Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-09
MAY SEND A CREW
T0RACES MAY z
AnaIostans Making Plans to
Enter American Henley
at Philadelphia.
ADAMS, NAVY SHORTSTOP.
is BRILLIANT PERFORMER
Probably Could Make Good in Big
League If He Cared to Play
Professional Ball.
BY II. c. BYRD.

BY II. c. BYRD.
The Analostan Boat Club may send
representatives to the American Henley.
to be held at Philadelphia May o. The
plans for this action have not as yet
been fully matured. but there are eff
forts being made to get matters in such
shape that they can be carried out.
| The Analostans have very busy
season ahead of them provided nothing
goes wrong. Besides the events in
which they are 10 take part this sum-
! mer. two interc!ub resattas have been
scheduled, one with the Ariels OF Balti-
i more and the other with the Virginia
Boat Club of Richmond The regatta
/ with the Ariels win take place here.
while the one with the Virginia club
| Is 10 be held al Richmond.
/ The Analostars have three crews out
| on the water, working hard every day.
! A senior eight and junior eight and
senior Tour are practiciDg faithfully for
the coming contests and each hopes to
make better showing than the others.
| 10 show how strong the Fights are it
| IS ohiE necessary to say that the junior
won over the senior Friday. while Sat
urday the senior was a victor The
senior eight is practically the same as
.nat winch made a clean sweep Of the
| morc u, ~. a,;5n Ieu!ate races Al baiti-
In snaarir ~ e,aees lasl year.
,,iebt ha LII ,,af, ~ ahe .anaiosta MS, IL
cox. who is the life of rowing there is
much IN favor of the plan started by
the Potomac Club. and states that il
GOV. '''''i se'f'eh'. says He
~ an ~
poto WY siad TO KNOW that the
r ro,umass nave esta bi1shed junior
oct ont ~ .ehao,s 80 .har ,hey can
5o,,bted1y -. 49, .ndt - uii
more than anvtl,ing . e1sn ~ ,n ho WI. ao
ing in that orennizat;o, ~ uo'ni row
riyer n,,,t i've Nv Nm Two CLUBS on me
nossihilitv ~ ~ hoou Ers"s. ana me
anuatics az me pn1spee,s Tor some real
mise mo if row,;n puih ~. SUI
| and enioved tba ss ,ooh noiu AGAIN
| did fea, v.rs a p .i ~
| can he created hstmeo, ~. au,n laSars
and Potomacs ,ir.1r' - ;,n -
much to boom the snort renera,,v YIN ~
! 1t looks very mucb az IL p.n.y
| Adams. who is playine shortston for
| the Navy would have an excel,ent
| chance to make good in one of Tho hie
| leagues if he cared 10 try professionaI
ase ball. That may seem to be tout
| ing him very high hut that 10 iust
| what the statement 10 meant 70 do
| Without doubt Adams is the most
| capable college ball PLAYER around. and
| in the American League he most likely
! would not fail to set a high standard
| He is fast on the bases, is really a
| wonderful fielder. and bats fairly well.
| AS a matter of fact, if there is a bet
ter inf1elder on any college team in the
| south north he has not been seen
| around here.
1t is we'll known that Adams in a
| Washington boy, and formerly ran on
| the track team and played basket ball
and base ball at Western High, and
| played base ball at the Army and
| Navy Prep School. Adams was very
capa BILE then. but he never save prom
| Use of developing into the star he now
| is.
| ihere is another good player on the
| Navy team-Hicks, the catcher. Hicks
+! is way above the ordinary college
| backstop. though he would have a lot
to learn before he could make good in
fast company
But in Neyland of the Army and
Adams of the Navy some big league
cruits. To Judge by the performances
of Neyland the mound for the
Army, he is about the best of the men
| in the colleges. while Adams looks al
most good enough 10 step right INTO
players drawing good salaries who are
no more capa BILE than the former West
ern boy.
1t seems certain that amateur base
ball is going to have a much better
year than ii enjoyed last summer The
teams and leagues appear to have got
ten off to a better start. though the
ball being played in some of the cir
cults is not OF very high standard.
More interest is being shown in the
games by general following. while
the play in the leagues seems to be
improved Particularly is this true of
the Departmental League. where every
club seems to be stronger than year
ago.
II is not to be expected that the vari-
Gus teams will play as well now as
they are certain to later on. Perhaps
| leagues have hardly had a ball in their
h,nds decides the few contests in