Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-21
Manhattans and Aloysius Clubs of Independ-
ence League Will Play inaugural Game.
Gossip of School and College Teams.
HOW TEAMS WILL LINE UP IN
FIRST AMATEUR LEAGUE OPENING

against the Fort WASHINGTON team yes
terday and allowed the Soldiers but three
scattered hits, although he lost his game.
Any school pitcher who can hold the Sol
diers to three lone safeties is doing some
exceptionally good work, and that is
what the Tech boy did. That perform
ance. compared with the twenty-odd hits
which the Gunners got off the West
ern hurlers. is something to set the Red
and White adherents thinking.
Western Maryland College has had
rather disastrous trip through Virginia
and the Carolinas. That is due more
than anything else to an excessive num-
Der of games in which it has had to work
its pitchers. In a minor college there are
seldom more than two men capable of
pitching anything like winning ball. and
the average school is lucky to have that
many. The Maryland school has been
too crippled to show it's real worth in
the games in which it has appeared
The Maryland Aggies were over at
ule but it was decided that the weather
conditions were not suitable and that the
contest had better not come of. THE
diamond was in poor shape. and the high,
cold wind that was blowing made condi-
tons anything but agreeable for base
ball.
Ryan must have pitched some classy
ball against the Virginia Military Insti-
ture yesterday for Catholic University.
The Brooklanders took the measure of
the Cadets by a score of 3 to 0. and the
majority OF the effectiveness was due to
nothing If not to the alright work of
Ryan The Virginia team never stood
chance at any period during the contest
against the assortment of twisters that
was served up to it by the Red and Black
pitcher. In the ninth inning there was
threatened rally. but the runs did not
materialize. as Ryan. with two men on,
frightened up and held the plate safe.
While the Johns Hopkins niue looks bet
ter now than when it appeared against
the Catholic University team, it is far
from the Kind OF a team that should rep
resent a university of the size of the
Baltimore institution. The men on the
team. with an exception or two, look too
Young for university players. and seem to
lack the experience that characterizes the
players Of the teams from the larger
schools.
1t is probable that Sweeney and Austin
will be the opposing pitchers in the Tech
Central game Tuesday, the former for
| Central and the latter for Tech.
Adams the former Western High
School boy is holding down shortstop for
| the Naval Academy nine and making a
good job of it. too. While he is not bit
is fielding his position to perfection, land
that he is not showing so poorly with the
stick Is evident from the fact that he is
being batted second.
That was some game between the Navy
and North Carolina yesterday at Annap-
oils 1t was one Of the best Of the south
ern intercollegiate season. The score Of
/ 10 tells the kind of play that both
teams put up and the effectiveness Of
the pitching they had to face.
1t is a significant fact that North Car
DINA did not use its best pitcher. Lee.
against the Navy. The Tarheels play
Georgetown tomorrow and evidently ex-
pect a much harder game than the one
| at Annapolis. Lee has been doing some
great work in the box for the Carolina
team during the preAent season and will
| undoubtedly make the Blue and Gray
| nine step lively to beat him.
| Fienle will be used by Georgetown. and
| IL il proba BILE that he will come as near
| stopping the southerners as anybody else
| who might be sent out on the mound.
| Virginia and North Carolina have just
/ finished four-game series. and each
| team has won two games The series
was almost a contest between Lee the
Carolinalans' star hurler, and Rixey. the
big Virginia left-hander. They worked
| in two games against each other. win
ming one each.