Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-11-14
LAST SATURDAYS
CONTEST RECALLED
OLD GR|D|RON DAYS
Com. Macklin Sees Charges Bat
tie Against His Alma Mater
Near Former Arena
HEADED TWO TEAMS
AT NAVAL ACADEMY
Games Were Played Where Ban
croft Hall Stands When Visit
ing Officer Was Middle


When Commander Charles F. Mack
/ lin. u S. Naval Reserve Force, at
tended the football game at the Ma
val Academy on November 9, last, he
saw a good game between the team of
the Naval Operating Base, Hampton
Roads, of which he is the command
ing officer. and that of his alma mater,
the Naval Academy. which he had
often represented, on the gridiron and
the diamond, and his thoughts travel
ed back to the days of 1890 and 1891,
during the latter of which he was cap
tain of both the baseball nine and
/ football team, an honor not believed to
have been carried by any other mid
shipman.
His team was defeated rather de-
cisively, and Commander Macklin, who
has never gotten over his keen in
terest in sports, was not very happy
over it. In the first place, the plays
of Coach Dobie's lads are so fast, that
Commander Macklin got the idea that
they were starting before the ball was
snapped, and he was protesting good
deal on that score. To make it all the
harder, his son, Charles F. Macklin,
Jr., member of the third class at the
Naval Academy, and scoffing at him.
and telling him that 'he was sore be-
cause his team was getting licked.
1 Still, Commander Macklin has passed
the time of life when he takes foot
ball game too much to heart and the
3 4 Cf fhn toll L
about them with old friends, soon put
him in good humor.
Worden field, the present athletic
grounds of the midshipmen, is not
greatly removed from the old field,
where Commander Macklin used to
represent the Navy. The old grounds
are completely covered now by Ban
croft Hall, the great building in which
the midshipmen are quartered, while
the new field is part of the made
ground to the east of Bancroft Hall,
which in Commanders day was part
of the Severn river. Commander
Macklin, who in the old days played
first base on the nine, well remem-
bered the old field and the big tree
which stood in center field; also the
fact that the grounds were so situated
that great many fouls went over the
backstop into the water, and small
boys used to hang around in grabbing
skiffs and make off with them.
Commander Macklin was tackle on
the eleven in 1900 and 1901. The form
er year was the first in which An
napolis and West Point met, and the
game resulted in a victory for An
napolis, "a to 0. The game was played
at West Point. The next year, Mack
lin was captain of the Naval Academy
eleven, and the game was played at
Annapolis. No one at the Naval Acad-
emy had the slightest doubt of the
game. The midshipmen had beaten
Lehigh that year. and Lehigh had over
whelmed West Point. However, one
of those turns around, not at all un-
usual in football. took place, and the
soldiers won, SO to is. This was
terrific blow to Macklin and every
other member of the naval contingent.
When he recalls it, the defeat of the
/ Operating Base eleven by the mid
shipmen does not loom large.
Commander Macklin was a power
/ full and active athlete AS football
player, he was rugged defense play
er, and a good runner with the ball.
He won honors in other directions,
commanding one of the four COM
panies which then composed the mid
shipments battalion. After his grad
uation. he was commissioned in the
Marine Corps. but resigned after four
years, and entered business in Balti-
more City.
He has had a unique career in the
service of his country. After he had
been a resident of Maryland for some
years. he was called to the colonelcy
of a National Guard regiment, and
was later selected as brigadier gen.
eral, and finally appointed adjutant
general by Governor Goldsborough.
He proved an energetic and capable
officer and Official, and the State serv-
ice took big strides while under his
guidance. Shortly after the expira-
ton of his term of Office, he accepted
the command of the Maryland Naval
Militia; was mustered into the Federal
service at the entrance of the United
States into the war, and was assigned
to the important post of commander
of the Naval Operating Base on hamp-
ton Roads.