Evening star., 1938-04-24
Maryland Scores Upsets Oer Hoyu Nne ST. Johns Stick Team
HALTSLATE RALLY
TO DOWN c. U.,64
Steiner Is Ace as Surprise
HurIer-CIassy Lacrosse
Battle Ends, 8-4.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.


University of Maryland athletes
double e-crossed the experts yesterday
at College Park in smashing and
maintaining pair Of consecutive
game winning streaks which had and
have reached sizable proportions.
The Old Liners crossed the dope
sters the first time when they hand
ed Georgetown its first defeat in &C
games by a Ga score. 1t was the
Hoyas' first diamond loss since late
in the 1885 season.
Ihereupon the Black and Gold Ia
crosse team, not to be outdone by the
ball players, upset the dope again by
turning back the hitherto undefeated
st. Johns ten from Annapolis, 8-4.
1t was the twentieth straight victory
IN college competition for the rerps,
who had entered the game as short
enders against the previously unde-
feated JohnnieS. BY winning. Mary
lands stickmen successfully crossed
their first major obstacle en- route to
what they hope will culminate in an
other national championship.
Maryland's tennis team made it a
clean sweep for the host of the days
triple-header by chalking up its
fourth straight win at the expense of
Western Maryland. The score was
7-2.
Steiner Surprise Starter.
The real story Of Maryland's dia-
mond victory gets its logical begin
ming when Pitcher Bill Steiner was
sent to the mound by Coach Burton
Shipley. Few. if any, had even con-
sidered Steiner senior, and quite q
hurler, as events proved-as Mary
lands starting pitcher. 1t seemed as
if he looked better in his practice
heaves than any other and thus re-
ceived the nod.
No more fortunate selection ever
was made by Shlpley Cooler than
the chilly winds which swept across
the field and as calm against George
town as if he never had heard of the
Hoyas, Steiner did something which
no pitcher had done against the Blue
and Gray nine in the last 19 games
shut them out for eight innings.
He not only held Georgetown score.
less. but limited it to one hit in the
first five innings. Thereafter unit
the ninth, he permitted the Hoyas
only one hit frame and only twice
did the Hoyas have as many ss two
runners on the bases. Once, in the
second, Marylani's infield got hin
out Of trouble with q snappy double
play and the other instance was due
to an error by the otherwise heroic
Waverly Wheeler. During that time
only one G.. U. batter got as far as
third, Smitty Nau stealing second
after his single in the sixth and going
foul fly to deep right.
Terps Score in Innings.
Meanwhile, Steiner's metes-or,
more specifically, Waverly Wheeler
and Eddie Johnson-had pried Hank
Bertrand loose from six runs in three
different innings. Wheeler, who was
the hitting star of the day with q
home run and a double which ac-
counted for four Of the Terps' scores,
drew the first cheers of a packed
stand Of $500 in the very first inning
by punching home run to deep left
center to score George Knepley ahead
of him. Later, in the eighth, it was
Wheeler's two-bagger which drove
across knepley again and Lefty
Chumbris. Capitalizing upon two
errors on his drive, Wheeler went to
third when Nau fumbled his hit and
continued home when Mellendeck re-
layed the ball wildly. In the interim
johnson had scored for the TerpS in
the fourth when he tripled to right
and came across on Bill Bryant's fly
to the same field.
Georgetown, helpless against Stein
er for eight innings, suddenly came
to life in their last stand at bat and
for . while threatened to produce an
other sensational rally which thrice
has saved its record in the last 10
games. Cavadine opened with q
double and Barabas singled him
across for the first run When Kee-
gin also singled, Steiner was waved
out Of the box. Lefty George Wood,
who replaced him, got by the next
TWO batters, making Joe Mellendeck
swing at q third strike, but Mike
Petroskey, who had relieved Bertrand,
knocked a homer to left-center to
score Keegin and narrow the margin
to Ga. Joe Schmitt, however, ended
the game when he took q third strike
with his bat on his shoulder.
Stick Battle Is Thriller.
Thrilling as the ball game was, the
lacrosse battle produced even more
enthusiasm from the biggest crowd to
see game in College Park this year.
Perhaps this was due to the presence
of large number of st. Johns rooters
who made the trip over from Annapo-
lis in the expectation of seeing their
favorites add the Terps to their list
of victims.
For exactly half of the game the
expectation might be called justified,
although the game was a dog fight
for the first 50 minutes of play.
Neither team was able to score for the
first eight minutes, but then Jim
Meade broke the deadlock with q
screen shot. Rowe, however, tied the
score three minutes later st. Johns
took the lead for the only time after
II minutes of play in the second
quarter, but George Watson tied it
up at "a, the half-time score.
1t was IS If complete trans
formation had taken nlare IN totb