Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1907-04-22
MID-SEASDN ATHLETICS.
NAVY BASE BALL SEASON is
NEARING CLOSE.
Some Good Games Yet Remain 10 Be
PIayed-Yale to Bring First Crew 10
The Naval Academy.
THE RIFLE, FIELD AND TRACK
TEAM EVENTS.

Owing 10 the oarliness Of the athlet-
ic season and the cold weather Ii is
hard TO realize that the baseball season
at the Naval Academy is something
over half over. This is true, however,
in point of absolute time and the COM
parison OF the games played against
those to play is still more in favor of
the past contests when ths number of
games Is considered and the standard
OF the mines that the midshipmen
have played. However, some inter
estlng games are still to be flayed.
ON Tuesday Of this week the mid
shipmen will play against the nine
of the University OF Georgia. one of the
strongest ofthe Southern college teams.
The two institutions have never met
in any athletic sport and the Navy has
seldom met team of any character
that has had SO long q trip TO take.
on Thursday, the Navy teams plays
it's second game with St. Johns, the
local college. The Navy won the
first game by score of TO 2, but the
collegians believe that their team Is
much improved and they will make
a desperate elfertlto reverse the result.
ON Saturday next the midshipmen
will play the Maryland Athletic Club
nine, which with WalbrOok. are the
| only non-college mines on this years
schedule. on May | the Navy will
play North Carolina Agricultural and
Mechanical College, which admins
tered crushing defeat TO Cornell this
season. on May 2 their opponents
will be Randolph. Macon College and
on May Walbrook. University of
Pennsylvania will play here on May
/ 8, Washington aud Lee University on
May . and the local season will close
on May IL, Dickinson being the op-
ponents OF tho midshipmen. The game
with West Point will take place on
Saturday, May IS, at West Point.
The athletic season will be at its
height at the Naval Academy during
the first three weeks of May, and the
fourth of that month will be the day
on which the greatest number of in
teresting events take place. There
will be baseball, boat racing, field
and track competitions and rifle shoot
ing, from which the lover of sport may
choose. May may fairly be called
"Regatta Day at the Naval Academy,
for there are no less tnan three races.
The annual race with Yale, probably
the last, will be rowed by the first
crew, as statements have omanated
from New Haven tg that effect. On
the same afternoon the Navy second
crew will row the seconde crew of
Georgetown, and the third crew will
row the eight Of Georgetown Prepara-
| tory School.
Yale has for several seasons past
been styling the crew that rowed here
as the Annapolis or college
crew, ,notw ithstanding the fact that the
midshipmen scheduled their race with
the Yale varsity crew and the crew
itself appeared to be the best Yale
could put on the water at the time.
This year Yale has thrown off all
pretense and announces that 1t will
bring its varsity to Annapolis. The
race should be hair-raising contest.
| AS il Is likely that the race will be
| the last between the two, both will
| try to make the windup n victory for
| themselves. Annapolis has the adj
ditional incentive of its entry al
| Poughkeepsie and the natural desire
not to enter the big event with defeat
already behind it.
| May viii also open the season for
| competitive rifle shooting and dual
| Geld and track meets. The midship-
men rihemen will meet team com
| posed of officers of the Maryland Ma
/ tional Guard, while the track team
| will have Johns Hopkins as competi-
/ tors. The other dates for the rifle team
| are May III, District of Columbia Ma
tional Guard; May Is, Seventy First
| Regiment New York National Guard
| The field and track team has the fol.
| lowing additional dates for dual meets
| May eleventh. Carlisle Indians; May
| eighteenth, Swarthmore.