Evening star., 1924-04-28

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Maryland teams get in a big day
saturday. The lacrosse team goes
70 Baltimore for the annual tilt with
Hopkins, a game the Old Line men
would rather win than any other on
lhelr schedule because they have yet
70 defeat Hopkins in that sport. In
the morning, at College Park, Mary
land entertains the Virginia Military
institute nine; the track team goes
70 Richmond for a dual meet with
Rchmond and the Freshman nine
visits Annapolis to play the Navy
Plebes.
North Carolina and West Virginia,
which play here this afternoon, are
much weaker than usual West Vir-
Slnla has made a poor record on
the diamond so far this spring, while
North Carolina has not measured up
to anything like it's standards of the
1ast four years. Georgetown should
nave no trouble getting away with
me long end of the count against
west Virginia, while Maryland, de
spite its in-and-out ball of this
spring, has an even chance against
the TarheelS.
All this week the Maryland lacrosse
team will spend its energies in get
ting ready for its game with Hopkins
at Baltimore. Probably it would be
Detter to say that the team will
ersles Tor that game, because that
seems 10 be about the greatest need
right now. Maryland has had too
much hard lacrosse for its own good
Sao should not get much in the way
or strenuous workouts this week.
Lacrosse IS pretty much the same
as foot ball, in that no team can
play hard game every week and
not suffer SlumpS
Lacrosse being the only sport in
which Maryland has never defeated
Hopkins, naturally the College Park
men are anxious for a victory. Only
IN the last two years has lacrosse
Deen developed with any special en-
phasis at Maryland and last year
was the first time an attempt was
5iaoe 10 stage big game with Hop
klns: Hopkins, of course, has heen
anahing lacrosse one of its main
sports Tor several years and usuallv
mas one of the best tweIves in the
country. INC
Just how evenly Maryland and
hopkins are matched may be real
H H1zeu When the scores against the
navy are considered. Hopkins heat
Mavy to 4, and Maryland beat
Navy to 3. the first two defeats
registered against the Midshipmen in
seven years. "
Probably the biggest crowd that
VIII watch a spring contest in Bal
IImorA. will see the two teams meet.
hopkins won last year by to 2.
For some reason it seems that the
performance of Dowding of George
town In winning the running broad
jump in the Penn relays escaped
special notice in the accounts of the
meet. DoWding was the only man in
the event to leap more than twenty
three feet, and his jumping was
much better than that of his oppo-
nentS.
In regard to Dowding's victory in
the broad jump it is rather interest
ing to note that after a certain ath-
Iete had jumped and cleared slightly
over twenty-five feet one of the
on1cials called to a photographer
and said; Say, get this man and
take a picture of the winner of the
event" Dowding then jumped more
than foot farther than the man the
official picked to win, and a George
town man could not help remarking
that it would be wise for officials, Is
well as contentants, to look before
they leap"
Philadelphia may not know how to
clean up in some respects as well as
the most ardent prohibitionists would
like to see it cleaned up, but one
thing it does, and does well, is to run
the Penn relay games. No track and
field meet anywhere could possibly be
better staged than are the Penn
games They start on time, every
thing goes off by schedule, and there
is never any tagging behind on the
part of anybody other than tired
runners The starting is good,
though not SO good last week as it
has been; the officials all know their
business, and, all in all, the Penn re-
lay games are a well done Job