Evening star., 1915-05-17
BY II. c. BYRD.

Georgetown and Catholic University
are scheduled to play ball games with
the Naval Academy this week. The
Blue and Gray is to meet the Midship-
men Saturday and the Brooklanders
are to go to Annapolis for contest
Wednesday. Each school was booked to
play the Sailors twice. c. Z. lost Its
first game by 2 to 4. while the one in
which the Georgetown nine was to
have appeared before was blocked by
rain.
Georgetown and Catholic University
are nearing the end Of their schedules.
though each has two or three impor-
tant contests yet to play. The games
mentioned with the Navy are the ones
they probably would rather win than
any others. Catholic University is to
end its season June with a game with
the Army at West Point, which is
longer than the Brooklanders have
usually had games listed. Before that
they are to meet besides the Navy, Gal
laudet, BucknelI, Swarthmore and Le-
high. Georgetown has only three more
contests. except the Navy battle. beins
booked to go against Gallaudet week
from next Wednesday and to end Its
season May 90 and 81 with contests
with the Crescent club at Brooklyn and
Fordham at New York.
Several contests We're played yesterday
between local Independent clubs Some
good exhibitions were given, and several
Of the players performed very credltabis.
The Brookland A. c. won from the
,Jetcos by . to l in nine innings of close
play The work of Hill. who pitched for
the Rrookla nders, was brilliant. Not only
did he prevent his opponents scoring
more than one run. but he bstted we'll.
getting ohree safetes out of four trips
to the plate.
In contest played over in Anacostia
the Oxon Hill club won from Steel Plant
by 10 to g. The players of both teams
hit the ball hard. but the safeties made
by the winners were more opportune.
The Marines Of the Government League
blanked tho Fairlawn club of the
Potomac League yesterday on the Ana
costa League grounds. by to 0. The
Soldiers played much better ball than
their opponents in pretty nearly every de-
seven, and made but ono error, while the
Fairlawns miscued seven times.
The Rex team was victor over the
Engineers by 3 to 2. winning after an
Engineers played with the Rex outfit,
which scored three runs after the En-
gineers had gotten a lead of two in the
first two periods.
Many tributes have been paid to
Anthony F. Wilding. the great tennis
player recently killed in battle in tho
Dardanelles, but none seems SO fitting
as two brief paragraphs written by
Herbert. in the New York Tribune:
when a man known personally or
known for his outstanding skill in
some form of competition is killed In
action the destructive war abroad
comes home to us closer and more in
timately horrifying. Anthony F. Wild
ing has now been sacrificed-for no
other word seems f1tting-and lawn
tennis has lost one of its truest and
distinguished apostles and wfthal one
of its greatest players. Wilding has
been ranked first and foremost by some
critics in recent years, and his name
ever will be associated with such
masters of the game as the Doherty
brothers. Maurice E. Mclaughlin. Nor
man S. Brookes, Billy Larned and Mall
colin Whitman.
"One recalls even now with keen sat
isfaction and pleasure his visits to this
country, his sportsmanship, his good
fellowship, his pleasing personality and
his finished play. He was one of those
men on whom gifts were showered: He
driving an automobile or an aeroplane
to playing lawn tennis or doing any
thing to which he turned his hand. 1t
Is no more crying shame. perhaps, that
he should be cut Off in the prime Of his
life than those thousands Of others who
have. been sacrificed that some end. be
it good or bad. may be served. but OF
all those who have given their lives to
date none will be so sadly missed in
sports. Lawn tennis and its world were
| the better for Anthony F. Wilding-
the man and tho player"
Tots" Long. local boy given . trial