Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-03-17

With only one regular
missing from the lineup
that went through last years
schedule. Duplin, who held down
an outfield Job, is the only man
of the 1929 team not on the field,
and so we'll are some of the others
showing it is unlikely that the
caliber of the outfield will be any
lower than it was then. To put
it another way, the Blue and Gray
nine goes South Wednesday night
to open its season with Davidson
College with excellent prospects
for success.
Three games are to be played by the
Blue and Gray before 1t returns. The
first is with Davidson on Thursday, the
next with Wake Forest Friday and the
last with Guilford Saturday. The team
has been working hard for the last two
weeks, and really is in far better shape
than it usually is at this time in March,
almost entirely because of the much
better weather that has prevailed.
InfieId Is Intact.
Johnny Bozek is almost certain to
hold down first base again. and in all
likelihood ScalZi, Morris and Dunn, who
played second, short and third last sea-
son, will be regularly at their old posi-
tions. At least, that is the conclusion
one would arrive at after two weeks of
work Some of the newspapers have
been giving Johnny Evers good deal
of publicity about his ability as an in
fielder, but Evers has not even been out
for practice. Capt. Mccarthy Wholey
and Malone are leading in the race for
outfield jobs, and they probably will
have their names in the lineup of
Thursdays game.
Not only is the team virtually intact
from last season, but the whole pitching
staff of last year is available, with the
addition of Noznesky and Hornyak from
the 1929 freshman team. White, one of
last years hurlers, sustained an injury
to his knee in q basket ball game, but
that is not expected to bother him
much. Members of the pitching staff OF
last season, in addition to White, who
are working out are Pool. Higgins, Cop
pinger, Leary Hazard and Lomax.
Coach Smith is optimistic over the
outlook and feels that his team should
make an excellent showing, barring
some of those unforeseen things with
which a ball team at times becomes
afaicted. The team right now appar-
emily has something Of everything in its
makeup that goes to build a winning
ball club.
Mills Getting Results.
Whatever may happen next year,
there are those that think Georgetown
is getting the kind of Spring practice
in foot ball which should make it a
winning combination when it begins its
schedule in September. A Georgetown
man who has been watching the work.
outs right along is of the opinion that
the system that Tom Mills has brought
to Georgetown is much more difficult to
learn than that which was taught
under the Little regime, but that it will
be learned If painstaking effort counts
for as much as it is supposed to. Here
Is this mans ideas about the practice
GEORGETOWN is having:
Our squad has been working out In
a patient effort to master some in
tricate shifts and 1t seems to be getting
somewhere in its efforts. To attain a
certain rhythm seems to be the keynote
of the system, and that takes lot of
practice. Apparently 1t is Mills in
tention to keep the squad going this
Spring just as long as is necessary for
them to learn the fundamentals Of the
plays they will use next Fall
I'm my opinion Mills knows what he
Is doing and under him good foot bal
it likely to be played. He is not trying
to carry the squad ahead too rapidly
and he thoroughly grounds the men in
every detail of each step before ad-
vancing to the next That is the real
secret back of success in foot ball,
think.
And it is not only in offensive tao.
tics that the squad is being drilled, but
also in defense. It is rather remarkable
too, when one sees the elasticity of the
defense being taught. It is much
more difflcult defense for certain indi'
viduals to learn, but when they dC
learn 1t, in company with mechanical
excellence in offense, Georgetown will
have great foot ball team"
Georgetown expects to begin scrim-
mage this week. 1t Is probable that the
squad will be divided and go through
three or four games under as nearly
regular game conditions as possible.
A Study in Psychology.
In some respects college boxing bout
is one Of the most unusual of tntercol-
legiate competitions. In the first place
the contestants go into their bouts with
a sincere earnestness worthy Of much
higher purpose than to knock human
nose into a fiat piece of Jelly, yet at the
end of each bout they meet in the CEN
ter of the ring, gather each other ir
q fond embrace, smile and whisper nice
compliments. At least one infers thai
the things said are nice compliments
although at times people have said otheI
things with a smile.
And the attitude of the boxers hardly
offers greater contrast than some Of the
excited comments of spectators. Fol
instance, in adjacent chairs at a recen
match were two friends. One at {
critical stage of a bout leaned forward
and, with CLINT and eagerness in hii
eye that was nothing more nor less thar
the bloodlust of the Roman as N
leaned far out in his seat in the arena
rasped Hes got him; he's got him
hen put him away before the rounds
over" Yet from the other chair, thu
other man answered: Hes got hin
licked bad enough; why in he'll dom
he let up" And the fellow who mad
the second remark was big enough a1e
strong enough to wiring, without an ef
fort, the neck Of the fellow who mad
the FIRST. This thing we call human
psychology Is great study.
Had His Doubts.
And the incident mentioned in fore
going paragraph recalls to mind rathe
humorous dissent to the decision OF al
official in one of the matches at George
town Saturday night. A Bucknel
boxer had carried the fight to hi
oil