Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-04-28
BY II. C. BYRD.

Georgetown and Catholic University
are scheduled to play base ball games
TODAY. The Blue and Gray team is at
New Haven to figure In the first contest
OF a series 1t is to have with northern
colleges this week. and the Brooklanders
are to meet Villanova here
Georgetown. besides today's game
with Yale. has a difficult time ahead
of it. Tomorrow it is to go against Bos-
ton College at Boston, Friday 1t faces
Tufts at Medford and Saturday the
Army at West Point. The Blue and
Gray won from Yale here, but it prob
ably will have greater trouble getting
the long end OF today's score, be-
cause the Els now are in better con-
dition- That the game with Tufts will
cause the local institution to put forth
its greatest energies is known from
the defeat received when Tufts was
IN Washington last week. Tufts looks
TO be about the best college nine that
mas been south this spring. Just what
KIND OF team will represent Boston
college is not known, but that the
army mas mighty good combination
Is certain. In fact, the soldiers have a
pitcher. Neyland, who is a team him
self
Nuianova has not been playing such
very good ball this spring, and the
Sa'nohc University should not have
,nuch trouble getting away with it
'ihanova Is generally rated about tho
same as Orsinus. and the Brooklanders
Oee that school away on the short end
VI an to 2 score without having to
extend themselves ~
pitching for the Army. is prohabIy b.t
Ter than has ever been recorded nv any
oIner college hurler. He went through
an last season without a defeat and
mas not dropped any contest SO far this
year. Neyland has not lost game
since May, 1919, which proba blv is a
record TO which no other living pitch
er can point-that is a pitcher who
mas been working regularly during tina
psrloo- IL is well known that Neyland
could command almost any salary he
might desire to sign a contract with
one OF the big league clubs, but there
is Just about as much chance of a ma Tor
organization getting him as there is of
the ocean turning to fresh water.
The finals of the scholasti hundred
yard dash in the track meet at NJ. A.
G. Saturday rs likely to be one of the
best and fastest ever run in the south
And it is doubtful if the final of the
the year will bring together four fas-
ter men Hornsby of Tome Institute.
who cleaned up the dashes in the
Georgetown meet: Maxam of Western,
Brewer of St Adams. Birthright and
Milstead of Central and Chapman of
the Baltimore Polytechnic Institute
are likely to face in this event, besides
others, and their work is certain to be
brilliant. Brewers ability in the
dashes it well known and so is Max
ANS. These two boys are very fast and
that they will cause HornsbS of Tome
to lower his colors is believed by those
in charge of athletics at these two
schools. Also Central has two or three
fast men. Birthright and Milstead being
especially capable. This event will be
well worth seeing.
Representatives Of between twenty
and thirty schools will contest in the
scholastic class, while three or four
colleges will battle In that part OF the
meet which Is listed for the state
championship. Work was started yes
terday in classifying the entries. and