Evening star., 1918-06-30
CAMP ME|GS MEN
FOSTER ATHLETICS
Base Ball, Foot Ball, Track
and Field and Boxing in
Sports Curriculum.
STRONG BASE BALL TEAM
BY n. C. BYRD.

Camp Meigs is developing all
branches of sports usually recog-
nized as most prominent in cob
lege life. Foot ball, base ball
and track and field athletics oc-
cupy the greatest attention, but
basket ball and swimming also
are to get recognition. Special
hours are maintained for practice
and the members of the teams
go through their training just as
regularly and assiduously as in
the colleges. Boxing also has its
place in the curriculum and a
foot ball team will be developed
this fall.
! Right now the base ball team 10
making, and has made. a record that
few amateur clubs in or around
Washington have equaled, and IL
bids fair to continue its good play.
Eighteen games have been played 80
| far this season. and only one Is In the
lost column. For any club to cap
| ture seventeen out OF eighteen contests
| is quite unusual, even when very
weak teams are met, but among the
mines defeated by the Soldiers are
some of the strongest around and in
the city. The Rex Athletic Club. one
| of the two or three best independent
clubs in Washington. is among those
that have fallen by the wayside IN
competition with the Camp Meigs
outfit.
Record of the Team. -
Here is the record the team has
made in actual scores: -.
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Army Medical school is the only.
nine able to claim a victory over
Meigs. and in two games 1t played with
the Florida avenue crowd there was an
even split.
Meigs has exceptionally good pitch
ers. possessing a staff of four good
linen. Rockford. Golding. Lessard and
Beaver comprise the slab quartet, and
the fact that only one defeat has been
marked up against them for the sea-
son is sufficient mark of their
capabilities. Golding and Lessard
have each pitched FIVE games. Roch-
ford, four, and Beaver, three. The one
defeat is charged against Golding.
Two of the hurlers, Dave Rockford
and Lessard have strikeout records
that few twirlers can boast of. the
former having famed twenty-one men
in a contest against Brentwood and
the latter having turned eighteen back
to the bench against the Spalding
Athletic Club. In three games Beaver
has allowed five hits, in five games
Golding has allowed twenty-five. in
four Rockford has been touched up
eighteen times. and in five Lessard
has had his offerings batted safely
just twenty times.
Good Batting Averages.
Peterson. McNamee and Murray are
leading the teams in hitting. The
former has been at bat fifty-two times
and driven out twenty-nine hits for a
percentage of .55S: the second named
has faced pitchers forty-eight times
and made twenty-three safeties for an
average of .479. and the latter has
made twenty-seven hits in sixty-six
times at bat. an average of .41t.Two
other players have high averages. but
times as those mentioned. Here are
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