Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-04-25

May Z the base ball team represent
ing tho s2oth Infantry OF the soth d.
vision at Camp Lee will como here to
meet the Fort Myer nine for the bsns-
TT Of Providence Hospital. The con-
test is to be played at American
League Park and takes the place of
the annual meeting between the
Metropolitan and Chevy Chase clubs
for the benefit of the same organiza-
ton.
Several former big league players
are members of the nine to como here
from Camp Lee. The team IL SO strong
that it has cleaned up every other In
fautry nine in the S0th Division. KEEP
fer and Miljus, the two pitchers. for
merly were members of the Cleveland
American League and Brooklyn Ma
tional League clubs. Mackey 10 for.
mer New York Giant backstop. and
Harris once held down first base for
Cleveland. Practically every man In
the LINEUP has had professional ex-
perlence.
Fort Myer also is said to possess
several ball players Of note. ana Il 10
claimed will produce q combination
capable of holding its own with the
men from the Virginia camp.
Technical High 10 to send two men to
take part in the South Atlantic swim
ming championships in Baltimore May
4. Winkjer and Sinclair will represent
the Manual Trainers,
Eastern and Western were victors In
the opening games of tho high school
base ball series yesterday, the former
defeating Business Srn ~ to aoa .ns
Neither of the four mines played very
good ball. as was partly to be expected.
The bad weather Of the past two weeks
almost has precludsd the possibility OF
much practice and consequently the
at their best.
Fridinger pitched good enough ball
for Eastern to set twelve Business men
down on strike,outs. The Stenogra-
hits, some of which were somewhat
scratchy. Schneider of Business was
the only member of the Business nine
to connect for more than one safety.
were wild. the former giving five bases
on balls and the latter six.
Quinn pitched good ball for West
ern when he was In tight places and
managed to extricate his team from
s some IKE he'e the other twirisrs showsd
decided tendency to be wild in most Of
tho innings. He gave six bases on
balls. Schrider of Tech handed out
seven passes to first through his ina
bility to get the ball over the plate. In
the two games the pitchers gave a to-
tai of twenty-four bases on balls.
which does not speak very we'll for
their performances in the way Of con-
Romeyn did some good work at third
base for Western and Pfeiffer starred
for Tech In the outneld. Dawson's
catching for Eastern and Schnsider's
shortstopping for Business were good.
Georeetown's base ball team sue
cumbed yesterday for the third time
this season. dropping q game to St.
Johns. The Annapolis crew, with q
star hurler on the mound, got away to
q good start and managed to stay In
front all the time. The result was I
to 3; Georgetown players pulled =
game. Polk played fine ball At second
excellent work at short.
Baltimore to Mount st. Jossph's by
the same score that GEORGETOWN was
defeated by. The Brookianders failed
to hit consistently and did not accom-
plish a whole lot in tho field, Rooney
Schwartz and eastman performed
most creditably for the c. U. nine. Ken
drick was not in anything like a. good
form on the mound as usual, Mount Ct.
Joseph's connecting at oppoftune times.
Georgetown Props yesterday took the
measure of the Army and Navy props