Evening star., 1899-03-18
Opening Game Of the Georgetown
University Nine.
WILL Be 4 MEMORABLE OCCASION
The Team Promises to Be Strong
One.
W DIRK OF PHIL KING

| game of the season will be played on We'd
nesday at Georgetown Field. The diamond
| is being rolled and put into condition. A
change for the better has been made in the
position of the diamond. 1t now runs d.
rectly from the center of the grand stand.
The latter beautiful structure has been fill
ed with seats and will accommodate the
crowds which the excellence of the present
team warrants the management in expect
ing. The foot ball bleachers have been
moved outside the running track. They will
accommodate hundreds of people and no
one will have to stand up during the game.
Preparations are being finished for the
first game of the season with Gallaudet,
and the student body intend to give the
nine a royal send-off. both as compliment
for last years work and as an expression
of present confidence. All the old base
ball songs have been trotted out and new
ones have been prepared. The custom of
the northern colleges of making the OPEN
ing game at home sort of carnival will be
followed by the management. One of the
principal features will be the presence of
a band. Gallaudet's supporters will attend
in large numbers to urge their team on
with their peculiar yell. The foot ball vic
tory in the late fall placed Gallaudet in a
c.ass not heretofore acknowledged to be
hers. and Georgetown will be prepared for
a hard game
Team Rounding Into shape.
The nine which will represent George
town University this season is fast round
ing into shape. and will be without much
doubt the peer of last years remarkable
team. The scholastic year of 1s9s-99 has
been termed the boom year for George
town athletics. The success of the foot
ball eleven and the recent great indoor
meet has given rise to this expression, and
now the base ball department bids fair to
rival all the others in results.
The Georgetown spirit has been worked
up to d high pitch, and the past few weeks
have seen as many as thirty men trying
for the nine. Outside of the position of
catcher, every man who played on last
years nine is out for the same position,
but this does not discourage the others
from coming out and trying to make the
places. Some of the youngsters are giving
the old players a close rub for the coveted
places. and the final disposition of the men
is by no means certain. The wedding out
process has begun. however, and those who
have survived the examination will strug
gle for the honored permission to serve the
blue and gray on the diamond at home and
abroad.
Candidates In Training.
These men have been taken to the train
ing table: Pitchers-Rach. law; Kenna,
law: White. medical; Gill; medical Catch
l.
nell. 1902; Kendall, law First base-Cap-
tain Mccarthy, medical; McElroy, law:
ODonnell and Kendall. Second base
Fleming. 1901; Hirst 1902; Kane. 1901.
Short stop-Moran, 1901; T. Smith, 1901;
Byrnes, 1901; Douglass. 1901. Outfield-
Downes, law; Walsh. 1901: Casey, 1899; ].
Smith, 1901; George Green, 1901: Samuel
Owens, Sp.; Barry, 1901; Finnegan, law.
1t was at first thought that some diff
Guilty would be found in filling the place left
vacant behind the bat by the departure of
Billy Maloney of last years team. The out
look now is different Three good men have
developed in the preliminary practice, and
each one has shown himself to be a good
varsity man. Hindie caught on the Brown
University team last year, and Cranston
and Kendall are local favOrites. Cranston
was backstop on the Central High School
team when young White puzzled the local
lnterscholastfc players with his clever
pitching. Bach is well known as one of the
headiest men that ever wore a college pitch
ers plate on his shoe. He is in prime con-
dition now. and will make his last year
in college base ball togs one to be remem-
bered White. the clever little left-hander
who came to Georgetown from a local high
school. will do share of the work in the
box. On the northern trip last spring he
showed a great deal of speed and head
work. Kenna. the varsity full back, comes
to Georgetown with very good record
made as the pitcher of the Mt. ST. Mary's
College nine for the past two seasons. With
| better supplied than any other college team
In the country.
Coach and Captain.
Mr.. Phil King, the great Princeton second
baseman, who will coach the team through
out the entire season, has already made
himself as popular at Georgetown as he
was at his alma mater or at the University
of Wisconsin, where he has been coaching
both the base ball and foot ball teams for
the past few seasons. Mr.. King woke the
boys up on the very first day with stir
ring address on college spirit. 1t came with
very good taste from one of the most oval
sons that Princeton ever had, and the bows
were inspired Georgetown has always mad
a professional coach, who left the team
when his own nine called him away This
hurt the team. and the engagement of Mr.
King Is In the line of a remedy. 1t will be
a valuable remedy.
Captain Dan Mccarthy will play the same
game this year as he has for many years
past Whether he will stay at first base or
return to his old position in the field has
not yet been decided, but the probability is
that he will remain in the infield He can
captain the team much better from the first
pag than he can out in the field and every
one admits that it will he hard IN O