Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-28
FORKS|DER SHINES
FOR EACH LEADER
Maryland Battles st. Johns
Saturday in important
Lacrosse Game.
BY II. c. BYRD.

DIX ns W oxnDs
IT has often been said that q
left-handed pitcher is bad
medicine to college ball teams
and records of teams in the
South Atlantic section this Spring
seem to be bearing that out. AT
any rate, the three mines that so
far have made the best RECORDS
have left-handors as their main
stays on the slab. Georgetown,
Virginia Military Institute and
Duke University owe, in great
measure, their present diamond
prominence to the work OF White,
Williams and jenkins.
Georgetown, of course, has several
other good pitchers, but White appar-
emily Is the most effective. He has had
little difficulty holding in check the bat
ters of teams he has opposed. Lefty
williams of " M. /. has done practi-
cally all the pitching for that school,
and the way he has handled opposing
batters virtually has put his team at the
top Of the South Atlantic heap. Jenkins
is In pretty much the same position At
Duke University.
Just why 1t Is that college mines ap-
parently are weak in batting against
left-handers Is hard to understand, un-
less it be that they seldom face that
kind of pitching. Anyway, whatever
may be the reason, 1t seems that left.
handler with q good glove. a prayer"
and a little control can Just about stop
any college team that he faces. From
which one probably should draw the de-
duction that it might be very good
plan for any college nine to face left
hand pitcher to get about three gooo
days of batting practice against balls
thrown from that side OF the slab.
Catholic University and Maryland
play ball games today, the former with
the Marines at Quantico and the lat
ter with North Carolina State at Col
lege Park. The Brooklanders undoubt-
edly will be against about as strong
team as they have met this season.
Maryland tied with North Carolina
early in April. These teams play a
double header, the first game to be
play-off Of the tie and the second the
regularly scheduled one.
The Maryland-st. Johns lacrosse
game this week end should be one Of
the best of the year, If present signs
may be taken at their apparent worth
st. Johns is the only American twelve
that outclassed the Oxford Cambridge
stick wielders and undoubtedly has one
of the country's strongest outfits, an
enviable position it also held last year.
Maryland. by its showing in the game
with Army Saturday at College Park,
seems to be strong enough to take care
of itself. The game is to be played
Saturday at o'clock as the wind-up OF
the annual Spring field day at College
Park.
Southern Conference institutions in
the South Atlantic section, North Caro-
College, Duke University, washington
and Lee, Virginia Polytechnic Institute,
Virginia Military Institute, Virginia and
Maryland, meet at Lynchburg this
afternoon to arrange their Winter and
Spring schedules for 1881. There are
not likely to be many changes In the
alignments Of this year, with the excep-
ton that 1t Is improbable so many
home-and-home arrangements win be
made.
The South got one great victory in
the Penn relays, at least. when Hamm
of Georgia Tech broke the broad Jump
record by leaping Is feet Az inches,
nearly a foot farther than the previous
meet record. The nearest thing that
the South got to victory outside Of
this was Catholic University's second
place in mile relay. Georgetown and
Maryland failed to come through in
the races In which they had Quartets
entered.
A good deal has been said and writ
ten of the limit of human capacity in
athletic events, but the more that is
written the less it seems is learned.
There was a time when it was said
that no pole vaulter could reach 10
feet, but that mark was passed, and
Saturday out in Drake relays Warne
of Northwestern University barely
missed II feet inches for new world
record. Warne cleared the bar, but in
fall unfortunately let his elbow knock
the crosSbar from its supports. Out in
Colorado in the relays at the Colorado
Agricultural College, Beattie threw the
eight-pound shot So feet to break a
record made by Ralph Rose of Michigan
that has stood since 1907. For the first
time In the history Of track athletics
several men in the country apparently
are running the hundred yards au-
thentically around SO seconds, and prob
ably before long some phenomenal in
dividual will come along and under
clip of that siX-tenths Of a second to
accomplish what now Is hardly believed
to be possible.
Jack Edwards, former Tech High
runner, is said to have been largely
responsible for the fine race won by the
Penn freshman team in the Penn relays.
The Quakers covered the distance In
8 minutes 1872 seconds, and a quarter
mile In 48 AS seconds, by Edwards was
the best contribution to this mark.