Evening star., 1928-03-11

r est outlook for base ball. The
~ Blue and GRAY Is on the field
with every position fillsd by
veteran OF last year. with the excep-
tion OF shortstop. which is being taken
care Of just about as well as any place
on college team ever is. And. in ad-
dition 10 having back practically the
entire team Of l927, the Blue and Gray
has available in Pete Burch and Frank
Gillespie two of the most successful
college pitchers in the East.
Ralph Graham seems to be fixture
on first base for his fourth consecutive
year, and not many better first sackers
are 10 be found on college diamonds in
this section. nor in any other section
for that matter. Second base is being
handled by Bucky O'Neil and third by
Bob NorI. which means that these
. positions will be even more capably
filled than In 1927, as both players have
improved considerably. Dunn and Brad
ley are leading candidates for the
shcrtStop's berth, with both playing
well in every practice. but with the
former doing better work so far.
Veteran outfielders.
The same men who held down the
outfield berths year ago are working
out in good shape now. Pill Mclean
in left field. Tom Glenn in center and
Creth Hines in right are the men
who in all probability again will hold
down the jobs. Mccarthy. Duplin and
Odlurn are the bcst Of the other cam
didates.
Burch and Gillespie are likely to be
the bulwarks of the pitching staff. HIT
Eencnston. who did good WORK year
cgo, end Coppinger and Holmes are
certain 10 break into good many coz
tests. They should give the veterans
capable support. Fogarty and Hughes
are the southpaw hurlers and. includ-
ing them. the Blue and Gray coach.
Larry Kopf begins his season with s:x
right dependable hurlers, a far better
prospect than any other school has.
Neither Catholic University nor
Maryland. the other local mines thai
meet the big teams. has anywhere near
rs bright prospects as Georgetown. The
Brookianders lost several good men
whose places are just not going 10 be
filled by players as capable. and the
same thing is pretty true of Maryland
II wotld be expecting almost too much
for Catholic y. to replace men like
Eaytage and Keale. shortstop and firsi
bsseman. respectively. and for Mary
land to find anybody as capable as
Stevens Not that both will not have
good teams. but both are up against
much more difieult propositions than
Georgetown.
Face Hard Tasks.
Catholic University's main difhcul'y
Ia in rebuilding its infield. end therein,
hes Aarylands main trouble also. Both
are in q position where they must find
players to take the places Of men WHO
were stars. And Maryland also is with
out the services Of England. star pitcner
OF last year. who beat both Yale and
Pennsylvania, who left school despite
the fact he was elected captain OF the
team,
MARYLAND probably viii have a bet
Ter balanced team than IL had year
ego. and provided ii can find pitchers
10 keep opposing teams from knocking
the ball al over the lot is going 10
give good many teams lot OF
trouble
Coach shipley has cut his squad. and
Indications are he nov depends on
Bromley and Higgins. who came from
the 1927 freshman team, TO do the
catching.
Tne .nal four for the infieid will be
picked from Hoffman and Lombard.
first bzsemen: Radice and Simmons
at second, Hale and Ransberg. short
stopz, and Wilson and Zahn AZ third.
wilson and R2dice seem sure Of places
but the final selections for the other
Jobs are coubtful. Vet
The outfe!d viii be picked from
Kesgier. Leschinsky. Hetzel. Tansil and
McGann. Ksssler and LeSchinSky are
practically certain Of Jobs and the other
three men TO fight II out for the third
Asafy
Ii is in the pitching stan that Mary
isnd's success or failure this Spring
lies. Bromley. Burroughs. Batson.
Pi,ipps. Bouhiitz De Marco. Madigan
and Mace are the men now doing the
hur2.ne OF these, IL seems the most
promising are Batson. Phipps and
Ms6igan. ell former Washington High
School men. who did well on local
amateur league teams last Summer.
and Mace and Bromley. Bromley is
. left-hanaeT. and did some good work
year ago. Mace was freshman
pitcher last year. and before that
pitched the Cambridge High School 70
the championship OF Maryland.
Athletes Are Busy.
Workouts In base ball and track
are proceeding rapidly In all schools
and from now en- viii grow more and
more intensive. II IL only short
while before the baSe ball season opens
with regular contests, and the first OF
dual tYsck and field meets are listed
the fsrst week In April. just about four
weeks from nov.
GeoFaetoyn and Maryiand will go
through with rather I5ng track and
field schedules. as they have the &osst
three Or four years, but George Wash