Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-12
c. j. FIVE PLAYS
TSLAsT GAME
Blue and Gray Quint Closes
Schedule Tomorrow Night
With BucknelI.
PRELIMINARiES FOR
N. G.,S MEET TONIGHT
Heats Will Be Run This Even
ing and Finals Friday.
Other Gossip.
By H. G. BYRD.

The Georgetown basket ball team will
end its season tomorrow night. The Blue
and Gray is scheduled to meet Bucknell
In the last contest Of the year.
There seems to be much more doubt
about the Blue and Gray getting away
with the contest tomorrow than there
was regarding the result of the Princeton
game. Since the Tigers were defeated
the players have been unable to report
for practice with any regularity at all,
and they will consequently not be in the
best Of condition to meet the Pennsylva-
mans, who are likely to be represented
by an exceptionally fast five, as was the
case last year.
Georgetown played the last game on
Its schedule last season with Bucknell
and lost. The Pennsylvanians put up one
OF the most brilliant passing games ever
seen on a local floor, and their work
completely baffied the Blue and Gray men,
VINO mad not been prepared for such fine
play. This season it is said OF the
aggregation than that which came down
In 1917, and il SO there is no doubt that
it will put up brilliant contest.
The Blue and Gray squad will not be in
as good condition as when it met Prince
ton For that game the players had
trained and practiced hard for some time.
but they have been unable to get the
necessary workouts of late to prepare
them for the last contest tomorrow be-
cause OF the examinations they have been
taking.
The preliminaries Of the National Guard
meet win take place tonight. Because of
the smallness OF the track, It is necessary
TO run prelimfnaries In order not to have
crowding at the start In the regular
events Friday night. The preliminaries Of
the meet are nothing more than the rum
ming of the heats this evening and the
finals Friday. Instead of having the
heats run or just previous to the finals
and on the same evening, the heats are
run tonight and the finals held till FRI
Day. There are SO many events listed
that 1t would take too much time also to
run the heats and finals the same even
ing.
Just what kind Of meet the Guards are
going to have this year Is questionable.
They are trying to buck the A. A. u.
and whether or not they will be success
after the affair is over. It may be that
all the club talent in the city will be
entered In the events, and then 1t might
happen that only a few OF the best men
would compete. 1t is not probable that
any of the best men in the schools and
colleges will take part.
One part OF the events that is always
attractive and which Will not be affected
by the fact that it IL not to be under
A. "A. y. sanction are the closed events
for the Guards. The A. A. u. would have
no control over closed affair, and there
are some very capable performers who
are generally entered in these races.
It is said that Green, the main re-
lance Of the Catholic University pitching
sta1, has contracted q cold in his arm
and may not be able to pitch the OPEN
ing. and probably most important, con-
that against Virginia next week. II
Green is not in shape for that game it
will mean that the Brcckland nine will
have to have some man in the box who
is not as capable and back of whom the
men will not play as well. The Black
and Red players have every confidence
In Green and put up their best article
OF ball behind MIN, and If he is not ready
to do the hurting the team will not show
at Its best. nor will 1t be at it's best.
Green. while he may not have any more
stun th1 one or two others on the Blue
and Gray squad. is the most experienced
man on the stan, and that counts for q
whole lot In q college game. The best
ball games that have ever been played
by the Br0Oklanders have taken place
when Green was doing the pitching, and
the chances are that If he is In any kind
OF condition at all he will start the first
game against the Charlottesville nine.
The Maryland Aggies will start their
real base ball practice this afternoon. The
work of the Farmers until now has been
retarded to a considerable extent, and
they have been unable to accomplish
much. There have been some desultory
attempts to get out and a few men have
worked out on two or three occasions.
There has not been a day, though, on
which all the men have been out It is
probable that this will be the first day
on which the entire squad has reported.
Not the least thing has been done, as
yet. toward selecting the men who will
make up the regular nine. although there
are some. OF course, who are known to
have ability enough to make good.
The Trainers will open their season next