Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-04-18
LOCAL COLLEGIATE
MINES HAVE SEVEN
GAMES THIS WEEK
Five on Home Fields and Two
Away-0thers May
Be Arranged.
BY II. G. BYRD.


games on foreign fields. First OF
the games listed will take place
| Wednesday. with George Washing
ton appearing at Georgetown and
Nillanova at Catholic Universityr
Thursday Nillanova goes over TO
Georgetown and Delaware Collie,
comes down to Maryland State:
Friday Delaware College plays at
georgetown Saturday Georgetown
and Catholic University take trips.
the former going to the Naval Acad-
envy and the latter to Fordham.
Other games are possible. 1t may
be that Catholic University and
| Maryland State will meet tomorrow.
Their game yesterday was post
poned because of rain, and Charley
Moran, director of athletics at c. L.,
IS making an attempt to arrange
| matters SO that the two mines can
meet at Brookiand Bethany Col
lege OF West Virginia has a game
| pending tomorrow with Gallaudet.
and Randolph Macon is anxious to
arrange a contest with Gallaudct
for Wednesday.
l
Most of the games this week should
develop good base ball. villanova usu-
| ally is represented by a strong nine and
II should put up good fights against
Cathohc University and Georgetown. 1t
has not been ascertained just what kind
OF team Delaware College has. The
Newark institution, like most schools
| north OF Baltimore, has taken part in
very few games, a phase OF base ball
| In which the southern teams arc far
i ahead. Georgetown's game with the
| Navy and Catholic Cniversity's with
Fordham ought to take places among
the hardest fought Of the year. Navy
seem to have a great nine again and
| II is sure that any team which defeats
Georgetown has got to be among the
strongest combinations Of the season.
Games last. week continued to demon
| strate that one does not have to travel
much farther than Washington to find
Just as good college mines as can be
| found anywhere. Tufts, usually one Of
| the strongest of New England teams,
got the short end of the scores in two
of its three scheduled games and prob
ably would have been defeated by
Georgetown yesterday had it not
rained.
| While comparisons between north
| ern and southern ball teams this
spring on a basis Of the games played
L
| accepted very contentedly by followers
| OF Cornell Tufts. Yale and the others
| that nave come this way. because OF
the greater amount of practice south
EN- schools have had. northern in
| situations VIII hold that games which
take place later in the season in the
north will be much better criterions
| or the actual comparative strength Of
| the southern and northern mines.
| However. giving the northerners
ha ut hn x.ykt oh, 1-h
f, arise from such consideration, u is
true that the northerners have not
| appeared to have teams which should
| develop into better combinations than
| those here and farther south While
| the northern squads have been out
! doors but little. they have had the
advantage of cages in whicl- they got
| some batting practice and just As
good infield practice during February
and March as they could have OBJ
| is well fixed in this regard.
Cornell sud Fordham strong.
With the exception of CornelIs
pitching staff, Cornell and Fordham
| seem to have had the strongest mines
that have come here from the north
John Henry, former Washington
| catcher. who is coaching Cornell. said
while here that he had about ss
strong a collegiate nine as he had
pitching staff. Despite the strength
of these teams. they suffered defeats.
Cornell was beaten by Hopkins and
Virginia and Fordham was shut out
| by Georgetown. Vermont. Tufts,
Yale. Holy Cross, Amherst and Lee
| high have been trimmed on the oc-
casion of their visits in this section.
| incidentally. the University. of Michi-
gan, reputed to have one of the strong
est teams in the middle west. was
| bumped down at Auburn and only
split even with Georgia.
| this section will invade the north.
and until the end OF the year hardly
a week will pass without some team
from the south Atlantic section going
| north for games. Results of such
contests will be watched with a great
deal of interest.
Track and field squads In North
Carolina, Virginia, Maryland and Dis
trtct of Columbia are getting ready
for their outdoor seasons. In fact,
Virginia had n rather suspicious be-
ginning yesterday at Annapolis when
il defeated the Naval Academy in q
dual meet; such a victory speaks well
for the chances of the Cha rlottesville
school in the south Atlantic cham
pionship games at Blacksburg three
weeks from yesterday.
Prospects for the South Atlantic In
IPTcOlleS AtHlSIlC ASSoCldIlOn
games indicate that one of the great
est meets i'll the history of the asso-
citation should be held. North Care
lima University, Virginia, Washington
and Lee. Virginia Military Institute.
Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Georgetown, Catholic University and
Hopkins are sure to be entrants, with
the possibility Of two Of three other
schools taking part. Delaware Col
lege has asked for Nom bership In the
association and If IL is granted will
send squad.
other Meets Scheduled.
Besides the championship games,
most of the colleges and universities
have dual meets with rivals Of long
standing. Virginia this coming 6atur
day Is to stage three-oornered at
fair with Virginia Military Institute
and the University of North Carolina
as the other contestants. A feature
event on which many of the schools
South Atlantic !. A. A. titular relay
race at the Penn relay games May /.
Georgetown, Virgins, Hopkins and
Catholic University are entered.
Central High School Is concentrat-
ing its efforts on making it's track
and field meet May one Of the big
gest scholastic affairs that have taken
place around here. Several alumni
are managing the meet under the di-
rection Of "Cy'' Macdonald AID they
are getting results in their connu-
nications to other schools. Pe4aenal
visits are being made by alumni to
other big high and prep sohesls In
the section to enlist their aid and to