Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-26
HAS HELPED GAME,
SAYS DICK SMITH
w. & /. Graduate Manager
Hopes Conference Teams
Will Keep 1t Up.
BY III. C. BYRD.

- Southern Conference insti-
/ Y buttons in the South Allan
tic section are to meet
Monday at Lynchburg to arrange
their indoor schedules for next
Winter and their outdoor sched-
ules for Spring and also to de-
termine whether or not to con-
tinue the base ball league they
have fostered last year and this
These schools have been getting to-
eether for several years to make quick
work of schedules, but it was not until
Inst season that they decided to test
out the merits of a league. North
Carolina, North Carolina State, DUKE
Virginia Polytechnic Institute. Virginia
Military Institute, Washington and Lee
and Maryland will be represented, ano
all are decidedly favorable to the league
with the exception of Virginia ano
Maryland, the former being opposed to
the proposition and the latter very
lukewarm.
r. A. (Dick) Smith. graduate man.
ager of athletics at washington ana
Lee, has sponsored the league IDEA ano
is strongly in favor of 1t. And be IL
said to his credit that he has won to
his way of thinking practically all the
other schools. Smith was here yester.
day with the Washington and Lee ball
team and said in regard to the league:
virginia May Drop Out.
"Only Virginia seems to be opposed
tn the league idea. and its opposltlon Is
based largely on desire to seno us nlne
North for a trip each Spring. II IL
does that. of course, 1t will not nave
suficient time left away from scnooi
tn play through a league schedule
however. it seems to me that the league
is helping base ball and also saving
money in that 1t is enabling us to ar
range schedules without so much ex-
pense. I never could see this PROPOSE
ton of paying. the big Northern scnoois
to come down here for games wnlcn
they regard as hardly anything more
than a training trip.
In addition to arranging our scneuo
ules for next Winter and Spring, we
will settle once and for all this league
question. / personally am strongly
in favor of it and believe that II we
continue success Is certain. interest,"
in base bail is increasing already, and,
To show how the tide Is turning. l
might cite the instance OF North caro-
lima. We had considerable dlmculty
getting North Carolina to come In, put
now that school is the strongest In IA
lJ.
that the league will get trial Ior
another wear. but IL may be on basis
of each school playing the others once
instead of twice. One OF the man on-
iectior1s now being raised to the league
is the time required to take the two
trips which are necessary LOT each
school If two games are played.
Indications are that there WIN DC
few changes In the general list OF
contests played in this section, although
II is likely that the basket ball scheo-
ules will be made up on basis Oh one
ganne for each school with every other
school rather than on home-ano-
home basis. This also seems necessary
because of the time required Tor Trips:
To cite an instance, the University o.
MARYLAND took a three-game trip twice
in basket ball and takes the same IN
base ball this Spring. This means ,nat
work have been knocked into cooked
hat. and. while athletics are valuable
in the way they help develop men: no
man can afford to lose that much time
from his fundamental WORK.
Today is the biggest day OF the year
for local college athletes. Teams Oh an
Of higher caliber. The feature OF
the day is the visit of four teams from
west Point. two of them base ball and
lacrosse, being at University OF Mary
land. and one each the rife and tennis.
being, respectively, at Georgetown and
George Washington. However, there
Is. in addition to contests In winch
Army teams are to figure. plenty OF
other competition. The West Virginia
base ball team Is at Georgetown, Man
haitian College at Brookland and Shep-
herd College at Gallaudet. The Cath
Ollie University. Georgetown and Mary
land relay teams are at he Penn relay
games, and washington and Lee at
Maryland in tennis.
Boston College found Georgetown
Yesterday a different proposition from
what il ran against at Cathoiic Uni.
yersity the day before. The net result
was that the Bostonians took whip
ming by Z to 6, the Blue and Gray
scoring In each Of the first flve innings,
setting one each in the first. second,
fourth and fifth and three in the thiro'
boston College divided its runs pc
tween the second and seventh, MAKING
three IN each. Consistent hitting in the
early innings, and hard hitting, AT
that was largely responsible ior tne
lead piled up by Georgetown IN the nrst
FIVE periods.
The score: