Evening star., 1940-05-12
Triple Killing Helps
Hoyas 10 Polish Off
Crack S|abman
Chronister ond Kehoe
Of Terps, ellis of
Army Set Records
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

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luck, eh mister? Well, If you can
hack away the gloom that College
Park is buried in and dig up an eye
witness to yesterdays twin bill there
you'll hear a really sad story. The
Terps lost to Georgetown in base
ball, 3-5, and to Army's trackmen,
48-78.
1t was an unkind fate that slapped
them down and, without waxing
sentimental about it, they were done
wrong. Lefty Earl Springer, for ex-
ample, held the Hoyas to six hits
and lost because of an epidemic of
errors in the first two innings. Mason
Chronister cleaved almost four full
seconds of the Maryland mile record
and Jimmy Kehoe lowered the
stadium half-mile mark in track
and they don't even get honorable
mention In the final score. It was
Army by city block.
Springer settled down and pitched
q masterful game in the last seven
innings. He allowed one scratch hit,
faced only % men and whitfield Z. It
was the kind of job you expect to
see in the majors. He had the
Georgetown's mumbling in their
boards, eating out of his hand and
screaming uncle"
The victors knocked only two balls
out of the infield in those last seven
innings and spent most of their time
popping up or futilely tanning the
breeze.
Hoyas Make Triple Play.
Bill Wixted didn't do so badly for
Georgetown. either, allowing only
four hits and striking out five. Seven
bases on balls kept him constantly
IN hot water. Two were converted
into runs-one coming over when
"Turk" Burns, Maryland's catcher,
slammed prodigious home run to
center field.
But Wixted received excellent sup
port from his mates when trouble
threatened, particularly in the
seventh, when the Hoyas wiped two
runners off base with a triple play.
Springer drew a pass to open the
inning and moved to second on
Maisels Rap to left. Then Mcdonald
rif1ed low liner at Julius Koshlap.
The Hoya second baseman picked
the ball off his shoe-top, whipped
1t to Mylnarski at second, who re-
layed it to first, retiring both
runners.
Georgetown found Springer no
puzzle in the first inning, pushing
over three runs on singles by Myl-
narski. Mahoney and Castiglia with
q walk to Ghecas and Wharton's
error on Pajak's grounder tucked in
between. They got two more in the
second when Maisel dropped Nc
Fadden's high fly, ,Wixted singled,
and Springer chucked one into the
stands. Wixted got home on Ghecas'
single.
Maryland scored a run in the first
on a pass to Maisel and bingles by
Bengoechea and Culver.
With the victory went the unof-
f1cial college championship of the
Metropolitan Area. 1t also gave the
Hilltoppers clean sweep over
Maryland in all major sports for the
scholastic year.
Chronister Breaks Coleman's Record.
Chronister, running the best of
his career, broke out in front of his
field and with Tommy Fields push
ing him stayed there. He really
wanted to run and there was moth
ing In the field that could catch
him. His time of 4:16.6 shattered
Coleman Headley's stadium mark of
4:22.4 and Headley's best time on
any track, 4:209.
The track hardly had cooled off
before Kehoe was pounding around
to new record of 1888 in pulsat-
ing duel with Army's Frank de
Latour. It was Kehoe's best time
OF his career and he knew he had to
do 1t to beat off the stout-hearted
West Pointer. De Latour set
burning pace and Kehoe was willing
to let him have the lead, but not too
much of lead.
Rounding the last turn Kehoe
pushed down on the gas pedal,
breaking into sprint that carried
him around and out in front of his
rival. De Latour made a game ef-
fort to match this burst of speed
but wasn't equal to the task. Mr..
Legs was going away at the finish.
Army made a contribution to the
: list of broken records as Gillis
stepped over the 22O-yard low
hurdles in 0:23.7 as the Cadets made
clean sweep Of the race. It was
one-tenth of second faster than
Hermie Evans year-old record.
Bill Guckeyson, former Terp star,
won the shotput for the visitors and
was second in the discus. Because
OF shoulder injury he was not en-
tered in the javelin but it made no
difference In the final score for Army
swept the event anyway. The Cadets
also swept the high jump, pole vault
and 120-yard high hurdles.