Evening star., 1924-05-02

The team is accompanied by Blondy
Clarkson and Bill Raftery. the former
head coach of all athletics at V. NJ 1.
and the latter general assistant.
Both Clarkson and Raftery are ex-
ceptionauy capable men. have accom-
pllShed fine things at NM.I., and have
personalities that would carry them
far, even il they were not good
coaches. For the last two or three
years good base ball and basket ball
and the foot ball teams have held
their own with the best in the south.
ClarkSOn and RAftery discussed for
quite awhile last night the changes
in the foot ball rules for next year.
Both think very unfavorably of the
change in the kick off. which does
away with tees and which causes the
= ball to be kicked from the center of
the field. ut will spoil one of the
prettiest plays in foot ball, because no
more will the spectator see long, high
kick-offs, with the receiving team
forming to carry back the ball and
the kicking team rushing down field
70 stop a run-back; all because no
kicker will be able to get heighth
with his kicks when kicking from
the bat ground was the gist of Clark
sons opinion. It was Raftery's
thought that there would be few long
kicks. that there would be no heighth
bounding along the ground and cause
a lot of mussedup plays. and that the
moving of the ball up to the center
of tAa deld was a mistake anyway.
UniVer~ity of Maryland teams will
! have busy time tomorrow. The
varsity lacrosse, base ball and track
squads are scheduled for intercol-
legiate competition. while the fresh
man nine also is TO play. The la
a baltimore
against Hopkins in game it had
rather win than any other on its
> schedule: the base ball team meets
Virginia Military Institute in the
track men go to Richmond for dual
meet with University of Richmond.
The freshman diamonders make the
trip TO Annapolis to face the Navy
Piebes.
notwithstanding that Maryland is
the only institution in the southern
conference that supports lacrosse
team, and notwithstanding that II is
q game that has been given but scant
consideration in the great majority
of colleges and universities where IT
iB played, Maryland is more inter-
ested in its contest tomorrow with
Hopkins than in the contests in which
its two mapor sports teams are to
compete. Lacrosse is the one sport
in which Maryland never has won
from the Baltimoreans, and this is
the year that the Old Liners feel they
have an even chance. Both teams
have defeated the Navy. Maryland by
> to and Hopkins by > to T., ana
considerable interest seems to nave
been stirred up around BaitlmoFe'
Probably the biggest crowd that mas
watched a college athletic contest OF
any kind around this part OF the
country this spring will see the TIT.
V.N-J. has not been playing much
lol go
Maryland has and that game at Col
Iege Park should be nip and tuck.
Marylands track and field squad
should stand something better than
in the dual games at the Old Domin-
ion capital.
Catholic University and Maryland
yesterday. the former in a we'll
played contest by 2 to l, and the lat
ter in a runaway by IL to 8. May,
pitching for Catholic u, did some
good work, but West Virginia simply
got little the better of the breaks.
Maryland never had much chance
against. North Carolina State, the
Raleigh school scoring five runs right
at the outset and gaining lead
which it retained until the latter part
of the contest, when it began to
score frequently.
Gettysburg College is here this
afternoo nto play Georgetown at base
ball Nothing is known of the
strength of the visitors, but If they
have a pitcher anywhere near as good
as was Wolf. the hurler who, on the
slab for Lebanon Valley, beat George
town last week, the game ought to
be a good one.
Incidentally, it might be mentioned
that Wolf, who hurled SO well
against the Blue and Gray. is said to
H. ~ Ays9n