Evening star., 1932-03-27
LEAVES TOMORROW
TOOPEN IN SOUTH
TarheeIs, Blue Devils and
Cavaliers to Be Played.
Netmen Meet Navy.
BY III. c. BYRD.

4 morrow on a three-game
trip to North Carolina and
Virginia to open the Spring sea-
son for local college teams. Tues
day the Old Line nine plays North
Carolina, at Chapel Hill; Wednas-
day it meets Duke, at Durham,
and Thursday Virginia, at Char
lottesville.
1t is almost needless to say that the
team is not in very good shape. Twice
a-day practices this week are about all
the real workouts the squad has had,
and the only bright spot in the trip is
that advices from North Carolina and
Virginia are that the weather has not
been much better there and those teams
consequently are not in much better
shape.
When the team returns here next
Friday it will get an opportunity for
some real practice before its next games.
Following the game with Virginia at
Charlottesville March 81 the Old Liners
do not play again until North Carolina
comes here April 9.
WHATEVER may be the results OF
has the best prospects for ball
team that it has had in 10 years In
fact, the material is so good that one
or two of the regulars OF last year may
find themselves without steady jobs.
The workouts this week have given
Coach Shipley a good idea of what he
may expect from the candidates for the
various positions. Several men from
last years Freshman team are show
ing up so well that it seems almost GER
tain they will be seen in more or less
regular roles.
The catching job is to be divided be-
tween Ralph Sterling. who did most
Of it last year, and O'Hara, sopho-
more, who bids fair to develop into an
exceptionally good man in another year.
EOUR pitchers are available to make
l. UP the best hurting staff that has
ever graced any Maryland nine.
These are McIllwee and Davidson. left
handlers, and Physioc and Ruble, right
handlers. All except McIllwee came
from the 1881 Freshman squad Dav-
idson has been rated one of the best
amateur hurlers ON the local Sandlots.
First base probably will be taken care
of by Spencer Chase, Freshman first
baseman last year. He came from Busi-
4lCoo 0CIfOOl OCGOIlQ udSC DS-
tween Harry Wolfe and Bob Wilson.
the former from last years Freshman
and the latter a senior Berger and
Chalmers veterans of two years and
both seniors, have virtually no rivals
for their positions at short and third
TWO outfieid positions seem assured
l. for Buscher and German. but
there is merry battle ON for the
other Job. Cronin, who held down
regular berth last year; Maxwell, an
running almost on even terms for the
homer Buscher played on the fresh
m team last season while German
wss regular first bssernsn on the var
sity. Benner is another who came up
from the fresnen.
As is usual with almost all Maryland
teams, a good deal of the strength
comes from former Washington High
boys BuScher and Gorman. both cer-
Prep and Tech; Chase, first baseman,
is from Business; Wolfe and Wilson,
battling it out for the Job at second,
are former Tech and Western men;
Berger at short Is from Tech. Davidson,
one OF the pitchers, comes from Tech,
and so does Benner, who has a chance
to make the third outfeld berth.
ssT DON'T know how We shall make
L out this year on games won and
lost" says Coach Shipley, but un-
less something happens we are going to
have the best ball team that has worn
Maryland coIors since began coaching.
10 years agos We ought to have the
best pitching, the best hitting and the
best fielding. and if that combination
does not make the best team then
don't know what should. We are not
in good shape for the first three games
and it is hard TO tell Just how we may
come out in them. About all we can
hope for is that North Carolina Duke
ana Virginia have not had much bet
ter weather than we have
In addition to opening the base ball
season Maryland also gives tennis a
sendoff, as it has a match with Navy,
at Annapolis. Tennis, for a while at
Maryland, must go on under wraps
under great disadvantages. but not for
much longer. as the Board OF Regents
of the university. at its meeting in
Baltimore yesterday, authorized irnnne-
diate construction of 20 new courts
Eight Of these are to be built on the
girls athletic field and II ON the mems