Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-08
FEW T|LTSL|STED
EARLY ARE PLAYED
Cash for Guarantees Paid
With No Return-HoyaS
Again Delayed.
BY H. C. BYRD.

- OLLEGE base ball teams In
this section are likely to
~ play shorter schedules next
year, and open later. The
tendency in handling diamond az
fairs in the colleges, at least in
the South Atlantic States, is to
cut down the length OF the sea-
son.
Exuerienees over the last few years
indicate that only In unusual seasons
are the teams able to get under way
the latter part Of March with any
degree Of satisfaction. once In great
while warm weather Is encountered ana
some very satisfactory contests are
STAGED before April J., but of the flrst
six or eight games scheduled more often
than not only four or five are played,
either because Of poor ground conditions
or bad weather.
whether or not these early games are
PLAYED. guarantees must be paid, ana
the college athletic treasures cannot
stand any great strain OF paying OUT
cash without getting something lot II.
Later in the Spring it Is not often tnat
games arc Cancelled because OF Dao
weather, anu tAlc oSSc SSAA -
shortening Of schedules seems to be
simply not to try to open the season so
early.
has announced that 1t viii in the future
hold its base ball schedule to IL games
or less. Maryland Is planning about
the same number, and there Is strong
probability that Georgetown viii sched-
ule no more than that. Another factor
likely 10 help local schools In holding
down their schedules in base ball Is the
diNaculty that Northern schools are
having In arranging trips, there being
only 3 few schools in this immediate
vicinity supporting mines Consequently
fewer Northern teams are coming this
way.
Colleges In this section should not
have much difficulty carrying out base
ball schedules of 16 or IL games, even
If they do not yield penny in financial
return. And this has another angle, IN
that so many games are being played
that little interest is taken in any OF
them.
GEORGETOWN was scheduled to
" play Boston College today, but for
the sixth time the HoyaS were
hzevented from starting their home cam
8gn. The contest was called on on
account Of wet grounds.
st seems certain, though, that the
Hilltop nine win be able to keep its date
with Princeton here tomorrow.
Maryland, the only other local school
represented In base ball. is not sched-
uled to play until Friday, when Univer-
sity Of North Carolina Is due here for
q double header. Maryland had its
nrgt scheduled home game, that with
Penn State, Monday, rained out.
co far this Spring, Georgetown has
- played only two out CT seven games.
Maryland has had o little better
luck than that, having gone through
with four out Of seven.
On the recent trip Maryland made
through the South q very laughable
incident took place in connection with
the unnpiring Of q game. It seems that,
Notwithstanding Maryland lost, the
Maryland players felt that the umpiring
was so much better than anything they
had ever had that they should cen
graduate the umpire. So the Maryland
pitcher walked up and said:
Mr.. Umpire, please let me con-
graduate you. You worked a fine game.
It was the best umpirfng we've SEEN"
To which the good jumps, after a
more or less comical glance, replied:
"Oh, that's al right, son; you know,
when was In college I pitched three
consecutive years against this school"