Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-11
BY II. c. BYRD.


Brooklanders might not be able to show
as we'll as some of the other mines in
a series of games because of a lack
of pitching talent, but in one or two
contests it would meet on even terms
any of the other schools. With Greene In
the box the Red and Black aggregation
is one that would start any college game
favorite over its opponent.
Catholic University has been playing
good ball all the year with the exception
of ore or two contests. In but one game
has it failed to secure enough runs to
win the ordinary college game. In the
others it has secured all the tallies need
ed. Several of the games played by the
-Brooklanders have been exceptionally
one-sided.
There is a very good infield represent
ing the Brookland team. and also an
outfield of more than ordinary aDlnty.
There is certainly not another college
team in the south which can boast OF
better inner defense than the one men
toned Hayes. Koran. Pipp and Wild
mayer constitute at once fafr-hitting
and an exceptionally fast-felding COM
binafion.
The outfield is also composed Of men
who are able to hit the ball we'll and field
their positions accurately. With Zachary
and Mcdonnell behind the bat the team
suffers in comparison with but few
others.
With Greene doing the pitching there is
that can be classed above the one rep
resenting the Brookland institution. Or
dinarily it can score four or five runs.
and that Is generally enough to win under
the mentioned conditions.
William and Mary proved easy for c.
l.. yesterday. There was never period
during the contest when it had look
he xr,}vvo foo nf he
was concerned. The Virginians were
hopelessly outclassed, being unable to &C
compiish anything much against the de-
Tense put up by the Brookland nine. and
not showing the strength on the onense
necessary to score enough runs to put 1t
in the running.
Greene started out to do the pitching the
Yesterdays game, but as soon as his
team had scored enough tallies to make
the game safe he was removed and
Clancy substituted Greene Will probaoiy
work against the Maryland Aggies in the
game in which the two teams will meet
Saturday.
Thefe were two big men with the stick
yesterday for the Brookland team. Hess
Ter and Lynch both connected v.h the
ball for four safeties. Lynch got four
hits out of six times at bat, while Hess
Ter annexed the same nuEnber out OF five
trips to the plate.
After having Cornell at it's mercy
Georgetown practically threw the game
away yesterday by erratic playing. The
Hilltoppers had held the score well in
their advantage until the eigh1A inning.
when some niscues cropped out and gave
the northern nine the chance it wanted
to tie things up and depart without
defeat being registered against 1t.
1t seemed hard lines for Fienle that
after having let the Ithaca crowd down
with but three hits he should lose his
game, and yet that is what happened.
Fienle worked in good form and held
trouble. and yet his teammates were un-
able to win the game for him, even
though they got more than twice as many
hits as did Cornell.
The Georgetown team is hitting the ball
hard enough to win almost every game
1t plays, and yet 1t has failed to work
well enough to do So The Blue and Gray
nine should have accomplished much
more this week than it has against the
teams II has played 1t appears that the
sticking has come at the wrong time, and
that the unity which is necessary to the
winning of ball games has been lacking
Manager Hill OF the Loeffler Provision
Company team made tenstrike today
when he signed James I. Root, who for
the past two years was member OF the
Jackson nine in the Southern Michigan
League.
Root is an infielder. but this year in
tends to play the outfield, and I'm this
respect should easily make good in the
Bloomingdale circuit. Last year Root
batted around the 800 mark. His fielding
was also good.
In getting Root, Manager Hill has
strengthened his team no little bit, as the
outfield was the only department in which
It was weak. Root was to have played
I'm the Michigan circuit this year, but he
has a position In the United States Sem
ate. which he prefers to going back to
the Jackson club.
CentraIs showing against the American
Security and Trust yesterday was good.
While the Trust Company team lacks
practice. the work done by the school.
boys was creditable In the extreme. The
aggregation they were up against is far
too good to play with schoolboys. and
considering that fact, the o Streeters
deserve much credit for the game they
put up.
Business also lost its game yesterday
to the Nomad Athletic Club. The Stenog
raphers PLAYED much better ball tina.
they did last year. though. and should
make much better showing this season
I'm the high school series. The nine seem.
to be much more evenly balanced than 4
was in the 1911 series. and appears to b,
much stronger In several places.
The fact that Business has a coach thi: