Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1916-03-21
SNOWY OPENING
FOR BASEBALL SEASON
Navy Nine TO Start Games To-
mOrrow--First On Schedule
West Virginia Wesleyan
Tossers.
MlDDIES EXPECT BIG YEAR:
West Point Cadets and Prominent
Eastern College Teams Will be
Seen at Academy.

west EOlht NaoelS anu ffomlnent
Eastern College Teams Will be
Seen at Academy.
With roofs covered with snow. and
The ground covered liz spots with a
snowy mantle. it scarcely seemed
baseball weather, yet the Navy min.
viii play its Grst game tomorrow af-
ternoon at the Naval Academy. and
.he gong viii be sounded for the open
ing OF the baseball season
The midshipmen tossers Will go up
against the nine of West Virginia
Wesleyan in the initial contest of the
seasons schedule Opening with
mid-week game instead of on the last
Saturday of the month. as has been the
case i'm former years. the sailor lads
viii be among the first OF the Eastern
teams 60 get into action. And ii prom
ises TO be the busiest season in the his
tory of the game at the Academy.
The schedule contains twenty eight
games. nalf a dozen more than has
marked the campaigns of previous
years and it is made more pretentious
through the fact that practically all OF
the big Eastern schools have been
given dates All of the games will be
played on home grounds, and addition
al interest viii center in the progress
of the middies, because the annual
set-to with the rival West Point Ca
dets also is to be staged here, last
years contest having been played al
West Point
The schedule has been arranged so
that three games a week until the sea-
sons climax with the West Pointers
on May 27. The playing days will be
Wednesday, Thursday and Saturday
Georgetown and the Catholic Univer-
sity of Washington each has two
places on the Navy's schedule. The
schedule is as follows:
March 22-West Virginia Wesleyan
March 25- University Of Pennsyl-
vania
March 29-Villanova.
March 80 Maryland Agricultural
College.
April Amherst.
April 5--Lafayette
April G. Georgetown
April williams.
April 12- Cornell
April 13 Tufts.
April 15-Coigate.
April 49, Harvard
April Pei Holy Cross
April 22-Lehigh,
April 26-Trinity.
April 27-Fordham.
April % University of North Car
lima
May Virginia Military Institute
May Agricultural and Mechanical
College of North Carolina
May BuckneI
May 10 Catholic University
May Pittsburgh
May 13 Johns Hopkins
May IT, Georgetown.
MAY 1S-St Johns College
May 20-Catholic University.
MAY 2i-Mount st. Josephs
May az West Point
The candidates for the team have
been doing outdoor work for the last
ten days. although handicapped to
great extent by the continued cool
weather However the veterans OF
last seasons squad are rounding into
form and some of the new men in the
fourth class are showing promise
Lieut. c. c. Gill. former Navy star
who is head coach. and Steve Brodie
the old Oriole. who is chief assistant
are thoroughly satisfied over the pros
poets of turning out a strong aggre-
cation this season.
The principal losses sustained by
graduation last summer were Hicks
captain and catcher: H. A. Fisher
centre Geld: and Adams, short stop
A. T. smith and Glover. who alterna-
ted in the left graden. have also grad
uated. but there is any number of can
didates for the outieId positions. b.
J. Rodgers. Of Pennsylvania, is captain
this year. He plays first base E M
Major. OF New York. is the manager
and he. too. is trying for position.
The veterans available are MacFali
and Blofgett, pitchers: Calhoun. sec
ond base: II. G. Fisher. third base: E
]. Moran. right field Hamilton. Fuller
Connolly. Lehrfeld, Enrich. p. Harri
son. johnson and Loomis, infelders
Keliher Enrich and Sherwood. out
felders. kennedy, ,Cuddidy and Thorn
hil. pitchers. Lyle. a hrst-classman
is making big stab 10 land the back
stop position. To fiji this position
probably will be the biggest job for the