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ENTIRE GEORGETOWN ON BACK

students was much greater in. astron-
omy than in foot ball. Father Hagan,
now director of the Vatican Observa-
tory and one of the most celebrated
astronomers in the world. had Joined
the faculty on the Hilltop, and was
revealing new worlds in the distant
heavens to the boys. In November
the planet Mars swung close to the
earth and proved a fascinating spec
tacle.
y
THE next year saw an almost en-
tirely different eleven at George
town. The players were heavier men
as heavy, in fact. as the Alexandria
High School rushers. The lineup was
as follows: Joseph Tobin. center rush:
Isidore Dyer, right guard; Patrick
O'Donnell. left guard; Edward l..
Keyes, right tackle: Charles Maginnis
left tackle; William E. Gleason, cap.
tain and right end rush: Louis r.
Hammersley, left end rush; Charles
Gleason, quarterback; Frederick Soul
lin, right back; James Hendy. left
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On the authority of tradition. He had
experimental. He had smoked his
first cigarette and experienced at first
hand that vertigo and dimness OF
vision which are the ancient attend.
ants upon such an experiment..
1t is not until November 20, 1888,
that notice appears of the first inter
scholastic contest--with Alexandria
High School. mo matter how often
we got possession of the ball." says
the account of this game, our heavier
opponents broke down our rush line
and were upon the halfbacks before
they could gain any ground. Our boys
certainly put up a finer game than
they have played thus far this season.
AS we have said before, however, they
are certainly too light, and to this
lack of weight must be attributed the
loss of the game 1t would be hard to
say who played the best game for our
advefsaries, but If there was any dis
tinction it would be in favor of A. ].
Greenway, their heavy center rusher
For the college J. O'Neill certainly did
the best playing. He succeeded in get
ting through the opponents rush line
almost every time, and seemed to be
the only Georgetown man heavy
enough to stop Alexandria's heavy
SiiopudCh. LAClL6InSHt ran nlSn
among the spectators and players, and
the ball went back and forth without
advantage for either side. Finally
Greenway made tremendous effort
for his side, and, carrying almost the
entire Georgetown team on his back,
made touchdown"
The Georgetown team of that year
was composed as follows: G. F. Lee,
quarterback; F. Scullin. fullback: F..
Russell and D. O'Day. halfbacks: J.
Prendergast, center rusher; J. Grant,
w. Kane, C.. Bradenbaugh, w. Glea.
son and j. O'Neill, rushers.
With town teams Georgetown had
better luck that year. The students
beat both the Athletics and the ORR
ents of Washington by scores Of s to
.. game with the Dupont Club
ended in row after a half hour. and
the college team left the field to avoid
rough tactics.
"A mania for pedestrianism is
spreading among the students" SAYS
the Journal that Fall "Mr. Mathews
led a large party as far as Chain
Bridge recently. and others have
walked to Fairfax"
Interest among the serious-minded
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RAILROAD SCRAP HEAP.

THE wreckage of hundreds of thou.
sands of tons Of steel and iron
, that was piled up after fire and
earthquake had devastated San Fran.
cisco in 1905 was called the biggest
scrap heap in the world. Yet even
that sinks into insignficance in COM
parison with the amount of scrap
material that the railroads Of the
United States accumulate annually.
The scrap heaps of the railroads
owing TO the steady expansion of
business. They are composed of
used-up locomotives. machinery and
material Of every sort and descrip.
ton. Even at the small prices per
ton or per pound at which this metal
waste is sold, it brings millions of
dollars every year.
= OF all the vast amount Of material
that a railroad purchases every year
30 per cent eventually finds its way
into the scrap heap. In no other
business are the odds and ends that
are no longer serviceable collected
with so much care. Everything
from the frames of tin lanterns to
the ponderous driving wheel of loco.
motives reaches the scrap dock in
the end.
But before anything is scrapped
II. has TO he passed upon by about
apdozen experts. They look it over
to see If there is a possibility of its
being used in any other way before
II is sold 10 the junkman. On one
of the Eastern railway systems few
wears ago a large quantity of steel
freight car holsters was found to ba
unavailable for the type Of car fof
which they we're originally intended.
AOne nv one the mechanical experts
lhook their heads and voted that
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at teD fGi
Amra of Past

when the Washington team beat the
Episcopal High School, 40 to o. A
week later Washington and Lee was
defeated, IL to 6. This game was
played in Lexington "in a cornfield on
top OF hill, rough and full of stubble.
The Washington and Lee man kindly
sent hacks to the hotel to convey our
boys to the grounds" Later in the
Fall the second Georgetown team beat
the newly organized Columbian Col.
lege eleven. to 0. Swarthmore de-
feated the first team, 20 to 0. and the
intercollegiate season closed with a
tie with Fordham. s to s.
On Thanksgiving day GEORGETOWN
lost the District championship to the
Columbia Athletic Club, % to 4. Pop.
ular interest was growing. More than
1000 persons witnessed this game.
During the next three years inter.
| collegiate foot ball became more and
| more an established tradition on the
Hilltop. In 1893 the Georgetown team
beat the University of Virginia at
Charlottesville, % to "a, and the vic.
tory was credited to the use of the
flying wedge" 1T was a case" says
the Journal, "of whichever side had
the ball, that side did the scoring.
AS the ball neared their respective
goals, they fought with an energy
born of despair" The District cham.
pionship. the object of the annual
Thanksgiving day game, remained
with the Columbia Athletic Club.
At this time use of the flying
wedge" was frowned upon by the
faculty. Some wanted IT prohibited
altogether; others wished to confine it
within the 25-yard line; still others
were demanding that the first down
distance be increased from to 10
yards. There was hardly a game in
which some one of the college boys
did not receive injuries.
The next year, after a successful
| intercollegiate season, came tragedy.
The Thanksgiving day game with the
Columbia Athletic Club drew an en-
thusiastic crowd of 10000 and was
played at the ball park. On the way
to the park the college team passed a
| funeral. In the first half of the game
Eahen, one of the Georgetown half
backs. was taken from the field uncon.
scious. There were. ugly stories of
| foul play.
Says the Journal: There were
wagers made by Columbia Athletic
Club men that Mahoney, Carmody
and Bahen would be out of play inside
| of 20 minutes. Early in the game,
when Carmody had received the bali
from Georgetown's center. and, stoop.
ing low, was passing it back to Mel.
son. one of the Columbia men was
seen to kick Carmody with terrible
force in the back of the head. BY
this blow he was laid out on the field
for some minutes. Nelson was kicked
twice in the head by the same man.
Bahen was kicked directly in the back
and when he was down both knees
were planted in his stomach
Bahen was taken to the college hos
pital, where a month later he died.
Foot ball, with the exception of in.
terclass contests, was prohibited by
the faculty for the next three years.
IN 1898 the ban was removed, and
with a new and powerful team
Georgetown reached the high-water
| mark of its foot ball career UP to that
time. On November it was defeated
| by the University of Virginia, IL to 0.
Says the Journal: Hours before
the time set for the play to commence
people were f1ocking to the college
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the game that now is absorbing the
attention of the City of Beautiful Dis
tances. Fully 1900 persons shouted
themselves hoarse. The game started
with Georgetown in possession of the
ball, and by active work the famous
W was formed. by which the college
gained few yards. Now the work
started in earnest. They could not
make five yards in three downs. The
horns that were blown by the carers
of the Blue and Gray were muff1ed
and 'Sizzle. saZzle, razzle dazzle" did
not rend the air. Our famous seven
rushers stood like stone wall.
Georgetown lost the bah to the
Duponts on an off-side. The halfback
of the Duponts was behind the goal
line, and when the hall was thrown
him for a kick the opponents broke
through the rush line and held him,
thus scoring a safety. the only points
scored during the game.
Late in the game, according to the
Journal. the Duponts ran in Phil
King of Princeton. He wrought havoc
and once only our fullback stood be-
tween him and the goal"
There was great celebration on the
Hilltop that night. On December 8
Evening star., 1927-10-16
BY THOMAS r. HENRY.

ToOT BALL. the bicycle and the
- vile cigarette came into the
collegiate life of Washington at
Il nearly the same time. Late
Autumn of 1874 found a few
younger veterans of the Civil War in
the classic halls of Georgetown still
struggling with Latin prosody and
composing limitations of Horace. Oc-
easionally some of the less serious
among them--we have it on the au.
thority of the scholarly Georgetown
Journal of that year-watched curl
ously girls boarding school across
the way when the gates were ajar for
chance glimpse of some of the femi-
nine loreliness among the students of
that institution ci learning as they
strolled in the garden.
Edward Douglas White of the class
OF so. according to this same journal.
had Just been elected to the State
Senate of Louisiana. but las he is one
of the large class who don't take the
paper and see their names in it. there
is little inducement to draw upon our
limited space in his behalf"
The atmosphere of the Hilltop in
Rhose days was predominantly classi.
cal. The students breathed St. Thomas
Aquinas, Catullus and Theocritus. a
GouesS euuCaJlOn, we Satner from
these yellowing records, was rather a
more serious undertaking than it is
today. and the young men were a
group set apart for discipline and
study. There was distinct cleavage
between town and gown, which now
practically has disappeared.
The major sport was base ball.
This had been established at the col
lege Immediately after the war. 1t
held the stage in 1874 until after
Thanksgiving. Shortly before Christ
mas there was a mass meeting of stu.
dents, at which committee of Is was
named to supervise a new game re-
gently introduced from England
known as Rugby foot ball. This was
a rough game. we'll adapted to stir the
blood on chilly Winter afternoons.
which had been making considerable
headway at the New England colleges.
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back, and Henry B. Kaufman, full
back.
This team played the first game
with the team that became few years
later Georgetown's most formidable
and hated rival-the University of
Virginia. Virginia won, 81 to 0. But
the great game of the year, the most
notable in the National Capital up to
this time, was played with the Dupont
Club OF Washington on Thanksgiving
day. The college boys won. 2 to o..
Says the Georgetown Journal: "The
game was one that will be handed
down in the annals of the sport. both
in the college and in. Washington, for
It was the first pubic exhibition of
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upon, was holding it's own as the new
century dawned.
But in 1899 another innovation had
come to the Hilltop for the "hoodlums
outside the gates" to- hoot at. Even
the learned editor of the Journal that.
year had only a sardonic smile for a
relocated, check-trousered, gor-
geously individual who was
observed one Spring day strutting
about the campus.
There are three types of golfers"
the Journal remarks editorially-.
those who talk about it, those who
play, and those who wear the clothes.
The latter are the same type we see
about at, graduation affecting drop.
stemmed pipes and swagger air."
In the college world of Washington,
to quote once more from the eminent
Horace:
"Anni labuntur fueaces."
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Georgetown continued its winning
streak by beating the Episcopal High
School at Alexandria. to 6. On De.
cember the world champion Prince.
ton team of that year came to Wash,
ington and played a picked eleven OF
the city. 1t was a source of pride to
the Georgetown men that five of their
players were selected for this team.
The Yellow and Black New Jersey
collegians ran away with the game,
AZ TO 0. A few days later Georgetown
became the undisputed champion of
the District of Columbia by beating
the Gallaudet College team, from Ken.
dali Green, 10 to 4.
The college yell of that year may
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grounds in droves. Street cars, buses,
tally-hos. traps and runabouts brought
their quotas to the arena in such
numbers as to make the athletic treas
ury expand its contracted. sides in an
ticipaticn of the royal repast. Even
the chimes in the bell tower. which
points SO gracefully to Heaven,
changed out the quarter-hour in tones
unusually gay and joyous. The root
ers were early in the field with vocal
devices that ranged from doubtful
harmony to torturing discord. All
sorts of hard names were shouted
from one side of the field to the other.
The excitement reached it's height
when the law and medical schools,
headed by the Gonzaga Band, trooped
across the gridiron in martial array.
Buttons, the porter boy. trotted
out the varsity mascot, billy goat,
chemically changed to lines of blue
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enchanted and bespeaks muscular de-
velopment which will be difficult to
overcome. The first eleven has been
appointed, and now Is out every
spare moment In practice and train.
ing for the many games which 1t
expects to play"
The first game that year was with
Gallaudet. and the Hilltop players
won. to 4. After the contest the
Georgetown team was invited to re-
main at supper. The Fall of 1890
marks the first OF the almost unbroken
series Of games between Georgetown
and the Naval Academy The Midd es
won. 20 n 4. Some of the sting was
taken from this defeat the next week,
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Foot Ball Crowded Out the Latin Poets at Georgetown

and gray from his tail forward. The
apologetic stub at the rear, Described
as a tail, was on this occasion dyed
orange and blue (the colors of Vir.
ginia). This caused a wild wave Of
joy from the Georgetown contingent,
while the Virginia followers beloved
derision. The new bleachers were
jammed with lusty youths with
throats of iron, chattering maids.
stately danes, gray-haired alumni who
had played on the team in their day,
flags and banners of blue and gray
and orange and blue fiuttered on all
sides"
The Georgetown team of that year
was composed as follows: Barry. left
end; Murphy, LETT tackle; Lynch. lett
guard; Long, center; Moore, right
guard: Callahan, right tackle; Greene,
right end: Smith, left halfback; Owens,
right halfback; Casey, quarterback.
and Kenna, fullhack.
Some of the foot ball songs Of that
day were:
I'm Charlottesville, when / was there,
Were foot ball players everywhere
In loud attire and moppy hair
Everywhere I'd roam.
Could they play ball?
Well, l guess not!
When the game was DER
They had forgot
To make a score of even four,
And all that sort of rot"
On top of this, the Blue and Gray
poets had heaped the following insult
to the Virginians:
Way down in old Virginia,
Where the mud is red and thick.
We faced some pigskin chasers
And we made them deathly sick.
We crushed their orange blossoms;
They couldn't play bit.
So we tore their line to pieces,
And the score was ten to nit!
When Kenna bucks the center
And Casey turns the end.
We cheer those hrawny heroes
AS to their work they bend.
Sam Owens is a lulu
And Smithy is find.
Just push the ball to glory
And never lock behind
Then this mournful ditty resounded
over the. field in exciting moments Of
play:
How mournful tonight are the hearts
in Virginia;
Their colors, once honored, are
The fame that they cherished Is van.
ished forever.
For they find that for Georgetown
they're just bit slow
Two other popular foot ball songs
We're:
Fairy tales. fairy tales,
We hear them every day.
Just for a while with pity we smile,
Then laugh and walk away.
Golfers Holsters from Virginia
Think they'll win from US today.
Fairy tales, fairy tales,
It's only a fairy tale"
zone day from the wilds Of Virginia
A queer lot Of ball players came
With great condescension to teach US
Some points on the old Rugby game.
They came with orange-blue ribbons,
But they soon threw the orange
away,
And now they have blues in Virginia,
Down by the river side"
X
loot BALL, after a checkered in.
fancy and adolescence, has reached
| its maturity at Georgetown, and the
other Washington colleges followed
the example of the senior institution.
More students owned bicycles than
| now rattle about town in the battered
collegiate fiivvers with sophomore
witticisms chalked on the sides.
! Even the cigarette, still frowned
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awaken some memories about Wash
ington. 1t was:
'Sizze Sazzle. Razzle Dazzle!
UNIV!
Georgetown. Georgetown!
Varsity"
Before this year." says the George
town Journal, foot ball never was
firmly established in the college. Now
1t will become unquestionably the
chiefest of our sports. We must at.
tribute this great change to the splen-
did work of our team. 1t has in.
fused an activity and vivaciousness
into athletics which will be telling on
the physical and mental advancement
of students. So the presentation of
our team to the public is wholly justi.
fed. for it shows our deep apprecia.
ton of the sturdy and resolute perse.
verance, and not a vanity. as founda-
tionless as the miots of the morning" :"
* y y \
IRON this time on foot ball in Wash.
ington developed rapidly. AN en-
thusiastic spirit says the Journal of
1890, ''manifests itself among the
boys. which opens up distant lands
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TO have supplanted base ball as a Win.
ter pastime. Uprights have been
erected north and south of the play
ground for the goals. and the field pre-
sents busy and amusing spectacle
during the long recesses and on holi.
day afternoons"
In the January issue of the Journal
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tendency to vertigo and dimness of
vision, besides being troubled by
dyspepsia. Excessive Indulgence tends
to produce anemia, which is one of
the first steps toward softening of the
BRAIN
The unfortunate editor. perhaps, had
not written this powerful piece solely
Evening star., 1927-10-16

Mr.. O'Kane. S. J.-presImably Rev.
Michael O'kane. afterward president
of Holy Cross College and other Jesuit
institutions--was requested to head a
committee of three to draw up code
OF laws. 1t was voted to defray eX-
penses by "a small monthly collection
from those who wish to take part"
Foot ball" says the journal, seems
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CORDOYAN OVERCOME
BY SMOKE BURNED,
OTHERS ESCAPED
NICK SATHlS MEETS DEATH IN
BURNING HEGG BUILDING;
$4,000 ESTIMATED DAMAGE

CORDOVA, March 8. R-Nick
sathis was burned to death when over
come, as he slept in his apartment,
by smoke from fire which destroyed
the Hegg building. The blaze started
early in the morning from an unde-
termined cause in the Mecca pool
room in the basement of the building.
Lew Smith, Frank Cunningham and
William Taylor, who were occupants
of the building, escaped. The struc-
ture also housed "Photocraft The
damage is estimated at $4,000.
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TAX Be PLACED ON
FURS IN CANADA;
EXPECTATION ONLY
FIRST TIME IN 200 YEARS PELT
TAX IMPosED-To AID COST 1
OF ADMINISTRATION

OTTAWA, March 8. (P)-For the
first time in 200 years a tax will be
placed upon furs from the Northwest
Territories in a few days. The Minis
ter Of the Interior, Charles Stewart, in
troduced a bill to empower the Com
missioner-in-co of the Northwest
Territories to impose per pelt tax on
100000 worth Of furs taken annual
ly from the territory The tax is de-
signed partially to meet the cost Of
maintaining the Northland administra-
ton and will be upon expectations
only.
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NORTHEASTERN GALE
D|sABLEs VESSELS;
MANY MEN ADR|FT
COAST GUARD ENDEAVORiNG
REACH STRICKEN SHiPS-lN-
LAND TRAFFIC HIT

NORFOLK, Va, March 8. (P)-For-
ty-six men are adrift off the Atlantic
coast in two helpless barges and two
light ships. The steamer City Of st.
Louis with her steering gear disabled,
swept dangerously near Hatteras
shoals. The result of a fierce north
eastern gale which swept the coast
is the endangering of nine vessels'and
interfering with inland traffic and
disabling coastwise movements. Coast
guards are endeavoring to reach the
stricken vessels.
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BABIES GIVEN WRONG
BOTTLE, FIVE DEAD
CHICAGO HOSPITAL
ANrlSEpTlc SOLUTION GIVEN
INFANTS INSTEAD OF DIS
TILED WATER

CHICAGO, March 8. P)-Five baby
girls under two weeks old died with
in two hours of commissions as the re-
suit of nurses error mistaking a
bottle of mild antiseptic solution for
distilled drinking water. The mothers
Law convalescing in an adjoining ward.
Five nurses assigned to the ward are
involved in the investigation to find
which one gave the babies boracic
acid solution which was used for an
eye wash. u
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M'T|CUE WILL TAKE ON
sHARKEY Is ROUNDS

NEW YORK, March 8. (P-Clash-
ing in what is generally accepted as
the semi-fnal struggle Of Richard s
heavyweight elimination series, Mike
McTigue will attempt to extend one of
the most remarkable comebacks in
pugilistic history at the expense of
Youthful Jack Sharkey, in Madison
Spare Garden tonight in a 15-round
battle. Sharkey is a nine to five ia
vorite.
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PARTNER OF RATL|FF
RELEASED OF CHARGE

SAN FRANCISCO, March 8. LP)-
William F. Deaner, Alaska mining en-
gineer. arrested a week ago on a war
rant from Amarillo, Texas, charging
forgery. was released. The authori-
ties learned that Deaner's accuser, j.
r Ratliff of Amarillo, failed to appear
before the grand jury. No indictment
was returned.
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DAILY RATION PAY Of
'DOUcHBOYS' IS RAISED

WASHINGTO, March 3. P)-Pres-
ident Coolidge has signed bill rails
ing the daily ration allowance Of the
"doughboughs" from SO to SO cents,
after which it is supposed that broiled
lobster and chicken la King will be
a regular feature on the menu of the
soldiers.
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LETTER MAY REVEAL
IDENTITY STRANGE MAN

NEW YORK, March 8. (P-A let
ter left with the Vatican to be opened
March % is expected to throw light
on the identity of John Orth, a mys-
ferrous man who lived in New York
in 1924, and who was thought to have
been Archduke Johann of Austria, who
disappeared 20 years ago.
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FALLING STOVE LID
KILLS SLEEPING MAN

SALT LAKE CITY, March 3.P)-
Thomas B. Widener, aged " years.
was killed instantly and two other
men companions were seriously IN
iured when a stove lid, blown into the
air by an explosion, descended upon
the roof of the cabin in which the men
were sleeping.
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DEDUCTION AUTO TAX
GIVEN ADVERSE RULING

WASHINGTON, March 8. P)-Rep-
resentative Bacon introduced a drastic
measure to prohibit the importation of
machine guns and automatic pistols,
and to regulate the domestic manufac-
ture of such articles.
The board Of tax appeals ruled
against the deduction of automobile
tax, paid by the purchaser, from his
income payments.
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MAY LECAL|zE BETTING
MACHINES IN n. Y. STATE

ALBANY, N. Y, March 3. (P)-Pari-
mutual betting machines would be le-
galized on New York State race tracks
under a bill introduced in the Assem-
bly, yesterday. Ten per cent OF the
receipts Of the machines would go to
the State, and racing associations
would be required to pay a license
fee of $4,000 to the State for meeting,
each not to exceed 80 days.