Evening star., 1918-04-15
c. j, NINE To OPEN
SEASON THIS WEEK
Mount St. Joseph's and Navy
to Be Played Thursday and
Saturday-0ther Gossip.
BY n. C. BYRD.
1t may be thought "An things
are not possible to ALL" but In
the light of happenings in the
last two decades 1t seems there
is nothing IMPOSSIBLE to all.

Georgetown will open its base ball
foreseen event does not develop Teams
and nature have been unkind to the
Blue and Gray, two of the former can
ceiling on it and the latter preventing
two by transforms.
Thursday the H1lltoppers are sched-
uled to play Mount st. Joseph's. thus
playing their first game at a time when
in previous years the hardest part of
it's list of contests had been passed.
Following the game with the Balti-
moreans on Thursday. Georgetown will
go to Annapolis Saturday to meet the
Navy nine. Navy has been just a little
more successful than Georgetown, as
it has got in two games already.
Two contests with soldier teams
have been played by Georgetown, and
both resulted in victories for the col
1egians by big scores. So far did the
Hilltoppers outclass their opponents
that the meetings hardly could be
classed as real games. Such contests
gave no accurate line on the actual
strength of the team wearing the Blue
and Gray, though there is reason for
believing that 1t is good enough to
give the best of collegiate opponents
to be encountered all they want in the
way of close competitions.
Yale's decision to play formal games
in base ball this spring, if only to a
limited extent, has caused favorable
comment among many alumni of the
institution. The Yale Alumni Weekly
has this to say about the situation:
"An uncommonly promising spring
brings to the campus real hope for a
revival of interest In intercollegiate
wartime major athletics. While 1t
leaves the problem of foot ball and
it's peculiar evils still remote and
troublesome, it holds out substantial
hope for base ball and track and crew.
The squads are small and the sched-
ules naturally limited by abnormal
conditions. 1t is more than likely that
the varsity nine will reveal-in the
weakness. say. of it's battery-what in
the days of near-professional base
ball playing might have been regarded
by fandom as little short of scandal
Gus. The track athletes, be they
never so carefully groomed and en-
hours when they are not giving
themselves to the relatively more i'm
portant business of training for future
commissions in the artillery and the
Navy, are not likely to smash great
many records. The varsity eight may
reveal unsuspected weaknesses in the
waist or in the bow of the boat. But
the circumstance for general congra-
tulation is that the students are
being encouraged to come out in a
natural, spontaneous fashion for the
varsity teams and crews. with the as
surance for incentive that the usual
rewards will attend upon their suc=
cess.
such an arrangement is, of course.
fep =
are restored to the campus a good
deal of the old order Will naturally
return. And yet there is reason to
believe that when the normal is again
possible we shall have come upon
new era in college sports. 1t has been
proved to satisfaction that there must
be incentives the something to be at
tained and contended for, If the interest
in sports is to be thoroughly keen and
worth while. But we suspect that by
the time the war has taught us its
many and useful lessons we shall have
discovered that the public parading of
stars, the employment Of high-priced
vcar-to-year coaches and all the rather
sordid para phe rnalia and trappings of
falsely named amateur sport are not
essential to the conduct of college ath-
Ietics. At least, we hope this will be
the case. The gradual return to inter-
collegiate sports which appears to
have set in at last, cheers US with the
promise.
An ambulance has been presented to
the Red Cross by Mrs. Foulke in mem
ory of Walter L. Foulke, former Prince
ton athlete who died just short while
ago. The ambulance is to be placed In
service on the French front, and on it
an engraved plate bearing the name
and princeton University. Glass 1906"
In speaking of Foulke's work at
Princeton a Tiger alumnus pays an ex-
celIent tribute to the former star:
"Fourke was the kind of fellow who
would have been honored and we'll
liked among the students even If he had
a splendid personality, fine considera-
ton 70. others and, in fact. about
best type of college man. Foulke was
captain of the foot ball team in 1904"
More than $4,000 base balls have been
sent to France under the auspices of
the Young Mems Christian Association,
which is worthy of more than passing
consideration at any time the 'sY'' de-
eide to make another appeal for finan-
cial aid.