Evening star., 1938-04-18
ST. ST.J0HN'SSTEAMS
FEUD WITH TERPS
Win From Mt. Washington
Gives Added Importance
to Stick Battle.
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

What promised to be an outstand-
ing college baseball game at College
Park next Saturday, with lacrosse
game thrown in, developed over the
week end into a bang-up double
header in which the lacrosse fray
will equal if not supersede the dia-
mOnd attraction.
Certainly in national interest the
Maryland-St. Johns lacrosse battle
now looms every bit as important as
the Maryland-Georgetown baseball
game which will start to settle the
local championship.
The sudden ascendancy in prestige
OF the lacrosse game is the result
of a game last Saturday in which st.
Johns registered an upset of the first
order. That was the game in which
the Johnnies. ever a power in lacrosse,
Unexpectedly whipped Mount Wash
ington, 9-5. The significance of that
lies in the fact that the Mounts are
the only team to have defeated Mary
land this year.
AnSt W WHIP leFpS.
Further indication of the fight that
will be waged by the stickmen Satur-
day is seen by the fact that st. Johns
was the last college team to defeat
Maryland. back in 1885, and may be
the one to snap the Terps' winning
streak of l9 straight college victories.
Heretofore the 1888 national cham
pionship was supposed to lie between
Maryland and Princeton, but ST.
Johns has the chance to make it a
three-cornered fight Saturday.
Figuring that the majority of local
sports fans who travel to College
Park on Saturday will be anxious to
see both the baseball and lacrosse
games. Maryland athletic authorities
have scheduled the former to begin
at 2 O'Clock and the latter at $3.50.
A 75-cent ticket will admit to both.
For local baseball fans the George
town. Maryland two-game series is, of
course. the piece de resistance of the
collegiate spring season. In the last
three years, however, or ever since
athletic relations between the schools
were resumed. only once has either
team been able to take both games.
That happened last year, when
Georgetown routed Maryland. 81, at
College Park and took the return
game, 5-3, at the Hilltop.
Although the two current teams
appear pretty evenly matched, with
Maryland's defeat at the hands of
Michigan last Saturday the only loss
in eight games in which they have
figured this year, the Terps should be
slightly better off from a pitching
standpoint when Saturdays game
rolls around. That is because after
tomorroW-when the Old Liners COM
plete Six-game stand in six days
they will be able to rest until meeting
Georgetown. The Hoyas. conversely,
although idle the first four days of
this week, must play Penn State Fri
day. on the even of the Maryland
game. It may be that Coach Joe
Judge will use either DeSales Powell
or Bill Reynolds Friday in order to
have both of his aces, Mike Petroskey
and Hank Bertrand, fresh for the
Terps.
Maryland After Title.
Be that as it may, Maryland's i'm
mediate attention today was fixed on
the double header which it was play
ing at Durham with Duke and which
we'll may decide the Southern Confer
ence championship. Lefty George
Wood, one of the teams leading hurl-
ers last year, and either Karl Ruble
or another southpaw, Earl Springer,
were expected to do the hurting today
If Maryland could take both games,
it would be well on its way to a
Southern Conference championship.
as Duke won the title last year and
Maryland has beaten two conference
foes already this spring.
Tomorrow the Terps wind up their
strenuous streak by playing William
and Mary at Williamsburg. Three
complete days of rest then will be
afforded the Terps until the nig game
Saturday.
Tennis alone is on the schedule of
other schools this week until Satur-
day, when Gallaudet, American and
Catholic Universities stage triangu-
lar track meet at Brookland. Today
George Washington's netmen started
on a three-day Southern trip, which
was to find them playing Richmond
at Richmond today, Elon at Elon to-
morrow and CataWba at CataWba on
Wednesday. Maryland's tennis team
plays host to Duke tomorrow and
Western Maryland on Saturday.