Evening star., 1932-03-21
TWIN BILL LISTED
HERE ON June IS
Americas Four Best Teams
Will Clash at Central
High Stadium.
BY w. H. HOTEL.

w WASHINGTON will be the
NN/ scene of the semi-final
v games of the Olympic
play-off lacrosse series
that will be held following the
close of the regular stick welding
season to determine the team that
will represent the United States
in the international games at Los
Angeles.
Definite plans for the series were an
nounced today following conference in
Baltimore yesterday between Charles
Ornstein, chairman of the Olympic
Lacrosse Committee, and Henry Iddins
of Johns Hopkins University, secretary
Of the United States Lacrosse Associa-
ton and business manager for the
play-offs.
THE games in Washington, which
l. will bring together the four lead
ing teams in America, will be
staged in Central High School Stadium
on June 18. Previous to the twin bill
here, double e-headers will be played in
New York and Baltimore simultaneously
on June IL, involving the eight teams
that will be named for the series at
the close of the regular campaign.
These eight teams, selected on their
records, will be named by the COM
mittee headed by Ornstein.
The final game will be played either
In Baltimore or New York, the decision
on this not to be reached until the
opening contests in these two cities
have been played The sites for the
inaugural games in Gotham and the
Monumental City have not been de-
termined, but the ones in Baltimore
will be either at Homewood Field at
Johns Hopkins University or the
stadium, most likely the latter.
CENTRAL HIGH SCHOOL Stadium
~ was the scene Of the semi-finals
four years ago in a brilliant
double header in which the University
of Maryland defeated the Naval Acad-
emy and Johns Hopkins scored over
West Point. The games drew a record
crowd for the Central Stadium. 1t
was necessary to install extra bleacher
seats to accommodate the throng, there
being more than 5000 paid admission.
This year, as then, the proceeds will go
to defray the expenses of the winning
team to the Olympics.
There also is some talk of picking an
all-star team to accompany the Olym-
pic representative on tour across the
country to play at three or four points
between the Atlantic and Pacific sea-
boards. This not only would give other
sections of the country taste of real
lacrosse, but at the same time would
serve to keep the United States twelve
in trim for the Olympic tits.
The twin attraction here will be one
Of the features of the Bicentennial pro-
gram and the games will be played at
time when Washington doubtless will
be f1ocked with visitors.
A LII four of the teams that figured
II in the twin bill here four years
ago again should be very much in
the running for the privilege of going
to the Olympics. Johns Hopkins won
then, beating Maryland in the final, and
these two are held to have the best
chances this time. However, st. Johns
of Annapolis, now national champion;
Yale, Union and other college outfits,
along with the two outstanding club
teams of the country. Mount Washing
ton Of Baltimore and the Crescents of
Brooklyn, are expected to make strong
bids. All are putting extra emphasis
on the game this year in an effort TO
gain the high honor.
Army, Yale and Union are said to
have the best outlooks in the history of
lacrosse at these institutions Navy,
always among the best. is sure to make
its presence felt, and Mount Washing
ton, with an array of talented and ex-
perienced former college players, is cer-
tain to be extremely dangerous. How
ever, the experts have it that any team
that can get by Maryland and Hopkins
will make the jaunt to Los Angeles.