Business
team has been such as to indicate that
it Is much the stronger