Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
HILLTOPPERS TO MEET
TEMPLE In FIRST TEST
Blue and GRAY was Sent IL Innings to Score Over
Philadelphia in Inaugural Last Season.
GaIIaudet at e. u. Wednesday.

! It Is likely that II will center It's ef
forts around the Penn relays and in
| tercollegiates. In both these meets
Georgetown has done we'll for thu
last three wears. Both meets arr
| scheduled for Franklin field at Phila
delphia.
The Blue and Gray did not do a,
| we'll on the indoor tracks as 1t did q
/ year ago, but its record was far from
| bad.
However. outdoors ii is expected the
| team will show at it's best, as several
| field men will get chances to compete
! who, during the indoor season. were
either injured or did not have their
| events listed for competition.
Tom Ready expects To have another
strong nine to represent the Marine
! Corps despite the loss of several stars
Of the team that cleaned up In the
, championship series at Philadelphia a
year ago Pete Schrider. former slab
star at Maryland, is not in shape vet
and will do nothing until the weather
gets warmer. but he should be an ex
ceptionally hard man to beat Walter
TroXell. who played first for Mary
land year ago. is holding down that
position with the Marines, but may be
as Freeney gets ready tc. take his
place at first
That college boxing is not unpop
ular at University of Virginia and i'm
Charlottesville is shown by the at.
tendance at the tournament of the
Southern Conference held there a
short time back. Teams were brought
to Charlottesville from as far south
as Florida and Georgia, yet the at
tendance was sufficient to bring in
schools. More than 1000 persons are
said to have attended the final bouts.
University OF Richmond, which
opened its base ball schedule at Mary.
land Friday and played Navy yester.
day. certainly started its season well
IN run-getting. In the two contests
Ii crossed the plate - times. nine
times against Maryland and Is times
against Navy. In fact. all four
teams did plenty OF run.getting Navy
counting eight times and Maryland
II.
1t really is too early for base ball.
OF too cold, according TO the way one
looks at 1t. And that Is the main
drawback college base ball here and
north of here has--that 1t is too cold
for players and for spectators until
the season is practically ended.
University Of Kentucky is planning
to come this way in basket ball next
Winter. Ii its plans for the trip
materialize it will be the first time
the Blue Grass auint has appeared
here since it met Georgetown several
years ago. Kentucky is DESTROYS of
arranging four contests in which 1t
may meet Virginia, Georgetown.
Maryland and Navy. according to re.
ports from Lexington.
Maryland's track squad has an out
look In the field events that is any.
thing but rosy. Its best shotputter
probably viii not go over 3S feet; IL
it has pole vaulter to do as well as
10 feet he has not vet shown him
self, and in the discus and javelin the
candidates are comparatively worse
than that. with the possible exception
Of one man in the discus. And TO cap
that the Navy i'm insisting In its dual
meet that hammer throw be In
Guided. and Maryland never had a
man in = hammer throw event in its
history and never owned hammer,
as no Southern school. except George
town. ever trains men for that event.