Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-03-13
GEORGETOWN'S BALL TEAM
Candidates for the Places Have Begun
Work
Games Arranged With All the Crack
Teams That Would Come-Un-
slally EonS List.

The Georgetown University base ball team
candidates were called together for their
first practice last week, and they have since
been kept daily at work in earnest. AL
ready the weeding-out process has begun.
Strong rivalry is manifested in the con-
tests for all the positions on the varsity
nine. and the successful men will have to
show especial ability. Only preparatory
work of light nature has been INDUCED
in thus far. affording a poor idea of the
merits of the candidates However, they
all have good regulations as players. A
couple Of able men are assured for every
one of the nine positions. For catcher there
are Cranston from last years nine and
formerly of the Central High School, and
eastman. agile and heady youngSter
from Rhode Island
There are three strong candidates for
pitcher in Blewett from Milwaukee. Wis. ;
Bowling of Johnstown, Pa, and Golden
also of Pennsylvania besides c. R. Herman
of Philadelphia. Emmett Byrnes from the
Business High School and John Fay of the
District of Columbia to be reckoned with.
Arthur Devlin from the Central High
School,whO did so well on the foot ball team
last fall; Kaufman from Louisiana, Plus
.O'Donnell Of Pennsylvania and McElroy of
Rhode Island will all help to make the
contest for first base decidedly interest
ing and close one
o Hara of Pennsylvania. Belchinor of
New York, Sullivan of Florida and Pitcher
Bowling can cover second capably.
Shortstop will be thoroughly taken care
of by Charley Moran of the District of Co
-iumbia, the star player at this position last
year: Tom Smith from Nashville, Tenn,
or Henry Kane of Wisconsin.
Besides Smith and Kane as prospective
third basemen, Douglass and McElroy will
prove strong candidates for the same posi-
ton.
There is also a strong supply of candi-
dates for the outfeld, which will undoubt-
eddy be fast one. In addition to Walsh
and Downs. left and centerfielder, respec-
lively, last year. Carl Burbank from the
Central High School. Eddie Byrne from
and Emmett Byrnes will all make strong
bids for the outer garden positions.
jerome Bradley to Coach.
Jerome Bradley, Princeton, 81, the ia
nous centerf1e!d captain and coach of Prince
tons teams for practically five years past,
Will make a worthy successor to Phil King,
who coached Georgetown's base ball team
to the collegiate championship last season,
and who has returned as base ball coach to
the University Of Wisconsin after sea-
sons absence. Bradley has had remarka-
Bile success both as a player and coach at
Princeton. He developed into one of the
most intelligent players in the country
While at college, and learned the methods
of college men thoroughly so that he
should be an invalua BILE aid and an entire
success as base ball coach at Georgetown
this season.
Although Coach Bradley has a hard task
before him in developing a team equal to
Georgetown's team last year, every one be-
lieves there is a promising outlook.
The Teams Coming Here.
Georgetowns record last year was eigh-
teen victories out of twenty games with
college teams. Many local base ball enthu-
siasts went to Georgetown in preference to
watching the Washington league team, and
they were repaid with such scores as George
town 8. Yale 4; Georgetown I. Princeton5;
Georgetown 10, Princeton 9: Georgetown T.
Yale 2; Georgetown 8, Pennsylvania o:
Georgetown q. Harvard 5; Georgetown 6,
Virginia 9. Georgetown 10, Maryland IA;
Georgetown 6. Virginia s.
1t Is also recorded that in a ten
inning game Georgetown played the
Washington leaguers to a standstill of 3 to
3, and would have won out but for the
violation Of the new balk rule since re-
pealed, by Pitcher Ed. Bach, 30, LIB
who graduated last June
This year Georgetown will meet more good
teams than ever before, in facial the more
prominent college teams of the east who
would come, assuring even a longer season
of first class base ball than last year. Be-
side the teams met and defeated last year
as above noted. exclusive of the University
Of Maryland, Washington league and Uni
versity of Virginia, Georgetown will this
year play the Boston league team here
April .; Lafayette, Cornell, Johns Hopkins,
Lehigh. NOtre Dame, Chicago University
two games). New York Athletic Club, Uni
versity Of North Carolina, Dickinson and