Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-29
BASE BALL, TENNIS,
TRACK TEAMS TOLL
HoyaS Hosts in Two Diamond
GameS-MaryIand Nine
Takes Jaunt.
rK H. C. BYRD.

ana Maryland que TO pegln lCS
track season with a dual meet,
Spring sports schedules for local
colleges this week get under way
for the stretch that runs until
early in June.
University of Vermont and Penn
State come here for games with
Georgetown, the former on Thursday
and the latter Saturday. Maryland,
on consecutive days, beginning tomor-
row, meets Virginia Military Institute,
Washington and Lee, Georgia twice,
North Carolina State, and North Caro-
lima University. Saturday the Mary
land track squad opens its season with
the Virginia Military Institute at Lex
ington. American University plays its
first tennis match with Hopkins.
What the prospect for successful
seasons for local schools is hard to
say. Some of the teams seem to give
every indication of being much strong
err than usual, while others do not give
so much promise. However, after every
thing is over, 1t probably will be found
that about the same kind of schedules
have been gone through that have been
played every Spring for many years,
with some teams successful. some not,
and some just about $3.50.
TEORGETOWN split even in its two
~ games at Lexington. With pros
poets for an exceptionally good
ball team, it went down before Wash
irgton and Lee by a score of to 0,
which hardly was as favorable an in
dication as had been looked for. In
the second game, however. it turned
right around and played fine base ball,
winning from Virginia Military Insti-
tCte easily.
80 matter what may be the result
Of GeorgetoWn's season in the aggre-
gate, right now folks on the Hilltop
expect a much stronger team than
usual. The bulk of the strength of
the nine of last year is back in uni
form and there are two pitchers of
proved worth. OF course, the Blue
and Gray has had little chance to get
in good shape. The weather has been
such that its pitchers are far below
the form they ought to reach to start
real competition and the balance of
the team has suffered correspondence
few days OF warm weather is pretty
sure TO work wonders as far as hitting
Is concerned, and also should help the
pitchers tremendously.
Maryland, while 1t lost many good
men from its 1880 squad, Is expecting
to have pretty fair nine. 1t should
get pitching above the average, have a
capable fielding aggregation and about
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College line-ups. Coach Shipley sizes
up the situation as follows:
we have fairly good team, al
Though we are not in as good shape as
we would like TO be. Cold weather has
prevented us doing the kind Of hard
practice every ball team must get If it
IS to develop as it should, and this may
hurt our chances against teams further
South that have had better weather.
If Batson comes through in pitching as
well as he did last year, and the other
fellows measure up to what we expect
OF them, we should have a fairly sue
cessful SEASON"
On the track Maryland is not look
ing for much success. It has a long.
hard schedule, and poor material TO
build team. Coach Eppley says that
''the way I look at our situation this
year Is that we just have to go ahead
and DO the best we can"
Catholic University does not open its
track season until April 10, but it ex-
poets to clean UP, according to a state
msnt from one at Brookland. Anyway,
the Brooklanders have the best outlook
for track that they have ever had in
that sport, and Coach Griffith is rather
optimistic about the situation.
A p3'icy at G. U. which brings out
into athletic competition many more
students than formerly took part in
athletics, is working out well as far as
track is concerned, because the type
CT competition Is SO varied that it often
IS said that any man, II he sticks out
for track, can find some event in which
he can make good.
tom READY, who is spending his
i last year with the Marines. is to
coach the New York Giants, pro-
fesSsonal eleven, next Fall. And the
chances are good that he will have a
team capable Of whipping almost any
opponent. Most of the professional
teams are coached by players and 1t has
been for this reason that the profess
SIGNALS seldom have seemed TO be the
efacient machines that the colleges
are. However, with Ready in charge
1t is likely that New Workers will see
something in the way Of professional
eleven that they have not gazed upon
IN many moons
Ready now Is at Quantico, where he
Is coaching the Marine base ball team
washington and Lee and the Univer-
Gity Of Maryland have shifted their foot
bail game for next Fall from November
IA to November 81. This was agreed 70
by Maryland in order TO give Washing
ton and Lee chance to play Princeton
on November a. This raves Maryland
with an open date on November IA, IN
stead Of the one customaNly left open
on the Saturday before Thanksgiving.
In all probability the Old Line school
will make no attempt to fill the dat'
and will be idle that day instead of the
following Saturday.
OCAL colleges are planning TO lei
IL their foot ball squads go from
Spring practice during the Eastel
HOLIDAYS. AS soon as thu holidays are
ever they will go back TO the daily work.
outs. which are slated TO continue unit
about the first of May.
Spring foot ball practice at the Nav
this year is taking on new aspect
More attention is being given TO th'
squad than in any previous Spring, q!
every one at Annapolis seems 70 realiz'
that, with an entirely new system o
play, especially as far as offense. is con
cerned, 1t viii take a lot OF hare
work to turn out the kind OF foot bal
team the Navy wants.
Nays team next SEASON Is prett.
sure to be far different offensive ag
gregation. The type Of play that Coaci
rip" Miller will give his squad var1e
greatly from that used by Ingram. VIII
row IS at California. Miller, incidental
~, is making no predictions but he be
lieves he should be able to turn out
good eleven. and says In regard to Nava
Academy officials; Everybody down a
Annapolis is treating me with tn
greatest consideration, and could no
ask for better cooperation than Is be
ing given me-"