Evening star., 1915-05-29
BY n. c. BYRD.

Grav goes to Brooklyn today to meet
the Crescent Athletice Club. an or
ganization composed mostly or FORMER
college players. and will lay over in
New York until Monday. when Ford
ham is to be its opponent.
GEORGETOWN finishes what has been
fairly successful year in the number of
games won and lost The Hilltoppers
have just about broken even on all
their contests. and games with Prince
ton, Harvard and Yale on the local neld
were won. Several other contests OF
more or less Importance were LOST
though among its other victories was
one over the University of Pennsyl-
yania Tufts. the Army and the Navy
are among the teams that have been
vicotrs over the Blue and Gray
Catholic University also starts the
final lap of It's schedule. being booked
for contest with Swarthmore az
Brooklard The local team is to end
it's list next week and hopes 70 mmasa
we'll In a game played at Swarthrnora
some time ago the Little Quakers
proved too strong for the local CON
tingent and won by something Hhe
to ]. The Red and Black nope ~ es" aft
up for the defeat by winning TINS an
ernoon-
The MARYLAND Aggies dropped an
other game Yesterday. The story OF
the game is the same as has been tolo
for several the Farmers have prayed
this spring-enough runs gotten 70 Win
an ordinary contest and poor pitchins,
which enabled the opposition to get
more At that, Washington College
had about the best nine that has ever
represented it; it did some remarkable
fielding and hit the ball nara "heh
The NJ. A. c. team finishes its sched-
ule today with a game at College
Park against st. Johns. The Far mers
met St Johns once before this spring,
to g. 1t is likely to be the victor
again today, too, unless the Aggies get
better pitching than they did yester-
day.
The St Alban's team gave the Tome
School a real battle yesterday at Port
Deposit. losing by to 3. Both teams
scored two runs in the opening inning,
the fourth. Holmes outpitched Mackiin
Of Tome, the hurler for the Episco-
palians letting the Port Deposit young,
sters down with only three hits and
striking out twelve.
The Army and Navy are to play to-
day 1t probably will be real battle.
as both teams are very strong. The
Army Is said to have the stronger all
round aggregation. though 1t seems
that it ought to be the Nays turn TO
win: the Army has won something like
ten out of the thirteen games that have
tions. Neyland. the Army's great
pitcher. is more than likely to work
against the Midshipmen. while the bat
terry for the last mentioned probably
will be Blodgett and Hicks
| Central won the coveted base ball hon.
ors in the scholastic series yesterday by
| beating Technical to In the decisive
contest. Centrars victory came after one
| Of the hardest fought schedules in years
and was all the more remarkable and
creditable for that reason. And even
| more deserving are the Blue and White
| boys when 1t is considered that they won
| from a team that. as an all-round combi-
nation, was somewhat more capable.
| The victory of Central was clean-cut
and II a little more credit than has al
| ready been given it can be flung that way
! 1t should be received for the reason that
it fought its way to the front from be-
| hind a three-run lead gotten by Tech in
the opening period.
Hird went back on the mound for Tech
after only one days rest and he did not
prove equal to the occasion. He had not
| sufficiently recovered from the game
pitched against Western Wednesday to
do his best and Central had little trouble
connecting with his delivery. Instead Of
| sending back Cox. who beat Business
Wednesday, Central switched to Gottlieb
and the choice proved good. as that young
ster worked the best game of his career
| He struck out twelve men and allowed
| Just five hits. which Is a splendid record
| against combination like that Tech has
| In addition, Gottlieb was responsible for
four OF hsf teams runs.
Cornell University made good yester-
day the prediction that it would qualify
enough men to give it the margin in
the finals of the intercollegtates. OF
course, the 1thacans may not win. but
they have an immense advantage over
they fail to land the most priced trophy
to be had in intercollegiate track
athletics it will be a great surprise.
Harvard qualified sixteen men against
eighteen for Cornell. but as the latter
won tfrom the Crimson in a dual meet
early In the spring. 1t should be con-
sidered having the advantage today.
A dual meet Is different from the in
tercollegiates. 1t Is true. but Cornells
stars should give 1t the advantage in
institutions represented.
The Navy won from tho Foresters in
the Government League yesterday. to
first inning. which was very nearly
sufficient to give It the lead during the
entire contest. Fraser pitched for the
Navy and struck out ten men, and in
aQOlllOu mdO0 InTec uAI6. oAlls tSIop
for the Navy. was the best hitter.
though. making four hits out OF nve
trips to the plato.
The Adjutant Generals once team
defeated the Engineers in the Inter-
bureau circuit Of the War Department
by to 1. Neither team did any bat
ting to speak of, the winners getting
three safeties and the losers only one.
Atwood. for the victors. famed eight,
while O'Leary of the losing nine,
Emmanuel had another easy time Of
It in the Northwest Sunday School
League. defeating the Brightwood out
At by is to g. The victors proved too
strong in almost every department Tor
the losers, and there was little feature
other than the decisiveness of the
score.
Notwithstanding that 1t was outbat-
ted, the st. Vincent team won from
the st, Martins nine in the Holy Name
circuit by 6 to 5. Both clubs played
a pretty fair article of ball. Howder
and Morris of the winning club pro-
yided the features, the former striking
out eleven and the latter getting three
hits out Of four attempts.
The Car Department won from sta
tfon in the Terminal Railroad Y. NJ
C. A. circuit by 9 to 2. Riston, VINO
pitched for the winners. allowed sta
tion only two hits. Handy played
brilliant game at short for Car De-
partment and made three hits out Of
as many attempts.
total Of tWenty-three runs was