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Football glance Today Hammond (2-2) at Martinsburg, W. Va. (4-0) Time: 7 p.m. Outlook: Martinsburg employs a run-and-shoot offense and has a top-100 recruit at wide receiver. The Bears defeated first-year Reservoir last week, 26-10, behind a 100-yard-plus rushing performance by B. J. Smoot and four sacks from Alvin Pope. This is the first meeting between the teams. Tomorrow No. 5 Wilde Lake (3-1) at Reservoir (0-4) Time: 2 p.m. Outlook: The Gators play host to Wilde Lake one week after the Wildecats' last-minute, 18-15 loss to Oakland Mills.

The fact that some novels are unfilmable doesn't stop filmmakers from trying. Certainly many thought "The English Patient" was such an impossibility, but along came Anthony Minghella to change all that. Now here's "Jude," a literal version of Thomas Hardy's "Jude the Obscure" to try the same trick. But unlike "Patient," it remains a nasty piece of work, made nastier by the big screen and the brilliant cinematography.The film has several definite pleasures, but one stroke so monstrous it takes your breath away and will render the food tasteless in your mouth for a couple of weeks.

From The Sun May 5-11, 1841May 6: The beautiful church erected at St. Joseph's, near Emmitsburg, Maryland, will be consecrated on this day by the Most Rev. Dr. Eccleston, Archbishop of Baltimore.May 11: The Baltimore Museum -- Mrs. J. E. Wyman, the original enchantress, is engaged for a short time, and among other wonderful and mysterious things, will cause a young gentleman to disappear.From The Sun May 5-11, 1891May 5: Light Street Bridge -- At 2:10 P.M. yesterday the first sailing vessel passed through the new channel way of the bridge, being the schooner Kent, of Baltimore.

..."TC T% From The Sun March 12-18, 1845March 14: Dedication of St. Alphonsus' Church -- This magnificent church will be dedicated this morning, between nine and ten o'clock, by the Most Rev. Archbishop Eccleston, assisted by numerous clergy of the city.March 17: It will be seen by the report of the proceedings in the city council that an ordinance to prevent smoking pipes and segars in the streets and markets has passed the second branch.From The Sun March 12-18, 1895March 12: At 8 o'clock last night the Baltimore Base-ball Club left Camden Station for Macon, Ga., where it will begin spring practice tomorrow morning.

The men who've made the movie version of Susan Cooper's fantasy novel about Light vs. Dark, The Dark is Rising, have tinkered with everything in the book, altering the nationality, age and family of the young immortal hero, as well as adding a potential Judas character and gaudy magical transformations. So why didn't the makers of The Seeker: The Dark is Rising go all the way and change the villain - the Dark's main man - from a fearsome horseman known as the Rider to something we haven't seen before?

FOOTBALL Offensive Player Chris Eccleston Mount Hebron Eccleston led the metro area in scoring for the regular season with 26 touchdowns and six points in conversions for 162 points. A repeat All-County selection, the senior carried 147 times for 1,195 yards, an average of 8.1 yards per carry, and scored 20 touchdowns. The Vikings' multi-purpose back also caught six passes for 525 yards and six touchdowns. Eccleston finished his three-year varsity career as the Vikings' career leader in total yards (4,156)

From The Sun Sept. 18-24, 1844Sept. 18: Can any body tell what it is that causes that disagreeable smell, in Market Space, near the northeast corner of Lombard Street, usually about nine or ten o'clock at night?Sept. 21: The noble edifice, called St. Peter's Church, on Poppleton Street, will be dedicated to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock by the Most Rev. Archbishop Eccleston, assisted by several distinguished clergymen.From The Sun Sept. 18-24, 1894Sept. 19: Calvert Hall College, under the direction of the Brothers of the Christian Schools, was incorporated yesterday by John P. Lentz, otherwise known as Brother Romuald.

There's no doubt that the British legal system really let Derek Bentley have it. They hung him for murder when they knew exactly where he was when the murder was committed: Under arrest.Bentley, executed at 19 in 1952, was the victim of a bizarre set of circumstances that were moved beyond adjustment by the permanence of capital punishment; these events are the subject of an icily unsentimental film by Peter Medak, at the Charles through tomorrow.Derek (played beautifully by Christopher Eccleston)

Lutes and flutes. Ladies fair gamboling in fields. Men in puffy shirts.Such is the Gloriana depicted in "Elizabeth," Shekhar Kapur's vapid re-telling of the story of Elizabeth I's ascension to the English throne.Little more than a series of delicious-looking tableaux, "Elizabeth" leaves film-goers with the impression that the time period represented -- the years immediately after Elizabeth assumed the throne in 1558, when the 25-year-old queen foiled foreign armies, envious relatives and palace intrigue to secure her rule -- must have been a fascinating chapter in history.

After being forced to read Othello in more college courses than I care to remember, and seeing Shakespeare modernized far too often, word that Masterpiece Theatre was doing the tragedy as a contemporary cop drama didn't exactly set my heart racing. Not even a screenplay by the brilliant Andrew Davies (Pride and Prejudice) could raise my dismal expectations. Was I wrong. This Othello, about a black police commissioner and set in Scotland Yard, is a mesmerizing dramatic ride through race, ambition, paranoia, false friendship, political correctness, jealousy and lies.