Evening star., 1926-03-28

tne enc OF the season, ana many o.
be open for local schools to test thei
Northern schools begin their inv
nell, Yale, Princeton, Lafayette, We
play here before the sun sets neXtsS
prevent
Georgetown leads the local schoc
Catholic University next.
The Blue and Gray plays Bucknell
tomorrow, Temple University. Tues
day; Yale, Thursday. and princeIon,
Saturday. The Bcoollland nine has
three contests, the fest With BDcknell.
Tuesday; the next with Vermont,
THURSDAY and the third with Lafay-
cite, Saturday. Maryland has only
one game that with Yale, Friday
Only two games have been played
so far but considering the time of
year that is not unusual. AS a mat
ter of fact. any contests scheduled in
March are just as likely not to be
played as to be. In the games that
have taken place Maryland won from
Richmond and Catholic u. defeated
Gallaudet.
In its game with Gallaudet yester-
day the Catholic L. nine did just
what was expected and showed that
1t is going TO be just as good as its
coach Charley Moran, predicted.
While Gallaudet hardly could be con-
sidered a far test for the experienced
BrooklandeGs, the game, nevertheless,
was a beginning ana the beginning
indicates what has been contended
for the latter, exceptional strength.
c. y. has a fine iniield, good catch
ing and some good pitchers. It also
seems the team should be able to
bat fairly well.
Charley Moran has been able to
develop ball teams that won games
even when they could not hit and If
he gets q team that really can slam
the ball there's no telling how good
a record it may make.
In its one game Maryland showed
that it has some potential power and
may prove stumbling block to many
teams. However, it does not have the
allaround strength of a really fine
college ball club. 1t is too weak in
certain key positions for that. On
the whole, with fair brand of pitch
ing, Maryland should be a trouble
some nine in most Of it's contests. 1t
does not have as good material as
most OF the schools 1t meets.
Catholic University and University
of Maryland have arranged dual
track and field meet to be held at Col
lege Park on April 10. 1t may be that
Gallaudet will come in and make the
event a three-cornered affair. Gal
laudet has asked Maryland for a meet
on May l, but that is impossible for
the latter because of the meet already
scheduled with Virginia for that date.
The Kendall Green squad will be of
fered the alternative of competing
with both Maryland and c. U.
The lacrosse game scheduled in the
Central High Stadium Saturday be-
tween Maryland and the combined
oxford Cambridge team Will be the
second ever played here, the first hav'
ing taken place between Navy and
Maryland two years ago. That game
was one of the greatest ever played
anywhere, and it may be that the one
with oxford Cambridge will be just
as good. Certainly, IL the lacrosse
squad that represents the combined
strength of the two English univer.
stiles has the average strength of
other teams there should be nothing
lacking in the standard Of their play.
And, judged by what the team has
shown in practice thus far, Maryland
is going to be strong enough to give
the visiting outfit a battle.
Virginia Military Institute and Uni
versity of Maryland engage in the
first dual track meet of the season
here Saturday, when they meet in
the Central Stadium just before the
lacrosse game. Two years ago in the
dual meet which took place in the
Central Stadium on the same date as
the lacrosse game with the Navy V.
NJ /. won from the Old Liners by a
margin of points. Last year at Lex
ington Maryland was victorious by s
points.
In its dual meets this Spring Mary
land will be stronger than it was q
year ago, mainly because it has some
chance to score something IN the
dashes. In a triangular meet year
ago with Navy and North Carolina it
did not score a point in the dashes:
in the dual meet with V. M. /. 1t got
only a out Of 49, and in all other dual
meets made only 2 points out of the
18 possible in each. Pugh and
Matthews are to be depended upon in
the century and in all probability
Pugh and Thomas and Whiteford in
the furlong. Where Maryland seems
to be off color this year is in the field
events. Supplee was the mainstay a
year ago, but this Spring has not been
training and is not showing the
amount of interest necessary to make
an athlete successful. without him
In good shape the Old Liners are not
going to do much in either the javelin
or discus events.
University Of Virginia has in Cum
mings an athlete who is likely to be
one of. the best sprinters in the
country and in all probability the best
in the South. Cummings right now Is
exceptionally fast, but is not very
good starter. 1t is not until after he
has gone 80 yards that he really gets
into Nhis running. If he can develop
his start to a point where he can
reach his fastest gait sooner, he will
have not more than two or three men
in the whole country his equal. From
what he has accomplished in meets
this Winter, with very little training,
too, and from What he showed last
year In his first season as a college
man, Cummings seems to have every
requisite to become one of the great
sprinters of the world in the next two
or three years. He certainly should
be excellent material for the next
Olympic team. In dual meets in the
South and against Northern schools
he will be an almost certain winner.
Right now ii does not seem that there
are more than three college sprinters
in the East who are as good, and they
are not as capable of as much i'm
provement as ne is.