Evening star., 1931-05-18
MARYLAND LOOKS
TO LACROSSE TILT
Game Saturday Is Vital to
Hopkins-Terps Face
Navy on Diamond.

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with Navy Saturday and lacrosse
battle with Hopkins the same day
are the tiptop contests in which
local college athletic teams take
part this week. The Hosei nine
is touring the United States and
plays Georgetown as part Of its
visit to this section. Maryland
meets Navy at Annapolis and Hop
kins at Baltimore in what are two
Of its three most important Spring
contests.
Several years ago GEORGETOWN played
the Keio University nine of Japan, and
met bunch Of good ball players. The
Blue and Gray had a hard time win
ming. and may have tomorrow as 1t is
likely that the Hosei team is about the
strongest in Japan. 1t Is said that
Kura, who does the bulk Of the back
stopping. Is the best catcher ever de-
veloped in the island empire.
Maryland's lacrosse team meets prob
ably the best twelve Hopkins has ever
had. And the game Is extremely inn
portant to Hopkins, especially as IL will
give Hopkins about its only chance to
get comparative line on st. Johns,
which little more than q week ago
beat Maryland, 3 to 2. The Old Line
ball team had rather win from Navy
than from any other team on its
schedule, and looks upon its game Sat
urday as the most important 1t plays
this season.
With the exception Of some tennis
matches and one or two contests be-
tween freshman teams, the three con-
tests mentioned above are the only ones
scheduled. Georgetown and Maryland
meet on the tennis courts today in
match that the former should win.
Georgetown's ball game with the jap
anese Is the only contest of any kind
tomorrow. Wednesday the Maryland
Freshman lacrosse team plays the st.
Johns Freshman twelve; the Freshman
diamond combination hooks up with
Charlotte Hall, and the varsity tennis
team plays at Navy. Thursday George
Washington meets Johns Hopkins at
tennis, and on Friday George Washing
ton plays Temple at tennis and Mary
land meets Delaware in the same sport.
Saturday Maryland's Freshman nine
meets Navy Plebes at Annapolis.
HoACH DORSEY GRIFFITH is to be
~ congratulated on, the firie piece Of
constructive work he has done in
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squad this Spring. Beginning the VIM
ter with only fair material, he rot out
his men and kept 30 everlastingly ut it
that he surprised everybody by winning
the team trophy In his own indoor
meet. This Spring he has carried his
men through series Of victories in
dual meets and wound up his season
Saturday by defeating Delaware by q
Wide margin. And some Of Grifnth's
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Gated it was not because Of weak op-
position that they won.
lust what the East has in store for
j 1t when 1t attempts to repel the in
vasion Of Far Western athletes two
weeks from now in the intercollegiates
may be recognized without any DIM
Guilty by consideration for a moment OF
the results Of the meet in which Stan-
ford. California and Southern Califor-
MIA took part Saturday at Los Angeles.
Begin with the century dash, for in.
stance. Frank Wyckoff of Southern
California won that event in @ as sec.
onds. which is faster than the recog-
nized world record. He also won the
z2O-yard dash in 2o.8 seconds. East
man OF STANFORD equaled the world rec.
ORD for the quarter by stepping that
distance IN 474-5 seconds. Churchill
took the tavelin throw with a heaye of
Just bit over 212 feet. Graber of
Southern California took the pole vault
with a leap Of 13 feet inches and
barely missed try for a world record
at IA feet inches. Barber of South
ern California was first in the broad
Jump. with leap of "a feet 93z inches.
The half mile was done in minute
55 2-5 seconds by Fitzmaurice Of South.
ern California.
Some of the events did not class I'm
with these, as far as results are con-
cerned, but the general competition was
OF such nature. and the marks set
OF Southern California men so good
tnat IL seems very much as If the trophy
VIII go back to California again. Since
the Far Western schools began coming
East to the intercollegiate 1t has been
a tough situation for the Eastern
schools. For the last several wears one
or another Of the Pacific Coast SQUADS
has triumphed.
A BOUT the only event in which an
n Eastern athlete seems to have the
Pacific Coast track men outclassed
Is the mile. In that, Coan of Pennsyl-
vania, II he runs as well on the cinders
as ne did indoors the night he beat
Conger, should do seconds better than
the best shown in the Coast meet. II
may be. however. that Coan win not
run the same kind of mile he ran
that night, and there are many who
think that he actually outran himself
then and that he is not as good gen.
orally rs was indicated by his perform
ance at that time.
North Carolina University certainly
got bumped on properly in the South
ern Conference championships at Biz
mingham. The Tarheels were picked
by experts to win the meet, but fell
far short of it. And, rather remark
able, Tulane, which captured the
championship, won first place in only
one event.
The fine showing Of the University
OF Virginia was a pleasant surprise to
people in this section, where EVERYBODY
would have been rather glad to see
the Cavaliers win. As q matter Of fact.
no school north Of North Carolina has
ever won the meet Virginia was only
2 points behind the victor, scoring 29
against 81 by Tulane. Wisner's work
In the dashes and in the broad jump
and Lauks' In the mile was brilliant.
Swartz Of Virginia Polytechnic Insti-
tute broke the shotput record with a
heave OF Al feet z Y inches, while Bond
Oh Virginia Military Institute won the
2-mile run. These five victories by
schools In Virginia stand out as about
the best performances achieved by
teams from this immediate section in
the 10 years the MS has been held.
barring what North q rolina has done.
Archie Hahn, former Michigan
sprinter. has made remarkable strides
In the development Of track at Virginis
since he took charge year ago last
FAN. 1t was freely predicted that Hahn
would have this Spring about the best
squad Of track athletes virginia has
turned out In recent years, or since the
war, and lhe has made good.