The Washington times., 1921-03-29
NAVY WILL START
ON SPRING SPORTS
Princeton Baseball Team Sched-
uIes Fast Teams at
ANNAPOLIS.
nv HUGH Il. RILEY.

ANNAPOLlS, Mo-. March 2S.-Spring
sports got under way Saturday at the
Naval Academy when Navy met Prince
ton on the baseball field The Navy
players go against some hard PROPOSE
tons at the very first Tomorrow
the University Of Pennsylvania win
have its nine at Annapolis while, on
Friday next Pennsylvania State will
play here.
Saturdays and Wednesdays are the
usual baseball days here. but IL was
found impossible to fx any other date
but Friday. April 1. for . meeting
with Penn State.
The lacrosse season opens Just one
week later. the University of Mary
land being the opponents of the Naval
Academy on Saturday. April 2. The
other attractions for the day will be a
baseball game between the second
mines of Georgetown and the Naval
Academy.
With a majority of the members of
the lacrosse team which easily won
the collegiate championship of the
East last year, the Navy will be very
strong in this sport this season. A
large proportion of the members OF
the football team are now on the la
crosse squad.
LUSH ON THE JON.
Billy Lush. the baseball coach, IL
handling a big job in finding men to
NIL the places of such players as Mil
| ner. shortstop; Cloughley. catcher;
Clark. third baseman and outnelder.
and Harman, center fielder.
However. the progress Of the squad
has been encouraging. and there have
been several finds in the new class.
| The improved stick work of some of
the old players and good work in this
| ~ nd N af
| noticeable and gratifying.
The players who seem to be certain
| OF places for the early games at
Fourteenth street are: Hogan, catcher !;
Humphreys, FIRST base: Pine (captain).
second base; Stubbs, Poole and Rawl-
ings, outneldera Humphreys. Pine.
Stubbs and Poole were regular play
ers last year. while Hogan and Rawl-
ings played in a number Of important
games. Hogan has been changed
| catcher for two years and only the
fact that the team had An extraordi-
nary catcher in Cloughley kept him
off the team.
In the pitching line. prospects are
| excellent Gaines, rangy left
handler. and the mainstay on the slab
last season, Is again on hand. while
much is expected OF Niemeyer. q
husky fellow who nings with his
right. Reiter and Alexander are also
changed pitchers from last year. Tho
pitcher in Fleming. also a left hand or
and even taller than Gaines. With
good speed and control and remark
ably sharp curves, he has every ear
mark of q great college pitcher.
| Hederman and H. ID. Baker. both
substitutes last year. began at short
and third base respectively. A col
lision on the bases put Hederman out
of the game for q time, and his place
10 being flled by Barchet., a very
likely member of the new class. He
fields his position and bats well.
Baker Is encountering stin opposi-
tion from Carney. big football line
man of the new class. The latter
fields the position we'll and is hitting
savagely. Mckee. the football and
basketball star, is also trying for the
nine, but has not made much progress
so far.
PLAYS GAMES AWAY.
The nine looks forward with much
pleasure to two games away from
Annapolis this season. On May 1t
the University of West Virginia in
Baltimore. while on May 20 1t will
meet it's closest rivals, the repre-
sentatives Of the United States Mill
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tary Academy, at West Point. Tho
Naval Academy has won the last
two games.
The lacrosse team will also have
trip playing Johns Hopkins In
Baltimore on May IL. This Is the
drst game away from Annapolis to
he arranged for a Naval Academy
lacrosse team.
The home games are: April >,
| 90 nj
Cornell; April 1s, University Of
Pennsylvania: April 90, Harvard;
| April 80. Swarthmore; May Z, Penn
sylvania State. The lacrosse team
! has clean slate for the last two
seasons, and the schedule of the
coming season Is well adapted to
give the Midshipmen the opportunity
of again winning the undisputed
supremacy among the colleges