Evening star., 1899-04-08

championship honors. On the northern trip
Of the team both Princeton and Yale will
be met again, but the result of these games,
even though defeats for Georgetown, can
not affect the standing of the college in
this years base bail summary.
There are a great many hard games be-
tween Georgetown and the championship.
Her 'rooters' are very hopeful that she
will win them all, but the best teams have
an off-day sometimes. Harvard, Pennsyl-
vania and Virginia are yet in the running.
and all will show themselves worthy rivals
of the unbeaten Georgetown nine. The
local team is better fixed for pitchers than
either Harvard or Pennsylvania. 1t does
not seem possible now that Georgetown
will be beaten by any of the northern col
leges. Her principal competitor for the
championship honors promises to be an
other southern institution, and no other
than her famous rival, Virginia.
This is the first time in the history of
athletics that two southern colleges are
found in the foremost ranks as candidates
for championship honors. That this is so,
however, cannot be denied. Virginia has
defeated Yale twice and Princeton once
She was defeated once by Princeton This
defeat gives Georgetown a slight lead for
the top of the list This situation makes it
look as If the greatest battle of the inter-
collegiate base ball season will be fought
out today, when Virginia and Georgetown
Will meet for the first time. The defeat CT
tHSiild ny princeton wednesday makes
things look more favorable for Georgetown.
Meier, the man whom Georgetown knocked
out of the box in the first game with the
orange and black, was in the points against
Virginia, and the strong batters of Char
lottesville were held down to ten hits nv
him. Meier's performance may be looked
upon as showdown of Virginia's bat
ting strength. He is by no means won
derfui pitcher. His only good point is his
control. He has not any amount of speed
ana no curves. Georgetown punished his
straight ones. Outside of this one point
the game in which Princeton defeated Vir
ginia so unmercifulIy affords little or no
aid to one who desires to know beforehand
the results of today's game
Georgetown will undoubtedly put Bach in
against the orange and blue. The expe-
r1ence of the past week shows that the
team does better work with him in the box
than 1t does with White. The latter will
De wonderful man in a few years but at
present he Is inclined to lose his head at
critical times. His greatest fault is his
tendency to get the team too often into
tight holes He filled the bases time and time
too fond of using his curves and shouId
stick to the straight ball more at the
proper times. Just why Phil King does not
use kenna In the box more is not appar-
ent, Lehlsn felt the strength of his mighty
rlSht arm In the first game of the season
1t Is to be hoped that he will be heard from
soon again. He has been playing right field
with only mediocre success as a fielder and
second Princeton game he had four hits
and a base on balls out of five times at hat
In the other games, however, he did not
do well.
Summersgin will do the twirling for yir-
ginia this afternoon. His presence in the
box will make the game c,ose and excit-
ing. He divides the honor of being the best
intercollegiate pitcher in the country with
Bach. He made his reputation at Brown
University and did good work for Virginia
last year.
There will be no changes in the makeup
of the Georgetown team. 1t is to be hoped
that the fast infield will show little more
of their oid-time snap and fire. Their work
during the past week has not been wonder
fui. This is pretty much due to the fact
that they have little to do In the last
Yale game they had one assist each to
their credit, and Hafford and Moran each
made errors Of single other chance The
wonderful work of Tommy Downs in CEN
ter field will not soon be forgotten In
one game he made a clever one-hand catch
that spoiled a home run, and in every game
has pulled down the most difficult flies
He has started the scoring for Georgetown
In two of the games, and has done some
very opportune hitting.
The return of Cap Mccarthy to the dta-
mond has filed the boys with their old
time confidence. He has played two games
and got two hits in each of them. He has
played the first base without an error.
He expressed 1t as his opinion that George
only after hard contest.