Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1917-11-22
GETTING READY FOR
GAME WITH HOPKINS
St. Johns To Meet Ancient Rivals
On Saturday.
WILL BE FIGHT TO FINISH
Game Expected To Be Hardest OF Ser
les OF Contests Between The
Two Elevens

With all thoughts centered ON the
game with the eleven Of Johns Hop
kins University at Homewood Field.
Baltimore, on the coming Saturday.
the football warriors of St Johns
College yesterday afternoon passed
the central point of their final
"drive" in preparation for the con
test.
Incidentally. this years game bids
fair TO be the most flercely fought in
the history OF gridiron battles be-
tween these ancient rival institutions
On paper. Hopkins seems TO have
slight edge as a result OF their show
ing in the preliminary games of the
season.
on the other hand, the Cadets arc
rounding out rather poor season.
having suffered defeats at the hands
cf both Maryland State and Western
Maryland Colleges. two of the teams
that figure in the State intercollegiate
championship They did. however,
succeed in taking the measure of the
eleven Of Washington College, another
OF the title contenders St Johns
and Washington are. therefore, out
Of the running for the titular honor
herents of old St Johns than for the
herents Of old St oJhn's than for the
Cadets 70 trail the Black and Blue
colOrs IN the dust in Saturdays con
test, in spite OF their otherwise in
glorious record for the 1917 cam
paign.
victory over Hopkins. their most
bitter rival would more than Offset
their previous poor showing This is
the opinion expressed by the most
ardent of ST. Johns followers. Ger
tain it is that the Cadets are full of
fight, and it is equally as certain that
the pluck that has marked the work
OF the st. oJhn's boys in former Hop
kins games will be rampant during
the struggle al Homewood on Satur-
day
The local eleven has been built
largely out OF green material, but all
1of the players have shown improve
ment with each succeeding game
With the contests that proved setbacks
now matter of the past. all OF the
mea are concentrating their efforts
to work themselves into prime condi-
tion for Saturdays supreme struggle.
The practice yesterday was about
the hardest of the season, following
program of light wook early in the
week, and there will be no really hard
work today or tomorrow The lads
were put through every element OF
play under the watchful eye of Coach
Johnnie" Wilson, special attention
being devoted to tackling. body
blocking, and instructing the tackles
and ends in the methods of smearing
the end runs of foe
Plassnig, fullback; Metzger. end.
and Cook, halfback, three of the
regulars who have been nursing
slight injuries, got into the scrim-
mage for a short time yesterday
Camptain Lentz, tackle. Is still nurs-
ing an injury. This quartette will be
in good physical condition by Satur-
day, as every precaution is being
taken to guard against further In
juries. Turner and Dawes on the
wing position, are showing up excep-
tionally well. MacManus, who has not
played since the p. NJ c. game. will
be available for the go against Hop
kins His presence will greatly
strengthen the backiield, for he is IN
class by himself as a defensive
player.
The players are conforming TO
strict training rules. Enthusiasm is
running high among the student body
and there is lots OF confidence here
that ST. Johns will come through
with flying colors.