The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-04-25
H|LLTOPS HAVE
Chance At TITLE
By Defeating Pennsylvania,
G. u. Will Win Intercol-
legiate Baseball Honors.
HARVARD PROVED EASY
Georgetown Played Rings Around
Crimson-Holy Cross Victory
Pleasing to O'Reilly.
By NAT r. wORLEY,

BY NAT r. wORLEY.
With its victory over Harvard FRI
day by the decisive score of to !.
Georgetown established the record for
the season of having defeated three
of the Big Four universities and has
a fine chance to win the intercollegiate
baseball title.
Yale was humbled to and Prince
ton went down before a to 4 score
while the contest with Johnnie Har-
ward resulted in walk away for
the Blue and Gray.
The Hilltoppers meet Pennsylvania
in Philadelphia next month and a vic
tory over the Red and Black will give
the Georgetown team the topnotch
honors in college baseball.
Finnegan is undoubtedly the best
pitcher on the Georgetown team. His
showing against Harvard was all that
could be desired. Only FIVE hits were
gathered off his shoots and with any
kind of baseball luck he was entitled
to a shutout. AS it was. after two
were out in the eighth, he walked a
man and the next two hit safely and
the Cambridge team barely escaped
the humiliation of being whtewashed.
Connolly continued to bang the ball,
registering three hits in the Harvard
run, Tormey got a triple and single,
and the rest of the Georgetown team
hit the ball in way to bring Joy
TO the hearts of the student fans. AS
predicted by the writer several weeks
ago, the Blue and Gray team this sea
son is hitting better than any in pre-
vious years
Georgetown's victory over Holy Cross |
al Worcester was very pleasing one |
10 Coach O'Reilly. Holy Cross hap
pened to get away with two games |
here by close scores when in COM |
parison with the Hilltoppers the team |
did not deserve to win. Gergetown's |
come back on the home lot of the Holy |
Cross aggregation proved that the |
Blue and Gray outfit is there with the |
punch. but the victory was costly |
one as Giacomo was spiked in the |
first inning and had to have six |
stitches taken in his leg. This prac- |
tically eliminates him from the rest |
of the games this year.
Whitaker. who halls from Worcester. |
played the hero role in his own home |
town" when he took Giacomo's place and |
at the psychological moment poled |
triple with two on bases thereby clinch- |
ing the contest for Georgetown.
Nearly seven thousand people saw
SelO"n play ffOlN cross IN WOrceS-
ter. n large crowd for a college game
even though the game was played on a |
holiday.
Young Thompson. who is having his
first year as a member of the Georgetown
pitching stan has been unfortunate in
having a sore arm since the Yale game
when he relieved HaSerty in the ninth
with three on bases and only one out
without having warmed up. The day was
raw and his arm has not felt good since
that afternoon. As soon as the real warm
weather sets in and he has a chance to
timber up bit Tommie should give 4
good account of himself
Dave Danforth. the former Philadelphia
American League pitcher. who twirled
against Georgetown for the University of |
Maryland is a student in the Department
OF Dentistry and will graduate this year.
Dave deserved better support at the
hands of his teammates.
The showing of the Maryland Aggies
against the crack Tufts team was an
exceptionally good one in the light of
the drubbing Tufts administered to the
Georgetown club last Wednesday. Tufts
has hard-hitting team of more than
usual fielding ability and it caught the
Hihtoppers at time when they were
not expecting much of a tussel, and
working shape. The Blue and Gray made
eleven hits for nine runs. enough to win
an ordinary contest.
The assistant automobile commissioner
Of College Parl; awoEe last Monday ana
found the Harvard baseball team in his
midst. Laying aside his Roe and rake
and picking the straw from his whiskers. |
he strobe forth and straighta way pounced
upon the unsuspectng collesians for not ,
having Maryland liscences. As the two
hiS sightseeing autos chuC -chugged along
the dusty road for Washington and the {
sons of Fair Harvard were thinking OF | I
juicy steaks and all that goes to make
life worth living. the assistant automo-
bile commissioner stepped forward | ,
Halt" he cried. You're pinched" A
short session before a justice of the
peace made his words only too true
Forty beans" said the Justice ana .
after making the proper arrangement to :
pay the fine. the Harvard outfit chue- :
cllusged along homeward. The fines :,
were paid by the company owning the
sightseeing automobiles and not by the =
students /
inning of the game between GEORGETOWN
and the University OF Maryland With
Two out and two on base, Darishaw hlt !,
a long. hard drive to left field. Shugrue y
was after the ball with the crack of the n
bat and after a hard run made a beaut- {
full catch, which. as IL turned out, gave c
the Blue and Gray a shutout for the day,
Just as the Georgetown left fielder caught
the horsehide he lost one of his teeth a
gold one. which was loose and for tho
rest of the afternoon he roamed around In
IN the left garden looking for it, with v
the assistance of about a hundred small |
boys. Coach O'Reilly, seeing that Shu- Il
grue could not keep his mind on the Z
game and look for his tooth at the same y
time. removed him from the contest ana .
substituted Berardini The sight of
hundred kids down on their hands ana
knees searching for gold tooth with
Shugrue directing them was so funny, rt {
nearly broke UP the game. The tooth Z
was finally found. y
Harte. who relieved Waterman be- n
hind the bat In the Georgetown-Har- x
ward game. made a wonderful catch r
of foul fly directly over the George c
town bench in the sixth off Irwin's
bat In order to get the ball the
Harvard backstop had to throw him
self headlong across the Georgetown Vi
bench and IL was a lucky thing that O
he was not badly injured Besides q
catching a wonderful game, Harte L
made two Of Harvard's five hits, his 9,
second wallop coming in the eighth =
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