The Washington herald., 1915-03-21
BLUE AND GRAY
Opens SEASON
With VICTORY
Wins Long-Drawn-Out Battle
from Mount St. Joseph's
Team, E to 3.
HAGGERTY SHOWS FORM
Holds Baltimore Club ScoreIess in
Four Innings He
Works.

Georgetown opened Its baseball season
Yesterday afternoon with a victory over
the Mount st. Joscph's team, to ).
Inc game was A long-drawn-out affair
WIFE total absence of the old 'pFp'.
ana the SCI eral hundred faithful Who
turned out to get their first glimpse Of
college baseball alternately slept and
SElrtrod through the contest, which was
finally terminated by juicy downpour.
Coach John u. OReillv sent one OF bf,
promising YOUNGSTERS to the slab I'm tb.,
person of Tommie Thompson, and tn.
boy performed a. well as could he OK
pected in view of the frigid atrnosphsra>
and the cod wind which swept across tho
Hilltop diamond
Thompson held the Mount st. Josepb
srioe 10 four hits and famed three, and
out Tor som" ineXcusable errors of omis-
sion on the part of the Blue and GRAY
nine would have held his opponents IN
lever runs AS it was the Orioie CITY
cluh gathered three scores Off his dr-
nVery. all they showed across the rubber
during the eight innings of play.
HagS>r;y took up the mound work In
inc NTH Nession and proved invincible.
allowing "ut one hit and no further
scoring. The lanky pitcher looks like a
real one ana should he one of the main
stays of the club this spring. He seemed
to have no trouble in disposing of his
opponents yesterday. and showed plenty
OF speed, curves and control
Meadows a. wild.
iube Meadows. a sidG-wheeIer with
plenty Of steam. was trotted out by the
Baltimore colIcgians to do tie Ringing
He started OFF like a man With a real
mission and managed to get Nv for a
while in spite of his wildness but in
time the bases on balls beam to count
and in the final session the bases got
heavy and runs commenced to roll across
the home plate. "Rubc's'' contribution
TO the cause OF suffering humanity was
eleven passes and one large poke in tho
ribs for one batter
There was little for the felders TO do
IN the way of stopping very many
Srounders and hard drives, but in order
to keep warm they invented Il few stunts
not ordinarily carded i'm real up-to-date
college baseball. and gave the spectators
a chance to swear in language anything
but neutral. One incident will suifice by
means of ill 7tration. In the third inning
with two ont and a man on first and
third, the man on first conceived the
brilliant idea of stealing second. Imme-
{ &c. -. .i' entire Georgetown team
started out TO get his goat. They chased
him back and they chased him forth and
they finally got his number. but in the
and Catcher Irwin. Of the Blue and Gray,
had damaged his 5000 voice beyond re-
pain. while coach O'ReiIly was moved to
make little speech when the players
came in from the field
Umpire Long Is star.
Umpire Long was ono of the stars Of
the afternoon. He proved to be one Of
the heaviest hitters ON either side. His
percentage for the day was 1.OUo There
were four close plays. and he had four
SuesseS and he missed them all
Every little while somebody would
make hit. This happened two or three
times. The first Ofte nder was Connolly.
He made triple in the very first in
ming. which, in spite of the frost, bios
somcd into a run Not to be outdone.
Cahill. of Mount ST. Joseph's, came
through with another three Dagger in
the second inning. and the game of swat
progressing. Mccarthy put his trade
mark on the old horsehide In the third
round for another three-sacker
In the fourth Nolan registered a
double. after which both sides called a
truce and decided not to make any more
hits. Just before the close OF the game
however. Harris took one look at the
score sheet. and. failing To see any hits
beside his name. had a vision of the folk
back home. and went out and shattered
the agreement with a single.
Summing the battle up in a few words
there Were no features. there was little
hitting, the fielding was ordinary. and
the pitching. while not up to the stand
ard. was as good as could be expected
in view of the weather. The score: