Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-30
TITLE GAMES
TO Be PLAYED
Georgetown Meets Virginia
and w. and L. Tomorrow
and Saturday Nights.
WILL FIGURE MUCH
IN RANKING OF TEAMS
v. M. |. Shows Good Foot Ball
Against Blue and Gray-PoIo
Tomorrow Night.
BY II. C. BYRD.

The Georgetown basket ball team will
face one of the most severe tests il has
encountered this season tomorrow night
and Saturday. The Blue and Gray are
scheduled to meet the University of Vir-
SlnIa in Charlottesville tomorrow even
ing, and the day after will go against the
Washington and Lee University five The
two contests. counting as they do for the
South Atlantic championship. will mean
that the Georgetown quint cannot well af-
lord to lose in either if il hopes to get
away with the title again this year.
1T is not going to be an easy matter
for the local men to win the game against
Virginia, and probably they will not take
either contest by a wide margin. Both
the teams they are scheduled to face are
strong. capable asgregations. and can put
up fast style of play. They are also
in condition to hold whatever pace may
be set. Virginia. especially. has aunt
that is in the best condition possible
Every man on it is i'm such shape that
he can go the route and finish as well as
he started.
In the case of Virginia. the Georgetown
team wll be on a much different floor
from that on which it is used to playing.
The court in the Virginia gym is rather
long and narrow in comparison with the
one at the Arcade. and that factor much
favors the lads who have become accls-
toned to it. 1t is a mighty well known
fact that Virginia is generally hard
year Will be no exception because. with
IT'S natural advantages. it has a five that
is not mediocre by any means
Just what Washington and Lee has is
I'M tx1x b.
comes that its five Is made up of big
men who are not afraid to rough ii on
occasion Georgetown will probably find
1t Will have to go into just such a con-
test when 1t reaches Lexington. but,
while it will be at the disadvantage of
having played a hard game the previous
evening, should be able to hold up its
end in that style game Washington and
Lee Is likely TO prove an easier nut to
crack than Virginia although Just the op-
posite may prove to be true
Under any conditions Georgetown is
not apt TO have an easy time getting
away with the long end of the score in
either game. Both CUNTS it is scheduled
to meet will play their hardest, and will
strive desperately to secure victories Ii
is probable that they had rather beat
{ Georgetown than any other institution on
their schedules. and under such condi-
lions the visiting five VIII have a hard
row to hoe.
The Virginia Military Institute basket
ball quint. defeated by Georgetown at the
! Arcade last night. played more of a foot
ball game than it did basket ball The
team from Lexington did great amount
| of blocking. charging and falling on the
ball. and once or twice there We're tackles
| attempted. If about four out of the five
regulars on that team are not foot ball
players then they ought to be. 1t looked
rather queer upon two or three occasions
| to see some V. NJ. L. player drop i'm front
| of Georgetown man. who went after the
ball just as though he Were going to
block him off in the interference of a foot
ball game.
|. Waldron of Georgetown was off last
night i'm shooting goals from the foul
line. missing the majority of chances he
had. His work in that department last
night was poorer than at any time this
year. Not in any game this season has
he missed many free losses. He Sc
cured only four out of the eleven tries he
had. and almost any time he would get at
least seven out of that many. Leech. who
did the tossing for V. NJ. L., went one bet
ter than Waldron, and got five out of his
eleven chances.
The work of Campbell was exceptional.
The Blue and Gray center played his best
game of the year last night He scored
the majority of the points secured by his
team, and some of the losses he sent
into the basket We're from extremely diff
ficuit positions. Not only did he do a lot
of scoring. but his general play was ex-
celIent. He, despite the fact that he was
fouled almost every time the ball was
put in play at the center of the floor.
managed to get the tap to his men more
often than did his opponent.
The guarding of the Georgetown team
was very close. and Yet it was not much
more so than that of the Virginians. The
b.
was that they could not cage the ball
They had just many opportunities for
free shots as had Georgetown, and had
they been able to make the throw good
would have given the Blue and Gray
close rub. AS it was, only three goals