Evening star., 1928-05-13
co TO FOREIGN DIAMONDS
TO BATTLE STRONG FOES
Old Liners Invade Virginia While Brcok!andcrs SO
Norih--Hoyas Have Two Games-Lacrosa-
Seen as Best of College Spring Spcr:s.

coaches for their opinions. r. then
asked that special advisory committee
Of the Foot Ball Coaches Association es
appointed to confer with the rules cor-1-
mittee at the annual meeting and st
subsequent meetings. Since that tire
memoranda Of the changes to be rna6e
have been sent around, with the pc5si-
bility left open for further suggestions
And now requests have been gent mt
asking for suggestions as to the form II
which the rules are tn be printed 1t II
difficult to see how the rules Commits:
could have done much more.
Navy has asked the University n
MARYLAND to take the Army date en- i.s
lacrosse schedule next Spring At Ar
napoiis. and Maryland hes accepted.
The Old Line twelve will appear at An
napolis June / In the game scheduled
as one of the features OF June yees
And Navy again has consented ts send
one of its teams to College Park far rus
of the feature contests of ths University
of MARYLAND field dav. The Navy track
and field squad will engag. in eual
meet with Maryland that afternoon.
II IL rather remarkable what publicity
will do for a sport, or for anything else
for that matter. Take lacrosse In Mary
land. for instance. In the North Lacrosse
is game TO which few schools pay
little more than cursory attention. II
is one OF those sports that are run
merely as an opportunity for competitive
training for students, but In Maryland
II Is different For years Johns Hopkins
has made lacrosse its biggest Spring
sport: In fact, 1t Is the only Spring
sport that has ever been given real at
tention at Hopkins Consequently, with
Hopkins putting all its efforts into that
sport and other schools paying very
little attention to it, Hopkins has been
able to stand out as great twelve year
after year.
That fact enabled the Baltimore
papers to play up lacrosse, give It mucn
more space and attention than base ball
or track, and actually has developed IN
and around Baltimore feeling that IA
crosse Is the biggest OF Spring sports,
and 1t has come to be pretty nearly Just
that The result Is that In and around
Baltimore, lacrosse has received great
er attention that In big Northern
schools and right now in Maryland are
located year after year three or four
of the. best college twelves in the eoun-
try. and probably the best club twelve.
It is the only sport In which any par
ticular section seems able to carry on
a lions share OF the hOnors, and the
only reason for 1t Is the rather peculiar
situation which surrounded its develop
ment at Hopkins and the subsequent
publicity 1t has received as the one
sport in which Hopkins seems always to
stand more or less pre-eminent. In
other words the Baltimore reporters
had something to write about which In
their local school was winner. and
they wrote about 1t with probably en-
tirely unexpected results.
But to those at Hopkins who settled
on lacrosse a. the most attractive Of
Spring sports Is du. considerable credit.
From the viewpoint OF the colieg. man,
lacrosse offers more color than otaer
Spring sports when well playsd. Such
a game S. that played week ago be-
tween Navy and Maryland Is much
more attractive that the closest kind Of
ball game. or tn. closest kind OF .
track meet. and IL lacrosse DEVELOPS
throughout the country as It has In ths
State of Maryland. then there Is no req
son why the majority of games should
not be Just as good and equally inter-
esting.
Bob Feszer. coach Of track athletics
SAAA AAQNtAA Ok AeAAkSA&A@ ~ &NUA ~ Af&&0s
lima University. has q record In han
ding squads In championship meets
that few coaches In the South can ape
proach. Fet2er's squad this Spring won
the seventh consecutive meet for tie
State championship. and has no. lost
dual meet In six seasons. Also xiy
times has Fetser won the Southern
championships. an exceptional record.
just how weil Fetssr stands at North
Carolina and just how much some OF
his men think O: him. is silaxE In q
statement by one Of them the Other
day This man said: Coach Bah
says the games the thing. ana ii yea
play as hard and clean as you can the
results viii take care of themselves. for
team with that spirit Is mois than
likely to win He insists on ais men
playing the game clean because IL de-
veleps In them the spirit 70 play clean
In after life. and there's Hany uni
versity alumnus Who Is better man
because he has heen under Coach Bob"