Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-04
BY h. c. BYRD.

D u. ~. d MI.
The basket ball season will start among
the local colleges this week. While the
athletic club teams have already begun
to play among themselves. the schools
as yet have failed to open their schedules
because it was not desired to interfere
with foot ball, which had it's finale last
Thursday. From now on, though, each
Of the local schools will play one or more
games a week all through the winter.
Georgetown will be the first to start t..e
ball rolling when it opens its season
against the Baltimore Medical School
Wednesday night Gallaudet will be the
next to break in when it plays the St
Johns College five in the Kendall Green
gymnasium Saturday. Catholic Universe
ty will not begin it's schedule until a week
later.
Each of the local high schools will have
a team on the floor this year with the ex-
ception Of Central Business. Western
and Eastern have already started prac.
tice and each seems to have good material
from which to build a quint. Among the
Independent scholastic institutions the
Georgetown Props. Cathedral and Army
and Navy Props will be out with the best
teams in years.
Georgetown has the best prospects in
d
Blue and Gray is likely to be represented
on the floor this winter by the best ag-
gregation Of goal tossers that the school
has had in years, and will. II present IN
dications count for anything, make Its
best record. Practically all the men out
for the team are experienced and know
the game thoroughly. All that remains
to be done to make a good five Is to
develop the individuals into machine,
and the Hilltoppers have man who is
capable Of doing that. Collifower VIII
turn out a good aggregation unless some
thing unforeseen takes place. He was
a star himself while at Georgetown and
Is capable Of imparting his knowledge OF
the game to his men. =,
Gallaudet and Catholic University will
start their season with practically last
years team, with the exception that II
seems that Catholic University has some
new men who will beat out the veterans
for their places. Certain 1t is that Fred
a position over almost any Of the other
old candidates. Gallaudet will also have
another good FIVE unless all predictions
fail. Nearly every man who was out for
It last year Is again in togs. with the ex-
ception of one. and he will be out as
entirely well.
Considering the preparations which are
going on among the schools and colleges
and also the club organizations. the com
prosperous in years
There Is little doubt that one of the
reasons Georgetown won from Lehigh by
so large a score as 1t did was that the
Pennsylvanians were more or less stale
from their work of the previous Satur-
day. The Lehigh team reached it's high
est point of development the Saturday
before 1t played Georgetown. when it met
its great rival. Lafayette. The Lafayette
ia n OF Oyh 10 n a
game is to Georgetown. and its players
were undoubtedly in the same kind Of a
slump following that contest that were
the Georgetown men after the meeting
with Virginia. That Lehigh had great
deal more power than 1t showed during
the greater part of the game was evident
by the squirt 1t took during the last few
minutes of play The staleness OF the
players was probably what accounted in
a great measure for the apparent extreme
slowness of the team.
Just how it is that the Carlisle Indians
are ranked down seventh or eighth
among the big college foot ball teams
ted in the summation of the seasons
results that the Indians would have won
every game they played had it not been
for the fact that they met Syracuse on
a day when their two best players were
out and also under conditions which
to doing their best work. The Indians
defeated Harvard, Pennsylvania, Lafa-
yette; would probably have won from
either Princeton or Yale had it met
% to 5 which held the Army to no score.
and yet each Of those elevens Is ranked
above the Indians by many who have
attempted to pick the strongest teams.
Again. it is hard to see just how Thorpe
can be kept on the All-American eleven,
and yet he is generally being placed on
the second eleven. 1t Is question II
there Is a more all-round valuable man
to his team in the country than Is Thorpe.
line he is extremely dangerous, from the
fact that he can make a goal from the
field almost in every attempt from that
distance. The fact that he won two or
three games during the year by this
method shows just how valuable he is
along that line. The game with Harvard
was a notable example of his effective
ness. he practically winning that contest
with four goals from the field out Of four
tries. Besides being an exceptionally ac-
curate goal kicker he is one Of the best
ground gaining backs in the country. He
makes the forward pass as we'll or better
than does any other man behind the line
today. 1t looks very much as though
Thorpe Is out TO get job on the honor
roll OF foot ball.
There seems little doubt that Hegarty
will get the captaincy Of the George
town team when the election takes place
this week. Everybody seems to favor the
right end for the place. 1t is thought
that Hegarty will prove the best man
for the position, as he is not only able
to set the example Of good playing to
his men, but he has in him the elements
which go to make captain. Hegarty is
leader among the fellows on his team,
and he will prove q good captain II he
gets the place
Hegarty failed to show his real form
In the first two or three games played
by Georgetown this year. because of q
bad knee. Hegarty's knee was swollen SO
badly that it was hardly right that he
should even play at all, and yet he did
credita BILE work under such conditions
Later In the season, though, when the
member had healed. Hegarty came to his
real form. and in the Army, Virginia and
Lehigh games was the Hegarty of old. He
played a great game against the Army
and duplicated the feat against both
Virginia and Lehigh. Besides helping the
tackles to open up great holes through
which the backs might plunge on the
offense, his position was invulnerable on
the defense and he was fast getting
down under punts.
The Georgetown Props are slated to
start track work today. but II is not
probable that much will be done Until
after the holidays. The long rest dur