Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-05-10
EASTERN SURPRISE
Of SCHOOL SERIES
Liuht Blue and White Nine Has
Exceeded All Early Season
Expectations.
&c. u. FINISHES ITS
NORTHERN TRIP TODAY
Army Will Be Opposed to
BrookIanders in Final Con-
test-0ther Gossip.
BY Il. C. BYRD.

of the scholastic series 1t is probab bic
| that no school nine ever went into the
championship games with apparently
poorer prospects than the Light Blue
and White, yet it stands today in
position where it has an even chance
to win the championship. 1t is the
only school that has defeated the three
other teams.
Eastern started the year as though
it would be lucky to win a game. 1t
lost Cohill, its star catcher, and there
was no really capable man to take his
place. The play of the team during
the practice games was poor. There
was no cohesion in its work, and
it did not show the least character
istic of winning ball club. But the
progress shown has been wonderful.
No such advancement has been noted
in the work of any other nine. West
ern is the main factor that Eastern
has to consider and yet 1t was known
that the Red and White would show
well in the series, it having played the
kind of ball in it's preliminary games
that justified such an opinion. Eastern
has won from Tech, has defeated Cen
trail by the largest score that school
has lost by in mighty long while
and has decisive victory over Bust
| ness. There is one game yet for it to
play, that with Western.
a
lot Of credit for what he has accom-
plished. There is little reason to think
other than that he should be given
much OF the consideration which is due
the teams fine showing under circum-
stances that were considered very adj
verse.
Catholic University viii finish its north
ern trip today. The last game or the
series of five games played on the trip
will be with the Army. The Brookland-
ers have SO war lost three games and
won one. the first game was played
against New York University and was
won rather easily, il to = being the score.
The next three games were dropped.
Wednesday Holy Cross was the victor
over the local outfit. to Thursday:
Harvard defeated 1t by a score of IL to
p, and yesterday Fordham came out on
the long end of the score by 8 to 4.
The team has undoubtedly failed to play
up to its usual form while among the
northern colleges. The schools in that
section are probably wondering how it is
that the Brooklanders have made such
| a wonderful record this season, because
they have hardly shown as well uR there
as they have against the mines they have
met on their own grounds.
Pipp, the c. L. first baseman, according
to report. has signed with Detroit, or
rather has been secured by that club
from the minor league organization w tn
which he played last summer.
1t is reported that Pipp has been a
member of the Kalamazoo club of the
Southern Michigan League, and that he
has been bought by Detroit from there.
The base ball record book shows that a
| man by the name OF Pipp played sixty
eight games with the Kalamazoo team:
| that he batted for a percentage OF go
and fielded 975. The Southern Michigan
association is an e.ght-club league ana
Kalamazoo finished fifth. The Pipp who
played with Kalamazoo was a first base
| man.
| Whether or not Pipp will be barred
from further participation in base bali
| at Catholic University is questionable.
now that it has apparently come to light
| that he has been a regular minor league
player. The matter has already been
| brought before the athletic council at the
BrOokland school at one Of its meetings
during the early part of the season, but
| the outcome of it has not been made
| known definitely. although it was stated
unOfhcially by one In a position to know
that it was a brother Of the Pipp now
at c. L. that had been playing with the
/ Kalamazoo nine.
The Western High nine had not the
least trouble in getting away with the
Georgetown Props yesterday. winning
from them by score Of 10 to O.. The
Red and White nine hit the ball harder
than in any previous contest this year,
getting a total of seventeen safeties.
Stearns and Cooke led in the number OF
hits. each securing three.
The ability of the Fordham team to
bunch hits in two innings yesterday
enable it to win from Catholic Uni
Versity. The New Workers got seven Of
their eight runs in the fifth and sixth
! innings, getting three in the fifth and
four in the sixth.
Newport News won it's first game of
the season in the Virginia State League
yesterday, and Buck Barton, local boy.
was responsible for it. He pitched the
contest ard worked we'll enough to win
almost any ball game. 1t is reported that
he was given Observation-Disclosures bonus
for his work.
1t was definitely ascer;ained yesterday
| that Wilson. the st. Johns College
pit her, signed a contrac. three weeks
ago to pitch for the Nationals. 1t has
been understood that he was tied up with
another club, but the impression was err
/ roneOus.
The MARYLAND Aggies are scheduled TO
meet the Western Maryland College nine
in Westminster today. IL the Farmers
can win from the upstate team there Will
be no way in which they can be beaten
out Of the state championship. and even
though they are defeated by st. Johns in
the remaining contest between those two
schools it is likely that the College Park
team would be given the preference be-
cause Of the fact that it plays all the
state schools. something that no other in
stitut:cn in the state does.
The N. A. {. nine will undoubtedly be
against team that is not as strong as
it. but whether or not it will win is a
question. The Farmers have been feel
ing that they will be able to take things
too easily. and theat may be their uii-
doing Western Maryland has, perhaps.
made a poorer record this season than
any other college in the state, with the
exception of Washington College About
the only bright spot In the games played