Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-12
WILL PLAY GAMES
IN BRITAIN IN 1881
Team Now Being Assembled,
Maryland Nine Scores.
Catholic U. Beaten.
BY H. C. BYRD.

TINE Marine Corps is organic
ing a rugby foot ball team,
getting it together in Phila-
= delphia at League Island
Navy Yard, with the objective of
playing through a schedule next
Fall and Spring and scheduling
in 1881 games with the English
Royal Marines and the SCOTS
Guards, and possibly several other
English and Scotch teams.
However, the main objective
will be the series of games abroad
with the British military organi-
cations, especially the Royal Ma
rineS, a very friendly relationship
already existing between them
and the American Marines.
The Marine team is to be made up
largely of officers and men returning
to America from the brigade in China.
These men began playing the English
game in China under Harry Liver
Sedge, who learned 1t at the University
of California, and have since just
about cleaned UP all the other teams
of any note in the Far East.
Mai. Dave Brewster, who is in charge
of Marine Corps athletics, is responsible
for the rugby project. 1t is his feeling
that the already growing friendliness
between England and America can be
enhanced by such competitive sports
between the military services, and he IS
adopting the very sportsmanlike atti-
tude of organizing a team to meet the
English at their own game. English
rugby is just as popular in England as
American foot ball is on this side OF
the Atlantic, drawing to some games
more than a hundred thousand.
I'VE are getting our men lined uI
for the rugby team now" says Maj
Brewster, land by Fall we should have
about the pick of the Marine Corps
This means that many members OF the
all-star team developed in China will
be in the lineup, and the team is tc
be coached by Harry LiverSedge. He is
just as capable, possibly more so. ir
handling the English style of game as
he is the American. You remember he
was star at California in both. Our
idea is to meet Yale and possibly Har-
ward this Fall, probably the New York
Rugby Club and several of the Cana
dian clubs, in order to put our team ir
shape for the invasion of England anc
Scotland.
I'VE are now getting in touch with
the various organizations in England
and Scotland. Capt. Halla, who il
abroad at the Arms Conference is look
ing after most of this for us. It is my
ultimate object to go even a little
further than the games with the Eng
lish and Scottish teams. You know
the 1882 Olympics are to be held ir
. the United States, and we want to seno
a team into the Olympics representing
the Marine Corps. 1t would be great
thing if we could develop in the corps
a team strong enough to give the
United States a victory in a sport in
which it is rather poorly represented"
Maj. Brewster is working out plans
for a sports program in the Marine
Corps that goes far beyond anything
the corps has known. He wants the
corps itself to be represented by teams
in as many branches of sport as pos
sible, and also wants to carry that
down to each post so that through
gram the men in the corps Will not
only get fine opportunities for recreation
and play but also have teams that
will help maintain the fine morale
for which the corps always has been
noted. Incidentally, it might be men,
toned that nobody in the corps ap-
preciates the value Of such program
more than Gen. Neville, who Is lend
ing it his active support.
What Harvard did to Catholic Uni
verSity yesterday in base ball is not
found in the books. From Harvard
point of view columns could well be
written about the game, but from the
way G. U. looks at it the less said the
better.
The Crimson started right out to
pummel the Brookland outfit to the
fullest extent and 1T made good, the
final count being 81 to 4. 1t was a
complete rout Of hitherto undefeated
Brookland nine. Harvard got total of
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