Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1918-07-20
FORT M'HENRY
SOLDIER MAKES
STIRRING ADDRESS
Daily Happenings At St. Johns
College Summer School
Increase In Interest
LADIES ORGANIZE
A BASEBALL TEAM
Teachers To Be Featured In The
Sunday Supplement Pictorial
Section July 2S

Yesterday afternoon. as a fitting
close to the course in patriotic public
speaking at the Summer School, a
soldier from Fort McHenry, Mr.. w.
d. Knox, who had returned from
"Over There" gave a thrilling mar
rative of his adventures at the front.
He was listened TO with rapt atten-
ton by the teachers and by the visi-
tors present He told of sailing on
the Kaiser Wilhelm, IL, formerly the
Kaiser's own special ship. At the
head of the grand stairway leading to
the main saloon was a life-sized por-
trait of the Kaiser. Before they had
been out day, however, something
happened to the portrait, making the
well-known features of his imperial
majesty unrecogniZable There was
an exciting collision during which the
ship listed to about As degrees and
for a moment it seemed all would
have to take to the boats
st. Johns has always been proud of
its athletics, so the young ladies. not
to be outdone by the cadets and to
keep up the reputation of the college,
have organized two baseball teams.
They play generally about o'clock
in the evening on the back campus.
They call themselves 'the Reds" and
"the Blues" On last Thursday aft
ernoon hotly contested game took
place Prof Grove umpired and Miss
Anne Rothwell Stewart kept the
score. There were many disputed
decisions, but the umpire escaped
without serious injury
The feature OF the game was a long
home-run drive out in deep center by
Miss Merle Leatherbury. This came
at a critical time of the game when
the score was a tie. so there was
great rejoicing by one side. The final
score was / to IL, in favor of the
REDS"
The following young ladies played
an errorless game. holding down
their positions in fine shape: Miss
Mary Owens, Miss Mary Briscoe, Miss
Nancy Hopkins, Miss Emily Phipps,
Miss Maria Canter Miss Mary PEN
man, Miss Mary Plummer, and Miss
Margaret Duvall DR.. Swain, Rev.
Maurice White, Prof Handy and sgd
ney Handy also played in the game,
The account of the landing in
France, and of the life there was in
structive as well as interesting.
"The German prisoners were glad to
be captured" he said. "but were non
e.s4
spoke particularly Of the good work
of the Red Cross and of the Y. NJ G.
A. and of how cordial were the rela-
tions between the French and Ameri-
cans. The address as whole was
well arranged and gave first-hand in
formation along lines of popular in
terest. 1t was a suitable climax to
the splendid course given by Miss
Stewart to the Grammar School stu
dents.
On Monday afternoon the SUMS
special photographer will come to
Annapolis to take pictures at the
Summer School These views are for
the Sunday Supplement Pictorial Sec
tion. There will be groups studying
on the campus under the Liberty
tree, a view of the Open-Air Confer
ence on Modern Social Problems and
the Demonstration School, water
views in canoes, and in batting as
we'll as other interesting situations TO
show the recreative side of summer
school life.
Tonight at the St Johns College
gymnasium there will be given the
third in the series of summer school
dances. The faculty of the school
will be assisted by other well-known
ladies of the city. 1t is expected that
about sixty of the reserve officers
will attend The friends of the school
are cordialIv fnvifad