Evening star., 1913-02-26
Virginia's and Catholic US
Base Ball Squads Have Been
Working for Some Time.
LANIGAN SAYS HE
CANNOT WIN RACE
Virginia Track Coach Ex'
presses Opinion That George
town Will Lead a Little.
BY II. C.. BYRD.

The Catholic University and the Uni
Versity of Virginia base ball squads will
have the edge on the aggregations repre-
senting the other south Atlantic colleges.
The candidates for the teams at these
schools have been working for about a
months, indoors most of the time and
outdoors whenever the opportunity Of
fered.
1t is very probable that the work Of the
men will go a long ways toward getting
them in good condition. OF course, when
they start real practice the latter part of
this week or the first of next. it may be
that somebody, thinking that he is in too
good shape, will cut loose and ruin him
self for the entire season. With the
right kind of supervision it is not prob
abe that that will happen, though.
1t is very much question whether or
not the work indoors will do these teams
SO very much good. but the spare times
they have been able to get outside will
count much in getting them ready to play
real ball in the spring
Catholic University and Virginia Will
both be in the running for the south At
lantic title, without much doubt. Ihese
two teams have been among the strongest
that have represented southern colleges
during the last few years. and. to judge
porters, they will be right up among the
leaders again this season.
Since the Maryland Aggies base ball
schedule was announced, another game
has been added. The Farmers received an
offer from the Naval Academy to open
up the season at Annapolis, and 1t mas
been accepted. They will go to Annapo-
lis March 10 to play.
This is the first time the Farmers have
met the Midshipmen in three years. The
last contest that took place between the
two institutions ended in fifteen-innlng
tie, l to 1. That was the closest the Ag-
gies have ever come to winning from the
Midshipmen in any branch Of sport 1t
is hoped that just as good a showing VIII
be made this season.
Whether or not the Farmers are going
to have a good team is questionable.
There will be many men out for the team.
, but they are nearly all freshmen. and
little is known of their ability. At least
five or six places on the nine will go to
new men. as the greater part of the 1912
team has left school.
! Georgetown had intended. to match the
MARYLAND Aggies to run against the Cath
Ollie University in dual relay race, but
there is some question as to whether or
not the Brooklanders will be allowed to
enter the Blue and Gray games. The
track management at the BrOokland in
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race take place and have the school rep
resented in the meet, but the athletic
council presented the attitude of George
town assumed when it refused to schedule
games in the other branches of sport, and
will probably not allow the four to COM
pete in any games held by the Blue and
Gray.
| 1t is probable that NJ. \. c. will be
| matched to run against Western Mary
land in the Georgetown meet. The two
schools are rivals of long standing, and
there is not much difference in the caliber
of the teams which represent them The
race they would put up would probably
be very even and we'll contested.
The Aloysus club basket ball team got
away with a victory Yesterday in it's
games against the Bull Moose five. The
contest took place i'm the gymna sium of
the Aioysius club. The churchmen out
played the association reserves and de-
served their victory.
The Aloysius men have lost only one
game in their gymnasium this season.
and Manager Jack Hurley says that he
does not expect to drop another. 1t was
on their home floor that the clubmen won
from the Y. NJ. c. A. regulars by de-
cisiVe score.
While the Y. NJ. C. \. qunt has won
the championship in the, city league
without doubt, merry fight is presaged
between the Aoysius club and the
Georgetown collegians for second place.
| The smallest kind of Il margin has sep
arated the two teams since the start of
the season.
When he was here with his squad for
the George Washington meet, Pop
Lanigan. trainer of the Virginia track
men. said that he would not be surprised
if the Blue and Gray should win from
his mile relay four by margin of a
quarter of a lap. 1t was Lanigan's s
opinion that he would not be able to
bring anywhere near as fast a combina-
ton as he did last season, as Wiley Cooke.
Diebolt and Todd would not be able to
run. The work of these men in the Hop
kins games placed the four among the
best in the south, and if they do not ap-
pear in the race against Georgetown it