Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-14
QU|NT WILL Be
MUCH STRONGER
Addition of CoIIifIower, Who
Will Report After Holidays,
Will Help Blue and Gray.
TWO GAMES SCHEDULED
AT Y. M. c. A. TONIGHT
Catholic U. Plays Frederick.
Western Shows PoorIy-Wg-
ilants VS.. College Stars.
BY n. C. BYRD.

Georgetown basket ball team will be con.
slderably strengthened after the holidays
by the addition Of George Collifiower
There Is every reason for believing tina,
the star guard of last year will be out
Tor practice in time to get in shape be-
fore any of the big contests are played
1t will be remembered that Collifiower
was the best guard in the south last
year and one of the most capable players
in college circles. His work was the
feature Of the majority of the games
played by Georgetown and time after
time it was due to his exceptional per.
formances that the Blue and Gray was
enabled to finish with the margin on its
side Of the ledger.
If Colliflower comes out as is generally
believed he will. he may be played al
center. this being the weak position a,
present. 1t is possible that Waldron
win be shifted to that position and Col
lifower be sent in at his old place With
Wetzell and Coliifiower holding down the
two back positions there is not the leas,
doubt that Georgetown would have a
wonderful pair of defensive men who
would outplay any pair of forwards who
might be placed against them.
With CollifiOwer' in the game, much
greater possibilities for defensive and of.
fensive play will be opened up. Anyway
1t is certain that some guard play will
flower superior to any evidenced for q
long while.
The Western High quint was defeated
by wide margin yesterday afternoon by
the Cathedral five. There was no com.
parison in the play Of the two aggrega-
tons. Western put up poor defense
against Cathedrars plays and it did not
show much of an offense. Neither OF
the two teams did especially good work
according to report, and it was more the
poor work of the Western five than an,
brilliant play on the part of the oppos.
ing men which caused it to be defeated
by such a wide margin.
The work of Bradley, who PLAYED one OF
the forward positions for Western, was
the one redeeInable feature 1t is said
that he played about half the game fol
his team. scoring all the points. White
did about the best work for the Cathedral
Quint.
Two games will be played at the Y NJ
c. A. tonight. The first will start a,
SID The first contest will take place
between the Y. VI. c. A. Bull Moose
five and the Epiphany quint. and the
other between the Aloysius and Y. NJ
c. A. regulars.
Catholic University may have an easy
uled with the Frederick team tonight and
again it may not. Up in that Frederick
school they are not particularly strict as
to who they play on the team, and it is
NJ. c. A. men will be on the squad. Fred
erlck has turned out pretty fast team
once or twice during the past few years
simply by corralling veterans
1t would not be surprising to see the
BrOoklanders run away with the game
and win by a big margin, and again it
would not be totally unlocked for If they
We're to meet defeat. The Brookland five
will be weakened by the loss of two of
its regulars. and there is a probability
that 1t Will not show at its best.
AS far as any professionalism of the
men is concerned, there is not the least
danger Of any Of the Georgetown men or
any other players becoming SO tainted
by competing in a contest against the
Vigilants foot ball team here tomorrow,
providing there is no man on the eleven
on which they play who is a professional.
Ihere Is nothing in any amateur code
which forbids one amateur organization
from entering into competition against a
professional body provided it's members
do not receive pecuniary reward.
Every year college base ball teams play
against professional clubs, and amateur
club mines often meet professional ag.
gregatlOnS, yet they are not made pro-
fessionals. Then why should an amateur
foot ball team be professionalism because
it completes against a team of men who
are not amateurs? The plain answer is
1T would not. When 1t is stated that men
would be professionalism under such con-
ditfon. lack of knowledge Of the anna
teur rules is shown. Even the A A. l.
does not disqualify a man under such
conditions. If a man finds no other OBJ
Jections to playing against a professional
club, there is little reason for him to feel
lear or being made professional.
The chances are that such game as
that which is arranged for tomorrow be-
tween the Vigilants and a team Of col
lege men will result I'm a victory for the
former. Without signals and without
practice. it Is not probable that any foot
ball team can make much Roadway
against an aggregation which has been
playing together all season.