Evening star., 1938-05-04
Gr0ue Slab Skill Vet Din,med Oddities Rookie Da,s
Classy Crop of Sophomores
Is Expected to Offset Hoyas'
Loss of Seuen Diamond Vets

Mellendeck and Joe Moran had been
seen before, but in Pitcher Johnny
Smith, Catcher Stan Blaszek and Gen.
terfielder Johnny Schmitt, Judge saw
trio who came through their baptism
OF fire with flying colors Although he
didn't match Bertrand's all-round
pitching of the first five innings. Smith
in his first varsity start-like Bert
rand, yielded only two hits and except
for an error would not have been
scored on. A trifle unsteady, walking
three and hitting another, Smith
flashed hook which broke more than
Bertrand's and famed five to Hanks
three. Blaszek upheld him in fine stya>
and so impressive looking was his arm
that no West Virginia runner tried
to steal on him.
1t was Schmitt, probably, who opened
Judges eyes a little wider than the
rest. for this embryo speed demon
appeared like a flash on the bases as
he tore around to score on two occa-
sions after nearly knocking the cover
of the ball. Once he stole third and
another time scored from second on a
single to short center. His greatest ex-
hibltion Of speed and daring came,
however, when he reached home from
third after catch of a foul ball BY
West Virginia's first baseman.
AS II all this wasn't enough. there
is rumor that two freshmen pitchers.
Winnie Powers from Buffalo and Jim
Halpern, left-hander from Jersey
City, are the real goods
How're you feelin', Joe?
Terps Face Slab Star.
Maryland was to face one Of the
best college pitchers in the South
today in William and Marys Rosy
Waugh. and after yesterday the OUT
look was anything but rosy for Mary.
land.
Meeting the same Virginia team
which they whipped. 5-1. at Charlottes-
vile, the Old Liners were subjected
to 6-3 trimming. blame for which
properly can be placed on the arm
Of lad from Alexandria. Dick Ayres.
who once pitched for George WASH
ington High, r Aas who silenced tire
Terp bats TO tSI extent of three hits,
while his mates were banging out a
6-3 victory on IL. Neither Bill Silver
man nor George Wood had anything
which puzzled the Cavaliers, each
being pounded for six hits as they
divided the slab work.
Not until the seventh was MARYLAND
able to get hit, Bob Burns spelling J
Ayres' no-hit aspirations with a singlr
to right. Waverly Wheeler and Bill
Bryant were the only other Old Liners
able to solve Ayres, whose perform
ance was marred only by five walks
and two errors, one of them his own.
A striking similarity between the
Georgetown and Virginia scoring was
that each was started after two were
out. Georgetown chased six runs
across the plate in the second. when
Keating. Mellendeck, Bertrand and
Nau singled in succession, and Vir-
ginia pushed across four in the fourth
after the first two men had popped /
out.
incidentally, it will be an old
Georgetown man with brilliant repu-
tation who leads Rutgers track team
into College Park Saturday as por-
tion of Marylands big sports day for
collegiate and high school athletes
He is Bernard j. Wefers. who wss
graduated from the Hilltop in '96, and
who tablished two world track rec
ords in the 220. one Of which stood for
81 years. After tying the world mark
of e8 in the 100 in '95. Wefers ran
the 220 in 2l,2 the following year Not
until Charlie Borah of Southern Cali
fornia established lower time in
1927 was that record broken
During his competitive club career
with the N. Y. A. c., Wefers won every
possible track title except an Olympic
championship for which he never COM
peted. He still is rated among the
greatest sprinters the world ever has
known.
Wefers has coached the New York A.
c. track team since 1903 and has been
coach at Rutgers since 1922, His dual
meet record with the latter is 81 vic
tories in 48 meets. In addition, his
teams have won 10 Middle Three
championships from Lehigh and La
fayette and five Middle Atlantic titles