The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-24
TO TAKE A SOUTHERN TRIP
The Georgetown Nine to Leave for
Norfolk on Tuesday.
Games Will Be Played with Vir-
Ginin North Carolina LcHgue
Tennis - Central HiGh school Ath-
Ietic Association short of Funds.

Baseball will be going full blast at
Georgetown by the middle of the week.
The team which opened the season by de-
feating the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege at College Park on Friday VIII
leave by boat for Norfolk Tues
day night on wednesday they will
cross bats with the Norfolk team Of the
Vrginia-North Carolina League. Thurs
day the Portsmouth Club Of the same or
ganization Will be met. Thursday night
the Georgetown team will leave Norfolk
and will arrive in this city Friday morn
ing. Friday afternoon the first game of
the college schedule will be played with
Lafayette at Georgetown.
The following day Gallaudet will walk
to the plate on the same diamond. Be
ginning with Aprii 3, there viii be an ar
ray of college games, the equal OF which
has been seldom seen in Washington.
Yale. Princeton, Pennsylvania. and Cor
nell will all play here within week s
time.
The following men will be taken TO Nor
folk: Drake, Drill, Apperious. Cox, Fay,
Blewett Walsh, Devlin, Moran, O'Hara
Bowling, Hanretty. Sullivan, Golden, Con-
nors, Manager Lynch. and Coach Brad
ley. The idea of the Norfolk trim is to
get the men into a slightly warri,,r eli
mate. in order that they may loosen up
before the hard games. which come the
first week in April. with the big college
teams. The team viii open the season
slightly weakened. Captain Walsh is
suffering from bad knee which was
twisted in football practice year or So
ago. The injury was supposed to have
healed, but cropped out several weeks
ago. Walsh Will not be in the roster OF
usual place in the more important con-
tests Seitz, who was one of the most
promising candidates for pitcher, recent
ly underwent an operation for Appendix
citis, the results of which will keep him
off the diamond for the rest of the sea-
son. Parental interference will also pre-
vent Smith, the crack third baseman
from DOMINIC a uniform Immediately
Rlewett, the crsck pitcher. is at present
in the hospital, but will soon be back On
the diamond. Jerome Bradley, the OLD
Princeton pitcher. who is coaching the
Georgetown nine, is confident that the
team will come up to the standard of that
of last year. The squad has been work
ing out on the diamond at Georgetown
every afternoon during the past week.
Although it is early in the season the
players, old and new, handled themselves
like professionals Owing TO the fact
that the track team has been idle since
the indoor meet baseball is the only sport
which engrosses the attention of the
Georgetown students.
Coach Foley. of the track team. has an
bounced that the candidates for positions
on the team will turn out tomorrow after
noon. The training table will be started
at once with squad of dozen men. This
number Will be increased from time 10
time More interest is being manifested
in this department OF athletics at George
town because home track and field meet
will be held this spring. The date has not
yet been fixed, but it will probably be on