Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-13
SAYS QU|NT IS
SURE TO DEVELOP
Jim Col|ifIoWer, Georgetown
Coach, Not Discouraged Be-
cause of L0y0Ia Game.
NEW YORK u. WILL
BE PLAYED TONIGHT
Gothamites Have Strong Team
Despite Defeat by Naval
Academy.
BY H. C.. BYRD.

me Georgetown basket ball team will
show to much greater advantage in the
future. There is little doubt that the
form displayed by the Blue and Gray last
Friday night against Loyola was not the
standard of the team, and il is certain
that the other quints on it's schedule
VIII have a much harder row to hoe
than did the Baltimore bunch.
Jim Colliflower. coach of the uuint, has
not n great deal TO say regarding the
future of his team. but what he does
ouchsafe is to the point. Collihower,
In speaking of the game with I.oyola and
'hc team generally, had about the follow
ln; To say:
While | was very much chagrined, of
course, by the manner in which Il much
younger bunch of players defeated my
team, it has not discouraged me by any
means as far as the future is concerned
1 Know that my men did not play up to
their standard, showing much below their
real form as individuals and also as a
team L expected to win from LoyOla.
out had Il feeling that my men might be
overconiident and cautioned them to have
effect
THE result of our game with Prince
ton shows that we did not play up to
our standard against Loyola Last Fri
day night We did not look any more
ike the team which went against the
Tigers than a school five compares to
big university quint. Princeton in
its own gym had hard time to defeat
us by a score of 81 to 81, but only two
days afterward the Tigers went over
TO New York and won from Columbia
on strange floor by a greater margin.
Columbia won the intercollegiate cham
pionship last season, and has about the
shows that we must have played about
lOeSper cent poorer basket ball against
Loyola than we were capable of.
AS for the future, you wait and see
II we do not show some class before
long. We may not win from the New
York University tonight, because lit
has a fast. heavy team, despite the fact
that 1t lost to the Navy by a big score,
but we will give it a. harder run for
the victory than is expected"
The Technical High School track squad
this Year will be larger than it has for a
long time The Manual Trainers have
the greatest number of men out that has
ever tried for places on the team. 1t il
said that eighty men have applied for
permission to train.
out of this number there is little doubt
that the Tech team should measure well
up with the other school aggregations
With the number of boys at Tech, that
school should be the strongest In the city
in every branch of athletics. The only
necessary thing is to get the men out.
In speaking of the Naval Academy
basket bali team, Jim Collifiower, who
referees all the games played there. says
that the Sailors have the strongest ag
gregatton of players that has ever rep
resented the institution. He says that
the team Is strong in every department,
II being generally the most capable he
has seen this year.
The New York University has an ex-
ceptionally tall man playing center for
II, and that may cause another defeat for
Georgetown tonight. In any basket ball
game in which one team never gets con-
troll Of the ball II is nearly impossible to
win. provided the quints are anywhere
near evenly matched and that is likely
TO be the case in the contest this evening
Georgetown will have new man out
for center from this time on who is
bound TO prove worth while. He is Ritch.
who played center on the foot ball team.
Ritch is heavy and tall enough to prove a
capable opponent for any man he may
meet. and if he can measure up to the
standard of other requirements he should
make Il regular place on the quint with
out much trouble.
There will he only one change in the
lineup of the Georgetown quint in the
game tonight. Foley will start in the
left guard position in place of Heiskell.
Daring the short time he in the
game last Friday night against Loyoia
h. displayed quite nttle class. sufflcient,
Al any rate, To earn him regular job.
Virginia must have about the kind of
basket ball team predicted for il earle r
IN the year. one of the fastest in its
history That il should defeat Gallau-
Diet by such a wide margin is evidence
that il has at least five. that Will
be able to show well against any of
the other university teams in this sec
ton.
RiXey. who is playing center on the
team, is a brother of the RiXey who
made good with the Phillies last sum-
mer. Rixey is playing brilliantly now.
and, according to report. the play Of
the team IL built around him
" should be d game worth seeing this
wear between Georgetown and Viz
sinia The Orange and Blue five being
stronger than in some time should
prove a much more formidable op-
ponent for the Hilltoppers.