Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-04-29
GREAT RACE SHOULD BE RUN
TODAY AT PENN RELAY MEET
Harvard and Pennsylvania Likely to Put Up
Remarkable Fight in Mile Championship
Event-G. u. Blanks w. Va.
BY n. c. BYRD.

One of the most rema ka BILE mile re-
lay races in the history of athletics is
expected today as result of the meet
ing of Harvard and Pennsylvania in
the championship class at the Penn
sylVania games. So fast are the two
teams. and SO much is it thought that
the event lies between these tours, that
predictions are freely made that an
other world record will be created.
Last year Pennsylvania beat Harvard
IN remarkable finish, establishing
new mark for the distance. Both
teams have practically their whole
quartets back, three of the four men
of each Institution who toed the mark
last year being ready to start today.
Pennsylvania main reliance is in
Ted Meredith. The former MERGERS
burg star probably can defeat any
man Harvard has if he starts on any
| thing like even terms. 1t will be Mere
dith Harvard will have to watch, and
unless its runners can give their
anchor man a better lead than is usual
in such races he will come mighty near
finishing ahead. 1t should be splen-
did contest, one well worth taking the
trip to see
Reds" Mccarthy went into the box
for Georgetown yesterday for the first
| time this season as pitcher. The re-
suit of his efforts speaks we'll for the
| character of his work. West Virginia
University being shut out by to o..
Mccarthy kept the few hits made by
I no .,-tt %
never in danger of being scored on
even, let alone losing. Only four times
was West Virginia able to drive the
ball into safe territory, Leatherwood
getting two hits and Fidler two.
This is not the first time Mccarthy
has shown his versatility as a ball
player by hurting winning ball. Dur
ing his days in the prep school at
Georgetown he pitched consistently
we'll. and his first year on the varsity
Lately, though. Mccarthy has been
working almost solely as an outfielder
Yesterday. while pitching. Mccarthy
hit fourth in the lineup and got two
of the five safeties made by his team
Rodgers and Murphy, who played
shortstop for Virginia and Georgetown.
respectively. fielded their positions
brilliantly Rodgers made "a couple OF
sensational stops. Weiss, at second
for Georgetown, also played we'll
GaIlaudet College held a lead over
Ursinus during a greater part of yes.
terday's game at Kendall Green, having
the PennSylvanians shut out FOR SIX ln-
nings. When the first half OF the sew
enth inning opened Gallaudet had Ursi
nus on the short end of a 4-to-0, score.
but in that period the visitors began to
count One run went across then. and
in the eighth and ninth two men got
over the plate in each. Ga1laudet in
49, Il, ts~I 81
at > to . and the contest went eleven
innings, Ursinus winning by to 5.
Johnson. the pitching star Of Crsinus
who will work against Catholic Univer-
sity to day. was on the mound in the
last half of the eleventh, and his work
was almost perfect. Two of the three
, batters who faced him went out by rea
son of three vain efforts to connect
with the ball and the other was thrown
out at first on an easy grounder.
There was lot of freeAhitting in the
contest. Ursnus connecting for seven
teen and Gallaudet thirteen. Adams of
the visiting nine made four hits and
Kendall of the home club connected for
three.
Central High took the measure of
Episcopal by a score of to 2 yester-
day. The Blue and White jumped in
and made three runs in the fifth inning.
which was sufficient to win. Episcopal
and Baily of Central led in the often
sive for the local high school and
Harding proved the best hitter of the
Episcopal nine.
Notwithstanding that the Army and
Navy Props outhit Western High yes
terday, the latter won by score Of II
to s. Gardner, though batted hard at
times, kept the safeties well scattered
and was not hit very consistently.
Good fielding, too, got him out of two
or three holes. Fogetti of the Props and
Whelchel OF Western were the star
batters. each connecting for two dou-
his two wallops and Fogetti was at bat
four times.
In the Rosedale League Yesterday the
Rosedale team trounced the Printers
by score of to o. The Printers did
not have their regular lineup in the
game and did not, therefore. present
typesetters to two hits, Williams get
ting one and Green the other.
Academy at Annapolis that Berry, the
great University of Pennsylvania ath-
lete will enter the academy next fall.
Just how the rumor started is not
known but il seems to have originated
from Berry himself. who made it known
while the Penn ball team was playing
at Annapolis early this spring.
II Berry goes to the Naval Academy
he will greatly augment the athletic
forces of that institution. Berry I'M
dobtedly is one of the greatest all
round athletes in the United States, his