The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1908-04-27
THE VARSITY TEAM
.F0RN0RTHERN "TRIP
Will Play Crack Colleges, End.
ing With West Point on
Saturday.
PLAY GEORGETOWN TO-DAY
Carl Walker, Richmond Boy.
Makes Great Reputation as
a Twirler.
PLAY GEORGETOWN TO-DAY
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Especial to The Tinles-Dispatch.1
CHARLOTTESVILLE, VA, April 2s.
-Virginia's baseball team left this
afternoon Gil it's annual Northern trip,
which includes games with George
town (two), princeton. Pennsylvania,
t'ordham and che United States Mill
tary Academy, the season to end at
West Point on Saturday.
The players left on the o'clock
train over the Southern Railway and
stopped at Culpeper for dinner, reach-
ing Washington In ample time for q
game with the Blue and Gray.
The team has just concluded one Of
the most strenuous "at home" sched.l
ules ever made ont for an orange and
blue nine. The the past fourteen days
the team has played eleven games
Zone having been prevented on account
OF rainy with such teams as George
town, Dartmouth. Princeton, Pennsyl-
vania state. Lehigh, North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Davidson. That the
team captured four out OF the sin
games played Easter week was a great
surprise TO many Of the "rooters,"
when 1t IS taken into consideration
that the majority Of the members OF
the team We're active participants In
the galties OF the week, most Of them
attending the germans which lasted
| lllO l'le IiShls W soy AAOshAH5 -
the morning drives with the visiting
girls.
Despite this dissipation. the players
have put up highly creditable held-s
ing game. and have batted in fairly,
good form. considering the class OF
teams against which they were pitted.
The team has played nineteen games
this season. Twelve OF these were vic-'
tories and seven defeats. It Is but
fair to state that at least three OF the
defeats sustained were with decidedly
inferior teams, and had not the coaches
experimental by trying out freshmen
pitchers. victories would have been
chalked UP instead of defeats.
shape than when 1t met Georgetown
here two weeks ago. and should make.
better showing in the two contests
with the Blue and Gray tomorrow and
Tuesday. Susong is In splendid trim.
and Is about due to twirl Just such
another game s he did in Richmond
ten days ago against Princeton. when
not Tiger runner passed second base
until the eleventh inning.
Carl Walker. the young southpaw
from Woodbury.. who has not lost q
single contest this season. Will be sent
in against Georgetown Tuesday. HIS
experience gained against big teams
for the past fortnight Is expected 10
stand him in good stead
Captain Hoff, who had an ankle
spralned In the first Lehigh game, Is
rapidly recovering from the injury. The
rest OF the players are In good physical
| condition. The list OF games played
| follows:
| Games Won.
Virginia, 0; Fishburne's, 5; Virginia.
Is; Miller School. o; Virginia, l; Wool
berry, o: Virginia. l; Amherst. O: vir-
ginia, 4; Cornell, 2; Virginia. 10; Dart
mouth, 0; Virginia, s; Princeton, !;
Virginia, 4; Lehigh, o; Virginia, 5:
North Carolina, s; Virginia, Z; Pennsy!-
vania, 5; Virginia. 4; Davidson, 0.
| Gam Lost.
Virginia 2; Cornell. 4; Virginia, 4;
North Carolina, 9 Virginia, 2; George
town. 8; Virginia, o; Princeton, i; vir-
ginia, 5; Penn State. 0; Virginia. Ii;
| Lehigh, 6. -