Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-23
BLUE AND GRAY'S BIG
BASE BALL SCHEDULE
Thirty-Three Games Booked
for the HiIItoppers
This Season.

With thirty-three games dated, one
pending and one date open, which is
sure to be filled, the Georgetown Tniyer-
sity base ball schedule for the coming
season as announced by Manager Harry
Brown last evening breaks all records
at the Hilltop school. both in he nun,her
or battles listed and the REPRESENTATIVE
ness OF the whole program. Twenty-seyen
oiHerent schools are named as against
tWenty-one last year, and seven contests
are calculated to take place on foreign
neids as against six on the schedule of
1919 While only three OF the schoo,s
listed last year do not appear IN tbis
seasons schedule, no less than nine new
institutions have been added and negotfa
tions are now in progress which NAV
result IN iaie being seen again in the
annual battle on Georgetown Field
The most radical change that has basn
mace Is the eliminating of the erstwhIle
yearly trip to Worcester to meet How
cross, and the substitution of a longer
Journey TO Burlington, where the Blue
ana Gray Will line up against the strong
University of Vermont aggregation
which has of late years been PLAYING
havoc throughout eastern collegiate cir
cles; In order that the big jump may
be broken Manager Brown is sfriyinr
to arrange a game with one of the manS
colleges in central New York to take
place on the opponents diamond, and
nence battle may yet be carded with
syracuse, Rochester. Hobart, Union or
third one with Cornell.
A trip to New York to pIav CoI,,mbi.
mas taken the place of the PENNSYLVANIA
game at Philadelphia, while the two
f0rdham games in New York will come
from home will be with Virginia at Char.
lottesville and the Navy at ANNAPOLIS.
Friendly Polys.
The fact that V. p l. appears on the
schedule for the first time in a number
or years Is ominous OF a growing friend
ship between these two big southern
schools. and 1t may be safe to conjecture
that in the event of the local institution
again taking up foot ball a gridiron en-
counter will be the sequence of the dia-
mond contest. Emory Hodgson the ex-
Georgetown foot ball player. and last
year the leader of the v. p. l. eleven.
was the mediator in bringing about the
game, for which he has long been very
anxious His office as manager of the
Poly nine placed him in a position to ac-
compish the feat. and IL is to he hoped
that it will mark the Inauguration of
close athletic relationship between the
two schools.
1t is a notable coincidence that the struG-
gle for the southern honors does not be
gin until the great ma ority of the games
with the premier schools of the north
are completed. The real battle for the
laurels of Dixie begins April 10 against
Virginia at Charlottesville, and then fol-
low in almost uninterrupted order the
dates of the other seven crucial contests
for southern supremacy.
The new teams which appear on the
schedule are Mount st. Joseph's, Ursinus,
Trinity. Lafayette, Eastern, Bucknell.
West Virginia, V. p. /. and the Univer-
sity of Vermont. Penn State and Mary
land have been dropped, while negotia-
tons are now going on with Yale relative
TO a date around the fore part of April.
The early opening of the season will
necessitate the starting of practice at the
first favorable opportunity. Indoor work
will be inaugurated early in February,
and 1t is hoped that the men will be
out doors before the end of that month.
even though it may only besfor spells al
time. Capt. Murphy is now recruiting
his candidates and there is little doubt
but that the nine will be as good as In
previous years, since every day seems TO
bring forth some new man who has had
experience elsewhere.