Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1915-05-27
"RUDE"ME MEADOWSBLOWS
AND NAVY TAKES GAME
Crack SOuthpaw Up in the Air in
Fourth.
FINAL SCORE, FIVE TO FOUR.
Middies Close Season and Are Now
Ready for the Supreme Test With
ARMY.

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of color yesterday. and his loose work
in the fourth inning was largely re-
sponsible for the defeat of the Joseph
ties al the hands of the Midshipmen
by a score of to 4.
The Josephites. did some fine work
on the bases, including two steals
home, but even with this display of in
side baseball. could not come out with
the big end of the score. the Navy
pitchers tightening up at critical times
The real undoing of the visitors in
1 the fourth happened so quickly that
they were dazed and were unable to
recover. Up to that stanza, Meadows
went along finely, allowing but one
| hit and that of the scratchy. order.
and his team was leading by to O.
The fatal inning started OIL by ii.
Fisher drawing a base Adams poled
out long one between centre and
right field that looked as though il
might result in a homer. but Cahill
brought it down in his gloved hand
Wulle on Ine Qeau run.
This, by the way, was the fielding
feature OF the game Meadows then
passed Rodgers, but struck out Clio
yer But they could not keep the good
work going, as another free ticket was
iseued to Calhoun, and the bases were
loaded. Lyle came along and sent
fly out into right garden.
1t looked like an easy out, but Cam
alier misjudged the course of the ball,
which dropped few feet in front of
him. took wicked bound and the hit
was good for three sacks. While
Meadows was arguing with two of his
teammates, Lyle raced for the plate.
Rube, in whirling around to make the
throw, dropped the ball,an Lyle scor-
ed. Meadows then gave a free pass TO
B. Smith, his fourth of the inning. but
his nightmare ended when Smith was
thrown out at second, on T. Fishers
single to left field
The Josephites got two runs in the
second. Cahil started with a double.
went to third on b. Smiths error, and
scored on Miskell's single. Nolan laid
down bunt which Smith handled very
cleanly, but the throw to second was
not in time to catch Miskell, and both
| runners were safe. Camalier drove in
Miskell with clean single.
The visitors third run came in the
fourth when Cahil singled, stole sec
ond, got to third on an out at first, and
stole home in nifty style WelmsIey
stole home in the seventh after he had
been hit by McFall. and stole second
and got to home on Lyle's error.
The Middies got their fifth run in the
fifth on a base on balls to II. Fisher,
who stole second and scored on Rod
gers single The score
Navy. OoO4 OOx-5
Mt St. Joseph % 1OO1OO-4
Left on Bases-Navy, est. Joseph's.
4. First Base by Errors-Navy. 8.
Stolen Bases -Cahill, 3; walmsley. H.
Fisher. Two-base Hit Cahill. Three
base Hit-Lyle. Bases on Balls-Om
Smith, q off Meadows, g. Struck Out
BY Smith, 2; by McFall. 2; by Mead
ows. 9. Hits-Off Smith, 5 in 6 in
nings. Hit by Pitcher-Wamsley by
McFall. Umpires- Hughes and Belts.
of Washington.
Mlddies Are Ready For
Journey to 'The Poinf.s
The Navy baseball team wound up its
home schedule yesterday,an ana the Mid
dies are ready for the trip to West
Point for the grand final with the rival
Army Cadets. The squad, consisting Of
twenty-three players. Manager McCrea
and AssistantAfanager Major will leave
tonight on a sleeping car over the Bal
timore and Ohio railroad The Mid
dies will be in charge Of Lieut.. r. A.
TheobaId, head coach.
The party viii reach West Point early
tomorrow morning and practice on the
Cadet diamond both morning and after
noon. and will also have a workout
Saturday morning. Those who will
make the trip are:
First Class-R. r. Adams, H. A.
Fisher. R l. Glover, w.A.Hicks, tcapt)
E. s. MeCoach. J. L. McCrea. (managerl
F. 3. Smith, A e. Smith.
Second Class-B. J. Rodgers, s A.
Hamilton. P. j. Keliher. c. H. LyIe.
A c. MeFall, E. NJ. Major. assistant
| manager, and e. c. FuIler
Third CIass-R L. Beall, w. G. Cal
houn, T. j. Fisher. E. J. Moran. H. G.
Blodgett and J. NJ Connolly.
Fourth Class-G. T. Cuddihy. J. S
McReynolds. G. B. Sherwood. Rear
Admiral Fullam, superintendent of the
Naval Academy; Lieut. Commander
Fairfield, athletic director. and a small
contingnt Of naval people VIII leave
hre tomorrow morning for the Point