Evening star., 1918-02-25
COLLEGE BASKET BALI. TILES
TO BE DECIDED THIS WEEK
c. U.-G. w. u. Game Saturday Will Deter
mine Championship of League-Letters
From Princeton Men in France.

where there isn't one shell hole there
are two and three. In no mans land
these shell holes are occupied and real
|ly form the front lines OF both sides
about 100 yards in front OF the 'front.'
line trenches. The shell holes held by
the British and boche are between loo
and 200 yards apart, with only wire en-
tanglements in between, so there is no
moving around during the day. I made
an inspection OF the shell holes one
night, with the moon very bright, with
a colonel, a major and an orderly. In
order to get from one to the other 1t
was necessary to walk on the rims OF
the shell holes in between and be care
ful not to fall in, as they are all full of
water. but that night 1t was fairly cold
and the mud and water was frozen, SO
the going was good. AS we approached
each post we were halted by the COM
password was ever ready on my tongue
In case the orderly forgot it Once We
thought we heard a boche patrol, but
we couldn't see him and he was prob
ably on his side fixing up the wire en-
tanglernents. One night. after being out
all day, 1 came back to divisional head
quarters five miles behind the lines,
where the general hangs out, and sat
down to a dinner that lasted from eight
to twelve, with a band of fifteen pieces
playing in the next room
You see it isn't all fighting at the
front. The most exciting thing I saw
was an asroplane fight in which the
boche plane was brought to the ground.
British lines. but the anti-aircraft guns
got too busy for him, and he had to turn.
BY that time a British plane was on him
and he must have killed the boche pilot
early in the fight, as the machine i'm
mediately began to glide down faster and
faster to the ground. About one hundred
feet from the ground a man fell out, and
the moment the machine hit the ground 1t
burst into flames. The British plane
hovered around like a bird of prey and
of conqueror. The fight took place
within half a mile Of me and not more
than a thousand feet high"
meet in Baltimore Saturday night were
not finished until it was too late to get
the results for publication A summaries
ing yesterday of the points shows that
Princeton captured the point trophy.
with a score of 13. The Tigers did not
send down many men to the games. but
those that were in competition did ex-
ceedingly well. Cornell, Vintrfx Cath
olic Club of Philadelphia and the Uni
versity Of Pennsylvania were tied for
second place.
Competition in the Hopkins meet was
rather poor. One or two men stood out
in every event, and the relay races were
in measure to be expected. All the
best athletes are in the Army or Navy.
Even the Pennsylvania University squad
showed deplorable lack Of competent
men In fact, it is doubtful il the Quaker5
have ever been represented by so weak q
squad as that which wore its colors Sat
urday night. True, it won two relay races
one against Georgia Tech at q half mile
St Johns at a mile Hopkins and St
Johns, though, had exceptionally slow
teams in the race. Hopkins being way
below its average speed.
Undoubtedly. the feature of the meet
was the crowd. That surprised everybody.
Appearances indicated that more persons
were present than attended the games a
year ago. The reserved seats on the door
were filled and the galleries crowded.
While Pennsylvania defeated Georgia
Tech, Hopkins and St Johns in relay
races, in its big event it lost to Cornell by
a great margin. The Ithacans were 50 far
ahead Of the Quakers after half the Sec
ond relay had been run that the race was
over as far as the determination Of a
winner was concerned Incidentally. II
the intercollegiate are held this spring.
as seems to be fairly sure, Cornell prob
ably will mako a cleanup.