Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1913-03-01
BUSY SPRING SEASON
FOR MILDLY ATHLETES
Schedules for the Several Teams
Are Formally Announced.
TO HAVE 22 BASEBALL GAMES.
Wrestling, Fencing. and Gym" Meets
Today, and Indoor Sports Will
Soon be Over.

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of athl stics at the Naval Academy
now near at hand. and the outdoor
events of the Spring soon to follow,
the management of athletics at the
Academy, has announced the schedule
Of contests for the several I, ans.
That the midshipmen athlt tes have
their work we'll cut out for them. is
indicated by the dates for the differ
ent teams, given below, in full.
Twenty-Five dates are given the
1 baseball team. and though two are still
open. the management does not antic-
pate any difficulty in filling them.
The schedule means-that the middies
will play twenty-one games on the
local di 4mond this Spring, as the an
nual contest with the rival WestIPoint
cadets is to pe played at West Point.
Seven games have been booked for the
lacrosse team, three dual meets for
l the field and track athletes, two con-
I tests for the rifle team and five match
es for the tennis players.
The Spring season along all lines
will be a very pretentious one, with
the single exception of rowing. as the
schedule &C present ouly includes two
races to be rowed on Severn river.
These will be between the midship-
mems varsity and fourth class crews,
aid the varsity and freshman eights
o. Unive rsity of Pennsylvania That
a more extensive schedule has not
been arranged is probably due to the
fact that the local authorities this
year limited the length of the races
to $50 yards, the regular Henley dis
tance, instead of the two-mile course,
as heretofore.
However, the oarsmen are taking
keen interest from the fact that
crews will be entered in the Ameri-
can Henley races on the Schuylkiu on
| May 81 And, besides, the author
ties have granted permission for the
first crew to row against the varsity
eight of Princeton on Carnegie Lake.
1t will be the tirst time that a single
crew has catered a race away from
home. The only other occasion, in
| fact, when crews went away was sew
eral years ago when the varsity and
second eights rowed in the Pough-
keepsie regatta.
The brush with the Tiger oarsmen
| will afford the middies excellent prac-
tice in preparation fer the Henley
event, as Princeton is practically the
| only institution that conforms strictly
to the Henley distance in races. 1t is
likely that the middies will have four
crews in the Henley regatta. These
| will be the varsity, second and fourth
class eigbts, and probably four-oared
crew.
The baseball schedule cent aims
games with several of the le aiding col
leges in the East, and with the con-
tests for the other teams, a lively sea-
son of athletics at the Academy is
promised.
Todsy's card of events at the Acad-
emy calls for three dual contests, viz
wrestling and gymnastics with Uni
versity of Pennsylvania, and fencing
with Cornell. 1t will be the wiudup
of the season for the gymnasts, but
the MILDLY grapplers have two more
engagements, one with Princeton
Monday night, and the other with
the Yale mat men next Saturday. The
Cornell fencers belong to the Inter
collegiate Fencing Association.
The middies have already beaten
Pennsylvania and Columbia, who also
belong to the Association, and it is not
unlikely that the Ithacans will fall
victims to their skill. The fencing
started at 2 80 o'clock, and the gym
nastics and wrestling an hour later
All the events took place in the gym.
nasium.
The Navy fencers have a couple
more matches before the intercol-
legiste tournament in New York OF
March u. Here is the remainder OF
their schedule:
March S--Semi-finals to intercol
legiate tournament, four-cornered
meet with Princeton, Pennsylvania anC
University of Pittsburg, as the other
contestants.
March I5--New York Athletic Club
March intercollegiate tournament
at Hotel Astor, New York.
The complete baseball schedule
with the exception of two open date 5
is as follows:
March 1s--Maryland Agriculture
College.
March 22-- University of Pennsyl
vania.
March 26--Holy Cross College.
March 29--Georgeiown.
April 2--Colgate.
April 5--Amherst.
April 9--Cornell.
April 12-Lehigh.
April 1e--Harvard.
April 19-St Johns. Annapolis.
April 2S--Dickinson.
Apri 26--A. and M. of North Caro-
lima.
April S0--University of Virginia.
May S--Catholic University.
May 7--Georgetown.
May l0--Johns Hopkins.
May I4--Mt. ST. Mary's Colleye.
May>1:-0pen date.
| May 2l-Nctre Dame University.
May "a Open date.
| May 2s-St. Johns, Annapolis.