Evening star., 1909-01-31
BLUE AND GRAY
DOWNS OLD RIVALS
Virginia Varsity Defeated in
Exciting Basket Ball
Struggle.
Special Dispatch 10 The Star.


-Georgetown. 81; Virginia "A.
The Blue and Gray basket ball qunt
last night invaded the camp of their an
cient rivals. the University of Virginia.
and. although the visitors carried away
the victory. the close score was a great
surprise to all followers OF the contending
teams Played it was before an au-
dience entirely in support of the Orange
and Blue. il was to be expected that the
locals would have some slight advantage,
but not even their most sanguine sup
porters expected them to hold Georgetown
not alone in check, but even to outplay
them. which they did in the first half. the
score of which was Virginia, is; George
town. 10.
When this was announced during the
fntermiSSion pandemOnium reigned for a
minute among the 800 loyal students who
filled the running track surrounding the
court. To say 1t was q surprise is putting
ii easy. for before the battle started the
spectators freely expressed the opinion
that ii was going to be a WalkaWay for
the Capital city boys. The game start
ed at s:4J, and from the first blast of the
whistle 1t d scrap for blood between
the fierce but friendly rivals, who We're
striving to their utmost to make a name
for themselves and alma mater George
town cd first on G Colli1owers pretty
shoo,. \ minute later May hooked a two
pon,e. for Virginia which was as neat a
specimen OF clean tossing from a distance
as one would wish to see. Needless to
say. his deed brought forth thunderous
applause At the end of five minutes the
visitors had four more points chalked
Up. resulting from goal by each of the
COlliiowers.
Virginians Improved.
The playing up TO this point made plain
the fact that Capt. Ashby's five had
greatly improved since last weeks con-
test, especially in the guarding depart
ment. Urged on by the fighting spirit
for which they are famous, the Virginians
played like tiends and goal by Harding
with another by Cochran again made the
points even. Schlosser's pair through the
net gave Georgetown an advantage of
four points. which May cut down to two
by ending a beautiful bit of team work
with Il hooper. At the middle of the half
1t was plain that there was either some
hitch in the Blue and Gray's team work
the Virginia bunch were doing some
phenomenal guarding
A beautiful overhead toss to basket by
j. Colliflower was the next thing in the
line of scoring. Cecil came with a
neat goal minute later and Immediately
after May. by ringer from difficult
angle, again made the score a tie. With the
sight of a victory before them the root
crs. under the direction of Cheer Leader
Thorn, began to yell like the seven winds
of hades and the noise increased rather
than lessened when Cochrans two pointer
put the home team in the lead. But they
were not to stay there for long. as G.
Collif1ower again put in an appearance
with another one of his clean shots and
balanced things up. Keliher made
point on Mays foul but was more than
offset by Cochran's basket thirty seconds
later. Hardng's easy ringer. made just
before the time gong sounded, put the fin
ishing touches on an 1916 score, with the
pendulum of fortune swinging to the
Orange and Blue
Finished Strong.
But if Virginia thought for minute
that they had victory in their hands
they were quickly shown their mistake,
after a few minutes of the second ses-
sion had elapsed. Georgetowns do or die
motto was never more clearly demonstrat-
ed than in those twenty minutes which
proved SO fateful to the Charlottesville
aggregation with the sense of having been
outplayed and outpointed weighing
heavily on their minds Capt. Rice S
men went after winged victory with vim
seldom seen. From the outset they put it
onto their opponents, who did not make q
single points for twelve minutes. Starting
out with Goggns in place OF keliher,
Coach Joyce's quint piled up point after
point until fifteen lay bagged and tagged
to its previous fifteen giving 1t a
lead of twelve. The first four of these
were made by G. Collifiower. Then Rice
annexed one from Mays foul. In jump
under the Blue and Gray basket Rice
knocked the leather through and Schlos-
and Goggins added a goal each. j.
Coilifower sneaked over easy double
ard couple of minutes later his brother
did the same.
the local quint. Its excellent guarding
of the first period was conspicuous by Its
absence, while Georgetown was coolly
manipulating team playing to a perfec-
a in Ia CT off fnrt ri
their yellS, and as sort OF an echo Coch-
ran sent very pretty two pointer
through the iron ring. Time was taken
out at this point and the rest seemed
to do the VirginianS a world Of good, for
during the remaining eight minutes they
duplicated the form which they had dis
played at the beginning. Rice got one off
of Mays foul, which was the only score
made for three minutes. During this time
Cecil brought the onlookers to their feet
by a snake-like dribble the length of the
floor. He missed the toss but hardly an
instant had passed before he again
brought forth cheers by making a phen-
omenal overhead goal. Hardings basket
just d little later renewed the rooters
hopes. but with only two minutes to play
II was plain that Virginia could not win
e. Collfower and Rice each annexed a
basket before the final gong sounded thus
making the final score 34-24 in favor Of
Georgetown.
Star of the Evening.
G. Collifower was the star of the even
ing. His guarding was excellent, while
the fact that seven goals are credited to
his name shows him to have also been
in the forward play. Cochran and May
did the best work for Virginia and Cecil
also showed himself to be at home in the
guard position, while SchlosserS work at
forward for the Washington team gives
him a bid for some of the spotlight
Harding. the six foot six center, created
much laughter by the way he reached
over the baskets when making goals.
The lineup and summary:
Georgetown. Position Virginia
keliher. Left forward. d......... Cochran
Schosser. ........ Right forward. ......... May
Rice. Center .-............ Harding
g. Coll flower. Right guard .......... .Cecil
j. Coilhower Left guard ........... Ashby
Referee-Mr. Joyce. Georgetown. Timers-M-
Wilkes. Georgetown Mr.. Hawkins, Virginia
Scorers-Mr. Daily, Georgetown: Mr. Davenport
Virginia. Time of haiyes-20 minutes each Sub
stiiutlon-Goggins FOR keliher. Goals from field
-Schiosser. IL Rice. .: c. Coll flower I: J.
Colliiower. 3. Gogsins. l. May. ,: Cochran, 4;
Harding 3; Cecil. =. Goals from fouls-Keliher
l: Rice. 2 Fouls committed-By Georgetown, T.
by Virginia, , Final score-Georgetown, So; Vir.
mia, "A.
Players to Coach Penn Varsity.
PHILADELPHIA. Pa, January 30
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