Evening star., 1927-04-20
BY Fl. c. BYRD.

HRINCETON, Pennsylvania and
Harvard headline athletic con-
tests here today and tomorrow.
"A Today the Tigers and Quskers
have ball games respectively
with Georgetown and Maryland and
tomorrow the Crimson meets George
town in base ball and Maryland in la
crosse
Yesterday wound up the Easter
vacation and instead of being played
early in the afternoon, games will go
back to 4 o'clock starting time.
In addition to these contests Boston
College remains in Washington for a
meeting this afternoon with Catholic
Cniversity's diamond aggregation,
while Maryland tomorrow goes to
Charlottesville to play the first of
two games it has scheduled with
Virginia.
Two of the teams visiting here
played yesterday both at George
town. Boston College went down in a
J2-inning game by to 4, while
Pennsylvania was victor by to /.
Boston College was played in the
morning and Penn in the afternoon.
Princeton usually has a mighty
good bali team and the game at
Georgetown ought to he well worth
ing great guns, and its contest with
Maryland should be just as interest
ing.
Boston Colleges effort at George.
town yesterday also was of such a ma
ture that Catholic University need ex-
pect nothing but the strongest kind
bf opposition.
While the Harvard Georgetown ball
game should be among the best of the
season, the CI5mson's la crosse strug-
gle with Maryland will hold main in
terest if for no other reason that very
few high-class contests in the old In
dian pastime are played in this vi
einity.
Maryland always ranks high in la
crosse and Harvard is said to have
a big. fast team. 1t should be a
highly interesting battle in a sport
that is chock full of action from the
start of a game to the finish.
Georgetown-C Catholic University and
Maryland have played well in practi-
cally all their ball games. Monday
Lafayette beat Maryland, TO /, in
the only game the latter has lost out
Of six, yet the play of the Old Liners
was good. Lafayette had an older
and far more experienced combina-
ton and won because it played little
better. Georgetown lost to Penn yes
terday, vet the game it put up war
ranted very little criticism. Many
times the three local schools have had
good teams. but it is doubtful If all
three have been as strong at the same
time in a long while. certainly not
since 1919, when the Hilltoppers,
Brooklanders and Old Liners had bet
ter combinations than they have now.
Virginia has lost its star second
baseman and leading batter because
of an attack of inflammatory rheuma-
tism. Ted Garnett, whose batting
mark is 500 for the four games in
which he took part, is the man who
Is out for the remainder of the year.
Out of II times at bat in the four
games Garnett got four singles, a
double. a triple and home run.
Garnett comes of a long line of
University of Virginia men. His
father was graduated from the univer-
sity in 1893. his grandfather in 1867
and his great-grandfathe in 1929.
GeOrgetowI3s ball tossers got an
even break yesterday in close tits,
overcoming Boston College, to a. in
II innings in the morning and bow
ing to Pennsylvania, / TO 8, in the
afternoon. A home run by Tommy
Phelan, gave the Blue and Gray VIC
tory in the morning contest. Beck.
er's circuit clout with one on was a
big factor in Penn's triumph over the
Hilltoppers.