Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-01-29
BY II. c. BYRD.

this year. Two men who have held down
the place so far this season have been
compelled to quit the job for one reason
or another and now the place has been
given to Schlosser.
First it was Jack Martin who was made
captain of the team last year and who
played an excellent game at forward all
during the past season. Tie was COM
PEELED to resign the captaincy because of
failure to keep up in his classroom work.
although it was given out at the time
that he would quit on account of other
reasons.
Now it is Gibson who has fallen by the
wayside. Gibson was given the captaincy
of the team after Martin handed in his
resignation, and it was thought that a
good man had been secured for the place.
Gibson, though, failed to show the form
in the position that was expected of him
and. did not hold to training rules as
closely as was thought proper by Coach
Collifiower. 1t is either strict training on
the Georgetown frye or else give up the
job and now Gibson is probably out of
it for the rest of the season.
Now Schlosser is holding down the
place. tentatively. and il is barely pos
siblc that no election will be held to Till
the place.
If George Colliflower did not pass the
ball so much line he would, besides
playing a great defensive game. be one
of the most dangerous factors ON the Of
Tense. Collifiower gets the ball down
in good positions to make the try for
goal and he generally lands the leather
on the rim of the basket, but it twists
out the majority of times for the simple
reason that he throws it too much on n
line. and it spins around and out of the
ring.
In the gamer against Virginia Saturday
night Colliflower had no less than seven
or eight shots at the basket, and had
the ball been Topped more, the majority
of them would have gone in. but as 1t
was, the throw was too much on a line,
and the ball would spin around on the
edge of the basket, then run over rim
and drop outside.
Catholic University's defeat at the
hands of the Ioyola quint Saturday
was rather q surprise. Although it was
known that the Baltimore school had a
good aggregation of basket ball tosserS.
lit was not thought that they would
prove strong enough to win from the
local institution.
The game last night between George
town and Virginia although fast and
markably clean one. There was nothing
like the amount of fouling evident on
the part of the two teams that was the
case last year.
Frank Schlosser has not been elect
ed to the captaincy of the Georgetown
basket ball team as yet to succeed
Gibson, but is acting in that capacity
until further developments. 1t is PROB,
able that If election is held Schlosser will
be the man to get the dob. His expert
ence in the game would give him the
call for the place over any other man
who has position on the team at pres
ent.
Western lost one of its fastest
sprinters and best Junior relay men
Saturday. when Tilton was put out of
the running, as far as competition In
the George Washington meet is con-
cerned, when he sustained rather
severe injury in the dual meet which
was held between Business and West
ern. The youngster was running the
last lap of the junior relay and was
leading in the race when he went vice
on an exceptionally sharp turn and
tore a big cash in his right arm by
striking it against Il grating over one
of the windows. Tilton is one of the
fastest men in Western, and has a
chance in any kind of a junior event
that may be run off. He can negotf-
ate the ffty-yard dash from scratch
in As seconds, which is good time
for a much more experienced man.
Whoever designed that track at
Business must have known just about
as much about the running game as
grammar school boy would about
some of the theories that Plato ad-
vanced. Instead of having the track
built on a level 1t has decided slant
to it. That not being enough, instead
of having all the corners right angles
there is one turn that breaks off at
a sharp angle and is a dangerous one
to anybody who attempts to go around
it with any speed. 1t was on the
turn which is an acute angle that TIL
ton, the Western lad was thrown off
and injured Saturday.
Just what could have been the idea
in building running track with such
decidedly adverse features is certainly
a question.
From all indications there will be
some basket ball game next Wednes-
day, when Georgetown and Catholic
University meet The BrOoklanders
had two Of their best men out Of the
game when they appeared against Vir-
ginia Friday night. and the game they
may be expected to put UP against tho
Blue and Gray five this week should
be much better than anything shown
so far this year. The 'Brooklanders
had rather win from Georgetown than
any other team in the country, ar =
there is no question but that they will
the long end OF the score when they
face the Hilltoppers.
They are still wrangling among the
y
thing almost that pertains to athletics.
1t appears that nothing is taken for
granted by any school. and almost
every one is suspicious of the others,
always afraid that something will be
done which will give it the worst of
the deal whatever it may be. When
the Maryland Intercollegiate League
existed there was continual protesting
among the different colleges, with
every settlement being arrived at vita
a great deal OF difficulty. If the col
leges would get together and. form
some kind Of a league and make one
of it's bylaws to the effect that all
would accept the actions of any one, or
the eligibility code Of any one, without
question. it would be a certainty that
all would go more smooth and even
than has ever been the case.
The entry blanks for the National
Guard wrestling meet are out and
show a promising program. The meet
is to be held March /, although the
prelfminaries will take place the pre-
vious evening leaving only the finals
to be contested the night of the main
events.
The regulation National Guard med
ais will be given to the individual
winners. while trophy will be pre-
scented to the team scoring the most
points.
A German sprinter by the name OF
Trittler was one OF the contestants in
| the dashes in the Irish-American Athletic
Club meet. held the other evening in
New York. The fact that Trittler fasle !
| to place In the dash events does not show
Germany Is reputed to have entered in
| the OlvYnnic aprfnt events. Ii is said thu :