Evening star., 1932-05-08

L championship lacrosse war
riors took a kayo count
yesterday-and largely because
University of Maryland's base ball
club possesses a crackerjack third
baSeman.
The national champs didn't
know it then but it was quite a
blow to them about six weeks ago
when young sophomore named
Norwood Sothoron decided Bozie
Berger was too tough to oust at
third base on the ball nine ana
asked for lacrosse stick and a
helmet.
But they knew it yesterday when, be-
fore crowd of 1000 or more, this
Sothoron ycungster, with his brief eX-
perience in lacrosse behind him, led
Maryland's crack lacrossers to a 5-to-2
victory in the sun-baked Byrd Stadium
Sothoron was the spark plug of a
smooth-ciic Maryland machine
which took long step toward the ma
tional title and literally moved College
Park closer to Los Angeles and the
Olympic Games
TT was stirring show these two clever
i lacrosse teams put on but they were
forced to share the spotlight with a
conglomeration of nearly 400 scholastic
and collegiate tracksters who staged
three-ring cinder circus which found
Central High Of Washington victorious
IN the annual field day interscholastic
championships, Hagerstown High tri-
1In1nh1nf in tha pNtIY1ty fitlo cantion opS
the Old Line varsity an 84-to-42 winner
ever Johns Hopkins in a dual meet
Three meet records were smashed by
the fast-Stepping scholastics yesterday.
while Norwood Sothoron may have set
some sort of record for learning how
to expertly handle a lacrosse stick in
such short time.
1t was the lacrosse classic, to which
national Importance was attached, that
was the big drawing card and the
sWeltering spectators were justly re-
warded. 1t was hard-fought battle
between two teams that appeared evenly
matched in every department except
second and third defense-p-sts so ably
guarded yesterday by Jack Norris and
Sothoron.
n ACH team boasted spotless record
- of five victories and for the first
minutes it appeared as though
the Johnnies were going to make it six
IN a row. The Annapolis b.ys drew
first blood when Ramsay golfed a missed
shot by McCartee into the net.
That shot served to bring the Old
Liners to life. At midway in the first
period Skippy Faber tipped the ball
expertly to Gordon Pugh, who tied the
score at 1-all Eddie Ronkin. guarded
by the st. Johns ace, giant Phil Lotz,
followed it up by vriggling free for
moment and pocketing a nifty angle
shot. The half ended when Jack Nor
us whizzed long one through what
appeared to be half of the visiting II.
They swing futilely at the speeding
pellet as a sand-letter at a nickel
rocket hurled by Bob Grove
Pugh opened the scoring in the sec
ond half with anotller goal to bring
the score to Al, but st. Johns man
aged to threaten when Ziegler whipped
home a shot. Then Sothoron, who
played whale of game all day, gave
the crowd its supreme thrill Dodging,
squirming and twisting, the Lacrosse
neophyte carried the ball right up to
the net and pushed 1t in. The whistle
sounded few minutes later.
THE track feature was furnished by
l. Bill Foley's blue-clad Central lads,
who nosed out Tech by point
and half, 80 to 3112, for the inter-
scholastic crown. Centrals three mus
keteers of the dashes, Price, Naylor
and Ditzler, gave the Blue a flying
start by running one, two and three
in the century. 1t was a margin too
large for the Tech tracksters to over
come
Winchester High, Virginia, finished
fourth with 81 points, while Western
was represented with a one-man team
in Beers, who scored all of the George
town schools 13 points and placed it
fourth. Eastern, public high champion
in 1881, was fifth with 8,
Two meet records were accounted for
in the interscholastics, but both we're
made by Winchester boys Stipe threw the
javelin 168 feet, inches, to break the
former record of lea feet 9 inches.
made in 1927 by Motley of Woodberry
Forest. Dunlap furnished the other
new mark by tossing the 12-pound
shot 48 feet, II inches. bettering the
former record of Williams of Oxford
High, N. O., by 2 inches.
HAGERSTOWN HIGH won the
i i county title for the third con-
secutive year, scoring II points
Md, team. Hennessy was the leading
figure in Hagerstow'n victory, account
ing for II points
Mclaughlin of Towson High fea-
tured the county meet by stepping the
century in 10 is seconds, breaking the
former record held by Earl Widmyer
OF HagerstoWn, made in 1880 and 1881,
by fifth of second. Widmyer, now
freshman at Maryland, watched him
turn the trick
Allegheny High Of Cumberland, Md,
was third with points and Annapolis
and Catonsville tied for fourth with
5 points apiece.
Johns Hopkins could offer Maryland
little real competition in the varsity
dual meet. As usual. the Old Liners
scored most of their points in the
field events, although Quinn, Cronin
Shure and Piggott won firsts in the
220, 880 l and 2 mile runs, and 100
high hurdles. Big Jess Krajcovic was
the leading point scorer, accounting
for IL
Lacrosse Summary.
Maryland t5). Position St. Johns C2).
1lFefnlzZl Coal ........-.-,. La Motto
JOughran ..... Point ............ Lamond
Nicholson ...-.- Cover point .......... Lott
May ........... FirSt defense ....... Morris
Norris .-....... Second defense .... Williams
S9thoron ...... Third defense. -. Carpenter
Poppelinan 49,. TSird hSd attack Mccarpee
Tockensmith Second attack ......- Zieeier
Ronkin ........ First attack .......... Athey
Stieber ........ Out home ........... Lynch
Faber ....,..... In home ........... Ramsay
Score by halves
Maryland Observation-Disclosures. 3 2-5
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