The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1919-11-25
HOPE
FlR'.A DRY FIELD.
wiz Enable Them to Use
The Forward Pass on
Thursday.

GoRGANToWN, Nov IS. = west
7ifgihia hopes for a dry field against
Washington and Jefferson here on
rhnfsday afternoon when the biggest
battle 81 the Mountaineers' gr1dlroh
yeasonstakes place.
Washington and Jefferson has been
seored upon only once this season
snd tha when Pittsburgh beat her rs.
cts West Virginia Wesleyan,
rnegie Tech and other strong elev-
EMS have tried and failed to cross the
WashsJeiE line and there is consider
able doubt here as to the Mountain
GERS ability to do it except by means
Of the forward pass.
Therefore, dry day is indispen-
sable TO the Mountainers' success.
Toward assuring dry field, the man
sgement, following Sundays snow set
to- work with a force OF men armed
With garden rakes. They are today
ing the field plece-meal and going
over It's entire surface raking 1t on Its
length;and on it's breadth, then sprtnk-
ling gasoline IN the little trenches THIS
process makes and applying the match.
THE result is that unless another heavy
rain 81 snow intervenes the field Will
hefifm and dry although the sur
roundtng terrain my be damp and
spBngy Gasoline is an excellent dryer
and four or five barrels will be used
Il necessary to assure a dry field: Pre-
ceding this work a force of men had
been at work for over a week with q
harrow, q mail drag and roller, grad
iIg and filling every preceptible hole
and gully and the surface is now as
level as the proyerblal barn floor"
No one is allowed to put foot on the
field and both the Varsity and the w.
q j team; which comes at noon We'd
nesday. viii practice on the lower
Held On the newly acquired White
property. a force OF nine carpenters
q busy finishing up the temporary
seats that are being erected around
the Held. The whole hillside overlook
ing the field is being covered with
seats and almost five thousand people
WIN be seated here The opposite
side of the field Is also being filled
no and the ends will be completely
banked with bleachers, giving total
seating capacity of seven thousand
and i've hundred, a larger number by
far than can be seated anywhere else
Fl thelstate.
Mountalneers Hopeful.
Kings less will be sorely felt espe-
SciatIg since Neale is also in doubt,
King Is entire lost to the team accord
ing Ia definite announcement made by
Coach McIntire today The big star
ha played some wonderful football for
the Mountaineers and to lose him az
THE crucial stage of the 1918 proceed
ings Is surely a severe blow. McIntire
hardly knows which way to turn for a
substitute, but will likely decide on
starting George Hill, the Falrmont
reed merchant. Hill, If right, will
make the fans forget Neale and King
together because he has shown at
various times this year that when he
right, there are few who excel him
adyanctng the ball. OF course, how
ever he cannot take Kings place
eltherin the interference or on the de-
Tense and, all in all, the Old Gold ana
Blue ii very materially weakened by
fing detection.
The w. & ]. team will get here to-
morrow at twelve o'clock coming on
the r. e Z. D. from Brownsville to
which point they will have Travelled in
automobiles from Washington. They
viii work ont here early Wednesday
afternoon and headquarters here will
be the Madeira hotel. Twenty-Five
Mayors will be in the squad in charge
~ Graduate Manager Murdoch, and
Coaches Morrow, Gray and Booher.
Already Morgantown has started
filling up and for weeks no rooms have
bee1 Available at the scant hotel IA
cilitiess here. 1t Is truly a great boon
that i've special trains will be operar.
ed on Thursday carrying about four
thousand Of the spectators back to
their homes because even those from
great distance will find it difficult
10 secure accommoda tlons even in pri-
yate homes here over Thursday night
ID spite Of heroic efforts on the part Of
hs newspapers to get local citizens to
open their homes.
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