Evening star., 1915-01-17
GEORGE WASHINGTON STUDENTS
APATHETIC TOWARD ATHLETICS
Faculty Director McNemar Says He May
Recommend Adjustment of Sports
Unless More Interest Is Shown.

sports This probably is George Wash
ington's last chance and it devolves
upon the student body to awake to its
I Ionportunity or else admit by its mac
tivity that it cares nothing for par
| ticipation in Intercollegiate competi-
| tion.
| Incidentally, it might be called to
mind that the supporters of George
Washington were few and far between
| at the basket ball game it played
| against Gallaudet College last night.
| If there were more than dozen stu
dents of that university present they
did not make their presence felt to
any great extent. Such support as that
| for an athletic team which is playing
| through a successful schedule is cer-
tainly to be deplored, especially when
it is considered that the quint was
| to get back into intercollegiate COM
| petition on general scale.
! Manager Cockey of the Maryland Ag-
| ricultural College base ball team gave
out what will practically constitute the
base ball schedule for his team during
the coming spring. For the first time
in the history of the institution two
! big universities, Cornell being booked
| to appear at College Park April and
There is only one other new nine on
the list. Tufts College having listed to
play one of the contests on its first
southern trip.
The first big game in the race fer the
state championship will take place
April 10 with Johns Hopkins. Two
contests are listed with st. Johns an
two with Gallaudet. The season will
| be opened March "a with Catholic Uni
| versity.
The list of contests:
! March 24-Catholic University, at Washing
March 2s-swarthmore College. at College
| Park.
April 1-CornelI. at College Park
April 1o-Johns Hopkins. at College Park
April 12-West Virginia University, at Col
April i7.Gallaudet at Washington.
Aprii 2o-Tufts College at College Park;
ApriI et@Msun. St. Joseph'., at College Park.
April 3o-Dickinson. at College Park.
May s-St. Johns College, at Annapolis.
May 15-Gallaudet College at College Park
Nay 2a-wsst Maryland College, at westmin-
May 2s-washington College. at College Park
May 29-St. Johns College, at College Park.
Two of the officials for the George
selected. Reginald Rutherford. mem
Der of the registration committee of
the A. A. u. will be one of the in
spectors, and w. S. Culbertson, former
Yale track athlete, is to act as field
judge.
Jimmy Mulligan will coach the Cath
olic University track and field squad
this year. Action was taken on the
matter at a meeting held late Friday
night, and Mulligan was selected at a
salary named by himself There was
one other man mentioned for the po
sition-Alfred L. Stern, former Cen
trail High School runner.
I'm loh tca.
at Western High and Georgetown. His
work at Western was particularly
good, making not only a great reputa-
tion with q relay four during the in
terhigh school games in the spring
from Central for the first time in more
than a decade. Mulligan coached
Georgetown's squad last year and the
season before that. He was an eX-
ceptionally good quarter-miler when
a championship quartet at Georgetown.
Mulligan ought not to have much
trouble in developing good squad at
Catholic University.
The first call for base ball candidates
at Georgetown yesterday was answered
by thirty-five men. The squad reported
to Coach OReilly at the Hilltop and
after giving short talk he had the
battery candidates work out for awhile
On every favorable day after this the
whole squad will be given workout
on the field. while the battery candi-
dates will have their practice indoors
each afternoon.
It is generally thought that George
town will have the greatest base ball
squad working this spring that has
ever been out on the field trying for
one of it's teams. 1t is estimated that
there will be nearly hundred candi
dates by the end of next week if the
conditions are good. Certain it is that
the prospects for a large number of
candidates were never so bright
Jim Tormey, who played first base
and outfield last year, is captain of
the team this spring. Tormey thinks \
the chances of turning out a winning |
nine are splendid. Jim last night gave |
it as his opinion that the pitching staff |
would be exceptionally good, while |
from present indications there would |
be nothing lacking in the other de-
partments.
The men who reported yesterday and |
the positions they play are:
Pitchers. Beatty. Hegarty, McKenna,
Fowler, Thompson, Kelley and Cronin;
catchers, Whitaker, Irwin. Barron,
Pass. Spillane; infielders. Capt. Tormey,
Devlin, shannon, Campbell. Cusack,
Pauxtis. Cass, Curry. Flanagan. Klau-
berg, Donovan, Corcoran. Field; out
felders, Shugrue, OGorman, Noark,
Barrett.
The pitcher who appears in this list /
under the name of Thompson is the
Tommy" Thompson who has made
such a splendid record pitching in the
local amateur leagues for the last
two years. Thompson has gotten away