Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-03-29
LACROSSE GAINING
COLLEGIATE FAVOR
Diamond Game Now Merely
on Trial at GaIIaudet After
Years LayoH.
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At GEORGETOWN, Catholic University
and Gallaudet only the players appear
to be interested. The students plainly
No great fuss is being made at George
Washington over the Colonials' new
team.
Maryland, with the makings of good
club. is not greatly enthused.
John D. O'Reilly of Georgetown.
famed for years as a college base ball
coach, sees golf and tennis as the I'M
derminers of base ball.
They're not only killing of base ball,
but golf and tennis are detracting from
the interest in track" said O'Reilly,
who is occupied now only with the
spiked shod athletes.
At Maryland the spectacular game OF
lacrosse is pushing base ball into the
background. This sport seems to md
instant favor wherever introduced. A
representative of leading Southern In
stitution recently spent 10 days at Mary
land getting a line on lacrosse.
A Featureful Game.
The old Indian game combines some
of the principal features of base ball,
foot bali, basket ball, track and soccer.
The team play closely resembles basket
ball.
In the next FIVE years." said Jack
Faber, Maryland coach, today, Lacrosse
will sweep the country"
A number of colleges already are
stressing lacrosse, foot ball and basket
ball and letting base ball and track take
care of themselves.
Base ball is almost a dead loss
financially as q college game. Holy
Cross is distinguished as the only insti-
tuition in the East to make the game
pay a worthwhile profit.
The death by slow degrees OF college
base ball is q matter of utmost concern
to major league magnates. OF late
years the big time rosters have been
recruited largely from the campus.
Half a dozen or more washington play
ers learned a lot of their base ball at
college. including notably Hadley, Hop
kins, Burke, Barnes, Ruel, Myer and
Weaver.
Scout Engel Sees Decline.
Joe Engel, the washington scout, dis
cussing the future OF base ball recently,
said he had noticed falling of of sand
lot ball throughout the country.
Were getting more and more play
ers from the colleges" he said, land II
the game loses out there 1t will be just
too bad for US"
The view is taken by some observers
that the growing number of collegiate
recruits is due not to the decrease Of
sandlotters, but to the greater desirable
ity of the rah rah boys. Many of them
go to the big show fairly well polished,
having been taught by former major
leaguers the smart tricks Of the game
Hnt
own or pick up after reaching profess
sional ranks.
Base ball is on trial at Gallaudet,
which had no team last year. For years
the diamond game has found an arch
rival at Kendall Green in track.
It is understood that Gallaudet will
abolish the base ball team unless 1t
goes long way toward paying expenses
or bringing prestige to the institution.
The coach, Wally Krub, Is toiling like q
beaver to make the thing go.
Material Not Strong.
His material is not particularly good,
but the Kendall Greeners' spirit gives
him reason to hope. One Of his best
men is Konrad Hokanson, pitcher, who
distinguished himself in foot ball and
basket ball. The captain, Lou Dyer. is
versatile lad, small, but smart and
swift.
Paul Zieske, q gridironer, is out for
base ball for the first time and ap-
pears to be a conner.
Konrad HokanSon and his brother
Leonard learned some base ball from
the famous Dummy Taylor, former New
York Giant finger, who coaches now
at the Iowa School for the Deaf.
Del Cosgrove, who was Washington
leading point scorer in college basket
ball this Winter, figures to make the
base bass team.
The first beseman, AL Marshall, is q
brother of Charlie Marshall, who years
ago was a crack end at Gallaudet.
The Kendall Greeners will play most
Of their games ut home, meeting Sid
Lodges Maryland All-Stars April 8;
Briarly Hall, April s; Catholic Univer-