Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-07

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place in this section that at least
one man on assignment from
either the American or National
League has been present.
A scout from the Athletics has tol-
lowed Cornell through every game 1t
has played on its Southern trip for no
other purpose than to gauge the abilities
of just one player on that nine who Is
said to have big-league possibilities.
Big-league scouts have been as thick as
flies around a honey pot at games
Georgetown and Catholic University
have played.
During the last few years more and
more college players have been going to
the big leagues, and club owners have
come to consider college diamonds one
of the most fertile sources of potential
~ good material. Hence the word has
gone out to scouts to follow the college
teams.
No longer, though, do big-league clubs
take on some collegian at high salary
without first getting good line on that
player. 1t is too expensive proposition.
Witness, for instance, the player out in
the Middle West who got several thou
sand dollars for signing a contract. then
drew his salary during the season and,
in addition, got a big slice of world
series money, after which, without hav-
ing hardly played at all, announced that
he was through with base ball That is
hardly an economic method of getting
ball players so big-league managers like
to have their own scouts tell them
whether or not a player has poSsibili-
ties enough to stand the gaff of big
league play
Until the minor leagues open, and
possibly for awhile after that. which
means virtually the whole Spring, the
scouts will continue to watch the college
teams. And probably will get lines on
players who after graduation should
stand an excellent chance to make good
in the big show If they care to avail
themselves of the opportunities that un-
doubtedly will be urged upon them.
Yale has it's base ball team here for
two games. 1t meets Georgetown in
both, the first this afternoon and the
second tomorrow. The Dark Blue has
played twice so far on Its Southern
trip, having whipped Navy Friday and
then lost to Marines Saturday. 1t
probably will face the strongest nine it
has yet met when it goes against
Georgetown. The Yale tennis team also
is here this afternoon for a matcch
with Georgetown.
Maryland's ball team left last night
for four-game trip through North
Carolina and Virginia. The Old Line
outfit begins this afternoon at Raleigh
with North Carolina State as its oppo-
nent. Tomorrow it jumps over to
Chapel Hill for a game with North
Carolina University, Wednesday meets
Duke at Durham and Thursday stops
of at Charlottesville on its way back
to try conclusions with Virginia. Mary
land gets back here Friday morning
and meets North Carolina University
that afternoon at College Park.
Somebody has either been greatly
mistaken in estimates of the strength
of this Oxford-Cambridge lacrosse team
or the Navy is much weaker twelve
than usual. The Englishmen seemed
so weak against st. Johns College i'll
its opening game here that predictions
were freely made that they would do
little against the American twelveS.
Then they jumped over to CheStertown
and walloped Washington College. 18
to 0. Everybody said. oh, we'll, Wash
1ngton College hasn't got anything.
Wait till they hit the Navy" They hit
the Navy and with jolt the Navy will
not soon forget. The wires brought the
news that Navy had taken beating by
to 4. which, so far as the writer re-
members. is about the first time Navy
lacrosse team has ever been whipped at
Annapolis. Either the Navy is far from
what it has been or the Oxford-Cam-
bridge twelve is far stronger than any,
body that saw it play here gave it credit
for. 1t may be that the visitors really
have a great lacrosse team. If that is
true, then st. Johns College Is pretty
sure to make things hum for its OPP
ponentS. If Oxford Cambridge is as
strong as seems from its game with
Navy, then st. Johns must be about the
best outfit in the United States, be-
cause It apparently was strong enough
in that opening game to make the
British look almost like novices Future
games will tell.
Wallace Wade will make Duke Uni
versity a good foot ball coach. His
work at Alabama had been excellent,
as it was largely his ability that
brought the Crimson Tide from a rather
low place in Southern foot ball to top
rank. No team in the South has been
more feared in recent years than those
Wade has coached. Wade takes charge
at Duke in 1881.
Wade's appointment came as some
thing Of surprise, but it has been
known by few that Duke was quietly
looking around for man to head its
athletics and coach foot ball For one
reason or another. Duke people do not
good with the foot ball squads, and
it is something of mystery to those
connected with foot ball just why he
has not. De Hart is a good coach and
there is no doubt that he knows foot
ball, but has simply not turned out VIM
ming teams.
Chef Wynne, formerly with WASH
ington University at st. Louis, has been
appointed to the job as head foot ball
coach at Alabama Polytechnic Institute
under three-year contract. This leaves
only North Carolina State and Virginia
Polytechnic Institute without coaches
for next Fall. Nothing definite Is known
as to what the Raleigh school contem-
plates, but 1t seems that v. p. I. has
some thought of naming Mike Palm.
former Penn State man, who assisted
Lou Little at Georgetown.
If the basket ball coaches in session
at Chicago get the basket ball rules
committee to adopt some legislation to
prevent Stalling in games, their session
will have accomplished enough to make
1t worth while. Nothing Is more eX-
asperating to teams, coaches and spec
tators, and nothing else so gives rise TO
booes and jeers by students, than for
team, with point or two lead, to get
the ball up at one end of the court and
spend its time running away from play
ers of the other team and making no
effort to score. Such action Is not
sportSmanlike and should not be part