Evening star., 1918-05-22

Navy has had an exceptionally sue
cessful year in athletics. True. 1t was
to be expected that the Sailors would
make a splendid comparative showing in
competition with colleges. having in
creased by big margin their enrolment
and the latter having decreased theirs
by an average OF about half However.
everything has not been easy sailing for
the Annapolis men and they. too. have
had difficulties to overcome.
Last fall the Middies encountered very
little opposition in foot ball, except In
one game. That was with West Eir-
ginia University. That contest was
dropped by to :. the only defeat Of the
year. In practically every game played
the Sailors ran up big counts and held
their opponents scoreless In basket
ball a couple of games were lost early
In the season. but winning streak was
then hit and the quint finished it's sched-
Tile with an enviable record.
More recent conquests have come on
the track, by the crew and base ball
team. Coach Jimmy Mulligan developed
a track and field squad which took two
of the three meets. University of Pitts
burgh won from the Sailors by close
score, while Lehgh and University Of
Pennsylvania were trimmed by good
margins. Iehigh went down by the
awfully one-sided score of 103 points to
S. which seems an almost impossible de-
feat in n dual track meet.
Last Saturday the crew capped the
climax of a good year by defeating Co
lumbia. Syracuse and Pennsylvania. Vic
tory in that one race established a sue
cessful season on the water. as it was
practically the biggest race of the year.
The base ball team also has done ex-
ceptionally well. taking the measure OF
practically every college nine that has
opposed it.
Catholic University this afternoon
appears at Annapolis in one of the
| final games of its base ball schedule.
! The Rrooklander are anxious to get
| a victory over the Midshipmen. The
! former have not been as successful
| shipmen would help lot to put the
! team on winning plane.
] Riggs. Maryland State shortstop
/ would have been captain of the base
| ball team this spring, but allowed
| Mornhinweg to keep the honor. not
| withstanding that the latter is in the
| Army. Riggs has been acting cap
tain and will be the reguar leader
| in 1919. The state fnfielder is one
l
in the section, it being very doubtful
| IL there is a better ali-round short
| stop in the whole south Atlantic sec
| ton. He ought to be among the very
! topnotchers everywhere in another
| season.
Syracuse trains its oarsmen under
| great difficulties. The men have to
| go seven miles from the university
| in, order to get to the boat club
| where they work out. Not many
| college athletes, no matter how well
| they like sport, are wiling to go TO
| such lengths to get in shape to en-
| gage in their chosen branch of COM
/ petition.
| In dual meet between Central
| and Tech the 22u-yard dash. 44o-yard
| run and SSo-yard run should result
| in brilliant competition. Central has
| some good middle-distance and 900
men. and SO has Tech. Mclean and
! Holden appear to be about the best
| bets the Blue and White possesses.
! and Carpenter. Mcnamara and Hough
| should star for Tech.
Business High nosed out to
victory over Western yesterday on
| the Hilltop grounds. A wet diamond
made the ball hard to handle and a
total of eleven errors was made.
Schafer. the Stenographers' pitcher.
became unsteady in the ninth when
Coach Bryan Morse's youngsters
staged a rally which accounted for
four runs. but fell one short of ty-
ing the total registered off Quinn and
Graves