Evening star., 1932-04-04

ME OuJQOOT SEASON 1OL COlACSC
teams begins to get under
L way in earnest this week,
with Georgetown opening
its base ball schedule, Maryland
inaugurating track and lacrosse
and also playing two diamond
games. Georgetown's first contest
is with Lafayette, which comes
here Friday to play on the new
Hilltop diamond. Maryland'S first
opponents in track and lacrosse
are Washington and Lee and
Washington College, respectively
Georgetown apparently is not ex-
pecting to have as good base bail
team this year as has represented 1t in
some previous seasons, as the material
available hardly measures UP to pre-
vious standards However, Coach
Sheedy is working with the men just
as often as he can, which Is all too
seldom because of the weather condi-
tions, and it may be that he will pull
through with far better record than
anybody expects.
Practice for base ball among the
colleges in this immediate section has
been almost negligible so far. Either
1t has rained during the afternoons, or
rains that fell previously left the fields
in such shape as to make practice al
most impossible 1t is doubtful if col
lege base ball has been handicapped so
much N years by lack of workouts
However, Lafayette probably has not
had any better conditions under which
to work than Georgetown, which should
about even things up.
TN opening It's track and lacrosse
L seasons. Maryland goes out to com
pete In two sports from which 1t
lost several good men by graduation.
Track, however, may benefit by two or
three fairly capable men from last
year'e freshman squad. In lacrosse 1t
is felt that if team can be developed
to measure up to the IL of 1881 the
Old Line school may consider itself
rather fortunate.
AS a matter Of fact, with a lacrosse
game with washington College, q track
meet with Washington and Lee, and
base ball game with North Carolina,
ali on Saturday afternoon, Maryland Is
due to stage something of three-ring
circus Maryland has only one contest
during the week besides those scheduled
Saturday that being bsse ball game
with Virginia. Last week the Old
Liners were Unable to play at Chariot
tesville as scheduled, due to a rain
storm, and the game was transferred
to next Wednesday. Virginia, like
good many other schools, has a short
diamond schedule and dislikes to miss
one of its home games.
ToACH BURTON SHIPLEY Of the
~ Maryland nine has good many
fine things TO say about the pitch
ers his team faced in games with North
Carolina and Dixie last week. While
the Marylanders had little chance to
develop at bat, nevertheless the opposing
hurlers, Hinton of North Carolina and
Coof1bs Of Duke, showed a good deal
of ability. Says Shipley:
of course, we Just were not In shape
to hit the ball, but we were GOOD
eneugh to make me understand that
the two pitchers We faced are excep-
tionslly COED men Hinton blanked U.s.
but actually Coomb5 of Duke is the
better man CsUmbs is about as good
a college hurler as 1 have seen in many
years. Both have everything necessary
to get by in base ball and both ought
to go about as far as they desire, even
beyond college bali"
Shipley, in speaking of his own team
in the two games. says that he has
no fault to find with the way it played.
He thinks that the team, though IT
lost both contests, did as well as Should
have been expected.
Big league scouts are following COL
1ege mines this Spring even more than
in previous years. With the minor
leagues dropping by the Wayside, and
those that continue in operation find
ing it difficult to exist, the big circuits
are having curtei ed fields from which
they draw their players. A great many
big leeguars have come from college
mines, and it may be that in the fu-
ture an even greater number will leave
college ranks to enter professional
careers.
IT begins to seem that during the COM
i ing Summer almost as many special
sightseeing trips, tours, will be run
to the Pacific Coast for the Olympics
as there are athletes in competition.
Many people prominent in athletic cir
c!es are linking their names with this
railroad. or that railroad for this tour
or that tour, and the railroads are do
ing plenty of eanyasSing fer business
with this and the Olymp!cs as back
ground All kinds of tours with stop
over5 and side trips are being or
gsnized, about the most elaborate OF
which is to go to the coast by rail and
return by way of the Panama Canal
Actually, most Of these tours are re-
markable for financial reasonableness.
For most Of them the cost ranges be-
tween 5000 and $500, and it is likely
that a great many people will make the
journey West this Summer who have
never before been beyond the Blue
Ridge. And that should be good
deal better for the country than to go
abroad and leave so much good AmeT1-
can money in foreign countries.
Baltimore is going to make a serious
effort to stage NorthSouth foot ball
game as a part Of its annual program
of activities The Monumental City eX-
poets to realize some funds from it for
charitable purposes and possibly draw
attention as a really worthwhile city.
Mai. Jackson has given the game his
approval and now tas one of the city
employees working on it. 1t Is the in
tention to get two or three prominent
coaches CT the North to organize a
team from that section to meet an
other team organized by two or three
Of the most prominent coaches in the