doo will be there--but why attempt to |
|name all or many of the prominent folk. Cabinet |
|officers, admirals and generals, all take a back |
|seat to-day. In the full glare of the limelight |
|stand the twenty-two gridiron fighters from West |
|Point and Annapolis. To-day there is only one firing|
|line; it's the chalk-marked field at the Polo |
|Grounds. |
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|The Midshipmen arrived here Thursday and went to the|
|Vanderbilt yesterday. The Army team, coaches, |
|trainers, and advance delegation of officers |
|arrived, making the Hotel Astor their headquarters. |
|Every train from Washington, from Annapolis, from |
|West Point, which pulled into New York thereafter |
|was packed with Army and Navy adherents. |
| |
|And Broadway was ready with its usual welcome. The |
|Vanderbilt, Astor, Waldorf, McAlpin, and Martinique |
|were profusely decorated with the flags and with |
|Army and Navy colors. Generals met cub lieutenants |
|in the cafes and dining-rooms (where seats had been |
|reserved both for last night and to-night weeks in |
|advance), all eager to get some late "dope" on the |
|game. |
| |
|Store fronts were gay with the Navy Blue and Gold |
|and the Army Black and Gold and Gray; street hawkers|
|were disposing of the winning colors. New York was |
|on its biannual football spree last night. The Army |
|and Navy were in town.... |
| |
|Betting? Well, as a Navy man put it, "We've got a |
|few iron men with us." Yes, they all came "heeled." |
|Navy men are asking 2 to 1 and getting it in spots. |
|But as the hours slipped by and the old Army-Navy |
|feeling grew, there was no telling the odds--each |
|man bet as the impulse of the moment prompted him, |
|anywhere from 3 to 1 to even money. |
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| Probable Line-up To-day |
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