Evening star., 1918-02-07
GEORGETOWN QU|NT
ON NORTHERN TRIP
Plays Usaacs, Lafayette and
Lehigh Tonight, Tomorrow
and Saturday.
BY 81. C. BYRD.

| BY H. C. BYRD.
| Georgetown's basket ball team leaves
here today for Allentown. Pa, to play
the first of a series of three games on
foreign floors. The Blue and Gray
meets the isaac five tonight at Allen
| town. tomorrow night goes to Easton.
| Pa, where Lafayette is to be its oppo-
nent, and Saturday night clashes with
| Lehigh at South Bethlehem. Probably
| none Of the teams to be met would
be better than Georgetown If playing
conditions were not SO advantageous
! to the home quint.
Only one of the three quints to be
| met on the trip has been played prior
to this. Lehigh appeared here In Janu-
airy. and the Blue and Gray emerged
from the contest a victor. 1t was the
/ best collegiate game of the year on a
local court. Georgetown's win over
Lehigh here, though, is not surety
that it will get the long end of the
score at South Bethlehem, a S Lehigh on
its home floor is going to be much
harder to defeat than Lehigh in George
i towns gym.
Tomorrow the high schools appear in
two more basket ball games. Central
d
ness and Eastern for one with Western.
Central ought to maintain its lead, un-
! less Business plays whole lot better
basket ball than it has in any of its
| recent games. The Blue and White has
shown a disposition to let down at
times. and once before Business slipped
over an unexpected victory Central,
though. is not so likely to be caught
been displaying better form than
! Eastern.
! Another of the Poes-the Princeton
Poes-bids fair to show Britishers the
/, true capabilities of an American
athlete. This time it is Nelson Poe.
/, brother of Johnny Poe. who lost his
/ life early in the war member of
4 the Black Watch. who is being heard
! from. Nelson Poe was a back on the
/ Princeton elevens of 1895 and 1896,
and, despite his age. forty-two years.
recently won the boxing championship
IN ms class in competitions held in one
! OF the British army divisions. Poe. in
letter to the Princeton Alumni
Weekly. gives this interesting informa-
Well, my schooling is over at the
Fourth British army infantry school
! and | am full fledged fighting man.
| There was a boxing tournament the
\ last three days of the course, and, still
feeling young and husky at the age of
| twoscore and some more, 1 entered into
the ten-stone-five class Each bout lin
tied to three rounds of minute each.
We were promised that the referee
| would stop all rough stuff. How he kept
| his promise is shown in the list of
| casualties-one broken nose, got by an
English Graelite: eight black eyes.
] bloody noses galore and few swollen
! lips. but still the bouts went on and
| Tommy Atkins cried Let the good
fights go on" or course wouldn't have
mentioned all these fights if / wasn't
/ going to be the hero. In other words.
! | won in my class and received a medal
| at the hands of the general of the
fourth British army Luckily it wasn't a
| French general or ] might have been
kissed. beat up a Scotchman. an En-
| glishman and a brother American. The
1 American officers won five out of the
six classes, so we have some standing
with them now. One of our officers
| fused to be an enlisted man in our Navy
and none of his fights lasted a round.
This is the first time I have fought
since I saved Pardee from the brutal
attack of the Yale man.
| Il had great trip over part OF the
] Somme battlefield. That section is now
| fairly quiet and they sent all the Amer
In the trenches is like. The caveman
had nothing on this life. When you
once get In a trench you are not apt
1 to see anything but mud and sky. The
| inclination to look over into 'bochland'
| isn't hard to resist Nertical-looking
is the chief occupation of the day. for
| 'whizzhanes come most unexpectedly
| and minniewerfars have no regard for
| the trenches. The latter go high up
| in TIL" air and can be seen. and you
| can dodge them if you don't act like
| a chicken getting out of the way of
an automobile; hut how they do blow
| up trench when they land. OF the
| 'whizzbang you hear both the whizz
| and the bang at the same moment, and
| 1t is too late to dodge.
| THAT part of France that the boche
retreated over Is most desolate. The
Hun is very thorough. There were
| any number of small villages that he
| retreated through. and not a house
| with a roof or four walls is standing:
everything dynamited. All fruit trees
lie on the ground. and big. beautiful
| trees alongside the road all cut down
to block the advance Of the British.
When battalion goes into the trenches
| 1t means that they wear their clothes
| all the time they are there.
TN the front trench boots are not
| taken off, but in the support and re-
serve trenches a few hundred yards
back. they are removed. You can well
imagine what condition the men are in
| ing is got from shell holes, and there
is no lack of them. but it isn't eau de
/ cologne. Water for drinking and cook
ing is hauled up.
The dugouts in the front line are
thirty feet deep, and pretty safe from
shell fire. i spent part of each day in
| the front trench, and one day both
sides started a small bombardment,
| just to put the wind up each other.
Each size shell has different sound.
and you soon catch on to what size
| shell is flying over. OF course it was
music to my ears, and tie shells varied
| from tenor to bass. The flying pig is
/ a British shell. and I hope many of
them will fall on the German pigs.
| They are somewhat like the 'minnies,'
and raise hell with the trenches.
| "One part of the front line is only