Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-03-09
GALLAUDET TO HAVE
GOOD BASE BALL TEAM

This season the base ball squad of Gal
isudet College has not gotten to work as
early as the squads in former seasons have
been prepared for the diamond, but 1t is
believed by Capt. Cooper that when the
FIRST game is played the base ball men
of the buff and blue Of Kendall Green will
be in the best condition possible.
one of the main reasons chat the squad
has not gotten under way IN it's work for
the diamond Is that several Of the PLAYERS
who were expected to try for the team
have been retarded in their work of prep
aration by illness. This is particularly so
with Pitcher Dillon, who Is Gallaudets
mainstay on the slab. 1t was with Dillon
that the buff and blue believed that the OPP
posing batsmen would be held in check.
BY his performances at the college he has
proved that he is a. first-rate twirler and
II was with dismay that the Kendall Green
men heard that the pitcher had been taken
DOWN with typhoid fever He will probably
be on hand when the season starts, but 1t
Is not probable that he will be in the con-
dition to do effective work on the slab for
some time after the season has begun.
Bull one of the late corners to Gailaudet,
is the pitcher that the buff and blue has
great hopes will come 10 the front. He is
In his first season at the college and from
the advance reports the Gallaudet men be-
lieve that he is certainly one of the
Corners.
The team this season will undoubtedly
be stronger than last. For several reasons
Manager Rowse has not arranged a big
schedule such as has always marked the
base ball season at Gallaudet. but has been
content to draw up very modest schedule
for the team during the coming season.
The main game that Gallaudet is bent on
playing is that with the Navy, which had
been arranged for the last of this month,
but it has been found that the eXamina-
tions Will occur at that time and the game
had to be called off. This was a dis
appointment to the Kendall Green boys,
but arrangements now being made to
play another game later in the season.
The boys have been at work in the gym
nasum for some time, and during the
past week Capt. Cooper has had them out
upon the field to get the work of starting
the development of the material at hand
under way. To say the least there are
some heavy hatters on the Gallaudet list
from which the team will be nodded. and
the fielding OF the team will no doubt be
up to the average. Slower will catch. Dill
lion. Bull, the new man, and Holiday and
Harper, two of the younger pitchers, will
take care of the slab work. Hinch, per-
haps one OF the fastest athletes and foot
ball players that Gallaudet has ever pro-
duced, will play first base, and with Capt
Copper at second base, Russell, the old foot
ball man. at third, and Matzner, another
foot ball veteran Of last season, at short
stop, the Galaudet infield looks good Ma
jure, Elder and Leitch will play right. center
and left field, respectively. Mature is a
fast player and will do good work with
the stick Elder is a good athlete as
well as Leitch. Many of the players re-
GREETED the fact that Mikesell, the foot
ball captain of last season, did not return
to college for the base bali season. He is
a strong batter, and shortly after the close
of the foot ball season left college, and it
has been announced that he will be a men,
Der of tine Frankfort. Ky, base ball team.
Gallaudet's first game, which has been
scheduled for March % with the Blue and
Gray Of Georgetown University, will doubt
less not be played, account of the fact
that the Gallaudet men will not be able
to get the material for the team in condi-
ton for the contest. The first game of the
season that Gallaudet will play will prob
ably be with the team of George Washing
ton University on April {. On April q the
first contest with Fredericksburg College
will be played here, after which the team
will go to the Virginia city on April % for
the return game On May II win come the
Green, to be followed on May 10 with
game at Rock Hill College. Md The team
of Mount Washington College of Baltimore
viii play at Kendall Green on May "a and
on May 30 the team of st. Johns College
of Annapolis will oppose the Kendall Green
boys The return game with Rock Hill
Coaege will be played at Kendall Green on
June = Games with the Central Business
and other high school teams of this city
will doubtless be arranged for later. If the
Gailaudet team could have been gotten to-
gether earlier in the season for the work
of preparing the candidates it is more
of such colleges as the University of
Georgia, Nillanova. Virginia Polytechnic
Institute and Syracuse would have been ar
ranged.