Evening star., 1919-04-21
busy WEEK AHEAD
OF COLLEGE MINES
G. u, C. U. and State to
Play Hard ScheduIes-Penn
State Here Today.
BY q. c. BYRD.

| Local college base ball teams have q
busy week ahead Gallaudet excepted.
Georgetown, Catholic University and
Maryland State are lined up for
! games that ought to test them for
| every bit Of their real worth. The
Blue and Gray and Marylanders play
| their contests. with the exception Of
one by Georgetown. in Virginia. while
Catholic University is at home for all
its schedule.
Catholic University and Georgetown
are playing today. The former is at
home for its second contest with Penn
Va. for a meeting with the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute. Georgetown to-
morrow meets V. p. !. in another
game. Wednesday Georgetown goes
over to Richmond to play Richmond
College. Catholic University will have
another home opponent Wednesday,
Villanova being booked here then.
Following its game with Richmond
College. Georgetown comes back to
struggles with Fordham on Friday
Immediately after the contest with
Fordham the Blue and Gray leaves
again to go to Norfolk, where the
Naval Training Station nine is to be
played. Fordham remains in Wash
ington for a Saturday meeting with
Catholic University
Maryland State leaves Washington
early Wednesday morning for Char
lottesville. where it is to play with
| Virginia the first game Of five-game
trip. The other contests are sched-
uled with Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute, Virginia Military Institute and
Washington and Lee. v. p. ]. is to be
met in two games on Thursday and
Friday, V. M. I. at Lexington Satur-
day, and Washington and Lee at Lex
Gallaudets nine lays OF during the
Easter holidays
Hyman, who is pitching for George
town, seems to be making a record
that eventually should establish him
as one Of the three or four best coll
lege pitchers in the south. His per-
formances have been so consistently
good that there seems to be no doubt
about his ability. His most recent
display OF hurAing capabilities was
Saturday. when he famed seventeen
V. M. 1. men in the game in which
Georgetown defeated the Lexington
is not so strong, but any time a
pitcher strikes out seventeen ne de-
serves considerable credit. no matter
what kind Of team he Is against.
With Hyman on the mound, George
town is a hard nut for any opposing
team to crack
Central High won it's game from
Randolph Macon Academy at Front
Royal. Va, Saturday by 8 to 0. The
high school nine proved vastly su-
perior in every department to the
prep school men. Schafer's hurting
held the losers 30 we'll in check that
they had little opportunity to accom-
plish anything on the offensive.
Navy's crews last week so far
demonstrated superiority over Prince
ton and Harvard, and the week be-
fore so completely outclassed Penn
syivania, that there is hardly any
doubt that the Middies have the best
that one Of the western universities
that support rowing has a crew bet
ter than the Sailors, but it would be
difficult to find anybody who watched
the races Of last week who could be
made to believe it The Midshipmen
Princeton that the decision was
reached before the halfway mark had
been passed. In the last 400 yards
Of the event Navy, even without
stimulating opposition, began hitting
lowers Of Navy athletics would like
to see that Navy eight in a 'Pough-
keepsie event, and not without reason.
Another branch of sport in which
seems to be of championship caliber
is lacrosse. Two weeks ago the Mid
dies defeated Penn State BY Is to Q.
then trounced Hopkins. and Saturday
handed Swarthmore 10 to o beating.
The lacrosse team. as we'll as the
other aggregation in the United
States