Evening star., 1933-10-29
CAPITAL CITY GETS
PRAISE Of OFFICIAL
"Game of KiCkerS," He Says,
but Players Lend Hand
to Troubled Foe.
- HARLIE EDWARDS, well
1 known in Washington
" soccer, foot ball and base

" soccer, foot ball and base
ball circles, nominateS the
Capitol City Soccer League,
which opens today, as something
of sports Utopia. Edwards
story might we'll bring the circuit
q few votes.
Soccer is a game Of kickers,' ex-
plains Edwards. but when guys
down they stop kicking pick him up
and dust him off That's what they
did with the Brandywine team, and
that's the reason why soccer fans are
due for a treat in the Capital City
League this season.
For two years-Cr ever since the
team entered the league-Brandywine
has finished dead last. They had plenty
of spirit and fight, those fellows, but
rarely won.
Now, with the Columbia Heights
Grays it was a different story, They
were good. They won the champion
ship last year hands down, so easily, in
fact. as to cause interest to fall off
some.
Something had to be done. and the
GrayS did it. They diSbanded and five
of their best players volunteered their
services to Brandywine. The others
bCdtCeI6u ana JOlIleQ OIQer CLUBS. IL
that isn't spirit"
So it will be a more potent Brandy
wine club which today opposes the
German American at Marlboro in one
of the opening games In the lineup
will be the names of Watson, WellenS,
Arnold and the Koennel brothers,
Louis and Emil, late of the late Colum-
bla Heights Grays. It's almost hard TO
believe, but true.
Marlboro will visit Gaithersburg In
another contest, while a third brings
together the British UnitedS and Rock
Vile on the Monument Grounds No.
held. Mitchell Store. the other en-
trant. has drawn a bye.
All games will begin at 2:30 O'Clock.
1.-TWO important reasons why the
Seaman Gunners are where they
are today in local sandlot grid
circles are Fred Nicholson, the Navy
diving tutor, and Sam Landsman.
according to independent foot bali
observers.
Five years ago they took an ordinary
Seaman Gunners eleven and made it
feared outfit. They've been doing it
ever since, This season they promise
The Gunners, undefeated. play the
Maryland A. c. in one of the feature
sandlot foot ball games on the program
today 1t will be a National Capital
League contest.
GONE noted foot ball coaches have
y gone on record as saying sandlot
gridiron experience is almost in
valuable and their preference for
lots probably isn't based on what they
will laorro hu yO1ayiY0p rnpHN-
fields with weeds a foot high and for
lorn goalposts, if any.
1t takes liking for the game and
spirit to play on a gridiron where left
end runs perhaps are prohibitive
because a tethered goat is chewing on
tomato can. Such spirit isn't hard to
discover. Vic Gauzzl points to a not
able ins anca in the Stantons, now the
Adams Burc1 eleven. an Cntrant in the
National Capital League.
Every night on the wecdy field which
once was known as the Terminal
diamond near Union Station, group
of sandlotters gather in various pieces
of grid regalia. It's dark when the
boys all are available to drill, but they
do it-with nothing more for light than
a pair of automobile headlights.
If that isn't spirit, says Vic. then
Primo Camera is fiyweight. the Chi
cago Bears are palookas and Mate Is
brewery horse.
Gallaudet is due to get foot ball
player next year who may bear watch
ing. He is George Watson, who has
been playing with The Meridians from
their 115-pOund 10 l50-pound oays-
five years in all In addition to stand
ing out on the candlolS, watson also
plays a pretty fair game CT base ball
and basket ball.