The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-03-30
LAFAYETTE PROVES EASY
Georgetown Defeats the Pennsyl-
vanians in Handy Fashion.
The intercollegiate Debut OF the
Blue and Grey Ball TOssers-A One
sided Contest With Very Little En-
tbusinsm Displayed - The Score.

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thusinsm Displayed - The Score.
| Flushed with two victories over the
! Norfolk team of the Nrginia-North Car
! DINA League, the Georgetown University
! baseball team yesterday made its debut
| in the intercollegiate season by defeating
| the aggregation of ball tossers from La
| fayette College. At the end of the seven
| inning contest the score stood Il
| to 3 in favor of the Blue and Grey, and
! there was no time during the game when
| the local boys did not have a sure thing.
! Lafayettes pitcher, Johnston, was easy
for the Georgetown batters, who found
! him for a total of fourteen hits. He was
accorded miserable support by the visit
| tors and errors ON their part assisted in
materially swelling the score.
Georgetown's play was quite in con-
/ trast though at times her fielding was
ragged. At the end of the contest the
Blue and Grey had five errors Blewett
| proved himself worthy successor of
White, the crack pitcher of last years
Georgetown team. Blewett was on the
rubber for four innings and in that time
| struck out seven of the opposing bats
men. His work was somewhat marred,
however, by several wild throws made
by him to the initial bag. Otherwise his
work was superb at the bat as well as in
the box and on the bases. He made an
| opportune hit in the second inning.
In the fifth inning Blewett was replaced
| by Mckay, freshman, and a promising
candidate for pitcher. Mckay appeared to
have plenty of speed. and Lafayette failed
| to score during the two innings before the
game closed. They did, however, succeed
| in netting a couple of singles.
Apperious another of the new men on the
| Georgetown team, showed up in splendid
| form. He drove out a long single in the
| second, bringing in a run, and on the
| bases displayed judgment, succeeding in
| purloining three of the cushions Drill
| at the receiving end of the battery, did
high-class work, and finished the game
| without an error.
Chalmers, Lafayette's first baseman
| held down the initial bag I'm first-class
shape. and made several difficult catches
of wild throws.
1t was the first game of the college sea-
son at Georgetown, and a goodly number
Of students turned out to see the varsity in
I action. There was, however, little en-
| thusiasm displayed, despite the good show
ing of the team. and only once was the
Georgetown yell heard during the after
noon.
The Lafayette players arrived in the city
yesterday morning from Charlottesville
where they were defeated Thursday by
the University of Virginia team. They
were pretty well tagged out, and their
play suffered in consequence. However
they could not, even at their best. be con-
sidered the equals of the Georgetown play
ers.
Georgetown went to bat first. Moran
Wal TO fire
Connors made pretty hunt and beat the
ball to the initial sack. Walsh lined out
a hot grounder, which was thrown wild
over first base. Moran was retired at
third and Connors at second. Two sin
giles scored Walsh and the side retired
when Devlin failed to gain first. %,
In the second half of the first Lafayette
scored once, Wright crossing the plate
aided by two errors and a hit by Ernst
Apperious scored for Georgetown in the
second as the result of a muffed fly on
the part of Launt. Lafayette's right
fielder. Lafayette evened up the score
in its half of the inning.
1t was in the third that Georgetown put
spikes in its hold on the game. Every
man on the team went to bat. The net
result of their efforts was two two-base
hits. a triple, and five runs. Lafayette
sent only Tour men TO the bat, and only
a single base runner reached second. They
were retired without scoring.
Georgetown then came to bat with a
continuance of the batting streak de-
veloped in the previous inning. O'Hara
and Apperious put the spheroid in one of
the outer gardens for a sufficient length
of time to gain second base At the
close of the inning Georgetown was three
more runs to the good Lafayette in its
half, was again doled out goose egg.
Two more hits by Georgetown and three
costly errors on the part Of the visitors,
letting in a quintette of runs, was the
story of the first half of the fifth In its
half of the inning Lafayette gained a
little when II scored a single run
The only zero that represented an inning
for Georgetown during the game was In
the sixth. Johnston, OF Lafayette
who had received terrible drubbing at
the hands of the Blue and Grey batters
steadied and held his opponents down to
single hit. The goose egg presentation
to Lafayette WAS repeated
The seventh and last inning saw two
more tallies added to Georgetown's score
bowling and Mckay both made hits and
Devlin and Bowling each scored The
last half of the inning was over before
most of the spectators knew the sides
had changed. Wright, the first batter for
Lafayette, made a hit, and the next man
up hit short one to OHara. The
doughty second baseman gathered II in
and threw 1t to Moran at second, who
cut off Wright and shot the bali to
first putting out the batter and retiring