Evening star., 1917-04-11
BY II. C.. BYRD.

Catholic University will have Johns
Hopkins as its opponent in the only
college base ball game scheduled here
today. Georgetown and Maryland State
had contests listed, but the former
called off its season and the latter had
its meeting with Boston College cam
celed when that institution eliminat-
ed it's southern trip. The c. L. game
begins at $3.50
Hopkins played yesterday, winning It's
game from Western Maryland with
ease. to 2. The Baltimore aggre-
CATION is said to be fairly strong,
though it hardly possesses combina-
ton capable as that which repre-
sents the BrooklandSrs. There are
on the Hopkins nine several former
players in other Maryland colleges.
Levin, who is holding down third base,
is former Maryland State man. Jude
And. pitcher, used to twirl for west
ern Maryland. Nobel, the catcher, was
a star behind the bat for st. John s COL
lege of Annapolis for a number of years
Catholic University yesterday was
beaten by Penn State by to i. the
second time this season that VISIT
ing team has been able to take the
measure of the Brooklanders. Amherst
won the other victory scored over the
local university. Two runs in the sec
ond inning, scored on d triple, clean
and a scratch single. proved enous h TO
beat Charley Moran's nine. Cathollc
L. got one Of the runs back in its half
of, the second, but could not get d man
to the plate after that
The game. despite the unfavorable
conditions. was one of the best of the
year. Both teams played good ball. the
fielding and pitching particularly be
ing of high order. Jackson really
outpitched Howard of Penn State, , but
the latter got splendid support The
work of Wheeling at short for the Wis
itors was brilliant.
Two members OF each team connected
for brace of hits. Blythe, lead-oT
man for Penn State and Robinson,
hitting in fifth place. registered be-
tween them three singles and a triple
Shortley and Jackson got two singles
each for c. L.
Notwithstanding its victory Penn
State did not look to be as good ball
team as Catholic University. Howard
won his game. but seemed to have
very little stuff on the ball. Jackson
of c. u. made mistakes in twice groov
ing the ball when he had batters in
hole. and Harrington dropped a pop
fly, all of which figured in the undoinS
of the Brooklanders.
POOR DltCh1nS ana cOSl
Maryland State a victory over Lafay-
ette yesterday. Five runs were scored
by the Pennsylvanians on passed balls
and two more of the nine were added
when Derrick ran under a fly and let
it go through his hands. With any
kind of battery work State would have
had the game tucked away. The score
was to s.
Morningweg started on the mound and
was touched up for five hits in the first
inn followed
him. did well enough. but BrundaSe,
backstopping for the home nine. let a
lot of balls get by and at times made
no effort to retrieve them.
State was playing in its first game
and some ragged work was to be eX-
pected. 1t represented a lineup COM
posed almost entirely of new man,
eight of the eleven players used being
freshmen. The Marylanders have
squad which will develop as the sea-
son wears on. and in another year
should hold its own with any college
nine in the east, provided 1t has good
pitching.
F. W. Luehring. who coached the
Princeton basket ball team. runner-up
in the intercollegiate League last win
star quint. Yale won the champion
ship. Garfield center; Kinney. for
ward and Mallon, guard. were Dark
Blue players selected for the honor.
u,
Princeton quad. were chosen for the
other two positions. Ortner is paid
particularly fine compliment. in that
he is picked from team which won
but one of the ten games it played.
He must have been star in reality to
have secured that honor. The Prince
ton coach has this to say concerning
the season in general:
The six teams OF the. Eastern Inter
collegiate Basket Ball League finally
fhamSe1VpS
well defined groups. Yale and Prince
ton comprise the first group, with the
Blue not only showing the best COM
parative form in nearly every game.
but also hanging up one of the great
est offensive records in the sixteen
years of the leagues existence. Penn
sylvania and Dartmouth form group
two, the former standing slightly high
latter showing the more consistent
form. Columbia ard Cornell. both with
exclusively new material. had the un-
usual experience OF being grouped at
the rear.
1.-The season may be characterized. too.
as one of great offenses and mediocre
defenses- Yale with the phenomenal
total Of 326 points for the season had
five all-round players. every one Of
whom was a powerful scorer. Kinney,
the star forward, not only won the in
dividual honors with 1870 points scored
in tho league season, but also estab
lished a new league field goal record
by amassing forty-three two-pointers
during the ten league games Capt.
Taft, the lowest scorer on the Blue
team, attained the enviable mark of
twenty field goals.
Three times in the past five years
Princeton has finished in second place.
but only last year did we have a good
chance for the championship. Although
this year we again had fewer field
goals made against us than any other
team in the league, our offenSe, bril-
liant in spurts, was not so consistent
and not so strong last year so that
only a possible misfortune to the mag
nificent Yale team would have enabled
US to overcome it at New Haven
The outstanding chara ct eristic, how