Evening star., 1918-05-06

Four Maryland College base ball
mines come here this week for games
with local institutions. Maryland State
is to appear twice, being scheduled for
a game Wednesday with Catholic Uni
versity and Saturday with Gallaudet.
Rock Hill College goes against
Georgetown on the hilltop on Wednes-
day. Mount ST. Mary's comes Friday
for a meeting with Catholic Univer-
sity and Johns Hopkins appears at
Brookland on Saturday against c. U.
The only occasion on which a local
college nine leaves to play on a for
eign field is when Georgetown goes to
Annapolis Saturday for its second
game Of the season with the middies.
In its previous game with the Sailors
Georgetown lost by a score Of to 4,
but the Blue and Gray players think
they got worse breaks than the other
nine, and that they have an even
chance to win this week. Gallaudet and
Maryland State will be playing their
second contest of the year, the former
having won from the latter last week
in twelve innings by IL to 6.
Yesterday Ine kS04 AtulStlC S1uu tOOh
the measure Of the Quartermaster team
at Fort Myer by II to s: Braund and
Bischoff had little trouble holding the
soldiers in batting. allowing only five
safeties and striking out eight. Patten
led the Rex nine in batting. getting
three safeties out OF six times at the
plate. Kenny played well at second
and hit the ball hard for the soldiers.
For the first time since the United
int no
Alumni Weekly devotes its usual space
to intercollegiate athletics. In fact,
1t prefaces the news about track. row.
ing and base ball with this brief edi-
torial:
although both the varsity crew and
base ball team were defeated last Sat-
urday by Harvard, the spirit Of the un-
dvrgraduate body showed conclusively
that it sanctioned the resumption of
major intercollegiate athletics with
Yale and Harvard. 1t is realized. how
ever. that there is different purpose
behind sports this year, and the fol-
lowing extract from an editorial in the
Princetonian will give an idea of just
how undergraduate opinion regards the
matter.
"There will be no blowing Of trum-
pets and beating OF drums to mark this
event (the resumption Of athletics with
in the substitution Of a sane policy for
a period Of athletic hysteria. Nor will
these contests be accompanied by the
ante-bellum glamour Of athfeticism."
for the ultimate aim of athletics during
the period OF the war is not simply
the clashing Of rival interests. but
rather the development Of the physical
ly At soldier
'None Of the teams or crews have
had a great deal Of time to practice
mitted to interfere in any way with
military drill. On the contrary. no man
Is eligible to participate in any branch
Of sport unless he is taking either the
R. o. T. c. or naval drill. This neces-
states holding practice late every aft
crews have been rowing about o'clock
in the evening, thus benefiting by the
extra hour Of daylight"
Notwithstanding . brilliant rally in
the seventh and eighth innings by the
Engineer nine from Camp American
University. Clarendon's ball club got
away with q 6-to-5 victory yesterday.
Pfeil pitched fine ball for the winning
team. Busby. shortstop. for Clarendon.
two-bagger and two singles.
Garfield Athletic Club was another
team to win from q soldier nine yes
McL.aren's pitching and hitting for the
winners was above the ordinary.
Two games are listed today in the
high school base ball series. Western
being booked for q meeting with Gen.
trail n what may be the most important
contest of the year, and Technical and
Eastern being due to match strength
in the other.
The Braves OF today very closely re-
semble tho Braves Of 1919. That's the
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