Evening star., 1915-04-07
COLLEGE CONTESTS
ARE LISTED TODAY
Holy Cross Meets Georgetown
and Hopkins Is to Play
Catholic University.
NO-HIT RECORD is MADE
BY HIRD OF TECHNICAL
High School Hurler Lets Fort Wash
ington Down Without q
Safety.
BY n. c. BYRD.

BY n. c. BYRD.
Holy Cross and Johns Hopkins Uni
versity are scheduled to play here to-
day. The former meets Georgetown
and the latter Catholic University.
Judging from the results of the con-
tests already played by the contending
mines. it would seem that the local in
stitutions should be victors.
Holy Cross won from Georgetown
yesterday, but it has not been doing
as well as the Blue and Gray. 1t is
probable, though. that the Massachu,
setts team is beginning to hit its stride.
Holy Cross came south for its contests
most likely without having had days
real practice outdoors. and consequent
ly could not have been expected to dc
very well in it's first two or three
games. Now that it has appeared II
several battles much better form is
being shown. Two or three weeks from
now Holy Cross will be whole lot
different team from what 1t was Wneil
it performed in it's opening conteses
seph's.
Johns Hopkins is said to have one OF
the best teams 1t has ever produced, Dut
is reported not to be possessed OF very
good pitching staff. The Brookianders
ought not to have great deal Of trouble
winning IL they are not opposed by good
pitchers, because they have a better hit
ting combination than the ordinary
It is likely that johnson will go TO
the mound for c. U. and Hagerty TOT
Georgetown. Both these men are capable
of serving up pretty good stuff. and ought
to win their games if given good support
Holy Cross won from Georgetown yes
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gained in the early innings 1t seems
that the Hilltoppers are having hard luck
getting by that opening period In Us
games. 1t appears that It must fight
against a big handicap In all IT'S contests
and yesterday was no exception.
Georgetown played about as poor a
fielding game as 1t has put up this
year, seven errors being made Ine
Blue and Gray hardly worked up to
its usual standard. though at times
its exhibition was excellent. especially
on the offense.
Connolly. Mccarthy and Tormey led
in the batting for Georgetown, while
Devlin and Long did the best work in
nine. Connolly and Mccarthy regis
tered two safe blows each out of five
trips to the plate, while Tormey got
two out of three. Long and Devlin
two three-base wallops by Devlin that
scored the runs which gave the north
erners the victory
Western High scored a shut-out over
the Woodstock (va.) High School yes
terday. winning by to 0. OBrien
pitched splendid ball for Western. and
1t was his effective work which was
responsible for the decisive victory;
OBrien allowed only five hits and
struck out nine.
One of the features of the contest
was the hitting of Maxam. He con-
nected safely with the ball -FOUR times
out of five attempts. Incidentally.
Maxam had four stolen bases to his
credit.
Eastern High lost to the Massanutten
Academy yesterday by having Dig
lead registered against it in the first
round The Light Blue and White al
lowed the Virginians to get seven runs
across the plate in the opening PERIOD,
which proved too much for the local
nine to overcome.
Hird. pitching for Technical High
yesterday. did some remarkable work
against Fort Washington. He struck
out twelve men and did not allow
hit. Hird's work was perfect. with
one exception. slight tendency to be
wild He passed four men to first base,
but pitched SO effectively at such times
that his team was never in danger OF
being scored on to any extent.
Eiseman, who held down second base
for Tech, got three hits out of five
times at bat.
If Hird continues to pitch as effec-
lively as he did yesterday Technical is
going to give the other high scnoois
mighty hard fight for the title. Hird
is a tall, lanky youngster with a lot
of speed and q pretty good curve to
back it up. He will prove difficult for
the other scholastic batters to hit ef-
fectively.
There was quite a little work done
by the Georgetown and Holy Cross in
fields yesterday. and it may be that the
errors made by the two clubs were due
to the exceptional number of chances
offered. Georgetown's inner works ac-
cepted nineteen assists successfully.
while Holy Cross disposed Of eighteen.
The two shortstops did the best work
in this particular, Giacomo OF George
town having five and Griffin of Holy
Cross six.
It is reported that Harry Costello,
former Georgetown athlete, has accept
ed place as general all-round athletic
coach at the University of Detroit Cos
tello was q brilliant foot ball player,
successful pole vaulter, and took part
in base ball to some extent while at
Georgetown.
Maxam. who is leading Off the bat
ting order for Western, is undoubtedly
the fastest man in high school base
ball, and he will probably give the op-
posing catchers lot Of trouble. As
fast as Maxam is. he ought to steal
second against scholastic receivers
very nearly every time he gets on first
base. Maxam seems to be hitting fair
ly well, too, which should make him a
great deal more effective as a demoral-
izing factor to the opposition than If
he did not get on the base lines quite
SO often.
Cornell lost to the University Of vir-
ginia by 4 to in q. game at Charlottes-
willie yesterday The Ithacans were un-
able to hit effectively against Drum
mond. while Regan did not prove SO
effective on the mound as usual.
Jim Tormey has added lot of
strength to the Georgetown offense
since he got in the line-up. Tormey
was laid up during the early part Of
suited from blood poison. but has been
hitting the ball regularly in pretty
taken part. Tormey is captain OF the |
Blue and Gray nine and can play the |
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