The Washington times., 1923-11-26
BY LOUIS. "A. BOUCHER.

sQIer team unCll FflQay at the earl
The approach Of this big service
game, the most important played in
Washington since Lafayette came
down and more than met its match
in the Blue and Gray of old George
town, has Quickened interest among
Washingtonians and tickets are
going rapidly.
The Washington American League
club is selling its quota OF tickets
ut Spalding's, on g street, and the
marine corps is selling others at It's.
headquarters through Capt. John H.
Lraige. The army, which calls Bal.
fimore its football home, is selling
tickets in the Monumental City a7i
reports have them going fast.
Both sides are praying for q clear !.
crisp afternoon on Saturday. Condi.
tons underfoot. such as prevailed
in New York and Boston last week,
would rob each eleven of much of its
Offensive power, but dry field will
mean some brilliant football.
Major Surles, Third CORDS coach.
has done away with his first team.
he has thrown open the first eleven
POSITIONS to q grand scramble
among the candidates. The best
men this week I'm the scrinlnlages
WIN land the starting honOrs
The fighters get the jobs SAYS
MAJOR Surles. mo man can, start
Saturday against the Marines who
ISN'T able or willing to fight his
hardest from start to finish; even
II that finish be his own.nn
AS result Of this announcement
the army players are preparing to
put a wonderful collection Of scrap
pers on the field Saturday, men
who wiz either defeat the leather
necks or die In the attempt. Scrirn.
images have been ordered for the
urst three days this week and, II
Lieut.. Fritz Breidster thinks the
Line needs another. II win come on
Thursday. Friday win be marked
BY signal and passing drills only,
the first string athletes being per.
mitted little more than a limberfng
up of taut tendons and tired
Down at Quantico Lieut.. Johnny
Beckett is driving his charges quite
as hard. Bill Roper, Princeton's
head coach. is there. with Mel
Dickinson and Jack Mccormick, two
OF his assistants from Princeton,
all aiding the GyTene tutor 10 pre-
pare the team for Saturdays big
contest. Dickinson is teaching the
forwards tricks and Mccormick is
handling the backs.
Lieut.. Frank GOettge, the Ma
rines' backfield star, has COM
pletely recovered from the bruises
received In the battle with the
Haskell Indians I'm New York
and win be In the lineup against
the Third Corps.
Goettge, who learned his football
in Ohio, played brilliantly with
Eddie Mahan's st. Nazarire eleven
overseas in the A. e. F. cham
pionships and for three years has
maintained his furious pace with
the Quantico eleven. Largely
through his efforts the Marines
trounced Georgetown this season
and he repeated his fine work
against the powerful Michigan
eleven until a touchdown was
scored, the first and only one OF
the year marked up again the Maize
and Blue.
The Gyrenes headquarters viii be
ut thes Willard where open house
win be kept. The army has chosen
the Washington as its headquarters.
Each service eleven win arrive here
Saturday morning. going at once
to It own headquarters for rest
and lunch.
Saturday night the Arcade on
Fourteenth street will be the scene
OF a large dance rendered the en-
listed men of both branches Of the
service bY the District officiaIs