Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1919-06-02
GREAT DAY
ON LAND AND WATER
Academy 5 Fighting Spirit And
Skill Put Tie Thing Over
Against Odds
FLOODS or Joy HERE

Sometimes people peak 0f Navy !
luck when they mean NAY pluck a fle
breaks do ne; come haphaxard al
rule here asaI and the man oT
ts aai that keeps 81 and refuses 81
i,e beaten often forces things against
8ali odds and against al chances
Eilis II whai happenea saturday ii
spite ii i lead III i've runs agaiglss
them. the Naval Aesideias baseball
lfisia i spt eysrla stingl 80 IL and first
team haet keeps III i1salla refuses to-
the Army nine. winning against thetil
AFTER. eight SIX Nv feats
on He Sshns Kill roNsing on strange
waters and under conditions, and
III fise face n CON isleFable unforeseen
4 81 eul is. the Midshlpmen virtually
g Kept lie iyer Winning the real big
ssvenf that made hem ne nlldisputea
hampton asnang the colleges his
year and TWO of the other three
aust Two examples 81 Navy pluck
Milner Mas spiked iii tie early part III
le hssscball game and hid i cut O.
the h0ne of his irg tllree niche 81
more Mest people would haze re-
tired hut tire game little short stop
stuck u III. and played better ball
Than ever ingram he Academy
r4afest athlete. and perhaps the niost
liked midshipman, has had Mater on
IFS knee for some times but has stuck
50 his Job. and SATURDAY be vas 4
mighty sick man i'll Other WAYS But
tie stuck d his job, and strokcd his
wonderful crew to the biggest victory
in tie history III ACADEMY aauaties
These are just tynes of the kind III
men who We're fgas4ing Tor Inc Navy
and their school SATURDAY f0r al did
their part and were ready 10 do any
Thing mat might como along
Also. Ill is we'll to understand that
here Mas i game crowd back home
here too. Watching the game On tlie
#playogTapli, the rDoters elleered on
every play, ana stood mp and pulled
for the team III the lucky scNenth y, '
and to some effect il appears, for u
MAS then that the MidslIipmen tied the
score There was no letting UP when
die Army was ahead but The ronters
kept ,lp their slleart lust AS the team
lid upon tie Hudson. and there was A
scene of riot when the nine actually
began to forge ahead, and finally, the
game was over With the Navy four
runs u he good.
The Iine which won from tire Mill
tury Academy at Mest Point oI Sat
urslay and the crews which swept The
river al Philadelphia on the same day,
we're given d reception when they RI
turned sunday afternoon which was
only riyalled by tie receptions 81 foot
hail teams which had defeated their
Army rivals. both pulled III about
i've O'Clock. and were met by practi-
saiiy the whole body &c Midshipmen
ana Il great crowd of Nagal and Anna
polls people.
Some Ell tlle yietors re seated ~.
vehicles which were draSal by the Mid
shjniIlen. ana others cSsied on their
shoulders Arriving q bancroft Hall,
great ovation was gital the athletes
and those in charge 0f Ia al. Speeches
were made by Lieut. Co.'S Leslie A'i-
derson and Coach Bili& Lush, who
handled thc baseball ssaad, and by
capt. Islakeslee fafchssr Cloaghley
and others 81 me nine, End biz Lieut.
Com Joe IL Morrison owing repre-
sentative and Capt HarEIs and Stroke
ingram of the crew Gsndon did mol
return with the squad