Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-20
GEORGETOWN BEATS
MARYLAND AGG|ES
Takes Opening Game of Sea-
son in Propitious
Fashion.

Opening the base ball season of 1910 In
most propitious fashion. Georgetown Uni
versfty yesterday administered a decisive
drubbing to the lads from the Maryland
Agricultural College. The score was
Georgetown 10. NJ. A. c. 4. and 1t just
happens that the figures about express the
relative merits of the contesting teams.
O'Connor pitched the whole nine innings
for the Hilltoppers and he was never In
danger.
Quite a number Of the downtown fans
journeyed to Georgetown Field yesterday
afternoon, for 1t was the first opportunity
that has been afforded the faithful TO see
the horsehide pellet tossed and pounded
around the lot. For about four and one
half innings the "dyed-in-the-wooi" root
ers thought they were due to witness a
nip-and-tuck race for the tape. because
the young collegians were as frisky as a
bunch of kittens. and they snapped up
grounders, Founders and curriers' In near
pro style. Up to that point the visitors
had succeeded In annexing only one rum
while the Blue and Gray boys showed
merely a row OF cfphers In the run
however, Pitcher Goeltz, for the Aggies,
Skinned up the highest tree on the cam
pus. borrowed a balloon and went still
higher, and he might have been ascending
yet If the local collegians had not ended
the slaughter by obligingly bouncing high
flies into the mitts of the outfielders.
Georgetown secured six hits and seven
runs before GoeltZ was carried off the
mound. Wright. who followed him. was
wild, and only a choice exhibition of solid
ivory base running by the locals prevented
still larger score in the remaining in
nings.
Aggies Score First.
The first run secured by the Aggies
was a gift outright. Burns reached first
on a sharp tap to center and started for
second on Grason's third strike Meme
fee hurled the ball to deep center field.
and Burns took third. whence he scored
on a Wild pitch. The visitors did not
menace the pan again until the seventh
round. when O'Connor let down a trifie.
He started the inning by whacking Wood
ward in the ribs. and the runner went
all the way to third on a passed ball.
scoring on Shfpley's rap to the center
garden. Goetz was safe on his slow
roller along the frst-base line, and Ship
ley came all the way home from Sec
ond while Menefee was chasing another
passed ball. Goeltz reached third on the
play and scored when Furniss clouted
the leather just over Gibson's head. That
ended the rm-getting for the visitors. as
O'Connor steamed up again In the last
two innings, and only one more single
was recorded.
The Georg etown boys had all the bet
ter Of the argument in the field, for they
handled the ball cleanly throughout the
game. In stick work, too, they outshone
| their rivals. but not to very great de-
gree, because most of the hits which
they corralled off Goeltz were obviously
due to that young twirler's early season
lack of condition. The "merry-go-round"
began with Cogan, the first man up in
the nth. who waited for free ride. Glib
son sent the runner to third with a long
clout to center and Cogan registered on
Feenan's sacrifice fly. Gibson took sec
ond on the throw-in and scored on OCon-
nor's drive to the middle garden, the
latter taking second while the opposition
vainly tried to catch Gibson at the plate.
Hits by Hunt. Murphy, Sitterding and
Wo-bagger by Cogan on his second time
up in the inning. coupled with a wild
heave by Lednum, sent runners across
the pan in such rapid succession that the
scorekeepers were seized with writer's
cramp trying to make marks fast enough
to keep abreast of the procession.
summary afterward showed that the in
ming included one base on balls. two err
rors. one stolen base, six hits and seven
runs.
The Blue and Gray contingent were
busy again in the last half of the sew
enth, when two-baggers by O'Connor and
Hunt, single by Gibson and a base on
balls to Cogan Melted three tallies.
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