Mt. Pleasant Pyramid | 1919-07-04 | Page 3 | Great Credit to Coach Billy Lush for Navy's Baseball Success

GREAT CREDIT GIVEN TO COACH BILLY ! LUSH FOR NAVY'S BASEBALL SUCCESS i An Incident of Army-Navy Game Safe at First. With Its baseball team beating the army nine for the first time since 1908 and its crews sweeping the Schuykill this is a big season for the navy. This year already has proved itself the most successful in the history of sport at Annapolis, and if it culminates in a football triumph over the army next November it will go down as a record breaker par excellence. For the navy's splendid showing in baseball, as well as in basketball, in which it had the strongest five in the East and South, great credit must go to Billy Lush, the coach. He could not prevent the periodical aerial performances of his pupils, but when they steadied it usually was through his influence. Lush's handling of the pitchers was mjisterly. He took Gaines out at the proper time and he relieved "Right-Hander" Baker at just the right moment, too. "Left-Hander" Baker, who finished the game, should have started it. Had he done so we do not believe that the army would have carried the contest into extra innings. "Left-Hander" Baker is only a plebe, and it is not customary to give the first-year first-year men the preference when it can be avoided in the big service games. But things broke just as Lush wanted them and the navy throttled that old jinx which it had despaired of doing away with.