Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-12-10
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Georgetown Schedule Calls
for Games With Many Fast
Basket Ball Teams.
PRINCETON AND PENN
WILL BE PLAYED
Catholic u, GaIIaudet and N.
A. c. Will Meet Best of
Secondary Elves.
BY H. G. BYRD.

Some of the best basket ball teams in
the country will appear here this year.
Georgetown has one of the longest and
hardest schedules it has ever attempted
and it will bring here some exceptionally
capable quints. Catholic University will
also meet some first-class aggregations.
There will be no big teams here until
after the holidays. Just as has been the
case with the foot ball schedule, several
small contests have been listed in order
to get the team in the best shape for the
harder tests. The University of Mary
land five will open the season Saturday
night; then will come Washington College
on the following Thursday. The schedule
will end as far as the local clubs are con-
cerned after Christmas. January 10 will
find the Loyola quint starting the other
half Of the schedule. Then will come the
big teams. The first team of Importance
which will appear here is that represent
ing New York University The Gotham
ties will come down intending to get re-
venge for the defeat suffered last year.
That meeting will take place January
3D. Two days afterward the University
Of North Carolina quint. January Is.
January 20, ST Johns College of Brook
Ign will be here and it generally is rep
resented by one of the fastest quints in
Fordham with game with the Mary
land Aggies coming between. The two
next games will be with the Manhattan
College. and Virginia Military Institute
quints. The last of these two could
not prove difficult, but the first mention
ed will be difficult.
January 81 Virginia will be played in
Charlottesville and the following day
Washington and Lee will be met in Lex
ington.
University of Pittsburgh will be played
February 3, and Trinity and Fordham
will follow close after. February Il the
Maryland Agricultural College will be
played at College Park and on the 18th
will come the game with Virginia. the
most important on the schedule.
Princetons five will be here February
Is and it has had one of the best teams
in the intercollegiate league. Franklin
and Marshall, swarthmore, susque hanna
and the University of Pennsy lvania will
be here in succession. All these quints
are of recognized caliber and all are
worthy of the most capable opponents
be filled as soon as possible. The sched-
ule will be closed March Is with Buck
nell University. Bucknell defeated
Georgetown last year in the last game of
the season, IT showing an exceptionally
strong quint.
With this array of quints appearing
here the Georgetown schedule and
some of the best of the secondary fves
coming to play Catholic University. Gal
laudet and NJ. A. c., there should not be
the least room for complaint among bas-
ket ball followers that they have not
been given the choicest morseIs of the
season.
town team through a successful season,
facing the teams that are listed, he will
deserve great deal of credit. If Colli
flower succeeds in developing winning
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will have to face his work will be worth
more than passing mention.
And there is no reason to believe that
Collif1ower will not accomplish just that.
men last fall he whipped them into one
of the strongest teams in this section.
one which won the south Atlantic
championship. This year with lot bet
ter new material, with the added sea-
sonng received last season by the vet
Grams he has back and with his own
we'll earned experience as a coach, it is
probable he will show basket ball fol-
lowers here one of the most capable ar
gregations which has ever represented a
local institution.
The manner in which Gallagher walk
ed away with the championship cross
country run last week in Baltimore just
man on its track team this year who is
capable of winning any long distance
event in which he figures against the
other men in this section. Gallagher
won the event Saturday so easily that he
was not even showed. His work was of
such caliber as to class him above any
thing that has been shown in quite a
while by any long distance runner in
this section. According to report. Gal
lagher did not have to run anywhere
near his best, defeating easily the best
Of the others who have hitherto held su-
premacy around here.
Gallagher is certain to be a point win
ner in every meet in which he appears in
this section unless he is handicapped SO
heavily that he cannot make up the dis
lance. In the indoor meets in this Sec
ton that is the bane of runners who are
runners, they generally being handica pped
to the extent that it is almost impossible
for them to get through the field on the
narrow tracks.
AS matters stand at present Washing
ton will have but one indoor meet this
year. 1t would be a pretty nice thing for
and have a set of games some time in
February. There is little doubt that it
could be made to pay and that no money
would be lost on such a venture.
Had not the Maryland Agricultural Col
lege been damaged by fire it, probably
would have stepped into the breech and
held the games i'm place of George Wash
ington. but everything is SO upset out
there now that it almost impossible to do
anything other than to keep the work of
the student body in the classrooms going.
Practice will be started today or tomor-
row in basket ball and track and 1t would
be almost impossible to get the matter
under way now.
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