The Washington herald., 1910-06-05
BrOOklanderS Have Earned
Local Collegiate Title.
GEORGETOWN CLUBS RECORD
Blue and Gray Nine Won Fifteen
and Tied One of the Thirty-One
Games PIayed-King's Coaching a
Big Help ia HiIItOppers-Brisht
Prospects for Next Year.
STANDING OF THE CLUBS.
By n. II. wORLEY.

With the announcement last week that
the third game of the series of three be
tween Catholic University and Gallaudet
would not be played owing to the exami-
nations at both OF these institutions, the
series of college games for the District
championship abruptly came to close.
That Catholic University has the best
claim on the local title is admitted by all
those who are unbiased in their opinion,
and this judgment is based on the record
Of the three teams. The two defeats at
the hands of the Brooklanders put
Georgetown out Of the running, leaving
the flight for the honor to Gailaudet and
Catholic University. II Is generally adj
mitted that Catholic University has a.
better team than the Kendall Green nine
and when the Brooklanders soundly
thrashed the Gallaudet boys on Decora-
ton Day the public voted them the
championship.
Viewed in comparison with the records
of previous years, Georgetown's showing
on the diamond this spring was anything
but satisfactory. When the season started
the HilltOppers were banking on BalZer
and Menefee to win a majority of their
games but Smoke" had an OF year and
Menefee injured his knee before the team
had been playing two weeks To add 10
the general hard luck, Gray failed TO
round into form, and after pitching few
games under protest, retired for the rest
Of the season. Georgetown won fifteen
and tied one OF the thirty-one games
played. The schedule called for thirty
four contests but rain broke up the St.
Johns, Y. P. T., and Trinity games, and
the Washington and Lee contest was
called off by the management Of that
school. The Blue and Gray split even
with Virginia, trOunced Harvard. beat
Fordham AT New York once, and downed
the Navy at Annapolis.
These are the few bright spots in the
teams record The disappointment was
keen when the team went away from
home and was buried under scores that
had they even been suggested last year
would have raised a laugh and have been
thought a good joke. The Hilltoppers
are banking on a good team next sea-
son TO win back their prestige on alien
soil, keeping in mind the walloping re-
ceived at New York by Columbia and
Fordham, and the way they were trounc-
ed by the University of Vermont
And why shouldn't the Blue and Gray
have good team next season? The new
board of advisers is a step in the right
direction. Nearly all of this seasons
outfit viii return to college in the fall.
and Menefee, Balzer, and Gray should
be fit TO give a good account of them
selves. By far the most pleasing thought
CLEANED from perusal OF the games just
past is that Georgetown will have one
twirler next year who should be able TO
win consistently. That is "Wab" O'Con-
nor. O'ConOr got a late start but was
there with bells at the finish. He has
mastered his control and has no trouble
putting the pellet where he wants it.
The hard work of Phil" King the
Georgetown coach, made it possible for
the Hilltoppers 10 finish the season in an
orderly manner. What started out to be
a rout ended in a hard-fought retreat.
When King took the helm the George
towners were being walloped by nearly
etery team that came here to play. King
talked to the players, got their confidence,
settled the little quarrels among them.
cheered and j0stled them along, and
leaves his work with the friendship of
every player on the team and the respect
Of every one with whom he has come in
contact. The former Princeton star
worked on the plan that the players were
only human, could not be run like a ma
chine or lot of mechanical men, and
that the only way to get results was to
get the boys to fight every inch OF ground
forget the errors as soon as they were
made, and to take advantage of every
misplay or error OF omission by their op-
ponents. That he made a success with
the material with which he had to work
is seen at glance over the record made
while he was in charge.
A tall, lanky youngster who is not
afraid OF getting wet. and who, by the
way, got wet many times this spring at
the games; who is always figuring on
little slip and walking back and forth
from the grand stand to the box office;
that individual is Manager Harry Brown.
who IS responsible for the fine schedule
OF games arranged for the Blue and GRAY
team this year. Brown proved to be
real hustler and a good man to work
with Capt. Murphy and Coach "Phil'
King.
RALLY IN SEVENTH.