Evening star., 1938-05-11
FABER IS WIZARD
LACROSSE TUTOR
Multiz, Unknown to Game at
Start, Example of Terp
Coach's Skill.
By BILL DISMER. Jr.

the human interest story behind
the Maryland lacrosse team which
plays Navy for the national champion
ship on Saturday at Annapolis is an
old one so far as Maryland lacrosse
teams are concerned That Is how an
Old Line regular who never played or
saw lacrosse played before this season
has developed into the most consistent
performer and one of the sparkplugs
of Jack Faber's current ten.
The only new angle of the present
situation Is that the lad is a Wash
irgton boy, Milton Mulitz.
For years Maryland, through Faber,
has been developing players who have
attained all-American recognition or
formed major cogs Of national cham
pionship combinations. If ever :. man
could take credit for coach-made
teams, Faber is that man.
How he does it is best and most
timely illustrated by the case of
MULTI. Faber merely says that MULTI,
junior at the university, looked so
good in basket ball that he urged him
to come out for lacrosse. Therein
lies Faber's formula. If an Old Line
athlete looks good in football or
basket ball he, times out Of 10, will
make q natural lacrosse player. He
must, of course, learn the game from
the ground up-often literally as well
as f1guratively-but mans ability to
handle himself gracefully on gridiron
or court, gives him head start on
other candidates who, like himself,
might never have played lacrosse.
Mulitz Smart Player.
Mulitzs judgment, in Fabers opin-
ion, is the best Of any player he's had
on the squad for the last four or five
years. Which brings up the question
of how long Faber's been turning out
winning lacrosse teams for Maryland.
This is Jacks eleventh year at the
helm of College Park stick squads.
Taking over the reins the year after
he had played on national-cham-
pionship aggregation, Faber never has
had a losing team. More often than
not, Maryland has been involved in
the national title.
According to present indications, as
big a crowd as ever saw a lacrosse
game in this country will be on hand
at the Navy-Maryland game Satur-
day. That means that from 1000 to
10000 spectators may be in the stands
at Annapolis. And, according to
Maryland's scout, Al Heagy. Maryland
will be up against the best Navy la
crosse team he has seen in his II years
as player and coach at College Park.
The trouble, says Heagy, is that Navy
not only has one good team, but two.
Another worry from a Maryland
viewpoint is that the law of averages
is all against the Terps. In their last
seven meetings with the Middies
Maryland has not been beaten, win
ming six and tying the seventh.
Hoyas Leave Tonight.
Seventeen Georgetown baseball play
ers under the supervision of Coach Joe
Judge will board the 6 o'clock train
tonight for New York, where tomorrow
they will play the first of three games
in the Empire State. Tomorrow the
Hoyas meet N. Y. u. Friday they play
Fordham and Saturday they move up
to West Point to meet the Army. Only
one of that trio was played last year,
Georgetown walloping the Violets, 9-1
1t was only the second of eight games
with N. Y. U. which Georgetown has
been able to win in recent years, how
ever. Hank Bertrand is expected to
start tomorrow game, with Mike Pc
troskey-winner of his last .l9 college
games-starting Friday against Ford
ham. Last year the Rams won the
metropolitan championship and were
victorious in 13 out of 18 games.
Jack Coffey, who once played with
the New York Giants, is in his seven
teenth year as coach at Fordham,
while the Hoyas will run into two