Evening star., 1918-05-25

College base ball this season for
local teams will come to an end to-
day with the contest Gailaudet is TO .
play with the Navy at Annapolis
Maryland State and Catholic Univsr-
sity were listed for a meeting at Col
lege Park. but the former. after ask
ing the C. L. authorities consent.
Cancelled. The Marylanders finished
their season yesterday, beating ths-
Army Signal Corps by to o.
While not one of the local teams
mas measured up to previous stand
ards. some good ball has been played
by all: Georgetown. perhaps. has had
one OF the poorest seasons in its ca
reer. but defeat is not deterring the
Blue and Gray from putting out
teams Catholic University had q
fairly competent organization and
played through what might be termed
successful year. Maryland State did
better than 1t expected. The College
Park aggregation started with one
PLAYER from the 1917 nine. and sew
eral of the other positions were nlled
by men who had been in college be-
fore but had never considered them
selves good enough to try for the
team. Gallaudet has won some games
and lost some. 1t measures up nearer
to Its usual standard than any Of the
other institutions.
In the next to the last game Of the
high school base ball series Western
High trounced Eastern yesterday by
10 to /. The Red and White aggrega-
tion outplayed its opponent from
every standpoint. Western counted
four runs in the second inning. got
four more in the third and from then
had things all its own way. Owen.
one of Eastern's outfelders. got three
hits out Of four times at bat. Graves
of Western. besides pitching. led on
the batting order with three safe bfnz
giles. Powers played fine ball At third
base for Eastern and Thomas did
some excellent work at short
Ordnance won from Communications
in the Navy Interbureau League yes
terday by IL to 4. Ordnance scored
which gave it a strangle hold on the
contest.
Tom Crooke's Cloffep nine allowed
Ordnance to get seven runs In the
first inning of the game in the Navy
Yard League yesterday. but after
that came through with enough solid
hitting to count as many times and
end the contest with a tie score.
Hughes at second for Ordnance vas
one of the stars of the contest. Nc
Carthy of the Clonep organization
was the main player with the stick.
connecting safely three times.
Engineers were victors yesterday in
the Departmental League for the sixth
straight game this season. They de-
feated Commerce by to 0. Engf-
neers now top the league with six vie.
tories and not a defeat charged
against them. Agriculture 10 second
with four victories and one defeat.
c.,.r., d.s.ated Technical High
yesterday in a dual swimming meet
at the Y. VI. c. A. by 4S to %. The
Blue and White swimmers encoun-
tered a lot of opposition in the work
of Sinclair and winkjer OF Tech. but
the Manual Trainers did not have
quite so well balanced an aggreBa-
tion. Results:
5o-yari swim-won by Sinclair. Tech; sec
ond, Winkjer, Tech: third. Newby, Centni.
10o-yard swim-won By sinelais. Iech.:
second Newby. Central; third. Held. Tech.
90 yard swim-Won BY Spur. Central; SEC
ond, Dickey. Central; third, Wink3er. Teen.
Back stroke-won by Spur. Central: sec
ond, Jackson. Central; third. Wink3er. Tech.
Breast stroke-Won by Wtnk3er. Tech; sec
opd, GoIdheim, Central; third. Richards.
Fancy dive-won by Perry. Central: seeo1d.
Houston, Central; third. Sinclair. Tech.
Plunge for distance-Won BY Spur. Central:
second Buhrer, Central: third, Winkter. Tech.
Relay-won by Central; second. Technical.