Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14
I'M. A. c. AND c. j. !.
TEAMS HIT HARD
Total of Twenty-Three Safe
ties Garnered Off Delivery
of Four Pitchers.
BROOKLANDERS GET
GAME BY 9 TO 3 SCORE
Lack of Hits at 0pportune
Times by Aggies Tell Story
of Their Defeat.
BY II. C. BYRD,

With both teams hitting the opposing
pitchers hard. the Maryland Agricultural
College and Catholic University went
through nine innings of listless base ball
yesterday on the grounds of the latter
school. The Farmers connected with
the delivery Of flynn for ten safeties,
while the Brooklanders got to Smith and
Hoffecker for thirteen. BY better base
running and hitting more when hits were
needed. Catholic University won by a
score of 8 to 3.
Hofecker. who started in the box for
the Farmers, had not done any pitching
since before the holidays, and conse-
quently was wild and ineffective. He
placed himself in hole In each of the
first two innings by allowing the first
two men up to get on In each instance.
but by exceptionally good work managed
to extricate himself without having any
runs scored. 1t was in the third, though,
that he failed to deliver the same kind of
stun that he had in the first and second
innings. he stayed In the box five in
nings and with three errors mixed in
with bases on balls had seven runs
scored on him. Smith then took up the
burden for the Farmers and pitched the
made three TALES while he was In the
box.
Lynch Is Lucky.
How Lynch. who did the pitching for
the Catholic University team, lasted as
long as he did. is an insolvable problem.
No college pitcher ever got away with
his game with less stuff than Lynch had.
ne seemed able to get the ball over the
piate, and that was all. Had not one
or two line drives gone straight AT the
neioers behind him, it Is a certainty thar
the help sign would have been raised by
Coacn Moran long before 1t was. AS it
was ne stayed in the box until the last
period, when Clancy was sent In TO finish
the game. Just to show that he also felt
noeral toward the visiting nine, CLANCY.
az, a,.er getting the first man up. walked
me next three in succession. fast
double. though, on a hard hit ball by
knode ended the contest.
None of the pitchers used by either
team distinguished himself to any an
been In better condition he would have
wired better ball than he did. Smith
pitched day before yesterday and he
PROBABLY was not at his best.
III me Farmers have nothing to regret at
the loss OF the game. 1t was practically
the hrst real contest for them of the
season.. while Catholic University has
been playing steadily for the past two
weeks. II was lack of practice as
much as anything else that accounted for
them not showing to better advantage
than they did.
Ii there was one feature to the other
wise poorly played game. it was the hit
ting of Pipp, who is holding down first
base for the Brooklanders Three times
OUT OF four trips to the pan Pfpp con-
nected with the ball safely. The first
time 1t was two-bagger in deep left
center. the next it was a single and the
last three-base clout. Had Pipp been
faster the two-bagger would have been
triple and the three-bagger a homer.
c. U. Scores First in Third.
Catholic University scored its first runs
in the third inning when 1t tailed three
times. Hayes, the first man up in that
period. was out, Hoffecker to Mudd
Hessler then hit down the first base line
for two bases: Widmayer followed with
three-base hit over the center felder's
head. Hessler scoring. Mcdonnell then
walked, Mcdonnell stole third and scored
on an out. second to first. McGeady
struck out. ending the inning.
Another tally was annexed by c. U. in
the fourth on hits by Lynch and Hessler
In the fifth three more runs were made
on two errors and three hits, and in the
seventh two more hits produced another
pair of talIies.
the sixth. 1t was the first inning in
which they found Flynn. Hoffecker, first
up, singled over second; Ritter followed
with a two-bagger over the center field
ers head, and came through with the
hit which scored the first run. R. Led
mum was safe on Knode's out at second
Then ]. Lednum and Mudd both followed
with clean hits, scoring another tally
There were three men on and Hatton
drove a liner, which Koran at third
speared with his bare hand. Ffror batted
for Hook, but could do nothing but lift
a fly to left field. which was easily
handled by McGeady.
The other run made by the Farmers
came in the eighth, on a two-base hit by
r. Lednum and q single by j. Lednum
The bases were filled in the ninth with
only one down. but the needed hit was
not forthcoming
Widmayer. at second for the Catholic
University team, had eleven chances, Of
which he accepted all in perfect style.
The score: