Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-22
DELAWARE COMING
FOR LOCAL GAMES
Newark CoIIegians Meet
Maryland Today, George
town Tomorrow.
BY H. C. BYRD.

Delaware College comes here today
for the first of two games. The
Newark men meet Maryland State at
College Park this afternoon and to-
morrow go to the Hilltop for con-
! test with Georgetown. The game at
State today is to begin at 4:15 and
the one at Georgetown tomorrow at
3:45 o'clock.
Not much is known as to the calfber
OF the Delaware nine. Last year 1t
came down here and lost to Maryland
State and Georgetown. then went back
during the remainder of the season
University of Pennsylvania was
among the teams defeated. 1t is un-
derstood that Delaware has back prac-
ticaIly the same players who wore
| it's colors a year ago. Delaware is
| Maryland State man.
yillanova plays at Catholic Tniver-
| sity this afternoon. The Pennsyl-
vanians come here with what is said
to be strong nine. The game will
/ begin at 4 o'clock.
Yesterdays game between Catholic
University and Maryland State, which
| resulted in a to 0 victory for the
hibition of college base ball as one
should want to watch. Both teams
got good pitching. and the men back
| of the hurlers f1elded superbly. There
| was nothing ragged about the game
at any time.
| liant pitchers battle between Jack
son and keene. with very little to
choose between them, but in the clos
ing innings the Marylander stood up
better and won out after his opponent
filtered. Besides pitching. so. we'll
| keene connected with Jackson's de-
| livery for a homer after Snyder had
hit safely to right.
Some brilliant fielding was done by
| the two teams. Stewart Knode. on
| third for State. and Lucey. at short
for c. u. covered their positions
much better than the jobs usually are
handled by college ball players. Lu-
cey and Riggs made the stellar plays
of the game. the former making a
great one-hand pickup of a grounder
the latter going back and catching a
ball that was hit to short left and
which had every appearance of hit.
Incidentally, despite the fact that he
is left-hand batter. young Mr..
Riggs got his bat against the ball for
a double and two singles Snyder and
Keene were the other State men to
get more than one hit, each making
two.
Catholic University has a good infield.
but Is weak back Of the bat and in the
outf1eld. Corwin, a good catcher a year
ago, is having trouble with his arm and
cannot throw we'll and Dunn. who is a
regular first baseman. has been shifted
back OF the plate. With Dunn at first,
Harrington at second and Lucey at
| short, the Brooklanders have the nu-
cleus of a great team. None Of the
c. U. outflelders seem able to hit the
ball and 1t Is in lack of batting strength.
taking out the three players mentioned.
that the weakness of the nine Is most
fear that the Brookland combination.
able to give the best of collegiate COM
binations the hardest kind of battles
Business and Eastern meet tomorrow
in the high school series. The game
really will be the opening Of the cham
pionship schedule. as the contest be-
tween Central and Tech was not played.
The teams are to meet at $3.50 at Union
League Park.
Georgetown's game with George
Washington yesterday was called of
because Of a soggy field. No date has
been set for playing the contest
Jimmie Lemon yesterday was elected
captain of the Central High base ball
/ team for next year Lemon played end
on the foot ball team and is holding
down first base in base ball. He is one
| Of the most popular athletes at Central