Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-05-28
c. ]. ANDC. U.PLAY
TIGERS AND V.P.L.
Blue and Gray Nine at Prince.
ton and BrookIanders
at Home.
By II. c. BYRD.

GEORGETOWN and Catholic University
mines have games today. The for
mer is at Princeton for a battle with
the Tiger nine. and the latter meets
Virginia Polytechnic Institute at
Brookland. The contest at Brook
land will begin at o'clock.
The game Georgetown is to play at
Princeton is the first of three con-
tests against teams in New Jersey.
The other two are listed with Camp
Merritt and Rutgers, Catholic Uni
versity is meeting V. P. /. in the first
Of two games. the other being booked
for Decoration day at Brookland.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute yes
terday played at Maryland State and
lost by to Z, in ten innings. The
Blacksburg team really deserved a
better result than it got. as it played
more peppery ball and If anything a
fact. taking into consideration that
State got fine pitching from start to
finish and v. P. I. did not. the losers
deserve more credit for the game than
the winners. Riggs at short for State
made four errors and the play of the
Marylanders generally was loose, I'M
til the last couple of innings, when
they frightened up.
v. P. l. has good ball team. but
suffers from a lack of capable pitch
ing. AS matter Of fact, the Blacks
burg nine probably would be some
had as effective pitching as State has
had all season. Give v. P. 1. the two
men. Aitcheson and Keen, who have
been pitching for State, and V. p. l.
would win three out of every four
games it played. Brooks at second
T. 0A1 la
in college base ball in the south and
the other three members of the infeld
are not far behind him in cleverness.
On this trip the best player on the
Virginians' team was left behind
Chapman, the left fielder. That young
man can whale the ball and do about
everything that a good ball player
ought to do. Also. the visitors have
catcher much better than the ordi-
nary. especially in throwing
In speaking of v. P. 1. athletics. it is
not amiss to say a word about its
all-round coach, Charley Bernier. Ber-
nier took charge of sports at v. P. I.
two years ago. after seven years of
consecutive successes at New Hamp-
shire State College and Hampden-Sid-
ney. Since going to v. P. I: he has
Last fall in foot ball he had an eleven
that practically cleaned up the south
Atlantic section; it won every game
it played. defeating, among others, the
University Of North Carolina. North
Carolina State, Wake Forest, WASH
ington and Lee and Virginia Military
Institute. Bernier as a coach and per-
sonally is a credit to v. P. l. athletics.
He is well liked by everybody and
students at v. P. I. are willing to
present him with half the universe
any time he wants 1t.
Central High won a regular jam
boree ball game yesterday from East
ern in the high school series. taking
the long end of q IA to IS score. Loose
pitching and loose playing generally
were reasonable for the counting of
so many runs. Eastern started by
getting a lead of four runs in the
second inning and added two more in
the third. but Central got seven men
across in its half Of the third and
went to the front by one run. Eastern
captured the lead again in the fourth
by scoring three times, but despite
that the Blue and White managed to
win.
Eastern got fourteen hits against
thirteen for Central. Russell, who
has been doing the catching for Gen.
trail, did the pitching for that team
and struck out eight men. Krupp.
TIC pllChSA tuC pACSlouo COhtCCtS,
has been declared ineligible.
Bureau defeated Marines yesterday
in the Government League by to /.
The losers got their only count in the
opening period. The contest was a
pitchers battle between Powell of
Bureau and Bruner of Marines, with
the former getting the better of the
competition. Powell helded his posi-
ton brilliantly. having eight assists:
In the game yesterday at American
League Park for the beneht of the
Salvation Army. the Navy Yard nine
swamped the Walter Reed Hospital
team by 20 to 6. The hospital team
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