Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-25
TWO GALA EVENTS
AT COLLEGE PARK
Pair of Army Teams Invade
April 26-Heavy Field
Day Card May 8.
BY H. C. BYRD.

TINE University of Maryland
is planning for two big
days in athletics during
this Spring. The first will
be April %, when the Army is to
be its opponent at College Park
in two sports, base ball and la
crosse, and the other May 8,
when, besides the annual inter-
scholastic track and field meet,
Maryland teams will be in COM
petition with Virginia in track,
with Catholic University in base
ball and st. Johns in lacrosse.
The visit of the Army teams to COL
lege Park will mark the first time an
Army organization has played on a
Maryland field. The Old Liners have
gone to West Point any number of
times. more or less successfully, and are
looking forward with good deal of
pleasure this year to having the West
Point teams as their guests.
Maryland ought to have about an
even break in both the base ball and
lacrosse games, although the latter will
depend a good deal on the development
of one or two green players who have
had virtually no experience. Maryland
won from Army at West Point last year
by to 2.
The day of the games with Army
probably will mark the first use of the
new base ball field. Work is going on
rapidly in construction of the stands to
have them completed by that time
When finished, the field will be one of
the best college diamond plants in the
South.
SO long has the interscholastic track
and field meet been success that there
is little doubt of it going across this
year. That is simply one Of those
things that has come to be and is
Schools from the whole South Atlantic
section, including North Carolina, will
be in competition with those from sur
rounding Virginia, District of Column
bia and Maryland Greatest interest in
the three events in which Maryland
teams will take part is likely to center
around the Lacrosse game with st.
Johns. That school knocked the Mary
land IL OF a high perch last Spring
by 5 to l and is expecting to have an
other equally strong team.
George Washington has announced
that it will not be represented by a
track and field team this Spring. Lack
of interest among the students is given
as a reason. This means that George
Washington will have practically no
representation in college sports in the
next two months and must wait until
foot ball rolls around once more to get
its competitive thrills. The Buff and
Blue indicates that it will be represented
by golf and tennis teams, but these are
hardly likely to cause any tidal waves
on the intercollegiate mill pond.
Marines caught a Tartar in their
opening ball game yesterday at Guam
tico, losing to Drexel Institute of Phil
adelphia by to 5. Marines had lead,
4 to 3. until the eight inning. when
Drexel tied up the count. 1t was in the
ninth that the Philadelphia school
counted the run that gave 1t the short
margin by which it sent its more ex-
perienced foe to defeat. Robinson, who
played center field for Drexel, was the
particular thorn in the Marine flesh,
as he got two doubles, single and q
walk out of four times at bat and scored
four of his teams five runs. Marines
should have had him contaminated
or had some other form of investiga-
ton to ascertain by what right a gen.
tleman from the City of Brotherly Love
should act with such rudeness and NAL
ice aforethought toward hard-boiled
gentlemen Of the world.
Fred Linkous, for three years one of
Maryland'S star athletes, is seriously i'll
in the University Hospital in Baltimore.
Septicemia, which seems to have devel-
oped as the result Of an absceSsed tooth,
which later developed an absceSs in his
windpipe, is responsible for his condi-
ton. Only his remarkable physical con-
dition and strength has enabled Linkous
to hold on so far, and 1t Is hoped that
this condition viii enable him to pull
through.