Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-18

- EORGETOWN'S base ball
Il team seems to have struck
~ the stride predicted for it
before the season opened.
Thursday it took the measure of
good Harvard nine, 4 to /, and
yesterday wiped up Villanova, 10
to 3, and, If these scores indicate
anything, apparently is going
along in a way likely to prove
exceedingly dangerous for any of
its opponents.
No doubt about which was the bet
ter ball club either in the game with
Harvard or with Villanova. George
town was stronger in almost every re-
spect, its pitching being particularly
good. And. what is just as good. it APP
parently is able to slam the ball at
times when hits do the most good.
In the two games the Blue and Gray
played at Lexington no exceptional per-
formanceS were shown. However, that
was due more than anything else, in
all probability. to lack of practice. The
squad got virtually no real workouts be-
fore 1t left for Lexington. In the last
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ball weather has prevailed and the
team bids fair to go through the re-
mainder of its schedule with an excel
lent record.
Just before the season began Tom
Mills made an out-and-out prediction
that Georgetown was going to have an
exceptionally good nine. AS he ex-
pressed it: 81 have watched George
town practice on the only two good days
it has had so far and unless am way
OF in my Judgment it Is going to be
good team, well able to take care of
Itself in any kind of intercollegiate COM
petition" And, as the team appears
now, Mills prediction is being made
good.
A NYBODY who takes one look at Ben
"A Tcknor, one Of Harvard's pitchers,
who last Fall was All-America
center in fooC pail, has TO have but little
imagination to see him out on the grid
iron working defensive miracles. If
man of Ticknor's physical proportions
and agility cannot make good In foot
ball no otner type of man could expect
to- He pitched several innings of the
ball game yesterday between Harvard
and Maryland, and, while not any
world beaten in that capacity, gave evil
dence OF more than ordinary ability,
and certainly had every appearance OF
being able to take care of himself in a
gridlron contest. Ticknor is well over
D feet, perhaps feet or inches, and
undoubtedly weighs over 200 pounds.
He also is unusually active, handling
himself about as the average athlete OF
ITO. 1t does not take very much coach
ing to make foot ball team out of men
of his type.
1t was young German, first baseman
on the freshman team last Spring, who,
with the score tied to 2 in the last
half of the seventh inning yesterday
and a man on second, slammed out q
triple that scored the winning run for
Maryland against Harvard. Incidentally,
it was one of Ticknor's speed balls
against which German laid his bat.
And then with a run in the lead and
nobody down German tried to come
caught at the plate.
German, who is making good at
Maryland, Is a graduate Of Tech, and
played on the nine there.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY takes out
~ two track squads, varsity and
freshman, to try to wrest from
Maryland a victory in a dual meet.
The Brooklanders have never whipped
and Coach Dorsey Grifith Is very
anxious to turn the trick.
In the indoor games last Winter G. u.
showed some exceptionally good track
men who were expected to do good
work on the cinders It would seem
that Maryland's best chances are in
the distances and in the field events.
It will be a case of varsity double
header out at Maryland today, as the
western Maryland lacrosse team en-
cages the Old Line twelve. The track
meet is scheduled to begin at 2 o'clock
and the lacrosse game at 4. Maryland
Is expecting by far the stiffeSt opposi-
ton it has had this year, and Is not
any too optimistic over the outcome,
Notwithstanding it in previous years
has whipped Western Maryland In this
sport with comparative ease.
Georgetown and George washington
are represented today in tennis matches
On foreign courts. The former is ut
Villanoya and the latter at New York
University.