Evening star., 1934-04-09
NINE IS IMPROVED
0VERLAST SEASON
Opens Today With Vermont
G. u. Plays First Home
Game Thursday.
BY II. C. BYRD.

BY II. c. BYRD.
ri M NOT only optimistic but
enthusiastic about our
possibilities in base ball
4 this Spring, so different
Is the present situation from
last year." said Coach Ed Morris
this morning in speaking of the
opening game his team is to play
this afternoon with University of
Vermont at Clark Griffith Sta
dium.
I'VE are in so much better shape
and we are lot more like a ball club
despite the fact that we have been
able to practice outside only five
days"
This optimistic feeling on he part
OF Coach Morris is shared by every
body who knows something of the
George Washington squad. and the
opening against Vermont this after
noon is expected to begin the most
successful season the university has
ever had on the diamond. The
strength of the pitching staff, for in
stance, may be gauged by the fact that
Everett Russell, star pitcher at Tech
two years ago, and who was expected
to be one of the mainstays of Virginia,
Is a member of the squad, but Is being
used as a third baseman instead of
pitcher. AS Coach Morris put it this
morning. He can hit the ball, and we
have plenty of pitchers
Has Four d. c. Lads.
EOUR members of the team as it
Il lines up for this afternoon are
Washingtonians who have had a
good deal of experience on the sandlots.
zahn at second base, Fitzgerald at first
base, Russell at third and Albert in
left field are the strictly local players
who have held forth successfully with
local amateur mines. while a fifth,
Archie Scrivener, pitcher, makes his
home in Alexandria. The other men,
bers of the team are: earns, center
field; Ferrell, right field, and Berg,
catcher
About the only factor that worries
the Colonials is that they have not
had much chance to get outdoor prac-
tice. Their teamwork is bound to
suffer because of that. but otherwise,
In the practices that have been held,
the squad seems to be capable of turn
ing in some neat games
Vermont itself probably has not had
much chance to do real pracucing, ex-
cept for what it may have been able
to accomplish in cage. Saturday it
was defeated by Navy, 6 to 5, which
may mean that it has in the making
an exceptionally good team.
- A Willing Toiler.
I'D MORRIS, George Washington
t. coach, tells a good story about
Orlin Rogers, University of Vir-
ginia pitcher. It seems that three
years ago Morris organized a local
sandlot team and this team played at
Gordonsville. Va. The Gordonsville
manager had told Morris that Rogers,
the Virginia man. would pitch the
second game of the double header.
The first game had progressed to
the eighth inning when up to the
Gordonsville manager rushed a young
ster, almost out of breath, with the
remark that, I'm awfully sorry I'm
late, but I couldn't get here any
sooner; got here as fast as could
because thought you might expect
me to pitch both games
The youngster was Rogers.
incidentally that same Rogers
engaged in a great pitching duel with
Ruble of the University of Maryland
Saturday at Charlottesville. The
game went nine innings without
score BY either team, until Maryland
broke the ice in the tenth and won,
3 to 0. The college games in which
both pitchers are good enough to go
into the tenth without score by
either team are few and far between,
and that the Virginian and Mary
lander were able to accomplish that
is distinct achievement for both.
Big Day for Terrapins.
N MARYLAND teams made good
lN day of it Saturday. Not only
did the base ball squad trip
Virginia in great game, but the
lacrosse ten whipped Harvard and
the track squad took Virginia Poly
technic Institute into camp Mary
land ran up seven goals on Harvard
in the first quarter, and for that pc
riod seemed vastly stronger. Against
Virginia Tech. with the exception of
the discus and shot, Maryland gen.
orally was the better team. Widmyer
ran two great races in the 100 and
220. but a slight wind at his back
prevented him being given the track
record, which be broke in both events
Maryland's base ball team goes to
Durham today to play Duke. The
Blue Devils have an exceptional nine.
which last year beat Maryland twice.
1t is likely that Physioc, who lost
2-to.1 game to Cornell last week, will
be on the slab for the Old Line team.
Two games to be played by Mary
land and william and Mary tomor-
row and Richmond Wednesday are
the only contests in which local
schools are scheduled the next two
days, but Thursday Georgetown plays
It's first home game with Western
Maryland. Friday George Washing
ton meets Temple at tennis and
Maryland goes against Richmond in
dual track meet at Richmond. A
lacrosse game between Maryland and
Mount Washington and a tennis
match between Maryland and Navy
are the only intercollegiate contests
Saturday.
BILL M'KECHNIE RECEIVERS.
Bill McKechnie, manager of the
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