Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-08
THREE CUNTS At
WORK IN RYAN GYM
Basket Ball Team Candidates
Preparing for a Busy Sea-
Son-Great Game With
Columbia.

Capt. Downey, the veteran Georgetown
center and Carroll Institute player, ex-
pressed himself as much pleased with the
large squad which reported for practice
at basket ball the past week. Many are
veterans at the game with several years
experience, all Of them husky, big fell
lows, big advantage to a college team.
What the new men lack in experience
they make up in weight and hardness. ac-
CURED for the most part on the gridiron
during the foot ball season just past.
From last years team, besides Capt
Downey, there remain Bill Rice, former
captain of the varsity crew and at one
time the crack center man on the Kings
ton On. W Y. NJ. c. A. team, and Sam
Simon, captain Of the varsity base ball
team and guard on Georgetown's 1906
quint. OF last years subs there are this
year trying for the team Jack Murray and
Munhall, both Of whom played on the
eleven this fall, and Baillargeon, who is
rather light, but crack goal shooter.
From the foot ball team come three new
men who will make the veterans hustle
for places if weight and aggressiveness
count for anything. They are Allen Glen
non, left guard, who has had some expert
cIlCc Ol "CSlSIA IcIIlSy lVdnld
McNulty, the crack halfback, who play ed
back on Chicago high school team
and Eddie Miller, the right end, who
played basket ball at Canislus College,
in Buffalo.
Jim and George Collifiower, formerly in
the college department and now in the
law school, who are among the best of
the crack amateuys of the city, have ex-
pressed their intention of trying for the
team. Ed Fitzgerald. the husky stroke of
the crew, will be among the later candi-
dates, and two stars, Croughan and Rice
who have had considerable experience, are
reported as intending to tryfrom the law
school.
Three CUNTS at Work.
At present there are about three full
quints hard at work in preparation for
the opening game with the University of
Maryland, December IS, which will take
place in Carroll Institute Hall Other big
games will be with Fordham and Holy
Cross, for the championship of the Cath
Ollie colleges; with Columbia University,
with Virginia, and possibly with Harvard
on the occasion of the northern trip to
Boston.
The Ryan gymnasium is daily me scene
of busy activity with candidates passing
the leather, shooting goals and perfectine
the new signal code SO much in vogue at
Yale and Dartmouth and some of the
other northern colleges
Manager O'Neil deserves great credit for
the manner in which he has arranged an
attractive schedule in very short space
of time.
The executive committee of the Athletic
Association, which directs athletics at the
university, only recently voted to take I'm
basket ball along with the sports of foot
ball, base ball, field and track and crew.
and when Mr.. O'Neil had been appointed
manager the season was already far adj
vaneed in which to arrange a schedule.
The Game With Columbia.
The game with Columbia will be played
at Convention Hall December 90 The CO.
lumbia quint, although strangers in this
city, and making their first southern trim.
on which they also play George Washing
ton University and Annapolis, are never
theless well known to close followers of
the game, owing to their fine record in in
tercollegiate basket ball in the past five
years. For three years they were the un-
disputed champions of the college world
and the last two seasons were barely
beaten out at the finish in Embarrassing
contests with' Penn and Yale.
The Georgetown team, on account of its
inexperience in the game, which it took
up last season with good success, has had
considerable difficulty in arranging games
Penn, who is bound to again be a big
factor in the race for the championship
will not play in Washington. Neither
Princeton nor Brown has an open date
but Columbia and Yale, on their southern
trips, will both appear in this city, and