Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-12-15
NEW YORK j. FIVE
APPEARS STRONG
Gothamites Should Play on
Even Basis With Georgetown
|. in Basket Ball Tonight.
G. w. U.-C. U. CONTEST
TO BE HARD FOUGHT
Both Teams Are Anxious to Get Up
per Hand in Race for South
Atlantic Title.
BY II. C. BYRD.

| The New York University basket ball
team, which is scheduled to play at
Georgetown tonight is apt to be quite
| a difficult problem for the Blue and
| Gray. The Gothamites have more
capable quint this season than last,
which was shown by the manner in
which they fought the Navy TO stand
still last Saturday. \ team that can
| play the Navy closely 1t did
is certainly an opponent to be feared.
Coach Collifiower of Georgetown. in
speaking of the game this morning.
said: Il guess we will be up against
one of the toughest propositions we
will meet this season. There is no
doubt in my mind that New York u.
has a mighty clever bunch of play
ers, and that it could hold the Navy
as well as it did is saying much for
It's capabilities 1t will have the ad-
vantage Of having played two or three
hard games, in which the players have
been put to real tests, while my team
has taken part in only one, and that
against an inferior five. But, while the
visiting team is strong, you can just
bet one thing, that those fellows will
know they have been in game if they
win
The contest will be played in the
Ryan gymnasium at Georgetown and
will start at $3.50 o'clock.
There is apt to be some desperate WORK
in the National Guard gymnasium to-
night when the Catholic University and
George Washington quints meet Both
hves are out to win, because each real
ICES that the result of the contest will
! have much to do with the relative rating
of the schools at the end of the season
George Washington seems to have a
chances while Catholic University figures
that the odds favor it,
Since the game in which Gallaudet
fought Catholic University almost to a
standstili, Saturday night. it looks as
though the latter is not as strong as it
was last year Either that is true or the
team was not able to get going It may
| have been also that the players We're
so confident that they could win from
the Kendall Green five that they failed
to put forth their best efforts during the
first half. There is some reason for be-
lieylng that, too. because when the
/, Brooklanders needed points in that sec
ond half they got them. and they also
kept Gallaudet from scoring appreciably
iii that period. In other words, when it
was necessary to tighten up the defense
the Brookianders We're not found want
ing, and they also had reserve strength
enough to cut loose with more capable
offenSe.
George Washington has a much bet
ter team this season than last and with
one exception, a while lot heavier. The
forwards. Amon and Noonan, are rather
light, but the three other members will
average at least 10 pounds. The game
will take place in the National Guard
Armory at $50 o'clock
Another contest will be played in the
City League, it being scheduled for the
Y NJ. G. \. gymnasium, between the Ma
| tional Guard and the Association Re-
serves. The Guards five is an unknown
| quantity and may prove a stronger ag-
gregation than is looked for. The odds
seem to favor the Y. NJ. c. A.
ABOUT the best view expressed by any
of the big university base ball captains
| regarding the idea of RELOCATING the
| coach from the bench to AN anoma lous
position IS noted in a letter written by
| j. =. Wingatc. captain of the Harvard
| nine. TO the New York Tribune He had
! the following to say:
| There is no doubt that the coach
/ plays All important part in the games
at present. but that part is in actual
practice more negative than positive
| He takes part in the game more by his
/ steadying influence than by any real
| part in the playing of the game, al
| though this statement must vary accord
| ing to the coach considered, and any
| coach has the opportunity to direct the
playing in such way as to turn the
game into victory.
! The theory Of the proposed rule is to
| put more responsibility upon the players
| themselves and so to make the games
entirely the product Of the men on the
team. The idea is a good one il it can
| be practically and fairly worked out.
The mere rule that the coach is not
allowed on the bench is not sufficient to