The Washington times., 1917-11-20
GEORGETOWN WAITS
FOR INFORMATION
OF FPOSTPONEMENT
By LOUIS A. BOUCHER.

By LOUIS A. DoUGHER.
Washington is to have a chance
Thanksgiving Day Of taking its
choice between two first class foot
ball games, unless Georgetown sue
ceeds IN having one Of them post
pOned until the following Sstur.
day. Each game is for the benefit
of the sthletic fund Of service
hlsvens, and sompetition can do
little good.
4 month ago Georgetown booked
ShO famous UsaaSs, Of Allentown,
HG, for Turkey Day. Endeavuring
- obttn the use Of American League
RaRk for that day. Graduate Man.
AgR Charles B. Cox discovered that
b had already been acquired by the
Camp Meade and Cape May Naval
Esservag teams for the same after
neen
WAIls 0r6inRFi1y c0mpstftiou n an
S1oalIoat thing. IN this particular
oAoS throS service elevens are likely
- SutsP because OF It Therefore,
ooorgotown Il waiting word today
erem In competitorn. saying that they
have agreed 70 postpone their con-
toSt at American League Park In def
SrOnos - ne HIltoppsrs and the
uaAaoG
WHIST Cox Has to Say.
hope the Camp Meade and Cape
Hay butterflies viii see this unfor-
tunate situation In the same light
that we 6o.- said C. R Cox. graduate
manager It Gsorgetown, today. we
arranged for eur game fully q month
agO. Learning that two service
teams were to play here next satur-
dAy, We cancelled our SusQuehanna
contest though It was booked last
February, long before war was de-
elared We preferred not to compete
with the soldier eleTenA.
Imagine our surprise on learning
that the Usaaos were to have compe-
e1tton on Thanksgiving Day. They
ere coming all the way from Allen
town. Pa, with about 1000 men and
camp equipment. only to run into
oompetition- For itself, Georgetown Is
not worrying much But we do feel
that the ambulance boys. who have
been planning to take Washington by
storm, deserve better fate. With
Two games on the same day, the camp
funds OF Al three teams will suffer"
stsrs en- An Games.
wGshinRton has never been offered /
such . galaxy Of football stars as
viu be IN action hsre next week.
GOorEetowa offers Johnny Gilroy.
Tommy Whelan, and Johnny Nc
ouade, three OF the best players in
the country.
The Usaacs Is made up Of sterling
athletes. Charlie Murphy, son OF the
late Mike Murphy; Curly" cramer,
from Hamline; pike" Johnson and
sTuffy" Conn, from Oregon Aggies;
Francke, from Harvard; Wick, from
wGshingtOn O.; Hall and Boyd, from
California q; Hurm, from Western
Reserve, and Jack Dunn, from Michi-
ran, are with the Ambulance Corps
Boys.
The Camp Meade eleven has Gus
welch, Carlisle; skip" wymard,
Georgetown; Mike shortley, Catholic
University; Barry, Penn State; Frank
Mccarthy, Georgetown; Ernest, Lafa-
YOtte; Sterner. Rutgers; Mylin. F. and
II, and Jack Diamond, Lafayette.
Hilty, Pittsburgh u; Meyers, Pitt;
Meadows, Pitt; Stevenson, Penn: Lo-
gan, v. n L. Haas, Oregon Aggies;
AshmAn, Pitt. and Bowes, Penn State.
Each game win start promptly at
$50 o'clock and so It will be impos-
sibls to take IN both OF them. The
fans viii have to take their choice.
VIII Keep Football.
Georgetown will keep football in
its sports program for next year,
sTea II tne war is going on The Hill
toppers have made a game struggle
against heavy odds in keeping a var
Gity eleven on the field this season
and 1918 cannot be any harder.
'+Georgetown's principal business Is
making men," says Graduate Man |
ager C. R. Cox, land experience |
shows that football Is the best train
tng for men. That's why II IL being |
played in every army camp In the
land. That's why II is being played
At Georgetown. That's why II will
continue to be played. too"
For the next week Coach Exendfne
will drill his varsity players in prepa-
ration for the battle with the Usaacs
en- Turkey Day. He Is overlooking no
bets. He knows that the Ambulance
lads offer stiff opposition, but he