Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-25
GEORGIA BOYS
SURPRISED GEORGETOWN

The boys of the base ball team of the
University of Georgia surprised EN- all
Wheh they defeated the Blue and GRAY of
Georgetown University yesterday afternoon
upon Georgetown Field by score of to
/. TO say that Georgia played ball is put
ing IL mildly, for even the showing OF the
Princeton Tigers did not excel It. Before
the contest started the only thing that
seemed In doubt was how MANY runs that
the Blue and Gray would pile up during the
nine innings Of play. But those loyal
local rooters had reckoned without taking
d a. ,hought OF past exploits of the visitors
ihey did not take into consideration that
the Georgians had been coached by Tommy
Stout, an old Philadelphia boy, who for the
past five years has had charge of part of
ane base ball in the Cotton States League
Inc only thing that was taken into con-
sideration was that the Georgians were all
youngsters, and during their practice be-
Iore the start of the contest did not show
any extra ability in the line of ball playing
But 1t seems this was where they were
running under the dark horse coIors. The
moment the contest started it was seen
that Georgetown was up against the real
thing in the base ball line and that 1t was
going to take good hard work to defeat the
boys from down south If they were to be
defeated at all Then it was that the
thought flashed across the minds of the
enthusiasts that the visitors had taken the
strong team of Trinity College into camp
recently. well as several other teams of
strong colleges. The Georgetown varsity
team saw which way the wind was blowing
when both Scheller and Devlin famed out
when they came to the bat in the first in
ming as the first Blue and Gray batters of
the game. Then ii was they took notice
that the slab artist for Georgia was no
other than Teddy Sullivan who is pitching
his second year for Georgia. To say that
Teddy Is pitcher of the type that makes
good in any company is not more than just
praise for stability AS the innings wore
on Sullivan certainly pitched big league
ball, judging from the way the local boys
were striking out He was perfectly cool
throughout the game, and the first hit of
the Blue and Gray that was outside of the
realm OF scratches did not occur until the
eighth inning, when Georgetown made their
only score Of the contest During the
course of the contest Georgetown managed
to land on Sullivan's delivery but four
times and Mudd has two of these hits to
his credit. while Simon and Monohan have
the others. Joe Montgomery was on the
slab for Georgetown, and while his deliv-
cry was touched up for twelve hits. still
at the end of the contest the boy was
pitching IL victory was much nearer
than it really was. In the matter of bat
ting McWhorter, the center fielder of
Georgia, seemed to have no difficulty in
landing on the ball at will, and each time
he came to the bat nailed the sphere for
what always seemed a home run, and on
two of the hits managed to cover three
no hits to his credit he was right at the
front when the matter of stick work is
considered. for on several occasions he hit
the ball to deep center field, which was
gathered in with marvellous catches by the
local feders. But these long hits, though
outs. easily allowed runners to score after
the ball had reached the fielders hands.
But in the matter of strikeouts Sullivan
has eleven to his credit, while Mont
gomery has five. For time 1t seemed as
though the Georgian would equal the record
of Ralph Byram of Princeton when he
struck out sixteen of the locals. but when
the matter of effectiveness Is taken into
consideration the work of Sullivan yester-
day was of the first-class order Fieisch-
man, the shortstop OF the Georgians, is
another wonderfully fast fielder, and the
way the ball travels to first to catch the
runner is well worth seeing. His batting
is not as heavy as some OF the others of
the team, but what he lacks in batting he
certainly makes up for in fielding. Brown,
the catcher is also Q good ball player, and
in the last inning. when Mahoney was
thrown out at the plate, the big Blue and
Gray baseman ran into the Georgian with
great force, but the way Brown froZe to
the ball during the collision was splendid
exhibition of nerve.
Near the close of the game yesterday
Simous while at the bat became ratified
nj some of the coaching of the Georgians
in reference to him and acted in manner
toward them that was not at all becoming
q type of player that should be allowed to
participate upon the Georgetown Field.
After the occurrence 1t was the subject Of
comment from some of the spectators why
Manager Egan or Head Coach O'Hara did
not remove the center fielder from the
game judging from his apparent lack of
respect for the women in the grandstand.
Georgia started the run-getting in the
second inning. when Hodgson crossed the
rubber. In the fifth aHad seventh innings
Georgia got two scores in each, while the
Biue and Gray got one man over in the
qfp ninth Georgia
get McWhorter, the first batter up, who
Knocked a three-bagger over the plate on
a hit by Fleischmann past Scheiler. The
score:
Georgia. Il II A e Geo'tn. II
M'Wh ton of 4 1lDeviln. 2b.. o 3
Fieishm'n,ss 0 / u Scheller. IS. 0 9