The Washington herald., 1918-02-12
DRILLING HAS
SET BACK MOST
G. U. ATHLETICS
Military Affairs Has Handed
a Wallop to Hilltop
Teams.

John o'Reilly. physical director Of
Georgetown University, Is with Gen.
Sherman on every word uttered by
the famous general in his hike from
Atlanta to the sea. John believes that
war is Just what Gen. Sherman said.
Or to get down to brass tacks, mill
tary training at the Hilltop have cut
In on Coach O'Reilly in rounding out
his track and baseball team.
Baseball candidates were issued the
call TO report in Ryan gym yester-
day afternoon but the famous memo
rial building was as much deserted
with ball players as the frozen Klon-
dixie Is today. Maj. Buckmiller,
campaigner of the PHILIPPINES and
China Boxer uprising is in charge
OF the military affairs at Georgetown
and this staunch disciplinarian will al
low nothing to interfere with his ideas
Of the military discipline. So the
athletes stayed out Of the gym during
drill time.
have recently been placed In the ord
nance division Of the officers Reserve
Camp. which means that they have
anu
vers which call for more time for &C
tuai military training. Just where
O'ReIlly gets OF is hard to be seen,
as two hours on four days a week
have been the orders for Hilltop SOL
diers, which leaves but very little
time for athletic instructions.
But those who know John O'Reilly.
both as an athletic instructor and q
good citizen, realize that he Is not
the kind that will be turned back.
And this il Just what John laid down
to the boys in khaki at the
Hilltop yesterday, as he advised all
baseball candidates to be on hand to-
morrow evening. The companies are
scheduled to drill again this afternoon,
which will once more present itself to
O'Reilly as q handicap. But OReilly
Is still as patriotic as any one else
in America and he claims that he will
overcome all these inconvenience and
place Georgetown once more on the
map in the collegiate baseball world.
The two military companies al
Georgetown have the right of way,
both at the Ryan Gym and on the
old running track in the dormitory
hall, so O'Reilly must await his time,
The quiet coach OF the Blue and Gray
athletes tells US that Georgetown will
not only go into baseball this year
as a varsity. but that he intends TO
have five or six baseball teams in the
field which will be open and ready TO
kick into any league, by that. they
will be open to meet any army or
navy nine in this vicinity within an
hours notice.
Georgetown's baseball squad indoor
work this spring Gf IL can be called
the same) will amount to light bat
terry work. the fielding OF grounders
by the entire squad, and the balance
OF indoor baseball games by the en-
tire squad that are on hand.
O'Reilly desires to have every man
in the university report for baseball.
and he has the ability OF wedding
them out so that Georgetown by the
middle OF March should have four or
FIVE good clubs in the field outside OF
the varsity nine.
Georgetown will not be represented
by a relay in the Johns Hopkins in
door meet to be held in Baltimore on
Saturday night, February 2 So far
none OF the new candidates have given
enough promise to warrant the Hill
topper placing a team in the classic,
which will be the South Atlantic
championship relay. Dorsey Griffith
and Bill Gates are the only ones of
the indoor team that are equal to the
occasion, and unless there is a sudden
reversal OF form the Blue and Gray
will not be seen hikeing around in the
one-mile course at the big Baltimore
meet.
Uncle Sans Ambulance Corps were
looked upon in this city during the
past few days as a bunch OF rough
necks," but John O'Reilly, coach OF
the Hilltop basket-ballers. eXonerates
them. OF course. little Freddy Fees.
one Of the mainstays of the Hilltop
five, was injured in this contest, which
placed him out of commission for the
balance OF the season. but O'Reilly