Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1920-03-27
With Several Veterans To Start
With, Squad OF Thirty Men
Have Taken Seats At Training
Table - Open Strong Seized
ule With. Princeton April 8
FOURTH SEASON FOR
COACH BILLY" LUSH


big teams such as Princeton. Penn
sylvania State College. Harvard,
Georgetown, Washington and Lee. and
University of West Virginia, indica-
tons are that the Annapolis midship-
men will have an interesting time OF
it on the diamond.
The schedule calls for II games IN
all. The lid will be pried off ON Satur-
day next with the Tigers as the oppos-
ing force. and will close with the
Army engagement. The opening OF
the season is about week later than
is generally the case with Navy mines,
and Coach BILLY" Lush, formerly of
Yale, who is filing his fourth annual
contract as mentor, expects TO have
his charges going in good shape for
the fray, in view of the fact that al
ready they have had ten days of field
work, in addition to about three weeks
of the preliminaries in the cage of the
armory building. Like all other ath-
letics here, baseball will just about
adjust itself 10 prewar conditions.
Many Are Veterans
An encouraging circumstance to
Coach Lush is the fact that he has a
number of veterans for nucleus, and
besides an army of other candidates
came out at the start. During this
week, however, the squad has been re-
duced to "A, and 80 of these are now
occupying seats about the training
table Thirty is the limit allowed un-
der athletic regulations. And th.,
players have been enabled to put in
some pretty good ticks of practice
during the mild and otherwise gener-
ally good weather conditions that have
prevailed this week.
Coach Lush developed a. nine last
year that tanned the Army lads who
had been feasting on victories at the
expense of the middies for several
years. The success of the West Point
ers, however, was due in large meas
ure, to the splendid pitching of Bob
Neyland, one of the greatest hurlers
ever turned out at the Point, and his
predecessor Hyatt.
TWO vi otdE NdlADEC
Included among Lush's pupils are
two of the best of college players in
their respective positions. These are
Shorty" Miner, who holds down at
short, and who is serving his SECOND
year as captain of the nine, an honor
which has seldom before come to a
midshipman. and Cloughley, catcher.
Miner is a natural born ball player,
and Cloughley has a wing that was
the peer of any college receiver seen
on the local diamond last spring, in
consequence of which many runners
died at~the second bag. Furthermore,
both are good with the stick.
Five Good Hurlers
The mound men are L. N. Baker,
Gaines and Neimeier, all of whom
twirled one or more games last sea-
son, and jacob
The infelders, according to the
present lineup, in addition to Miner
at short, are Humphreys and Pine, at
first and second. respectively, both
veterans; and H. D. Baker, who is do
ing fine work at the hot corner. Lush
should not experience much trouble in
selecting his outfield from such men
as Stubs, the surest hitter and fast
est man on the bases last year; Clark,
McLaurie, Poole, Rawlings and Ban
nington.
The annual game with Harvard will
as usual. be played during the latter
half of April. 1t was the custom for
the Crimson for several years to use
the Academy grounds, by courtesy.
for about weeks practice while on
the annual southern trip, but whether
they will lay over here for more than
a day this time, is not known
Schedule of Games
Here is the layout of schedule
that confronts the Middle tossers
April 3-Princeton.
April 7-Pennsylvania State Col
lege..
April Washington College, of
Chestertown. Nd.
April 14-Mount st. Mary's College.
April 17-Lafayette College.
April 21-Harvard.
April 24-Georgetown.
April 2S-Catholic University.
May University of South Caro-
Ina.
May Washington and Lee Univer-
psity.
May University of West Virginia
May maryland State College.
May 13-Swarthmore College.
May 1s-Ursinus College.
May Hutchinson College.
May 26-Vill aNova College.
May 29-Army.
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