The Washington herald., 1909-03-28
GEORGETOWN Wins
ITS FIRST BATTLE
Maryland Aggies Blow Up
/ in Sixth Inning.
ONE HIT MADE OFF BALZER
Farmers start on IN Fine style and
Blank the HiIItOppers for Five
InRiHEs-Grason's Support wabbIy
and Timely Hits Put the Game On
lee for the Blue and Gray.
ONE HIT MADE OFF BALzER

Ieorgeto|n put the kibosh on the Mary
land Aggies IN the first game Of the sea
son on the hlll-tOppers' field YESTERDAY
afternoon by the score o. 70 ].
For i've innings It looked bad for the
Blue and Gray Pitcher Grason. OF the
Asgies, had the whiphand. and was given
good support. hts team sailing along az
a rapid clip under one-run lead.
The last half Of The sixth opened with
a single 10 center by Schlaiey. .olIowed
by an error on the part OF the Aggles'
thirdsaeker: then came the rain. and
everybody hiked 20 cover. including ''Cy''
Macdonald and the Aggies' infant, Hicks,
who cOndescended TO hurry
Af;er old rainmaker had quite butting
In and the wind died down. play was re-
suned, and Georgetown put the game on
. Ice. With Schlafey and Dugan on the
first two corners. Maycock produced .
scratch single. and All hands were safe
-Cy' scores n Run
Cy Macdonald faced the pitcher and
bumped a teaser toward third. Shipley
threw low and Saunders muffed the ball.
Schlafey scored An infed grasser By
Cogan produced another tally. Eeken-
rode walked after Callahan had grounded
70 first On Cauaisan's out, Macdonald
crossed the plate BaIzer was out on q
fiy 70 Saunders. but Murphy singled and
Cogan crossed the plate with the fifth
run Schlahey came up for the second
time in this inning and ended the agony
FOR the Aggies By grounder 10 GrasOn-
Georgetown's other tally came in the
seventh. when DUgan's single 20 right
nd
chance 10 sneak home on MaycOcks
vicious clout 10 left field for two bases.
The Aggies only tally and only hit
came IN the third Burns walked and
farrell attempted % bunJ. the ban rolling
nicely 10 BalLer who heaTed * q mile
over Macdonald's head Walter famed
but Grsson hit through Callahan and
Mayc0ck and Burns scored
Capt Canrwell tried out Baizer. q
Wsshingtoa boT. known 70 the fraternity
as Smoke" and well nicknamed. too.
for his speed and control completely
fooled the College Park lads. They could
do absolutely nothing with him, ten fall
Ing by the wayside son strikes. Ecken-
rode was behind the bat for six innings
and Dufey caught the last two
Call Game in Eighth.
The game was called after the first
man Va AA-r N----lA NtlA G-lN--lL u
ness and the threatening weather
Last year the Aggies gave Georgetown
a good rub. and were beaten by The close
score Of > 20 O. Il IS hard 10 say Just
what would have happened yesterday had
the rain and wind held Of. but the Hill
tOppers were beginning 10 solve Grasou-s
delivery. and its a cinch that they would
have got 70 him before The fnaI bel
rang
Georgetown looks 20 be mighty strong
IN every department.. especially in hitting
and base-running. where most CoIlege
teams fan down There is a wealth os
pitching material and in Eckenro6e the
Veteran DUffey has a capable understudy
Maycock was the brilliant performer
with the stick yesterday. out OF four
times UP be cracked out 9 single. a
double and a triple Murphy and SchIar-
les were also strong with the bat
The Maryland Aggies have q team also
likely 70 cause trouble 70 sOr2e OF IT'S Cd
ponents this season Grason is a headv
pitcher. and most Of his men are veterans
Burns in left field Yesterday captured g
couple Of good ones after long chases.
while Walter at short put up a fast game