Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-31
COLLEGES SHOULD
HAVE GOOD TEAMS
Each of Local Institutions
Has Good Material With
Which to Build Teams.
TRACK SEASON WILL
BE SUCCESSFUL ONE
All the Schools Well Fortified
for Coming Indoor Season.
/ Other Athletic Gossip.
BY II. c. BYRD.

BY II. c. BYRD
The different colleges and schools Will
resume their athletic activities this week
Work will start in earnest in both the
major indoor branches OF sport. Basket
ball teams will undertake the most diff
cult part of their schedules, and track
squads will settle down to the long train
ing grind that is to come between now
and the last meet that will lie held ina
the spring. Each of the local colleges
and schools appears to have. from present
indications, excellent prospects for a
successful season in at least one of the
mentioned sports.
Up at Georgetown there is net a particle
OF doubt that the track team will be the
best that has represented the school
since the days of the sprinters who
made the athletic reputation Of the school
There not only appears to be a lot OF
green material from which to develop
good men, but. besides having the bulk
OF last seasons squad back in school,
the Hilltoppers have some new men
who have already established themselves
as being good performers. There are
three of last years relay four back In
schoOl-Davis, Gibbs and Martin-and each
OF these men is able to do a creditable
quarter. Mulligan. who ran on the team
last winter, will also be out for IL this
season. Besides these old men there are
two new men already i'm training who, IL
they are up to the standard reported.
will surely make regular places. They
are Chapman and Campazz both of
whom ran for Fordham last year. Be-
sides the mentioned men there are Bob
Filler and Carrigan. both of whom ara
sure to win points in the hurdles and
Sprints, respectively.
In basket ball, the Blue and Gray
school has started its season in good
style by winning from the Baltimore
Medical College, and if il plays up TO the
form expected of ii. and shown by 1t
In the last half against the Marylanders.
every chance will favor the sue
cess of the five during the coming sea-
son in its games against the big col
leges.
Catholic University has also opened its
basket ball season in a way that shows
it has a good opportunity to eclipse the
record it made last season. Both the
games played by the Brooklanders have
been won by good margins. and the PLAY
of the team a whole was ABOVE what
it showed last winter, especially in the ac-
curate way that il shot baskets. What
the Brooklanders will do on the track is
a question. Last season it made few
entries in the winter meets, and achieved
some little success. Whether it will ac-
complish more in the coming games cans
not be foretold.
q'rint than 1t did last year. The Ken<
dali Green aggregation won its first game
from the st. Johns College five by such a
tne-sided score as to cause a DISTINCT
surprise among the followers Of the sport
1t lost its second game to the Youna
Mems Christian Association. but thae
contest should not be taken a too seri-
Gus criterion OF the real strength of thu
team because of the fact that the Young
Mems Christian Association floor was de-
ttdedly against Gallaudet, and besides
the Kendall GreenerS were playing undee
Amateur Athletic Union rules. which they
were not used to doing. 1t has practi-
cally been decided to make some entriea
I'm the local indoor track meets but what
success will attend the efforts of the kens
dali Greeners along that line is a Qucs-
ton.
Because of a lack of suitable training
quarters the Maryland Aggies have failed
to put out basket ball team this year,
but what they fail to do in that branch ot
as the best prospects that the school has
ever had are evident this season. Every
member of the relay team that has been
defeated but once in the last two years
is back, besides several good individual
men, and this winter the Farmers should
make some enviable records against SONG
of the better colleges. and should again
win their own meet in the spring by fai1
margin
There is no reason why Carrigan should
not make a good man for the George
town relay team. The Blue and Gray
sprinter is certainly fast enough to make
one Of the be 40 men In the coun-
try, and with the natural strength which
he possesses ii seems that endurance
enough could be developed in him 10
cause him to go the route. IL Carrfgan
could be developed oto man for the
the Hilltoppers' coach cared to dispense
with much of his chances to score points
in the individual events--and Chapman
and Campazz, the two new men. come
I'D to expectations, Georgetown would
probably have the making of one OF the
best relay tours In this section. Davis.
who ran on last years team, is especial
ly good indoors. and he would make .
good man to complete the quartet.
1t is reported that Virginia will have q.
better relay four this Year than 1t did
last, and II SO, Georgetown will have ID
improve whole lot on the aggregation
that ran against the Nirginians in the
last Georgetown meet IL it wants to stand
any chance to win the event.
1t Is said that Wylie Cooke. who did
ginia. is tearing or a quarter mile ae
mighty good speed right now. The claim
has been made for him that he covered
the 40 outdoors this fall on q muddy
track in fifty-two seconds, and II 80. then
he is way ahead OF any other man at the
distance in this section OF the country.
There has been no runner in any OF the
schools in this section during the past
year or two who was capable of doino
fifty-two seconds under the most favors
able conditions. II Cooke is doing as welk
as h reported, and can repeat the pers
Torrance indoors, then he and Todd viii
form a nucleus for four that should
easily be as good as last seasons quar-
tet.
II the proposed plan for tho formakioa
of a southern intercollegiate basket baA
association, such as exists among the
northern and western institutions, il
carried out IT will undoubtedly result I'M
the betterment of the game In this sec.
ton. Basket ball as a sport has neveH
hourished 10 any considerable extent in
the southern schools, and IL such an ora
ganization were effected among the large
er institutions II would probably increase
(ConfanusA IN T1irsS 6~-1