Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-05-27
Neyland West Points Star Player, Although Hit the
Head in the First Inning Makes Good--Blodgett
Navy's Swift Twirler, Knocked Out of Box
THOUSANDS WITNESS ANNUAL BASEBALL CONTEST TODAY
Army Gets Lead in Fourth Inning by Gathering Six Runs
Connolly Bravely Starts in Game Despite Injuries
Tie Day Perfect One for Baseba--Pretty
Girls in Lovely Gowns Fill Grandstands

replaced by Sarcka; Sarcka is out try
ing to steal second No runs.
Navy-Fisher dropped one in front
of the plate and Neyland throwing wild
10 first, Fisher slid to second: Calhoun
sent sacrifice fly TO right field, putting
/ Fisher on third. Rodgers sent pret-
ty hit over shortstop amidst a tremen-
,lous din from the stands. Rodgers
stole second; Vonheimberg struck out,
/ Rodgers went to third on a passed
strike. Connolly famed. One run.
hit. error.
Second Inning-Agmy-M C n e i'll
struck out; Coffin secured a base on
balls; House hit to left field. advanc-
ing Coffin to second. Bringham sent
a pop up in front of the plate, which
Connolly gathered in and played to
second, forcing Coffin out; Bringham
safe on first. Schlenker struck out.
ending Army's big hope for score.
No runs; hits; no errCrs
Navy-Moran fannel and McFall
was out, House TO Brittcn. Blodgett
famed. No run; no hits; no errors.
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out, Calhoun to Rodgers; Britton WAS
out on an infield fly. which Hamilton
| handled nicely. Mitchell hit between
/ first and second Rodgers caught Ney-
lands high fly. No runs; l hit; no er-
ror.
Navy - Hamilton famed Neylaml
smothered Fishers infield fly; Calhoun
! went out Neyland to Britton. No hits;
no runs; no errors.
Fourth -Army-McNeill hit
over second base; Coffin was given a
base on balls. putting McNeiu on sec
ond. House sent slow drive to Blod-
gett, who threw the ball over Fishers
head on his attempt to catch McNeill
and the latter scored Coffin was safe
on third anil House on second. Bring
ham drove a hot one to Rodgers, who
, threw to the plate and Coffin scored.
House on third and Bringham on sec
| ond Bringham stole third. Schlen-
ker was passed, filling the bases F;
House was forced out at the plate
when Gerhardt hit to Fisher and the
latter played the ball hCme. Bring
ham and Schlenker scored on Brittons S
hard hit to center field; Gerhardt on
third ond Pritton went to second Ger
hardt scored on Connollys passed hall
and Britton went 10 third. Mccall
took Blodgett' place in the box Mitch
ell was safe on Hamiltons error on a
hal,l hit pail and Britton scored Mitch
ell went to second on Neyland's out
Hamilton to Rodgers; Mcneil struck
out. Six runs; hits: 2 errors.
Navy-Rodgers flied out to Britton
Vonheimberg went out. House to Brit
ton Connolly out, Neyland to Britton.
No hit; no errors: no runs.
Fifth Inning Hamilton han
died Coffn's hot grOunder retiring MIN
at first. House hit over second base
Hamilton made a spectacular catch OF
| Connolly's high throw trying to catch
/ House. who was safe on secon,i Bring
ham walked; Moran made a neat catch
of Schlenker's long fly returning the
ball in time to hokl House on second
Gerhardt hit to left field, House scor-
ing from second when Vonheimberg
threw over Connollys head. Bring.
ham scored when Mccall. covering the
plate, jLggled and then dropped the
ball: before the ball was recovered
GerhaI,it had scored; Britton STRUCK
out, ending the second nightmare oi
the game. Three runs; , hits: errors
Navy-Moran drove out three-bass
hit and scored on McFall's safe hit L
left field. Blodgett sacrifice McFall u
second. Hamilton walked, but was
forced out. when Fishers grounde
went to House. The latter scored OF
Neylani's bad throw to first in an eff
fort to catch Fisher mapping. Fishe
was out trying to reach third on th'
play. Two runs; 2 hits; l error.
Sixth Inning-Army- Mitchell fouler
out to Connolly; Neyland was out
Calhoun to Rodgers. McNeill sent ;
Texas Lacquer to Moran, which the lat
ter dropped after a splendid effort. Nc
Neill stole second; Coffin hit higl
foul, which Rodgers gathered in. NJ
runs; no hits; ] error.
Navy-Calhoun struck out; Rodger
out, NeylaBi to Britton: VonheimberI
was safe on a close play, Houes Z
Britton: Vonheimberg was forced on
at second, when Connclly's grounde
was played there No runs no hits
no errors
Seventh ng-Army-House wen
out. Hamilton to Rodgers; Bringhan
went down. McFall to Rodgers ;Schlen
ker was struck out hy McFall. NJ
runs: no hits; no errors.
Navy-Moran hit safe to center field
McFall fouled out to Gerhardt; Sease