Evening star., 1938-03-29
BUCKEYESLEARN
TERPS CAN SLUG
Maryland Foes Today See
Vermont Routed-OId Line
Lacrosse Starts.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

AVo sOou CIllIle CIle OdyS are SET.
ting longer. else Maryland's baseball
team would be in for a lot of seven
inning games this spring Unable to
start playing until o'ciock-cIasses
keep Old Line athletes (who also are
students) indoors until that hour-
Maryland's apparent inclination TO
continue its 1859 team batting aver
age of last year is likely to send any
game over the two-hour limit.
Especially was that true this after
noon as the Terps took the field
against Ohio State. For if they could
wallop Vermont-the team which
nosed out Navy, 1-0-by 1874 count,
sad indeed were the prospects of the
Buckeyes, who took a 2O-3 trounclng
from little Randolph Macon last Sat-
urday.
Like future opponent of Joe Louis,
who watches the Brown Bomber bomb
another Would-be challenger into
oblivion, was the Ohio State team
yesterday as it watched the Terps
murder the Cats. The Is hits which
rolled of the Maryland bats as the
Old Liners were given 38 chances to
hit started the team off with 1894
percentage. No player got more than
two hits. but 1t was the consistency
of the whole team which was signifi-
cant.
Lacrossemen Also in Action.
And If George Wood and Bill Sill
verman can equal the mound work of
Charley Weidinger, Earl Springer and
Bill Steiner yesterday Coach Burton
Shipley is going to have another big
load off his shoulders. Steiner, in
cidentally, was scheduled to work the
last third of the opening game. hut
the darkness that curtailed activ!-
ties at the end of the seventh also
restricted his work to one inning.
Hence Shipley's decision to stalt him
today.
Unless this afternoons baseball
game is complete reversal of yester-
day's-and there is nothing in the
records to indicate it would be-most
of the spectators could be expected
to saunter over few steps into the
stadium to watch Jack Faber's lacrosse
team open its season against Swarth-
more It was to be the first indication
of whether the six new men were able
to fill the shoes of those who formed
the greater part Of last years unde-
feated Maryland team. Haskin Dee
ley, Bill Wolfe, Bill Graham, George
Lawrence, Bill Cole and Bill Croft
were the men on trial.
Big Day for Terp Rockies.
Back to that Maryland ball team.
OF the seven innings played, only one
was not a credit to the Maryland
pitcher. That was the fourth, the
first worked by Lefty Springer, who
walked three men, hit another and
yielded a single before he settled down
to pitch two subsequent hitless innings
marred only by two inconsequential
passes.
Weidinger, who worked the first
three and gave up only two hits and
a walk, would not have been scored
upon had not Bill Bryant fumbled
McDonogh's two-base hit In the first,
allowing the batter to reach third from
where he counted on an outfield fly.
Steiner retired the Vermonters in
order in the final frame.
It was a big day, too, for Maryland's
rookies-Bob Burns, Hugh Keller and
Joe Crisafulli. Keller's first of two
hits enabled Maryland to overcome
short-lived advantage on the part of
the visitors and his second was a
double. Not expected to start, Keller
also made his presence felt in right
field. coming through with two nice
catches. Burns and Crisafulli both
handled the pitchers well, the former
getting triplesand single in two trips
to plate and Girls hitting on his only
trip.
Chumbris Walking Champ.
OF the vets, George Knepley and
Bryant were the only two to get more
than one hit, but Snow Whites eighth
dwarf, Shorty Chumbris, drew three
passes In five trips to the plate and
Waverly Wheeler shared longest-hit
honors with Burns, getting triple.
Mrs. Frank Dobson, wife Of the Old
Liners grid coach, pulled the best
crack of the day. Joining her husband
near the press box at the start Of the
third inning she asked the score.
Upon being told 1t was I'll, she re-
piled, "oh, they kicked the extra point,
did thsys"