The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1910-03-06
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Virginia Didn t Meet
Blacksburg, So Best
Team Is in Doubt.
$ in football, so In baseball.

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The university ofvirgtnia I'VE dit
not play the B1acksburg quint. and
consequently there are two claimant.
In Virginia to leadership In this branct
Of indoor sport which has just closed
A lts most successful season. There IL
no way to pick the better team. No.
BODY is competent. and the question
VIII forever be unanswered.
\ There is no doubt that both teams
ended the season In excellent shape.
and that the State. IL an all-star five
was to be picked, could hold It's own
4 against any team in the East. No eff
Tort will be made to arrange a game
between the University OF Virginia
and Blacksburg. but such a task would
probably only result In making more
strict the determination to continue the
severance OF athletic affairs.
All the ardent fan can do 1t to con-
slider the merits OF the claims OF each,
and determine the question for hin.
self. FL it}
What College Topics says.
College Topics, the Oriicia1 organ OF
the General Athletic Association, has
this u say OF VirginIa;s showing:
Tuesday nights victory over ". NJ.
I. brought to All end what was prob
ably the most successful season ever
had by Virginia basketball team
Out OF the fourteen games this year
the Virginia quint won ten. Three Of
these games were lost on the disas-
Strous trip to Lexington and Washing
ton, and the other was droppcd during
the Christmas holidays because the
,niiaccl>yh omed to It. Not single
game WAS lost In the Fayerweathcr
gymnasium. In every game except
the one with Georgetown. Virginia
had II hundred ways over her OPP
ponents. Every contest with this ex-
3ception was slaughter OF the yisi-
tors, while on the road the Navy quint
was the only team to run away With
Captain Mays band. This tends to
prove that on q neutral floor the Vir-
GINA team could lick any bunch 1t has
gone up against. Will, the possible cx-
ception of the Navy. Tile team was
going at anything. but its natural
gait when It played the Admirals, and
II the sailors We're TO be played now.
there would be no walk-ovcr.
This is the first year In the history
of basketball at Virginia that the
sport has not been a severe financialI
drain on the G. a. a.. and whiln the
Georgetown game Saturday night was
the only one that showed prepon-
derance; of gate receipts over expendi-
lures, only small amounts were lostIs
at other times. With the prospect of
putting the game on a paying basis
next year, t is certain that the em-i
of the Athletic Associa-l
ton will not force the adjustment OF
the SPORT. .s9s Sf
The following special has been re-
ceived from Blacksburg:
Blacksburg. Va. March 5.-SeasonI
summary OF Virginia Polytechnic In.
stitute quint:
Techs. Gs; Davidson, -: Techs 47:|H
Emory and Henry. 81; Techs. 80; r.
n. A.. 49,; Techs, 6s; II. S. C..1s;jI
Techs, 20: H. s.. G., Is; Techs, as:
Lynchburg. 26; Techs, "a; S.. NJ. A..
Is; Techs. 81 w. and Z. u. is; Techs
AZ; w. and L. T., 90; Techs. 81 ".
NJ. l., IA. Totals, Techs. 512; oppon-
ents, 19e
The Techs Ave has Just closed an
season of eleven games
With the leading college quints Of the
state The claim OF the Blacksburgersl
10 State champio nship In basketballl
cannot be disputed. The two decisive
victories over w. and L, which latter
cam has whipped the University
lunch, the mountainous scores against
.hree of the foremost second rank
colleges, and the easy defeat OF the !
3ynchburg Young Mems Christian AS !
ISOLATION quint, considered the strong
.st OF Its class n the State, give the is
Techs a strong. lawful claim to cham
,ionship honors. I