Evening star., 1938-05-06
Maryland Host to Schools, C0IIeges in Weekend SD
TRACK, BASEBALL,
TENNIS FILL CARD
D. c. High, State Teams to
Race-Terps Play W. 81.
Nine, c. U. Netmen.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

at College Park tomorrow afternoon
when nearly 500 school and college
athletes engage in three track meets,
a baseball game and a tennis match
in observance of the University of
Maryland's twenty-first annual spring
field day.
A f1ve-ring circus, and just as diff
flcult to follow, for the three track
meets will be run concurrently start
ing at l o'clock, and may be over
Tapped by the Maryland Washington
and Lee ball game starting at $50.
Those interested in the Maryland
Catholic University tennis competition
will find matches starting at 1:3O.
The only other collegiate event
scheduled locally is a lacrosse game,
one which brings the national cham
pion of l937-the Baltimore A. c.
here to meet the Washington club.
Numerous all-America players will be
found in both line-ups, for Washing
ton depends upon such as Moon Evans,
Norwood Sothoron and Al Nye, while
Baltimore will feature Charley Ellinger
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sion is 40 cents, but members of the
Police Boys Club will be admitted
free and high-school students for 10
cents each upon presentation of their
Athletic Association cards.
Capital Schools in Meet.
In addition to having its varsity
track team meet Rutgers, Maryland
will play host to 20 high schools in
two distinct and eagerly-awaited track
and field competitions Nine schools
of Prince Georges County will COM
pete in eight events for the county
championship while IL schools-in-
cluding the Districts Tech, Central,
Eastern, Western and Roosevelt-will
compete On 13 open events.
Washington-Lee of Ballston, how
ever, is favored to win the open meet
with other outside competition COM
ing from Baltimore's Forest Park, City
College, Gilman, Mount st. Joseph's
and McDonogh. Mercersburg. which
won the championship last year, is not
competing.
No team is expected to have more
contestants than Tech, however, which
is entering 81 thin-clads. Central is
sending 81 into the competition, with
18 coming from both Eastern and
Western and IA from Roosevelt.
Bel Air is defending champion of
the county meet, but must stave off
the bids of Allegany and Fort Hill, of
Cumberland, Frederick, Hagerstown,
Hyattsville, Sherwood and Sparrows
Point and others to retain its title.
Wefers Tutors Rutgers Team.
The Rutgers-Maryland varsity meet
would be noteworthy if for no other
reason than that it brings back to
Washington in the role of Rutgers
coach Bernie Wefers, famous George
town athlete of the late COS. Still
rated among the greatest sprinters the
world ever knew, Wefers once simul-
taneously held records in both the 100
and 220. His time of 212 in the latter
stood for 81 years. During his years of
competition Wefers equaled the world
record of 90 in the century 27 times.
Despite the impressive record of
their rivals coach, the Old Line thin
clads are cunning for their fifth con-
secutive dual meet victory, undefeated
since their first meet of the year
against Michigan State. The Terps
have an excellent chance of making
Rutgers their sixth victim, for only
last Wednesday was the New Jersey
team routed by N. Y. u, 78-48. The
visitors have an outstanding field man
in Bill Tranavitch, however, who was
the Nations third high scoring back
in football last year. He's an ace with
the shotput. discus and in the broad
jump.
Indeed, the Marylanders have a
fine opportunity for recording another
clean sweep as they did two weeks
ago against Georgetown in baseball,
st. Johns in lacrosse and Western
Maryland in tennis. Washington and
Lee, tomorrow's opponent on the dia-
mond. is not quite up to the usual
General standard, and the Terps plan
to pitch George Wood, their crafty
little southpaw, against the invaders.
Wood also will act as captain.
The third varsity event of the NOR
row will find Maryland's tennis team,
still undefeated after seven matches,
a pronounced favorite over c. us.
Terp, Tiger Stickmen Clash.
Away, still another Maryland team
will go after its most important vic
tory of the season when Princeton's
lacrosse team is encountered on the
Tigers field. Princeton's undefeated
record last year was the only thing
which prevented Maryland from stalk
ing clear claim to the national
championship, and the Terps have
their own idea Of avenging Princeton's
co-sharing of the title.
According to comparative scores,
Maryland should win its 22d consecu-
tive college game by close margin.
A win also would send Maryland into
the big game with Navy at Annapolis
a week from tomorrow on even terms
with its outstanding contender for
the national title. Like Maryland,
Navy still is unbeaten in college ranks,
and the game might well decide the
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