The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1906-04-28
GEORGE TOWING. v. j.
GAME IS ARRANGED
Extra Match for Old Rivals
Next Saturday.
GREAT INTEREST AROUSED
Splendid Squirt of Hatchetites Makes
Them Formidable Foe for
Blue and Gray.
GREAT INTEREST AROUSED

Arrangements have been completed
for another game Of baseball between
the teams of George Washington and
Georgetown Universities. Managers
McEnery and Eagan. of George Wash
ingtOn and Georgetown, respectively.
announced today that the two teams
will play On Georgetown Field next
Saturday, Nay 5.
When the schedules of the Buff and
Blue and the Blue and Gray were made
out last fall and winter. they contained
only one game between the local insti-
the managers Of the two teams have
been endeavoring to arrange another
game The difficulty has been the find
ing Of a suitable time. A short time
ago the game between Georgetown and
North Carolina in Richmond. on May
.. vas Cancelled. and Manager Eagan
informed Mana ger McEnery that he
would be glad to fix a game with him
on that date. However, that was the
date fixed for the beginning of the
southern trip Of the Hatchetites and
II looked AS if the proposition would
fall through.
Game Badly Wanted.
Manager McEnery was so anxious to
arrange the game that he started ne
gotiatiOns with the Virginia Military
Institute, with which team the Buff
and Blue is scheduled to play at Lex
ington. Va. on May 5. On May 7
George Washington plays Washington
and Lee. at Lexington. Manager Nc
Emery mas now arranged to play the
game with the cadets on Monday
morning, leaving Saturday open for
the Georgetown game.
Ihis game promises to be the most
interesting ever played between the two
colleges. Last year George Washing
ton was completely OutClasSed by the
men from across Rock Creek and had
nn2nnn "a al q,
little different this year Despite the
poor showing made by the Buff and
Blue in some of its early games. par
ucularly those with Lehigh and Syra-
cuse, IL has made a wonderful squirt
In the last week, winning from Wash
lngton and Lee, which yesterday de-
feated the University Of Pennsylvania.
and from the University of Georgia.
which decisively defeated Georgetown.
Some critics are prone to make light
OF this victory. but when II Is taken
nine made seventeen hits. earning four
runs in the last inning. the George
Washington men should be given full
credit for this achievement.
To Use Star Southpaws.
George Washington has no-games next
week prior to the Georgetown contest.
and the team will be put through a
special training. In all probability
beth teams will use their star south
paws, Carlton Hutchinson and Larry
brennan. If both men are I'm their best
form the game will be no smuggling
match.
While it is too far ahead to get the
exact lineup. il is pretty certain that
Georgetown Will play the same nren
who have been on the team al season,
while there will probably be one change
in the George Washington lineup.
Campbell. the star third bascman OF
Vanderbilt University last year. has
been playing second base on account of
a weak arm. His throwing wing has
returned now, and yesterday in prac-
tiCe he was shooting the ball across the
diamond with great accuracy Burkett
who Is a hard hitter, will most likely
cover second