Evening star., 1920-03-10
LAYING B|GPLANS
F0RFOUR SPORTS
Maryland State Making Prep
arati0nS for Its Heaviest
Outdoor Schedule.
BY II. e. BYRD.

Maryland State plans the liveliest out
door season in athletics that it has ever
gone through. Schedules for base ball.
track and field. lacrosse and tennis are
avout completed and due to be an
nounced within few days.
No Maryland institution has ever at
tempted base ball schedule as long as
is being arranged by the College Park
SCHOOL The season is due to open with
Georgetown March "a. two weeks from
today. and March q Gallaudet is to be
played. From March 80 to April the
team will be on southern trip and
after a long series of games at home.
beginning with Penn State. the team
VIII go on northern trip the first week
in June.
Six games are to- be played in lacrosse,
five meets are being listed for track and
field and about eight matches scheduled
IN tennis. The most important contests
in lacrosse are to be with Cornell. Navy,
Penn State and Hopkins.
The lacrosse squad is the first to get
out for practice. about thirty-five men
wing worked out for two weeks. Base
ball candidates got out yesterday and
threw the ball around "A little. but did
practically nothing else, the ground be-
ing too wet and soggy. Pitchers of the
squad are going TO be lucky to get in
shape by the opening of the season, and
II they do not the Marylanders are going
to have some hard shedding on the trip
south.
Track and field athletics are to be
resurrected at State this spring after
an absence of nearly three years
Ihe last real attempt the College
Park men made to enter events was
In the indoor meets of 1917. The re-
turn to the sport this spring finds
just one point winner lined up with
~ ,,
who went into the South Atlantic In
tercollegiate broad jump last spring
at Baltimore and won without train
ing. This years work at state in
track sports will consist mainly of
building a strong squad for 1921. La
cross is in pretty much the same boa
as track.
1t is possible that a triangular
track and field meet may be, staged
here this spring between Catholic
University. Lafayette and Maryland
State. Lafayette has sounded both
State and c. L. and the Marylanders
are in favor of the meet provided d
suitable place to hold the event can
be obtained.
A youngster at Maryland State who
made a big reputation last year in
prep school base ball was asked yes
terday when he reported for prac-
tice:
Can you hit?'
Well. l don't like to brag on
myself too much"
Coach Metzler of Central High has
his baseball candidate working out in
the gymnasium. 1t seems to be 4
problem at Central to get rid of the
most unlikely candidates rather than
to pick the best, according to reports
from Mount Pleasant.
Many a northern college team coming
south this spring is pretty sure to have
| q staff of pitchers trained indoors. IT
! fact, that is about the only kind of train
| ing any of the pitchers in colleges II
this section have been able to get SC
| far.
Monday night at o'clock all alumni
| of Central High School who have wor
their letters in any branch of sport ar,
| to meet at the high school and form 9
monogram club. Some of the athletic
stars of former years are back of the
movement and efforts are being made
! to get as many men as possible to at.
| tend the meeting.
The club is being organized to further
| athletic interests at Central. and it is
| felt that the proposed organization
| should be a big factor in helping to de-
velop sports of all kinds. Already the
alumni have agreed that the club shat
take over the annual meet May 8. ant
| run that from a financial standpoint
| which. in itself. is a big help to the Blu,
| and White Athletic Association