orbin’s orner | As you know, this is named from the English General, Lord He wore that kind of a coat, but it has been developed Raglan. since his first wearing of it. It is specially noticeable by the cut of the shoulders. Raglans will be worn a great deal this Winter in both ulster and overcoat. Rough cloth is used. F. A. CORBIN, 1000 CHAPEL ST., New Haven, Conn. [@~ MY DAY IN NEW YorK is Thursday. Place, Astor House. Time, 12 to 4. WEAK IN DEFENSE. But Eleven is Steadily Improving— Guard Position Problem. As the football season advances the list of candidates for the University even continues to grow until now more than a hundred men, an unprecedented iumber, are in their playing clothes ech day and doing their best to make a good appearance in the game. As might be supposed, a great deal of this naterial is dead wood, .but out of it all, wery now and then, arises a man who ius been showing himself willing and ible to do better things, and he is given achance at the top. Several good men lave thus been discovered through this process of sifting, including George B. Chadwick of Brooklyn, N. Y., a brother ot Charles Chadwick of the 1897 team. Sharpe’s recent injury gave Chadwick his opportunity and in the Dartmouth game he justified the judgment of Capt. McBride, who tried him at half, by making some of the best gains of the day. He has jumped to the front very quickly, but he has the fighting qualities to hold him there. It is the truth to say that the eleven which played last week was a better one than that of the week before. In other words there is an improvement, slow, it is true, but still an improvement, which ifit can be kept up, will bring the team into something like championship form in the next month. No set of men ever showed a better spirit and every man is tying his level best. Still, it cannot be denied that the team is very weak on the defensive. Every game so far has em- dhasized this, but as yet no effective means of patching up the break seems to have been introduced. Francis, at Unique Fancy Hose. They can’t be duplicated in any city in the United States. They are the latest thing in footwear and the price is right. Call at our store or write W. H. GOWDY & CO., Opp. Osborn Hall, Successor to : DeBussy, Manwaring & Co. left tackle, is the chief offender, but the whole line with the exception of F G. Brown, at left guard, falls under criticism. Cunha, at center, while big and strong and active, has not come up to expectations and he will have to wor very hard to hold his place. He persists in playing a good-natured game and is consequently pushed about by much smaller men, who have an aggressive style of play. The coaches have not yet given up hopes of making a good man out of him. The real problem of this year’s team, however, is not center, but guard, the place left vacant by Marshall, who grad- uated last Spring. So far, Leary, Tom- linson, C. Brown, and Richardson have been tried there at intervals, but from one cause or another, all have been found wanting. Brown is a Freshman, and though he is capable of playing a good game, he is too light to stand much pounding. Richardson, who has been playing~ ati: center’ on: ‘the College, promised better than any of them, per- haps, and will probably be given another trial there if he can be spared from center. With this place at right guard as well filled as the one at left, the coaches would regard the building up of a strong eleven with much more equa- nimity. The coaches at the field this week were, besides Messrs. Rodgers and Bull W. Of Hickok, 765 Sig FF: W.