Evening star., 1919-09-17
SCHOOLS TO BEGIN
PRACTICE MONDAY
Eastern, Western, Central,
Tech and Business Squads
Get Under Way Then.
BY H. C. BYRD.

Foot ball practice in the high schols
will begin next Monday. A general
call for candidates to report then has
been issued by all the coaches, and at
each school a full squad is expected
to be on hand. An agreement was
made last year by all the coaches
not to begin workouts on an earlier
date. All are anxious to get their.
! men started on the grind Of work
| necessary for conditioning in prepa-
ration for the annual championship
series
| Central and Western should have a
| little the advantage of the other
three schools because both last fall
spent about a month in practice.
Tech; Eastern and Business, as soon
as the championship contests were
Cancelled because of the flu, discon-
tinued their workouts Not SO with
Western and Central. The George
towners and Blue and White stopped
for while. but soon took up the
sport again in preparation for con-
test in which they met late in the
season. OF course, Central and West
ern have lost by graduation several
of the members of those squads, but
| more. capable players because of the
training.
+. Georgetown has given up all effort
| to hold any practice whatsoever until
after the parade today. The Blue and
Gray squad will be out in force to-
morrow, when practically all the old
| men and many of the expected new
| ones should be ready to put on their
| togs.
Not much is being heard from
ICatnol1c University in a foot ball
way. but the chances are that when
the Brooklanders get on the gridiron
a. husky segregation of pigskin
| chasers.
Seven of the eight men who last
year comprised the first and second
string backfields at Maryland State
were out with the squad yesterday
afternoon. kicking the bali around.
The regulars of 1918 now out are
Snyder. Bosley, Raedy and Knode. The
last mentioned is captain Of the team
The other three are Gilbert. Barall
and Gardner.
| Dan Boone. member of the Mary
land State 1915 foot ball squad. sent
word to the college yesterday that he
expected to be back and would be
out for the foot ball team. The last
! statement was rather astonishing in
view Of the fact that it is known
Boone fought through three major Of
fensives in France. was wounded
twice and finally was sent home last
fall incapacitated after a big shell
ton of earth on top of him. Any
felloW who can come through that
and still be fit to play foot ball ought
to be pretty good man.
Smeach. the tackle of whom George
town expects great things, will be in
the line of march today. Smeach ;s
a sergeant in the 1st Division and saw
some real fighting. He weighs 1s5
pounds and is six feet three.
Charley Cox believes that the game
Georgetown is to play in Atlanta
| should be one Of the most brilliant
struggles of the southern gridiron
J season. The Blue and Gray graduate
manager knows that Georgetown is
! going to turn out a representative
eleven and feels sure that Georgia
Tech will be little if any below its
standard of the last three years. An
eleven such as Georgetown has deveI-
oped in any year of the last four or
five against a team of the caliber OF
Georgia Techs aggregation should
provide about everything the foot
, a single afternoon.
Not much real news is coming from
the University of Virginia about foot
ball prospects. but one of the men
who is going to be on the squad there
is authority for the statement that
| those in charge at Charlottesville ex-
pect to have whale of an eleven.
The best material that has been on
Lambeth Field in years is said to be
practicing. and more is expected.
Tommy Campbell, former Harvard
star, who turned out at North Caro-
lima in 1915 the only North Carolina
eleven that has defeated Virginia in
"A decade, is back at Chapel Hill to
take charge of the team. The Tarheels
believe their performance of 1916 was
only rehearsal of what will happen
this year
/ Alexander Tames Phils.