Evening star., 1914-12-23
BY II. C. BYRD.

Better teamw ork gave the Catholic
University basket ball team victory
over Yale last night in the contest in
which these two quints appeared at
Carroll Institute. The Brooklanders
fought their way through the game to
victory by sheer superiority in hand
ling the ball, tossing baskets aud more
consistent play as d whole. The score
was % to 25.
Catholic University took the lead at
the beginning of the contest, but Yale
spurted near the end of the half and
The count at the end of the first period
was 10 to L., but the second half was
not five minutes old before the Brook
landers had jumped into the lead by
one point, IL to 15. After that it was
nip and tuck. Yale played brilliantly
on the defense against d splendid Of
fense, but the local players were not
to be denied First Yale would take the
lead by Il point and then Catholic Uni
versity would even things up. Finally,
with only couple of minutes to go,
Catholic University threw two consec-
utive goals, which gave it ID four-point
margin. After that it went on the de-
fensive, and the Dark Blue could not
get Il man loose hardly to make u shot.
There was one great fault to be
found with the play Of the Yale team
too many long shots. The Dark Blue
players sometimes took chances by
throwing the ball at the basket from
one end of the hall to the other. The
result was that nearly all such at
tempts went astray. and many times
opportunities were lost to dribble the
Ill 1N,r
lug of the ball for the basket at dis
tances that almost precluded the regis
tering of scores. OF course, once in
g. while such long shots drop into the
goal. but it is very. very seldom. and
in the ma jority of instances it breaks
up the short passing game, which Is
the most successful style of basket
ball offensc.
Fred Rice has built up a splendid Of
fensiye team at Catholic University. 1t
is very seldom that the Brooklanders
fail to register a, great many points
in any contest in which they play. OF
course, they always have 1uur" than
the usual scored against them, too, be-
cause 1t is not their purpose to close
up, play defensive basket ball i'll the
main and play the bali as an offensive
factor only when it happens to come
into their possession through having
pla yed the men OF the opposing team,
Rice has developed IL team that is tLe
best exponent in the south of open
tactics, and as q result it seldom has
trouble in scoring heavily i'll every
contest i'll which it takes part.
i Charley Taft, a son of former FRESH
| dent Taft. played left guard for Yale
and did some good work Taft proved
himself L capable performer and did
some of the 'headiest" work of any of
| the men on the floor. He always stayed
| back and it was not often he was
l. III =
| was very seldom that he allowed the
Catholic University players many easy
! shots for the basket.
There is no question of the strength
of the Catholic University guards.
They are the mainstays Of the team.
Keegan and Cartwright are mighty
capable performers, and besides being
splendid defensive players are able to
shoot well once they get the oppor-
six goals, nearly half the points got
ten by their club. Keegan threw the
ball into the basket four times and
Cartwright tailed twice. Keegan also
uses far better judgment in his play
than the great majority Of men. He
appears to he able to divine what play
Is to be used before it is made and often
he intercepts the ball when least ex-
pected. Time after time he leaves his
own man unguarded to take another
position on the floor, to get in front of
where he thinks the play will be made,
and 1t is not often that he is fooled.
The announcement that only two
sports pay at Princeton is only further
evidence Of what has been known for
some time-that foot ball is the chief
support of all college athletics. Base
ball is the other game which has reve-
nue. sufficient to maintain itself, but 1t
does not show much of profit. Foot
ball Is the one game which consistently
gets big financial results every year,
and through it the other branches of
athletics find their existence. Wrestling,
basket ball, track. rowing, boxing,
gymnastic competitions are all run at
| a decided loss, the deficiencies of which
are made up from the profits of the
gridiron season.
What is true at Princeton is the state
of affairs at the other colleges. We're
it not for the revenues derived from
foot ball, none of the minor sports
would flourish and competition between
colleges would be very much more re-
stricted than at present. There would
be few basket ball games, and the in
tercollegiate meetings in the minor
sports would be few and far between,
The Western High quint won another
terday. when it defeated the Alexan-
dria High quint by a score of rs to 9.
The Red and White team outplayed it's
opponent in every department, despite