The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1924-12-06
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REVENGE
Mohawks' Foe Still Thinking
Of Unexpected Defeat
in 1929
By Z. D. THOMAS.

Rex, a mongrel dog with hang
out at 62I LOngfellow street
northwest, showed up today with
one eye missing, his scalp gashed,
his chops nicked and patches of
hide torn here and there.
Up the, street lives another
canine of uncertain pedigree. He's
just about living at this moment.
Witnesses say it was a draw.
Two mongral football teams,
made up Of every type of player
known to the gamecoilege, pro,
semi-pro, sandlot--rom orrow at
American League park, will re-
enact after a fashion the snarling,
ripping, merciless battle between
Rex and the four-legged neighbor
whose throat he'd hankered for
for weeks.
For one year, the Mercury club
has awaited with savage eagerness
that day when 1t would come to
grips with it's equally savage foot
ball neighbor, the Mohawk club.
One year ago, when Mercury con-
6dently thought itself superior to
defeat, 10 to 8. The disappointment
was bitter. The memory Of 1t is
still keen.
Once again Mercury feels it Is
superior and is fired with the
spirit of revenge. It will be the
fourth meeting between Mohawk
and Mercury. The first game was
q scOreIess tie. Mercury won
the second, 3 to 0, and the third
. was a sensational 1O-to-9 Mohawk
victory. -.
All three of those battles, as the
scores indicate, were hard fought
and the breaks of the game were
with the winner each time. Seldom
has fighting spirit reached a higher
pitch on the gridiron than was dis
played in the three Mohawk
Mercury contests.
But tomorrow may see the feud
wax warmer by several degrees
than it ever has been before. Words
have passed between Mercury and
Mohawk. Not wildly flung, mean
ingless words.
'We'll beat anything you put on
the field" is the essence of what
has passed between Mercury and
Mohawk. Annually the leading
sandlot teams help themselves to a
star or two from outside the sand,
lot ranks. 1t is always a matter OF
controversy as to whether this star
or that should be permitted to play.
So the twO-way challenge: ''We'l
beat anything you put on the field
Ills significant.
The Mercury and Mohawk teams
will clash tomorrow each determined
to annihfiate the other. And in their
murderous desires, neither is over
looking the fact that the game has a
strong bearing on the disposition of
the independent gridiron champion
ship, coveted title in these days
when. the big sandlot games compete
with college events for patronage.
In a strictly football way, the
sandlot classic may develop into a
contest between two unusually fast
backfields. Al Schneider, Mohawk
quarterback, has been called by
some people, in a position to Judge,
the fastest man on Washington 8
sandlots. But others rise quickly
to dispute his supremacy
Ike Dreifuss, in the. same back
field with Schneider, is the popu-
lar choice of many and vying with
both of the Mohawk speed boys
for distinctions are two Mercury
backs. One is Quarterback Levy,
whose flashy' sprints have featured
several Mercury games. The other
is George Beyers, one of the finest
football players, regarded from any
angle, the sandlots have produced
The game may be the final one
for four veteran Mercury players.
Joe Ganey. the man who. more.
than any other, is responsible for
the high place Mercury holds in
football ranks, has announced his
intention to retire after this sea-
son.
Ganey is an end, and there Is
none better on the sandlots. Beyers,
too, thinks he'll polish off a long
and brilliant career with stellar
performance tomorrow, and Bow
Wow Myers, star center, and
Packey O'Connell, Ganey's fellow
end, say this likely will be their
last season.
All the physical strength, spirit
and football skill Of these four will
be thrown into their performances
: tomorrow. SCI;
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