Evening star., 1938-05-13
TOP COLLEGE TENS
T|LTAT ANNAPOLIS
Terps Entertain Duke Nine,
Hoya Racketers-0ther
Teams Busy Abroad.
By BILL DISMER, Jr.

BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
A lacrosse game which will decide
the national championship and In
which a local college is involved is
expected to induce several thousand
Washingtonians to go to Annapolis
tomorrow, with the sports card here
presenting the slimmest Saturday Of
the spring.
With only Maryland's baseball game
with Duke and tennis match with
Georgetown offered for home con-
sumption at College Park, the spot
light will be focused some IS miles
away on the field on which the win
ner Of the Maryland Navy lacrosse
battle will emerge as the national
champion for 1898.
All in all. it will be big day for
athletes of Maryland, Georgetown and
Catholic University in other fields
but, like the lacrosse game, the events
are scheduled out of town. Maryland
makes it unanimous against the two
services by sending its track team to
West Point to meet one of two Army
teams to play host to District colleges.
For Georgetown's baseball team, after
playing Fordham today, moves on to
the Point to meet Army tomorrow.
} Hoya Golfers Busy.
Georgetown's golf team is to be en-
gagged in pair of matches at Prince
ton, N. j., with Cornell and Pitts
burgh, both Of which it must win if
1t Is to retain its chance of getting
the Eastern intercollegiate League
championship.
And over in Baltimore Catholic
University's winning track team is to
match strides with Johns Hopkins. All
in all. busy day for the Districts
little college men.
Although Navy's lacrosse record, on
the comparative score basis, is no
better than Maryland's, the Middies
will enter the important game with
4 the odds slightly in their favor.
Neither has been beaten by a college
team this year and both have been
beaten only by the Mount Washing
ton Club of Baltimore. Further their
scores against mutual victims have
been strikingly similar. Maryland
beat Harvard, 11-2; Navy, 1872.
Princeton. co-champion with Mary
land in 1887, bowed to the Terps, 6-3;
to Navy, 8-3. Mount Washington
whipped Maryland, 6-4; Navy, IA.
Navy Stick Reserve Strong.
There the comparison ends. For
Navy, reputedly with its best lacrosse
team in II years, not only is prepared
onthe first line of defense, but is said
to have almost as good q second
team as the one which will start.
Reserve strength may be the factor
II Maryland should be beaten. Then,
TOO, the law Of averages is on Navy's
side. for not once in the past eight
years has MILDLY stick team beaten
ten from College Park Seven times
has Maryland won and the other
game ended in a tie.
On the other hand, Maryland has
been through a much tougher sched-
uIe than Navy, whose only hard
games have come from Princeton and
Mount Washington. st. Johns. Rut-
gers and Princeton taxed the Terps
on three consecutive Saturdays, but
each time the Black and Gold war.
riors came through with flying colors.
1t remains to be seen whether they
can hurdle the last-and greatest
obstacle. We feel they can.
Terps Facing Tough Nine.
The ball game at College Park will
md Duke invading with the team
which whipped Maryland in both
ends Of double header during
Easter week. Maryland needed to
beat North Carolina today, Duke to-
morrow and v. M. I. next week to
end its Southern Conference season
with better than an even record. and
the odds are against 1t. Bill Steiner,
. who whipped Georgetown, was to
hurl today. with George Wood going
against the Blue Devils tomorrow.
Maryland will be q favorite To
take" Georgetown in tennis, though,
The Terp netmen have been beaten
only once this season, by Navy last
wednesday. Many think that had
Larry Gchliter, the victim of an an
pendicitis operation, been available for
the Navy match the record might still
be unsullied today.