Evening star., 1932-05-09
HOYA NINE ALONE
TO PLAY IN NORTH
Leading Schools for First
Time in 80 Years Fail
to Show in South.
BY III. c. BYRD.

NJ teams TINS spring nave
/ Y given this particular sec
ton of the country a wide
berth, but this week local nine
is to get an opportunity to show
how some of the games might
have turned out had the usual
trips been made. Georgetown it
is that goes North to test the
mettle of the best that New Eng
land has to offer, meeting, as it
does, on consecutive days, Thurs
day, Friday and Saturday, Har-
ward, Boston College and Holy
Cross.
The Blue and Gray squad is to leave
here Wednesday evening, and its trip
should stand out as the high light of
the weeks intercollegiate activities.
No other northern trip any local team
has taken has had the importance of
Georgetowns journey. Almost every
year prior to this, for 80 years or more,
northern college mines, usually includ-
ing Princeton, Penn, Harvard, Cornell.
Yale and Dartmouth, have come south
and most Of them have met either
Georgetown, Catholic University or
Maryland. This Spring things changed
and not one of these institutions sent
its diamonders south, consequently there
has been no way of getting a compari-
son between the northern and southern
mines. And, incidentally, the cancella-
tion of trips by SO many colleges cut
down by q third the number of games
usually played by local teams. The re-
suit is that virtually the only compari-
son that will exist at the end of the
season, when it comes time to rate COL
lege ball teams, may be the scores of
the games Georgetown is to play this
week end
On Georgetown's shoulders rests the
responsibility for upholdirg the stand
ards of southern college base ball. 1t
has always, in that regard, played its
part well, and the best wishes of all
college men in the section should speed
1t on its journey Wednesday.
A TENNIS match today between
N George washington and st. Johns
at Annapolis, and another tomor-
row between Maryland and Hopkins at
Baltimore are the only intercollegiate
contests listed this week until Catholic
University goes to Villanova on Wednes-
day for a dual track and field meet.
The BrooklanderS should be up against
q good deal sitter opposition at Villa
nova than they were Saturday when
they took the measure of st. Joseph's
of Philadelphia. The Brooklanders
hardly viii get back from Philadelphia
before they begin to get ready to take
the field IN a dual meet with Wake
Forest, which comes here Saturday.
MARYLAND gets out on the diamond
VI this week for two ball games on
consecutive days, with both games
at home. University Of Richmond is
to be its opponent Thursday and Vir-
ginia Military Institute Friday. Both
schools rank among the best college
mines in the section, and both apparent
1y are good deal stronger than usual
Saturday Maryland's lacrosse twelve
plays at Penn State and the track team
meets Navy. The Old Liners certainly
have at least an even chance against
Penn State, but nothing short of q
miracle would enable them to beat Navy
on the track. Records made by the Mid
shfpmen so far surpass by a good deal
anything Maryland has done.
Not only does the Georgetown base
ball team play In the North this week
end, but the golf team also is to face
two New England teams. It meets Holy
Cross at Boston Friday and Harvard
and Dartmouth In a double bill Satur-
day at Boston.
CALLAUDET'S track team gets an
NJ other test next Saturday, as it
entertains Lynchburg College The
Kendall Greeners, while they lost to
La Sale last week, did themselves no
discredit. 1t would not be surprise to
see them beat Lynchburg. Walnoha of
Gallaudet won three events against
La Sale, throwing the javelin 1855
feet, the discus 112.75 feet and putting
the shot 42.8 feet. 1t was by far the
best performance of any individual in
the meet, with the exception of
Bythiner, who won the 100, 220 and
440 for La Sale. Incidentally, Bythiner
did the century in 10 fiat and the fur
long in % fiat, which would be good
times in any meet.
AFARYLAND'S lacrosse team left no
1'k doubt of its superiority over st.
Johns in the game Saturday,
which was featured as part Of Mary
lands annual Spring field day. 1t was
the first time in three years that the
O,d Liners have defeated the Annapolis
lacrosse as its only Spring sport, has
had things all its own way except for
the defeat 1t sustained last year at the
hands of Johns Hopkins. The game was
about as fine an exhibition of the old
Indian pastime as could be found any
where. The result left Maryland with
six straight victories to its credit for
the season and st. Johns with only
that defeat
Incidentally, it begins to appear that
the Hopkins Maryland game in Balti-
more week from the coming Sat-
urday, May 81, may draw crowd SINH
lar In proportions to crowds that watch
foot ball contests If Hopkins and
Maryland get by their games this week,
they will meet as undefeated teams
About the same situation should result
when Maryland goes to Annapolis to play
Navy two weeks from Saturday Navy
and Maryland have had tremendous
crowds at their lacrosse games the last
three or four years, and there is not
likely to be any change this time.
VuAYBR1GHT, Naval cademy
w sprinter, continues to show that
the form he developed last year
as plebe was not a fash Several
times this Spring he has run the CEN
tury under 10 seconds, and again Sat-
urday he trimmed that fiat mark by
one-tenth of a second Waybright is a
halfback on the foot ball squad, and
last year Coach Rip Miller predicted he
would eventually be one of the greatest
backs Navy ever had. Incidentally.
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