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Richmond Times-Dispatch from Richmond, Virginia • 6

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THE TIMES-DISPATCH: RICHMOND VA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2 1912 brgetown and Carolina Clash Here To-Day BACKS AND COACH (CAROLINA EXPECTS TO SPRING SURPRISE 'Tarheels Will Make Georgetown Hustle to Take Game liue and Gray Confident of Victory but Uadly Cripped BOTH TEAMS ANXIOUS ON EVE OF CONTEST Virginia and Vanderbilt Rest Befcre Big Battle Neither Overconfident and Orange and Blue Alumni Hopeful for Best Line-Up of Two Elevens lt 1a thought that they will be taxed to their capacity Coach MeOugln of tho Vanderbilt team aald to-night: am expecting a hard game with Virginia and our men have not been overconfident at any time We know helalde Une-fTp ef Virginia and Van derbUt Vanderbilt Feaitlea Weight Turner left end ISO Shipp left tackle 310 Davta Pe left ganrd 173 Morgan centre 313 GEORGETOWN fOMTl ON CAROLINA Dfflj left FcIritSi Wl IlfTtti Xwlifity Jfiilais Rltd wsfw Barvw Xillaai rUfct raaN Hefertr via Li Hv Bvffci CvMrilVi iwrtc Kvff Foley or Mimr HkLi LoTf Dvu i Ml Loe that Coach Elliott's men will put up a the fight of their lives and although intseN rigat snare ill we should win oa past form thla may not cut any figure In tho result We will give them the best we have from the start and barring injuries to either side the game should bo a cloao one May tha better team win out WoWl! have no excuse to offer defeated" The Virginia team registered at the Hermitage Hotel upon arriving here To-morrow's game ta caffed at 3:13 o'clock sharp Walter Eckersell of Chicago ta referee Mike Donnelly Dartmouth umpire Alvin Brown Sewanee head linesman Browa T- right taekl 180 Brswa Km right end 850 Carlla gaarter back 134 Ilsrdage left kalf back 103 Gallia right half back 1S3 Sikes full back 304 Vlrglala FoaUIaa Weight Finlay left cud 301 Weolfolk left tackle 370 Hedus left gssrdi-c-37S Weod centre a 13d Garter right guard S4I Malden tackle None the wore for delay earned by the wreck of the Seaboard Air line train which wa bringing them to Richmond the football fslsvqp of the University of North Carolina arrived here last night at 11:15 Hand went to the Richmond Hotel to await the call of the whlet'e at 3 o'clock this afternoon when the Tarheel tackle Georgetown University after a Iapae of several years Coach Martin la not at all apprehenalvc aa to hla men regardleaa of their rather grueaome experience one gian having been ikllled and another aerloualy injured In the wreck In fact the Carollnlana i made of themaelvea heroes aaiating the women and caring for the Injured coach Martin ta proud of hla men bojh for the courage dlaplayed when In apparent danger and for the eouraga which they will dlaplay agalnat Oeorge-itown thla afternoon on the gridiron He la not predicting a victory hut ha I hopeful of the heat The vaunted proweea of the Blue and Gray has penetrated even unto Chapel Hill and knowing thla proweaa the eleven la pre-ir pared to meet It with pluck and grit I Georgetown failed to arrive last night preferring to remain In Wash- Ington The team will arrive at 1 o'clock thla afternoon and will make Ita i headquarters at thy Bluea Armory re'urnlng to Washington Immediately after 3 th Reporta from the two cam pa are unusually optimistic Carolliia la not 1 boasting nor making any dalma of victory but Um man 2 that there la a big aurprlae In atore for the Blue and Gray if the Hllltoppera On the other hand the Washingtonians are The (a are expecting an eaay victory right 314 llarrla right 133 Goaeh quarter hack 131 Landes left half hack lOd Tedd right half hack 138 Smith fall hack 131 Nashville Tenn November 1 Virginia's football aquad of twenty-five man arrived here to-night after a twenty-four hours' trip from Charlottesville and waa Immediately rushed from the Union Htatlon out to the College Hall Vanderbilt campus where a routing mass-meeting was held in their honor Upon the appearlnco ot tho Virginia players and coaches the underutli students cheered them to tho seho Captain Todd head Coach Elliott and Manager Lyle wars escorted to the platform they were later called on for brief speeches Captain Hardags Coach McGugln and Manager Homer nf Vanderbilt were also heard by those present who were not only students of the university but their friends and a large representation of- girls from local seminaries Vanderbilt's last practice for the big game waa held thla afternoon behind dosed gates and all of the plays that will ha used against the Orange ana Blue were carefully rehearsed Vanderbilt will spring a number of sew trick plays In this gams on which they have been practicing for some time but have never been forced to use as yet The team le In fairly good shape but soma of the men are atlll out ot condition Thla Is especially so ot Bikes the full back Morgan at centre and Collins' at right half back Virginia should have the edge over the Commodores In th) matter ef condition Virginia and Vanderbilt alumni are gathering from all points of tbs South sained by-its teews-ae tbegrWIrea TECHS WORKING FUR III Cl GABE Eleven in Good Shape and Big Contest Next Saturday Blacksburg Va Xovember Washington and Lee game Juet ten the 1 football team has enured the most ilftnoui period ot -the work Several of the men aro suffering minor Injuries sustained la Ac Norik game last buiurday but br th the Washington and Leo game arrives ar expected be la excellent shape The team and th student body at 1 nails tha great effort upon tho Washington and Leo to win out ovtr In football For tbs past sovon rssrs has won every same between tba eallctss with th exception of last when tho score was i is I Football who witness the game are pfomiaed th bast tame to be played la this ibis season Tbo team bae been steadily until their piny aa this ereturaglng Team work wm be th effort from now aa Tho men aro Ilka fiends and ar playing a hard gam With th candlttoa which hop to arrive at previous to th and Loo game they should bard crowd to brat Barring ffafnraean or netbacks In tha meantime I expects to put on th field the tram played this season Two fall backs aro being worked out with ebeoea between them There aro four dlnesmea who bavo been la all of tha garnet ts dot wha hand to fill la any of tho Uao Whitehead haa been shifted to sad should put up a good game as be Is fighter Is counting strongly on her fighting spirit and with la team work that Is looked should be able to uphold tbo IMPORTANT MEETING OF HERMITAGE GOLF The annual meeting of the Golf Club will be held November II The meeting la of r-ufrerinr from the loaa of several line-up It la aald will be vaatly different from that which faced the Indiana MtThatUma should ha one of -the moat Interesting of the season Certain It la ona of tha moat Important to be played In Richmond The dearth of make the TILLETT Captain and Quarter back MOORE Right half back MARTIN Conch mu bark LITTLE" ABERNETHY IV Wmea'lVcalVywm oauie a large crowd to the nark this afternoon It will be the only opportunity local fidoxn will of Heine tho powerful Oeorffftown team in aotloiie Carolina I Za raln nkglvln Day to battle the'anuul contest with Virginia 5 2Uad the adTanea dopa from tha two campa: YELLOW JACKETS SOKE OE VICTORY MUST FIGHT TO WIN LANGDON WILL RACE AT JAMESTOWN MEET Former Owner of Jocund and Patron of Ben- Strong Stable for Winter Cassatt Also Ships tha 14th aha had beaten Early Ught little Hugh Carousel and two or threo Expect to Take Measure of William and Mary in Cham- pionship Game Aihland Va November The Yellow Jacket! leave yearly to-morrow morning for Williamsburg where they will line-up tracks is getting a strong stable to- The line-up will be slightly different frorai the one that faced Hampden-Sidney laat riings Gathering Campaignin' ptain November George Norfolk Va Waterbury Langdon for many years a familiar figure about New York race and at one of the winter tracks later "Vj? Chapel Hill November Carolina will face Georgetown In Rlch-: mond to-morrow with a determination to do or die 'While victory le not i expected still Georgetown must fight i to win two of tho bright atari of the acrub team hava been advanced to the traln-X? Ing table with ehlnlng hope of going I In at some period of to-day game 1'sS The two men referred to are Erwin nd Blalock who have the opportunl-if tla of working in the back field £-- The personnel of the team that trill face Georgetown will be of intereet to fane In the two Virginia and North Crollna CONFIDENT OF WINNING Waahlngton November Confident of making North Carolina hlto tha dust on the Richmond gridiron to-morrow the Georgetown football1 team which will make the trip to-day postponed Its departure from this afternoon to to-morrow morning It waa originally Intended to leave Washington no that the members of the team would get to Richmond In time for a good night's reat before the game but at the last moment the de- clalon wee reached that It would he better for tho Hill Toppers to remain hare to-night and make the trip early In the morning Consequently the team will reach Richmond In the early jorenoon to-morrow take a little rest and bg raajy for tha battle that It la eXp6Cta North Carolina will put up xba moat noticeable thing aboilt the Blue and Gray aggregation now la 1U crippiei condition The team which meelg North Carolina will not be the eanl by any means which waa beaten by ciigia here last Saturday gpe 0f the serious Injuries racelved by aeveral of the players there la much confidence shown In fact too much t0 guit tb mue gnd Gray coaohes The jgtter realise what the laying oft of aeveral of the beet men means while the players do not appear to take this fa Jnt0 conalderatlon If there are any crippiea aa a result of there la little reason to believe that VCtor3r to be expected over Virginia in this city on November 1 tVblle the line-up for to-morrow wIU not be definitely agreed 'upon until to-morrow It la likely that lt wlll be follow Bergen right end Captain Hegarty tackle Barron or Mullaney right Bllar(j Rltch centra Morlarly left BUar(j Petri left tackle Derby left land Costello quarterback Fury left half back Foley or Murray right i Captain Tillett the brilliant quarter hack will ha conspicuous at all time in the game And Costello will nna this 140 -pound chap an able opponent at every atage of the game in au four of Carolina's games he hae proven hla ability as one of the foremoet 3 quarterbacks of the South to watc the movements of Costello and Tiiiett will be a game worth seeing within it- self laha 1ta Johnston right half cthera Briar Path has done very nearly as much this season to bring Into prominence Marta Santa her daddy as have Liberty Hall and Obses 'on Langdon believes too that ehe will carry her speed one mile and farther next season She does not appear lacking In eouraga Bunch of Keya la a fast filly but hardly as reliable as Briar Path It la a question whether Bradley kept a better youngster than the daughter of Marta Santa for hla own service Langdon will be remembered by patrons of old Benninga track at Washington as the owner of Jocund a son of Mirthful who about' seven years ago established a reoord for one m'le and seventy yarda which has stuck Mr Langdon bought Jocund from Thomas Hitchcock and won half a dosen races Langdon 4s doing his own training Ks Is up with the larks and he clocks every move his racers make First Races to Be Held St Mld- and the prospects sro that thers w'll be hundreds ot them here to-morrow Twenty-five Virginia supporters fron Memphis Tenn who recently wagered ilOQO ever money on Virginia In thie game will arrive te-inorrow morning for the contest Nashville's society will he out In body occupying the hundred or more boxes which havs been erected this season The Vanderbilt Athletic Association haa juat finished erecting permanent seats completely around the field and Getting the dare upon season's from Carolina time they part of twa season fans ana ot sectlsa Improving time la great tackling aggressive they Washington mako a ac-cidanta strongest sets of little to substitute playing are on position Sad a bard characteristic the Improvement for reputation CLUB Hermitage Saturday groat Importance as a board of governors I to bs named and several changes In th constitution discussed The principle change suggested la one regarding membership As all changes to the constitution require a majority vote of all resident member either In person or by proxy Secretary John Orgaln is anxious that all who can will attend Maury High School Loeea Norfolk Va November William ta4 Msry Academy defeated Maury High fiehee la a football game here to-dar Tha score was IT to Tho local boys were outplayed on ovary hand and It waa only by lack they scored at all 5V10TOR CARS I Gordon Motor Co Special Suit Sale S1500 for Suits worth S2000 $2000 for Suits worth $2500 $2250 for Suita worth $3000 $2500 for Suits worth $3500 $3000 for Suits worth $4000 OF RICHMOND 713 Broad Street amu0rmrnt0 ACADEMY Wm a Brady presents ROBERT MANTELL IN "Merchant of Venice" Saturday Mai "Richard HL" Saturday Night EVERY Qf TAI Mato Tuas NIGHT DUUU Thurdk Sat BEST BEATS 60 CENTS -A Drama Way Out of tho Ordinary Cali of the Concerns the Marriage Question Next HsslIgaaJ jn'elkce of Gayle who haa been nurgna bad bolls on hla neck and tjiouidera ehiffew will likely be at left hglti ai uidyett ha not boon ablo to get out on tho lle'd ilnco bo hurt his ohonldor ui Bturdy The team hai week aa aeveral of tho mei aro on tho sick likely be at haa been going at a fast clip In practice and eheuld have no difficulty In overcoming William and Mary ekbough a good game ought to remit The line-up for tha Yellow Jackets will be: Vahghn left end Wray and Wood-hovee left tackle Snyder left gnard Legge Booker centre Copaly right guard Turner right tackle: McDowell Scott right end: Clcaton right half Sheffey left half Hopkins (captain) fullback Bane quarterback iptU Bfeunt Bailey In beekfleld Brbca and Ueare on tha Una I III MERRY CHASE Fort-mer'e Payne' Benner's Smith's Rector's Bishop's and Pool'e forms Thou riding worn William Wilbur 8 Hilton Glasscock whip: Williams A Bowtrs Jamis Nash A Humphreys Jr Mrs Fortman sad Miss Msile atone A pounds Hie work In the game or the eeaeon have so far been averaging up to a raputablo atandard Jennings left guard haa been max ing noticeable improvements this weex island bit rushing tackles have torn up bttthe line-up going and coming til Thla la bia first year on the Carolina fisquad but he played on the i College team previous to coming here He weighs 1S1 pounds and worke like a giant "Big" Abernathiv right tackle la up io hla usual forte and that la saying much He cam tee-counted on as a substantial standby In all game- Not brilliant but one of the steady oia reliables He weight 18 Stevens left tackle Ja Am re creditable showing as a Jrat ye ar man on tho team HU weight la 15 and when be gives a ruah ha creates a tjdoore from the Maury High School of NorSlk Va le a lightweight that was ono of the stare in the game He fought a anappy game backflelder Wsrrenton Vs November The second dree of this waY for tho Wsrrenton Hunt Club took ploco hero thla afternoon with th meet at the farm of Mrs A Port-man Tha oourie which offers a beauttul country for about three miles with sodded fields and stiff rail fences Is one of tho beet known In this part at Virginia Tho bal1 gamo which waa to hava barn played hounds picked up thepeent at ones and here to-morrow between tha Army and Holy ia the Derg a iplendlff half back Dunn full book run through on! The nucleus of the Langdon stable came down from Canada! with their popular owner They were the two-year-old fillies Briar Path and Bunah of Keys the former a daughter ot Marta Santa and Sweet Alice and the latter a daughter' of Cunard and Princess Tltanla But last week at Laurel after Hus-seaux (Hoeeben'a consistent full brother) defeated Flying Ochre Court Madman Winning Widow Ano-ret Sherwood and one or two other fairish sprinters Mr Langdon took him for 11603 Mr Langdon will bring Rosseaux to Norfolk with Briar Path and Bunch of Keys for he has engaged stabling for half a dosen horses Rosseaux should win as often for him as ha did for Jamas Fltsslmmons the man who has handled him successfully this season for Dr Murray of Newark Del But Rosseaux to not needed In the Langdon stable to earn expense money Briar Path has InhsrRed much of tha speed and courage of Sweet Alice her mother and she 1s well able to shoulr der the burden of maintaining the establishment herself Briar Path showed high speed at Havre de Grace on the 18th of September when she heat Ringing Progressive Little Hugh Dogwood and Rockrest at five-eighths of a mile which distance she covered In 1:00 8-3 lesres Second Victory That was her eeoond vlotory On Sturdy centra NASHVILLE TO-DAY dleburg on Saturday November x6 Th Inaugural meet of the Virginia United Hunts and Racing Association will be held at Mlddlsburg Saturday November 15 under hunt committee of tho National Steeplechase and Hunt Association Tbs patrons of tbs mset are: Major-General Leonard Wood Thomas Hitchcock Henry Oxnard 8 Randolph and Whitney The race committee eonelets of Colonel Allen Rosier Dulany Charles Kl Harrison the Joint masters of th Orange County Hunts and tbo co- master of tha Piedmont and Middle- burg Hunts Five events have been carded Including two races on th flat ona for army officers two steeplechases for qualified hunters and a cross-country test race Tbe stewards are James Graves Redmond Stewart James Appleton Frederlo Bull aqd Grace The Judges: Fred Hunter Dulany John Townsend Riggs The paddock Judge Brook Baker starter Frank Bryan timers General A Buchanan Henry Fairfax clerk of the couree Frank Bryan racing secretary Hax-all Jr clerk of ecales Smith Officials of Game The officials for the game this afternoon will be: Morse (George ashington) referee Penders on (Ohio Wesleyan) umpire Clifford linesman That be la doing wall Is uot surprising He bas brought to the txek of training better head and a mors discriminating understanding than Is possessed by the average trainer If lt is on tba oarda that Briar Path bis most promising prospect to make a first-rats distance running thres year old filly she ta none the wore for being In the hands of Lanrdon Captain Casa aft ts Haro Captain EX Cassatt United States Army (retired) will bring a stable of seven or eight two and three-year-olds to Norfolk with Simon Healey as aide-de-camp and trainer and there are at leaet one good three-year-old and one good two-year-old In the loL The three-year-old success Is Springboard son of Aeronaut and Bettis Bouncer and the two-year-old Is Flying Fairy a daughter' of Aeronaut and Millie A Springboard tbo smartest of Aeronauts first crop of two-year-olds ta racing to the promise ha gave last season Ha Is not a clover manager of weight as his father was before hjm but lt Is questionable whether Aeronaut was faster at five and a half or six furlongs than his son has become Under anything below 105 pounds Springboard bolds bis own with tbs fleetest sprinters In training at three-quarters of a mile He bas been tried out at ono mile but that diatance seems to be too much for him Tha filly Flying Fairy was sick in tbs summer and did not find bar racing legs until September But she rah couple of creditable races at Havre ds Grace during the first meeting of the Hartford Agriculture and Breeders' Association and twice within a week she has taken down a purse at Laurel When she won at Laurel last she defeated Rlngllng Band Valo and Continental Captain Casern declared at Havre de Grave that Flying Fairy waa tbe fastest two-year-old developed at Oheeterbrook Farm since the redoubtable Gold Keels wlnnner In 1908 of tbs Suburban find Brighton handicaps at New York Flying Fairy has shown as much speed In races as Gold Heals did In his first season and-If she goss on as did that distinguished son of The Bard and Keel and Toe Captain Cassatt may pat himself on the hack and assurs himself that he Is ons of tho greatest breeders ever Flying Fairjr ts sura to distinguish herself down bora Fop she bas Juet coma Into ber own and is at the top of her form Captain Caesatt sob and successor of the lata Alexander Johnston Cassatt la a tfrorojely representatlva American sportsman Hs breeds tha horses ha races and raees only tha horses he breed He has a splendid place In the most beautiful part of Pennsylvania' and Is stocking with discriminating Judgment with the I best brood mares obtainable Applewhite a 143-pound played on laat year'a team and la a Strange right end played on laat year's varsity and hae shown Improvement over last year Hla weight la 1LJttle" A-bernethy fullback haa a creditable record of two yearn on the squad However hfa condition Is not par excellence Juet now due to bruleee Jones? the 385-pound centre who will go up against Hitch last year Carolina's centre ta not In tiptop condition and the coach Is under the Impression that he will hav to show marked Improvement if he ta pitted over against Rltch Saturday It Is probable that Bagwell centre for the scrubs will stand a chancs of going In the gam at aoms tlms Husks left end surprised all In the game with I Saturday and the cqach thinks he ta rather promising i for the Georgetown game Holmwood a scrub who is showing up well In his work at Interference will be carried on the trip to Richmond and will probably be In the game at some atage of the battle Kdly-Springfield NUFSED Chemi Company 629 Main SL Richmond Va Cros hse been canceled by order of the Secretary of War Yale Urfnts Mneeton New Havaq Conn November croea-conntry team defeated Princeton over the elx-mile course to-day AT jl cGugtat FOOTBALL BROAD STREET PARK GEORGETOWN South Atlantic Champions yg UNIV OF NORTH CAROLINA SATURDAY NOVEMBER 23 PM Admission 9100 underbill's coach sad Wood Virginia's S15QS) Saitt it.

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