The Washington times., 1930-03-07

tral High School Stadium be-
tween st. Johns College and
the Oxford Cambridge twelve
of England which is soon to
invade this country for an
exhibition tour.
The visitors first appearance
will be in Washington and the
British Embassy is quite stir
red up about the matter and
is endeavoring to create in
terest in local diplomatic and
social circles in the Washing
ton game.
This should not be a difficult
task, this business of, making
interest either among the diplo~,
mats or among the run-of.the-
mine sports lovers. for Wash
ington had splendid taste
for lacrosse a couple Of years
ago when the Semi-finals to
nominate the American entry
in the OlympicS was held here
in the form Of a double-header.
Lacrosse, originally credited
to the far North American In.
dians, is one Of the fastest
sports we have ever witnessed,
the game being imbued with
that quality of never embracing
a tagging moment. 1t com.
bines the speed Of baseball,
hockey and tennis and in that
the ball is in the air all the
time, the spectator, even though
he be a novice. has no diff
Guilty keeping up with the ac-
ton. Coach Riggs, of st.
Johns, is to be complimented
in securing for Washington
this Oxford Cambridge game
and the city will do we'll to
mark April Fools Day on its
calendar for a sporting novelty
which is seldom available
locally.
Lacrosse, incidentally, is a
growing pastime in American
colleges. many of them having
dropped baseball in order to
work out a pretentiouS lacrosse
schedule.
Al Bool, Internationally sold
by the Griffmen year ago and
who made such an impression
with the Orioles that he was
grabbed by Pittsburgh, caught
hold Of a pitched ball in Paso
RobleS, Calf, the other day and
knocked it so far out of the park
the citizenry stood pop-eyed.
And speaking of home, runs
and the like, the New York
Giants have been having quite
a lot of trouble in training. &C
counting for balls knocked over
the fence. Irish MeuSel started
to investigate what became Of
all the balls sailing over the
San Antonio wall and met with
a kind of rebuff to which he
was hardly equal.
Approximately IA balls are
lost by the Giants beyond the
left field stands every day, Bat
boys had gone in search Of
them but have returned empty
handed. So recently Irish dele
gated himself as a committee to
bring back some Of these foul
flies. He also returned empty.
handed and slightly out of
breath, as if he had been run
ming.
There's a house back there"
he said, with yard. I went in
to look around and a dog ran
me around the house and out.
Then woman came to the door
and I told her I wanted to find
the baseballs that we're coming
over the fence. She wouldn't
let me in nor would she give
me the baseballs. She must
have barrel full of them some
where. Pretty soon she'll have
more baSeballs than we have"
Henry Lamar. University of
Virginia product via Washing
ton, D. c., is to meet Joe Bano-
wick in one of the Madison
Square Garden preliminaries
Monday night.
George w. C"King'o Kelly,
widely known baseball manager,
in the Southeast, died at his
home in Raleigh, N. c., last
week. He was 81 years old.
George Kelly was born in
Washington, D. c., and at
tended Georgetown University.
where he made good records in
both football and baseball. He
later played ball in Norfolk,
and also played when he first
went to Raleigh.
He went to Raleigh in 1900,
where he was manager of
Raleigh teams for many years. i,
Kelly sent from Raleigh a num- (
ber of big league players. includ-
ing Jake ,Atz, Joe Stanley,
Frank Smith, Walter Keating
and others.
At various times, Kelly was
manager of teams in Norfolk,
Suffolk and Portsmouth, of the
Virginia League: the Charleston,
S. c., team of the South Atlantic
Association; and the Meridian
and other Mississippi teams in
the Cotton States League.
King" Kelly had been out of
active baseball for about eight
years, but he was connected
with the Raleigh teams at.
times. until the dissolu-