Evening star., 1921-11-27
NAVY DAY IN MORE
| THAN ONE WAY AS
| ARMY IS DEFEATED
Annapolis Foot Ball Eleven
PIows Through Sticky
Sea to 10 Victory.
VICE PRESIDENT AMONG
THOSE TO SIT IN RAIN
Notables of All Big Powers in
Crowd of 10000 That
Braves Elements.
By the Associated Press.

| By the Associated Press.
NEW YORK, November 26.-The
spectacle of twenty-five mud d-smeared
huskies battling over a great lump
of mud that was a foot ball, held a
| crowd of nearly 10000 persoRs spell
bound through three hours of biting.
driving rain when Army met Navy at
| the Polo grounds today.
1t was-as the Navy cheering sec
| tion insisted-Navy weather. And
| with their indicators set at full
speed ahead" the midshipmen from
Annapolis played through the sticky
| mud to 10 victory.
Brush stadium sheltered scarcely
half the throng that followed the for
tunes of the skidding gladiators up
and down the field. The others
among them Vice President and Mrs.
Coolidge. and scores of notable. rep
| resenting America. Great Britain.
| France, Japan and Italy-sat or
stood out in the rain.
Is Notable Gathering.
The Vice President and Mrs. Cool
idge were among the earliest arriv-
ais. taking their seats. for the first
| half. in a box on the Army side of
| the field and scorning proffered um-
| brellas. The Vice President wore a
| battered slouch hat and a heavy over
coat. Mrs. Coolidge was bundled in
| a heavy fur coat In a box on their
| right were Secretary of War Weeks
| and Mrs. Weeks, while on their left
sat high military attaches of the
foreign delegations to the arnament
conference.
The visitors. most of whom were
witnessing their first foot ball game.
included Gen. Lord Cavan of the
! British Army. Viscount Marshal Hig-
! gins of the British royal air force;
General C. vaceari and Colonel V.
de Barnezze OF the Italian general
| staff; Maj. Gen. Tanaka and Haragu-
chi of Japan and Col. L. ReQuin of
France.
There were guests of Gen. Per-
| shing. but. as Pershing was unable
| to be present because of illness, Mai.
Gen. Harbord, deputy chief of staff,
| acted for him as host.
Those ON Navy Side.
On the Navy side. to which Vice
President and Mrs. Coolidge were es-
corted between halves, sat Admiral
Koontz. chief of naval operations;
| Admirals Jones and Eberle, COM
| manders, respectively. of the Atlantic
and Pacific fleets, and Rear Admirals
Glennon and Benson.
Secretary of the Navy DENLY was
not present to see his middies win.
| Vice Admiral de Bon and Capt
Frochet of the French navy were the
only representatives of the foreign
delegations on the navy side of the
field.
The stands were packed long be-
fore the midshipmen, in their long
! blue overcoats, marched in behind
crashing band and circled the grid
iron before taking their seats in the
| rainy-side cheering section.
Goat Leads Navy Team.
They were led by the Navy goat.
gaily caparisoned and prancing
along as if he sensed the victory
that was about to perch on the ban
ners of his team.
The mud was so heavy that the
midshipmen abandoned their drill. but
they marched around the gridiron be-
fore climbing into their seats and
taking up their gilded megaphones.
Scarcely were they settled when
the Army players, heavily blanketed.
trotted out on the gridiron. shed
their blankets and began warming
up. They, were greeted by great
roar from the audience.
A moment later the crash of
Army's band was heard, and the
long line of gray-clad West Pointers
| marched in behind their bravely
| decked black mule.
Then the Navy team scampcrel
forth, and with the opposing glAdi-
ators in sight the rival cheering Sec
tions got into action. The crowd.
made up in the main of present End
past Army and Navy men and their
fathers, mothers and sweethearts
took a lively hand in the cheering,
although its efforts were almost
drowned out by the grea; volumes
of masseu roofing that rolled through
the opposing megaphones.
L Crowd IL Enthusiastic.
1t was an enthusiastic crowd. a
foot ball mad crowd, that surSed 10
! it's feet when play started and re-
mained tenseiy standing until the
last whistle had blown.
And. despite the weather. ;t was a
fashionable crowd. That is Il was
fashionable until the rain had 1ntten
| in it's work. Then rich fur coats be-
gan to wilt. Gaudy millinery hung
limp. Pumps and silk stockings were
bedraggled. mud smearrd. Only the
crysanthemums worn by the iair
| rooters seemed to thrive or rain.
But what did the crowd care?
| Nothing. few of it's members
hoisted umbrellas and got themselves
| roundly called down by their neigh
bors in the rear. Others improvised
head coverings of newspapers. LLt
the greater part. male and female.
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