Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-04-06
BASE BALL, TENNIS
OPEN LIVELY WEEK
Maryland Nine viii Figure in
Four Games on Trip.
Harvard Visitor.
BY ii. G. BYRD.

1.-TWO Yale teams come here
tomorrow for the only col
legiate competition on
II local fields and to open the
biggest week of athletic programs
local colleges have had this year
The Dark Blue base ball and
tennis teams are scheduled for
contests with Georgetown, the
ball game on the Army War Col
lege diamond and the tennis
matches on the Hilltop courts
Yale's nine plays second game
with Georgetown Tuesday.
Just how strong the Yale tennis team
may be is not known, but unless the
Navy nine has been overrated the ball
to be lust as much as the latter wants
to handle, Notwithstanding the greater
amount Of outdoor experience the local
school has had this Spring: Yale
bumped of the Navy apparently with
out a lot of difficulty by 8 to 4, and
Navy is reputed to have one Of the
strongest teams in its history.
University of Maryland begins four
game trip tomorrow by meeting North
Carolina State at Raleigh Before its
return the Old Line team is to play
on consecutive days, Tuesday, Wednes-
day and Thursday North Carolina Uni
versity. Duke and Virginia. incidentally
Maryland has five games in as many
days, as it comes back here Friday
morning to play North Carolina that
afternoon.
Besides the second game Yale is to
play with Georgetown Tuesday, La.
fayette is to appear here with Catholic
University as its opponent. Wednesday
Catholic University and the Tank Corps
nine at Gallaudet. Maryland Is al
Duke and the Johns Hopkins tennis
team at Georgetown.
Harvard is TO be visitor Thursday
and Friday for two ball games with
Georgetown and Catholic Universities
as its opponents. With the Crimson
as we'll as the Dark Blue playing here
in the same week, old grads Of both
should be able to get fair line or
their probable strength during the re.
mainder of the year. On Friday George
Washington meets American U. in g
tennis match.
Saturday the University of Maryland
has the field to itself with a lacrosse
game against Western Maryland Col.
1ege. The Western Maryland twelve
Is coached by a former Maryland
player, T. B. Marden. and nothing ever
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team back to beat his alma mater.
incidentally. Maryland is not sittinr
so easily In looking forward to that con.
test, as it's thought is that If it can ge
by with a victory it should consider
that about as much as it ought Il
evnn@t
catholic University certainly is max
ing good some of its optimistic expecta
tons for a much better ball team thar
usual. The Brooklanders have beer
playing so much better than they die
last season that there is hardly AM
comparison between their present nine
and the one that represented them ir
1929 They are much stronger in pitch.
superior fielding organization.
About a week ago, Coach Shipley oi
the Maryland ball team was bemoan-
ing the bad arm one of his pitchers
Batson. had developed, but if Batson''
work yesterday in the opening game
with Cornell is any criterion of what
core arms can do, then Shipley would
90 we'll to hope very fervently that al
his hurlers carry bad wings throughout
the year. Batson set Cornell down with
a shutout, allowed only two hits, and
not a Cornell man got as far as third
was not going to be much good this
year, that is doing pretty well. Incl
dentally, if Cornell had started Stevens
on the slab. the game probably would
have been brilliant affair. as after
that gentleman did take up the pitching
burden the Marylanders were just about
helpless.
Maryland unquestionably has the
best ball team that has worn its colorS
In five years, perhaps longer. It's held
ing exhibition against Cornell at times
came near being brilliant, and the per-
Torrance of the team as whole was
everything that followers OF the Old
Line school should desire.
Chalmers and Berger at short and
second are the best pair that have play:
ed those positions since Tody Riggs and
Johnny Eiseman held them down eight
or nine years ago. And with Radice at
first and Gaylor at third, Marylano mas
an inf1eld that will meet few Super1orS
In college ball.
The team seemed weak in the latter
part of the game yesterday. especially
against curve bali pitching. 1t Will nave
to improve somewhat in that, but other
wise seems to be an exceptionally good
college nine.
The way the situation seems to size
up just now III regard 10 loCol CoHCSC
mines, three here are likely to stand the
acid test in competition throughout the
whole season, Georgetown, Catholic
University and Maryland. The Blue
and Gray has proved itself far more
effectively, in fact, than the other two.
It has won seven out of eight games,
some of them from very good college
mines, and most Of them by decisive
margins. 1t will be interesting, indeed,
to watch these schools throughout the
year in their efforts against teams from
other sections. Followers Of the dia.
mond should have teams here we'll able
to do better than hold their own against
the strongest competition they are to
face from other colleges, which ought
to be very satisfactory in view of the
failure of either of the three to do any
thing like as well last year.
Two schools Maryland is to meet in
track and lacrosse were well represented
in the stands at College Park yesterday.
Coach Earl Thomson of the Navy and
several of his cinderpathers were pres
ent and so was Coach Dinty Moore Of
st. Johns with his whole lacrosse team.