Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-03-27
it'll Further Cuts His Colleges Play Many Games This Week
COLLEGE BALL TEAMS TO PLAY
SEVERAL CONTESTS THIS WEEK
C.. u. Has Three Games Scheduled, George
town and Maryland Aggies Two Each,
and Gallaudet One-Other Gossip.

! in the opening of the base ball
schedules saturday The Brooklanders
defeated Gallaudet by : to >. and the
Blue and Gray captured the long end
of decisive count from Mount st.
Josephs. Both mines gave evidence of
a lack of polish. due undouhtediy to
their ina hiity to get out this spring
for the right amount of work. heca use
of poor weather conditions.
Georgetown has a good pitching staff.
clever catchers and the remainder of
the club seems to be well balanced
The outfield is weak iii one position,
but the iu1eld is strong. 'iilroy at
short is one of the best men the uni
versity has had in that position in a
| long while. and Maloney and Dempsey,
the other two of the three new mem
bers of the inner works. seem able to
bat well and to field above the average.
| Cusack a third is the same dependa BILE
| player as in former seasons.
| OF course. the Blue and Gray pitchers
We're not compelled to work against
players of real college caliber in the
personnel of the Mount ST. Joseph nine.
but there seems to be no question about
the capa hilities of the men who will
do the fiinging in the important con
tests. Three of the four who are to
be depended upon during the remainder
of the year worked Yesterday and they
all did well. Owens, who starred on
| the local sandlots last summer. pitch
ed the first five innings and allowed
not a single run and in that time was
not found for single safe hit. Fin
nigan and Murray pitched the last four
periods. dividing the time. Finniga
was trifte wild. hitting two battcrs,
but he was not hit hard himself Muir
ray struck out five of the six men who
| faced him in the last two innings. Be
! sides these three hurlers the Hilltop
pers had Mike cantwell sitting on the
bench and nobody will deny his capa-
hilities. Hager. who has been dong
/ - No. Ioo ten
teams. was behind the bat, and he held
up his end of the game easily. Strait,
star catcher for Agriculture last sea-
son, the club which won the amateur
championship of the south, will do the
receiving end of the battery work
with Hager.
On the whole, Georgetown appears to
| have the best material that has repre-
scented it in years. Especially is this
| true if Harry Sullivan continues to play
UP to the form he evidenced yesterday.
Sullivan stood at the bat like vet
eran and took good strong swings at
the ball. He met ii. too, because he got
three clean drives into the right-field
bieachers for two base hits.
Catholic University got lead early
/ in its game with Gallaudet and main
tanned it. The Brook landers played ex-
ceptionally good ball. considering the
amount of practice they have had.
! They hit and fielded above the average.
| The members of last years nine did
| good work, and the general play of all
| the men was above the average.
| Fahey was absolutely steady in the box,
| and his support on the offensive and
defensive about all that could be asked.
/ Killion, the big first baseman, proved
he had not forgotten how to hit the
| ball. inasmuch as he cleaned up with
| a drive over the center fielder's head at
a time when the bases were full.
Gallaudet produced new man in