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D. C Colleges Face Three Ring Feuds and 10 Basket Ball Battles in Big Week
Win, Lose or Draw
By FRANCIS E. STAN,
* Star Staff Correspondent.
A National Pastime With a Grip
HAVANA, Cuba, Feb. 12.—Cooperstown, N. Y„ Is supposedly the cradle
of baseball and the game is recognized, except by fellows like George
Preston Marshall, as the national pastime of the United States. But here
in Cuba one gets the impression that baseball has a stronger grip than
In America.
Almost due south of Havana, riding across the entire island, is
Batabano on the Caribbean Sea. For . miles there are plantations and
Jungles. Occasionally there is a white hut with a palm-leaf roof, and, less
occasionally, a tiny settlement. Batabano is one and, like all of the rest,
it has a ball diamond. A long fly will sail into the Caribbean.
The day of backlot baseball is almost gone in the States, but not
so in Cuba. We saw boys, riding double astride an undersized, bony Cuban
horse, with cheap gloves dangling at their sides. We saw portions of ball
games. The diamonds were skinned and stones were the bases. There
were no umpires and a minimum of bats.
Yet the Cuban never has an important figure in major league baseball.
No. 1 national sports hero of the Pearl of the Antilles has been and remains
Adolph Luque, the old Cincinnati and Giant pitcher. Mike Gonzales, now
a Cardinal coach, made the major league grade. There have been others,
like Marsans, Cueto and Palmero, but they were not stars. Catcher Al
Lopez of the Bees does not count. He was bom in Tampa of Spanish
parents. Alejandro Carrasquel came to Cuba by way of Venezuela.
Lack of Strength, Teaching Retards Them
Why don’t more Cuban ball players make good In the majors? They
love the game. They rank it above cock-fighting and jai-alai and horse
racing and football. The Cuban who cannot name the third baseman of
the Phillies is rare. Down here during the major league season crowds
stand in streets and read bulletins of American and National League
games.
“They are too small and not strong enough for one thing,” says Adolph
Pont, a leader of the Direction of Sports, “and they lack teaching. Give
us the baseball schools which are growing in America and we may produce
more big league ball players. But here it takes so long that when a Cuban
player reaches his peak he is only ready for a few years in Double-A ball
In the States.”
The most famous baseball character in Cuba comes pretty close to
being Scout Joe Cambria of the Nats, who comes pretty close to being the
most infamous in his own country. Down here Cambria has spies who tip
him off to players. The pehnant-winning Cincinnati Reds may not know
It, but Poppa Joe it was who stymied their deal with the Cuban government
... the deal in which Cuba was to send four of its outstanding players
to Tampa for spring training every year.
Ortiz, Esty and Rene Rushed Too Soon
The deal Is off now. It was cancelled the other day. The players
selected for the Reds “refused” to turn professional. .Not quite, but
almost off the record is the fact that Poppa Joe contacted them first.
Cambria has seven lined up for delivery this spring, including another
Tdrres. This one is named Jorge Torres and is no relation to Gilberto
(Cambria Mystery Man for 1940) Torres.
Cambria is something of a Cuban hero and American newspapers,
particularly those of Washington, are in durance vile. It seems that
contrary to popular opinion in the States the Cubans are not proud
when the American press publicizes such as Roberto Ortiz and Bobby
Estalella and Rene Monteagudo.
“They are not ready,” says Senor Pont, “to play ball in the big
leagues. We can tell. They play over here in the winter.. They are
not stars here. So how can they be stars in the big leagues?”
But Estalella batted .388 for Charlotte in 1938 and wtte named the
most valuable player in the Piedmont League and . . .
Pont shrugged. “What is the Piedmont League? What is Green
ville and Springfield and Salisbury? That is not the major league.
Our Cuban League is Double-A ball. They cannot play here, so why
are they expected to play in the majors? What Senor Griffith reeds
Is a Double-A club to, how you say, groom his players?” Even in Cuba,
It seems, this idea isn’t new.
Monteagudo Good Heet, No Peetch
Cuba is bewildering almost any way one looks at it. Boss Batista
wants to become President*, although he already runs things. There
was a lively movement to have road signs abolished until Batista, who
has the do-re-mi, decided to run for President*. So from Havana to
the deepest Jungle are red and white signs encouraging votes for Batista,
for whom we have yet to find a willing voter. ,
Cuba is bewildering from a baseball viewpoint. A year ago Estalella
was supposed to take A1 Simmons’ job in the Washington outfield and
bat in the clean-up position. This winter he was traded by the Almen
dares Club of the Cuban League to Havana, where he batted only .274,
and chiefly against southpaw pitchers. He was benched frequently when
right-handers worked against his club.
One of the better hitters and more unsuccessful pitchers was
Monteagudo, the little left-hander who belongs to the Nats. Rene,
also used as a pinch-hitter, nearly led the league with a .338 average.
As a pitcher he compiled a mediocre record of five games won and
•even lost. Ortiz hit for only .220 and Torres, whom the Nats think
Is a pitcher, batter .309 and was selected as the best third baseman in
the circuit.
You figure it out . . . we’re too busy dodging the heat. And we’re
not kidding.
Gallaudet Quint Tough to Beat
Despite Lack of Manpower
And Inadequate Court
Gallaudet’s basket ball record for
the season isn’t very impressive.
The Blues have lost more games
than they’ve won, but that doesn’t
keep Coach Blair Smith from think
ing and saying he believes it’s one
of the best teams turned out at Ken
dall Green in recent years.
"Let's look at the record,” he says,
like a true Smith. "Seven of our
first nine games were played on the
road, and while we lost six all were
by close margins. We were up with
the opposition until the last few
minutes of the game and then fell
behind. Our trouble has been in
not having sufficient substitutes.
These teams just run the legs off my
boys and we keep up with them un
til the last few minutes and then
they pull away.”
Numbers Still Decisive.
It’s the old story of a good big
■quad beating a good small one.
Smith has about 10 players and can’t
take them all on the trips. Ee
usually has about eight along, so
you see he’s up against it for fresh
men to match enemy substitutions.
Then there's another angle, and this
Is peculiar. Gallaudet’s boys are
lost under the basket. They fizzle
on more “snowbirds,” or push-up
■hots, than they make, and “snow
birds” are supposed to be the easiest
shots in basket ball.
*1 know, I know,” says Smith,
“but it’s not the players’ fault. Our
gym is small, so small the baskets
are hung on walls at either end, and
when they run into the basket at full
speed they climb the wall to stop.
Understand what I mean? They’re
actually running up the wall when
they lay up a shot. Now away from
home we play on large courts with
ample room at both ends of the court,
so when our boys go into the basket
they instinctively guard against hit
ting a wall. They want to climb and
there’s nothing there, consequently
they’re thrown off balance.”
Smith thinks Gallaudet will finish
with a balance on the right side of
the ledger, an opinion concurred in
by the squad and Co-managers Jack
Blindt and Jack Rogerson. Blair
calls Carmen Ludovico a top-notch
performer who could play for any
college quint in this neck of the
woods. ‘Carmen and Ducky Duick
are the Blues’ big guns. Against
Susquehanna not so long ago Duick
staged a one-man show that netted
19 points.
Harold Weingold, another stand
out, made the all-America deaf com
bination last year, and in George
Hanson, a fine defensive player, and
Marvin Wolach, Smith says he has
men who’ll be heard from. Two
others he’s counting on are Dick
Phillips, who recently rejoined the
squad after recuperating from a knee
injury, and Ray Butler, a prep stu
dent. The fact that virtually the
entire squad will return next season
is responsible for Smith’s wide grin.
It may yet come up to the goal he
has set for it.
Gallaudet’s wrestling team also is
experiencing bumpy going this aea
(See GALLAUDET, Page A-15.)
Minor Cheaters
Given Lashing
By Bramham
Keep Straight, Warns
Czar, Who Banishes
Two for Life
By the Associated Press.
DURHAM, N. C., Feb. 12.—The sit
uation which. President William G.
Bramham told the recent conven
tion of the National Association
of Professional Baseball Leagues,
placed baseball “in the darkest spot
since the Black Sox scandal’’ has
been cleared up.
Bramham announced over the
week end two decisions which ex
pelled Manager Clarence P. Roper
and Player ,Mike Sime from the
sport for life, suspended President
W. G. Courtney and all five direc
tors of the Lenoir (N. C.) club in
the Tar Heel League and fined the
club a total of $740.
sime used False Name.
The lifetime ban on Roper and
Sime was because Sime was used
by Lenoir under an assumed name
(Bob Wells) last season while still
on the ineligible list of the Wausau
(Wis.) team in the Northern League.
Bramham made the incident an
occasion for warning "all parties
now or hereafter connected with
professional baseball that conduct
consisting of knowingly employing
ineligible players or otherwise prac
ticing frauds • • • will meet sim
ilar action.”
The president and directors were
absolved from this phase of the
Lenoir mess, but were suspended
because forged contracts for 41
players were filed by the club dur
ing 1939, ostensibly showing the
players were receiving $60 to $125
a month, when in reality they were
being paid $90 to $250 a month.
New Interests Get Club.
Bramham said the only reason he
had not forfeited the franchise was
that new interest entirely were tak
ing it over for the 1940 season.
At the Cincinnati meeting in
December, Bramham lashed minor
league club representatives for in
competence and fraud and described
the Lenoir situation without then
naming the club, but asserting
"some one is going to be seriously
hurt when it’s cleared up.”
Eagles' Title Hopes
Given New Life by
Wins Over Gulls
Team Faces Discipline,
However, for Failure
To Keep in Trim
A sizzling Eastern Amateur Hockey
League stretch battle loomed today
as the Baltimore Orioles and Wash
ington Eagles shed their timidity and
showed signs of flirting with the
first-place spot currently owned by
the New York Rovers.
While Baltimore’s lofty position,
only 1 point behind the Rovers, is
a bit synthetic in that the Orioles
have played four more games than
either New York or Washington,
events over the week end put new
life into the league race.
Rovers Here Tomorrow.
Washington still is intrenched
firmly in third place, but encour
aged by two successive victories over
Atlantic City and Baltimore’s twin
triumphs over the Rovers, who will
play here tomorrow night. The
Eagles, with a 2-1 win over the Sea
Gulls last night at Riverside Sta
dium, whittled New York’s lead to
9 points to retain a faint title hope.
All is not orderly in the local
household, however. There is gen
eral suspicion many of the Eagles
have discovered the niceties but
costliness of surveying the city at
night. Only a handful of them have
been playing consistent hockey, and
at least two members of the same
forward line have demonstrated a
tendency to wilt under pressure.
Davies’ Shot Decides.
Only 1,419 customers witnessed
Washington’s first Sunday night
match, but they were rewarded with
a close, rough battle. Ten penalties
were issued by Referee Pat Riley,
who missed as many more.
Chirp Brenchley sent the Sea
Gulls into the lead before the game
had aged 4 minutes, but the dimin
utive Paul Courteau knotted the
count less than a minute later, and
that situation existed until late in
the second period, when Bill Davies
teed off on the puck near the blue
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EASTERN AMATEUR LEAGUE.
,-Goals—
„ W. L. T. For Agt. Pt*.
New York ... 24 13 4 203 181 52
Baltimore ... 25 19 1 1*3 148 51
Washington . 21 19 1 183 158 43
Atlantic city. 14 24 4 139 181 32
River Vale .. 11 24 4 107 171 28
•Canadian* 11 7 2 80 68 24
•Toronto Goodyears. Montreal Royals.
McIntyre Miners. Port Colborne.
Resalts Yesterday.
Washington. 2: Atlantic City. 1.
Baltimore, 7; New York. 6 (afternoon).
Baltimore, 4; New York. 2 (evening).
Cessing Games.
Tomorrow—Atlantic City at River Vale.
New York at Washington.
Wednesday—River Vale at Baltimore.
Friday—River Vale at Washington;
New York at Atlantic City.
Saturday—Washington at River Vale.
Sunday—Washington at New York.
NATIONAL LEAGUE.
. _ W. L. T. Pts. G. 0.0.
N. Y. Rangers.. 22 7 8 52 HR 83
Boston _ 23 8 4 50 120 71
Toronto _ 17 14 5 39 98 80
Chicago_18 18 4 38 77 96
Detroit . 12 18 6 30 61 85
N. Y. Americans 11 25 2 24 79 114
Montreal_ 9 22 3 21 67 107
Boston. 4: New York Americans, 2.
Montreal. 3; Detroit. 2 (overtime).
Chicago 3: New York Rangers. 0.
AMERICAN ASSOCIATION.
t W. L. O 0.0. Pts.
St. Louis „5_ 31 8 162 72 82
St. Paul _ 24 12 130 85 48
Minneapolis _ 17 20 124 107 34
Kansas City_ 17 20 102 133 34
Tulsa _ 15 23 109 143 30
Omaha _ 14 21 90 107 28
Wichita _ 10 24 77 147 20
St. Louis, 3; Minneapolis. 2.
St. Paul. 5; Kansas City, 2.
INTERNATIONAL-AMERICAN LEAGUE.
WESTERN DIVISION.
W. L. T. Pts. G. 0.0.
Indianapolis_ 22 13 7 51 136 97
Cleveland _ 18 17 7 43 94 94
Pittsburgh _ 17 18 6 40 105 99
Hershey _ 17 18 4 38 86 99
Syracuse _ 15 18 7 37 100 110
EASTERN DIVISION.
Providence _ 20 13 6 45 106 99
New Haven_ 20 19 1 41 123 137
SortngfleSd _ 17 19 6 40 127 llfl
Philadelphia ... 10 21 7 27 87 115
Indianapolis. 2; Hershey. 0.
Syracuse, 2: New Haven. 1.
Providence, 2; Philadelphia, 1.
Springfield. 2: Cleveland. 1.
line and sent it skidding into the
net for the winning goal.
Pos. Eagles. At. Sea Gulls.
Goal_Colvin _ McQueston
R. D._Burrage_McAndrew
L. D_Davies_ Vitale
C. _Partis _ Webster
R.W_Foster_ Pozzc
L.W_Lahti_ Power«
Atlantic City spares—Storey. Dally,
Groom, Brenchley, Livingston. Tustln,
Fasano, Burns. Washington spares—
Knipfel. Ramsey. McKlUop, Covert. Dewey,
Courteau. Germann.
Eagles _1 1 0—2
Sea Gulls_1 0 0—1
First period: Scoring—Brenchley (Liv
ingston and Vitale). 3:54; Courteau (un
assisted). 4:43. Penalties—Vitale. Cour
teau, McAndrew
Second period: Scoring—Davies (unas
sisted), 16:56. Penalties—Storey. Davies.
Third period: Scoring—None. Penalties
—Vitale. Storey. McKlllop. Vitale, Cour
teau.
Stebbins, Richards
Made Grid Coach
Aides at Pitt
Former Panther Players
To Report Next Month;
Hoel Is Advanced
By the Associated Press.
PITTSBURGH. Feb. 12—The
University of Pittsburgh today an
nounced the appointment of two
former Pitt football players, Harold
Stebbins and Luther Richards, to
its grid coaching staff.
Stebbins, halfback on the 1936-38
teams, will become backfield coach,
succeeding Mike Nicksick, who went
to West Virginia University to assist
Coach Bill Kern.
Richards Guard Coach.
Richards, guard with the 1935-37
squads, will have the duties of
guard coach and full-time work in
the intramural department. He
relieves Walter Raskowski, graduate
assistant last fall who has his last
year in Dental School ahead of him.
Head Coach Charley Bowser also
announced that Bob Hoel, tackle
coach last fall, will move up to the
position of first assistant, and that
Nick Kliskey has been appointed
1940 freshman coach.
The new varsity assistants both
are experienced mentors. Stebbins
was assistant backfield coach at the
University of Florida last year, aid
ing Josh Williams and Mike Milli
gan, former Pitt coaches there.
Richards has been coach at Kings
ton (Pa.) High School for the past
two seasons. His 1939 team won the
Wyoming Valley Conference title.
Stebbins Due Next Month.
Stebbins will come to Pittsburgh
late next month after completing
his spring practice duties at Florida,
and Richards will start here
March 1.
Henry gorp 0f Chester, Pa., junior
in the School of Engineering, has
been named varsity football man
ager for 1940.
Three years ago—Flomell
Spicypiece of Halleston, 3-year
old fox terrier bitch, crowned
best - of - show at Westminster
Kennel Club Exhibition.
Schmeling, Far From Front, Trains for Neusel Bout
Packers Also Popular as Basketers; Louis Razzed for Saving Hands Against Godoy
By EDDIE BRIETZ,
Auoclated Preu Sport! Writer.
NEW YORK. Peb. 12.—Par
from being at the front—or near
it—Max Schmeling quietly is
training for his teenth Joust
with — you guessed it — Cousin
Walter Neusel. Note to Mer
rill Way: The Phillies are try
ing to locate you to give you a
raise. (Ypur contract was re
turned undelivered.) Reports
have it Mort Mahoney, director .
of mutuels in New England, will
be in charge at the New York
class tracks—Belmont and Sara
toga-next season.
You can write your own ticket
on whether Tony Oalento’s eye
sight is defective. All we know
is he bumped kerplunk into the
microphone when he climbed
I
into the ring to ‘be introduced
the other night. Dodger season
pasteboards went on sale today
and there were 5,624 mail order
applicants to start things roll
ing.
Was it a dream? Seems we
read something about the Pacific
Coast Conference going pure ath
letically. Then what about a
story relayed by the Oklahoma
City Times that a high school
athlete out there has just been
offered his tuition, expenses for
books and $50 per- month by one
of the Far Western institutions?
Furthermore, the story goes, the
kid was told if he were injured
and couldn’t play he could keep
on dragging down his $50 per un
til ha graduated.
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Mike Jacobs only hopes the Joe
Louis retirement can be staved
off until June, 1941, when Mike
figures Billy Conn will be fit
and ready to carry on. Ed Dan
forth, one of the country’s out
standing sports editors, takes
over the Atlanta Journal today,
with Brother Morgan Blake, long
one of the best in the business,
shifting to a more important spot
on the editorial page.
The championship Green Bay
Packers have organized a basket
ball team and are barnstorming
through Wisconsin to sellout
houses. Because of his; tiny
stature, Victory Mom, Col. Ax
well Howard’s speedy colt, is
known around Hialeah as "Pocket
Battleship." Prediction: When
more and bigger seconds are
run, Glenn Cunningham will run
them.
Today's guest star. Elliot Cush
ing, Rochester Democrat-Chron
icle; “Rasslin is phony enough
without that steady diet of phony
draws. It is about time the burp
barons got some new routines.
Even the pass patrons are beef
ing.”
Louis says he had to go easy
with Godoy to save his hands.
True Arturo was a hard guy to
fight. And maybe he was a bit
of a clown. But Joe has met other
clowns—notably the Messrs. Le
vinsky and Galen to—on whom he
wasn’t afraid to use his hands.
What is he getting paid for, any
way—to fight or protect his
hands?
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Blozis' Shotput Record Works
Hardship on Hilltop Gym;'
Cardinals Are Luckless
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON.
A1 Blozis’ winning performance in
the shotput at the Maryland-5th
Regiment games Saturday night in
Baltimore was the result of long
and arduous practice that almost
wrecked Georgetown’s Ryan gym.
Mike Connelly, custodian of equip
ment, was sitting in Jack Hagerty’s
subterranean office boning for a la*r
exam one gray afternoon last month
when a jagged piece of plaster tore
loose from the ceiling and crashed
down on his unsuspecting head. It
was accompanied by the doleful
thud of a heavy object like a small
safe or one of those Georgetown
tackles.
Michael adjourned court, bolted
through the door without bothering
to open it and raced up the rickety
wooden steps to help repel the at
tacking force. On the basket ball
court he came upon Blozis lovingly
digging his shot out of the splintered
floor and getting ready to give it
another heave.
It wasn’t enough that A1 should
practice with an outdoor ball, which
was without the heavy leather pad
ding of an indoor pellet, but he non
chalantly was tossing it on a brand
new floor.
ttoyas ricKea itigni itm* t oacn.
There isn’t much doubt that
Georgetown picked the right man
to handle its track team when it
signed “Hap” Hardell. former Tech
High mentor. Hardell’s mile relay
team, still undefeated, broke the
record Saturday night, going the
distance in 3:24; Vince Braun and
Ken Lyden mopped up in the half
mile run; George Tucknott and
Morty Alnwick ran a dead heat in
beating the field in the 440; Johnny
Doolan copped the A. A. U. 70-yard
dash and George Bogan won in the
collegiate sprint. Yes, the Hoyas
won the college championship.
Georgetown has a plentiful supply
of material, of course, but Hardell
also is getting the best out of it.
The tie -off on his fine work is
Bogan’s return to the form that
stamped him as an outstanding
sprinter two years ago. He's been
out of college competition for a year,
but is back in stride and will be a
definite scoring threat every time
he faces the starting gun.
Goldberg Ran Sensational Race.
Dorsey Griffith, Catholic Uni
versity’s enthusiastic coach, reports
that Sanford Goldberg, Millrose A. A.
ace, ran one of the best races of the
evening in copping the Oriole 660.
Goldberg got off to a bad start and
virtually was left at the post. To
make up the lost ground he had to
bum up valuable energy in a sprint
that took him into the lead and
still had a finishing kick sufficient
to stave off Jim Kehoe’s final rally.
Goldberg is. a New York fireman
and scorching runner when the com
petition is tough, as the Baltimore
fans undoubtedly noted.
Kehoe’s younger brother, Stanley,
gave a good account of himself
in the scholastic 1,000, finishing
second to Milne of Mercersburg.
Another outstanding performer in
the same event, but in the second
section, was Roosevelt High’s Tim
Councill. Tim won his race, but
wasn’t fast enough to squeeze Into
the prize list, which was decided on
a time bads. A few minutes before
he had run the anchor leg on
Roosevelt’s mile relay team, which
finished second to Central.
Coach Artie Boyd expects Coun
cill to be a consistent point-getter
this spring in the half mile and as
a member of the relay squad. Coun
cill and Kehoe may match strides
in the Catholic University games.
Cardinals Had Tough Break.
Catholic University's John Cor
bett turned in a stellar performance
in the mile run, but was the vic
tim of Tommy Fields’ clever strate
gy. Corbett had instructions to fol
low Vincent Carnevale of George
towm, who was expected to set the
early pace, but found himself out
in front at the halfway mark and
running a strong race. He in
stinctively dropped back to save
himself for the last gruelling quar
ter and Fields took the lead. Tom
my, however, slowed down the pace,
ran to suit himslef, and was in a
commanding position for the final
220 yards. He outsprinted Corbett
to the wire and won by a few feet.
The Cardinals’ 880-yard relay
team also experienced ill fortune
when Roger Cooper was lost in the
shuffle on the first turn of the first
lap and fell back about 15 yards.
Griffith says he simply was too po
lite and didn’t want to step on the
toes of the boys who didn’t mind
stepping on his or giving him the
elbow. As it was, Leo Wall, Jim
Milks and Johnny Weschler made
up most of the yardage only to lose
by a foot to Washington College.
Both teams broke Catholic’s old
record for the event, made in 1937,
iuur|inj hi ncsi unui spring.
Joe Murphy, Maryland’s raven
haired speed merchant, will rest
until spring, and, consequently, will
not defend his Southern Conference
indoor sprint championship. Mary
land, however, will be well repre
sented and will have a loud voice
in the disposition of the title.
The Games Committee is more
than a trifle warm under the collar
about Blaine Rideout’s failure to
appear and will make a strong ef
fort to have him suspended. It’s
hard to blow the whistle on a top
notch runner, however, when the
national body may want him in the
championship games for financial
reasons. Rideout (or is it Run
out) may have to pay for his act
later in various ways, even if he
isn’t suspended. If he was ill-man
nered enough to take a powder on
the Baltimore games he may do it
again and the uncertainty of won
dering whether he’ll show up for
one particular meet or another may
make the committee hesitate to in
vite him to future games.
Five years ago—Jimmy Johns
ton, Madison Square Garden
matchmaker, demanded removal
of Bill Brown from New York
State Athletic Commission, charg
ing Brown’s arbitrary activities
cost Garden $100,000.
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Hoya Quint Plays
Mountaineers
Here Tonight
Victory-Hungry Cards
Try Again in Game
With St. Peter's
Take a number from 1 to 10 and
you’re still wrong. Thirteen events
clog the collegiate calendar this
week, embracing everything from
basket ball to boxing and vice versa.
Ten games and three powder-puff
parties are listed, but not all for
home consumption.
Maryland also is promoting its
annual song-and-dance affair, all
college night, which depicts the
students at work on everything but
the books. This, however, cannot
be included on the sports program,
although it’ll probably lure more
people to College Park than the
basket ball game with Catholic U.
or boxing match with Western
Maryland.
West Virginia is sending its tow
ering basket quint against George
town tonight at Tech High. At
Brookland Catholic U. will have St.
Peter’s College for its guest. Both
games start at 8:30 after the usual
preliminaries at 7 o’clock.
Saturday George Washington will
invade West Virginia at Morgan
tdwn.
irouDiesome toe for Hoyas.
Georgetown may have a bit of
trouble with the Mountaineers, who
have the flighty Idea they’re out to
win every game—especially every
game with the Hoyas. "Big Sleepy"
Glenn’s teams have played havoc
with Georgetown in past years.
George Washington, however,
usually manages to plaster the
Mountaineers. In seven games, be
tween the schools, the Colonials
have won five, while in 21 games
Georgetown holds an 11-10 edge.
The invasion of St. Peter’s prom
ises no relief for “Fod” Cotton’s hap
less and victory-starved Catholic U.
cagemen. Unable to win in nine
games, the Cards have been close,
but always a bridesmaid and never,
etc, etc. At times the team has
shown a tendency to give ’em the
old C. U. fight and on other occa
sions has laid down and played dead.
It still has a chance to salvage some
of its vanishing prestige, however,
by knocking off St. Peter's and then
Maryland.
Warm-Up for Maryland.
Maryland will warm-up for the
battle at Chestertown, Md., where It
meets Washington College Wednes
day night. The Shoremen have a
respectable batting average for the
season, but if George De Witt & Co.,
Ltd., really are in the market for
points Maryland should win. The
Terps are pointing for the »nnn»i
Southern Conference championship
round and need two or three more
| conference victories to be assured
! of an invitation. All of which means
they’ll be working under pressure
from here in.
American University, defeated by
Georgetown earlier in the winter,
gets a return match Thursday night
at Tech High. The Eagles have
displayed vast improvement since
the holidays, but don’t appear to be
in the Hoyas' class this season.
Columbus’ ring match with Ten
nessee tops the ring program. Mary
land should not be unduly pressed
by Western Maryland’s well-beaten
squad. Catholic U. is in a precarious
position for Lockhaven Teachers is
one of those schools with a lengthy
boxing career and an obscure name.
Eddie La Fond’s punchers have noth
ing to gain and everything to lose,
although more thorough data on the
Pennsylvanians will be coming
through this week.
Hoyas Make 'Official'
Hockey Bow Tonight
Against Loyola
Georgetown University’s ice hockey
team, now indorsed officially and
equipped accordingly, will make its
debut in collegiate rink ranks to
night, meeting Loyola of Baltimore
puck chasers at Riverside Stadium
at 8:30 o’clock.
The Hoyas, who have been en
thusiastic enough about the game
to practice three times a week for
months in sunrise sessions, will be
led by Jim Graham, coach and cap
tain, who formerly was an all-high
left wing in Boston’s scholastic
realm while attending Boston Col
lege High School.
Carrying 14 men culled from an
original squad of 26, the Hoyas fea
ture former schoolboy stars from
New York, New England and Mid
western sectors. Among them arc
Goalies Jack Ryan and Art Feenan,
Bill and Frank Deegan, John Smith,
Hugh Duffy, Ed McLaughlin, Frank
Mukahy, Vinnie Powers, Jim Quinn,
Bill Edelen and Joe McBride.
Raoul Le Mat, promoter of to
night’s match and general manager
of Riverside Stadium, has announced
a speed skating feature involving
four outstanding competitors will be
offered as an added attraction prior
to the game and between periods.
Public skating will follow the match.
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DAILY SESSIONS
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2:30 PM to S P M.
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