Evening star., 1932-04-18
LACK Of PRESSURE
TO WIN AIDS GAME
old Pro Stigma Gone, Sport
Now Thoroughly Enjoyed.
Hoyas Face Terrors.
BY II. c. BYRD.

TIME Changes III viewpoint III
regard to certain branches
of college athletics over a
period of years is almost
amusing and certainly rather sur
prising. Take base ball, as an
example. Ten years ago base ball
was the most maligned sport Of
all the colleges play, but today
sees something Of a turnabout.
Ten years ago it was said that base
ball was responsible for about 80 per
cent of the troubles in college athletics,
as it smacked of professionalism from
beginning to end. 1t was the one sport
that threatened to wreck two or three
intercollegiate organizations, so caustic
did the discussions and charges at
times become. But, for the opposite
view Of today, listen to this expression
by the chairman Of the Faculty Com
n1ittee on Athletics in a university ID
the South Atlantic section:
Base ball has developed into Just
about the incest sport for our colleges
to play. There is an almost complete
absence of pressure to win, and the
players, without that pressure, are turn
ing back to love the game They like
to play. Instead of abolishing base
ball, in my opinion We are going to
foster it to greater extent than We
have been in the last few years. We
ought to pick base ball back out of
the dolorums and give it the recogni-
tion it deserves. From the pressure to
win that one finds in foot ball, basket
tNan M l1zr l.1Tn Al.
Is Offering welcome interlude."
CEORGETOWN opens the week III
~ college athletics with Western
Maryland College its opponent in
a base ball game this afternoon. The
Blue and Gray entertainS the Green
and Gold On the new diamond adjacent
to the Medical School at $3.50.
What strength Western Maryland
may show Is not known, but up on the
Hilltop there is a feeling that the local
school should put the game away in its
bag. Western Maryland lost to Navy
Saturday, II to 5. incidentally. George
town is expected to show considerable
improvement over its play in the open
mg game Of its schedule, when Lafay-
ette was victor, 5 to 4, as it has got in
some much-needed hours Of practice.
NOTHING in the way of a contest
IN Is booked for any Of the local,
schools tomorrow, but Wednesday
George Washington entertains St.
Johns of Annapolis in tennis match.
Thursday Virginia comes here to meet
Maryland In the same sport. To tell
the truth, the first four days of the
week are rather bleak, but the teams
get buster Friday and Saturday.
Georgetown's ball team goes on a
trip over Friday and Saturday, meeting
New York University Friday at New
York and Seton Hall College Saturday
at Seton Hall, N. j. Maryland enter
tains Washington and Lee in a base
ball game on Friday and the Old Line
track squad, both freshman and var
sity, journeys to Richmond to line up
against University of Richmond. Sat
urday afternoon Maryland meets Vir-
gfnia here in lacrosse and Western
Maryland at Westminster in tennis.
That Johnny Waybright, Navy half
back and -sprinter, can shake a mean
hoof when he starts down straight
away with a pair of spiked shoes on
his feet was never better demonstrated
than when he took the 100-yard dash
and 220-yard dash in the dual meet
with North Carolina Saturday. Way
bright did the century in 9.6 seconds,
which is good enough, if he can repeat
in Olympic trials, to take him to Los
Angeles this Summer. His mark for the
220 was 21.8, not as good compare
lively as the other. Teams due to
oppose Navy in foot ball next Fall will
not look with much pleasure on the
antics of a halfback who can outrun
everybody around a7d then some.
INCIDENTALLY, that Navy-North
i Carolina dual meet developed some
good marks in other events besides
the dashes. The javelin toss was espe-
cially good, Legare of North Carolina
throwing 1t few inches over 208 feet.
That is heave that should win in
about nine out of ten meets, and per-
haps more often than that. The 120-
yard high hurdles was done in Just
fraction over Is seconds. and the 16-
pound shot was hesved over Al feet.
Maryland broke into the won column
Saturday In base ball ard did 1t with
a zeal that made it seem it was trying
to make up for its previous losing eff
forts. 1t trimmed Dickinson by 20 to 4.
In its other two contests Saturday the
Old Liners broke even, the lacrosse team
trimming Georgia, at Athens, by II
to o, while the track team was losing to
Virginia Military Institute by much
wider margin than was thought prob
able.