Evening star., 1914-02-16
BY H. c. BYRD.

The Washington and Lee basket ball
team comes here today for series Oh
two games The first will be played to-
night with Catholic University III the Nds-
roll Institute gymnasium, While the o1hef
is scheduled to take place against the
Georgetown five tomorrow evening.
The Lexington quint comes here "i,h
an enviable reputation. 1t IS pracucahs
the same aggregation which CLAIMED ehe
South Atlantic championship last season.
and which has not been defeated thls
wear Il is q fast. powerful cohlpliiatloh
of PLAYERS and is evidently out 10 eliiiii-
nate the two local institutions from any
nossible claim to the title for the Sou'h
Atlantic section Catholic University has
already been beaten by w. and L., ttie
game having been played IN Lexington
h,t Georgetown has not yet met delea'
a, the hands OF any southern schoo4> IL
the Blue and Gray can WIN 'oInoiro"
night it viii be able to put IN d Claim ~
re,.oanition for honors, though II would
urobabN not be recognized to any On
tent. because OF the lack OF enough
games with the other institutions TO give
:. good rating.
how ono of the strongest auinta tha'
have appeared here this season ~,
team has. made q splendid fecoFd
against the strongest in the south, nav
ing played Virginia a tie game an"
beaten North Carolina y. and NJ. some
Jnin. like IS to il. That such Il coilpi
nation is formidable is without doupt
and that both {. L. and Georgetown n
will have to show their best brdhd oi
play to compare wen Is certain.
In reference to the tie game Virginia
and Washington and Lee played some
few days past. the adhereh's 81 .ne
former claim that Virginia won by one
point The score given out was % 10
-. hut Pop J.a'IIiigan. coach of the Nir-
..ini;i team stated yesterday that there
had won by 50 to 81 II" said there
vvaS no question III his mind that the
orang. and Blue Mas ieadin: 10y one
,.oint when time WIS called ut the "Irl
Of the second hall.
Tomorrow night at S o'clock the first
1914 meeting of the Amateur Base Sall
Association viii take place. Secretary
ShurtIeT requests that every member
be present. as some very important
business relative to the coming season
will come up Definite plans for the
YEAR viii be discussed, and the move
Iuent started to get matters arranged
to begin play
Norris who ran the last relay for
Virginia III its tWo-iuii" rae. against
,lte University of ennSylvaiiia team
in the Hopkins meet saturday night.
is probably tn" best half-mi1.. runner
relay was brilliant I'll" Penn tnan
started about thirty yards ahead of the
former Yale star. and II locked AS if
Virginia would fail to WIN. Norris cut
loose. Though. "ltli Il rac" that caused
IT to seem he was running q quarter
instead OF q half. IL" caught the Penn
| man on tn" second OF tn" four-lap
run: he hung right at the heels Of the
Quaker until the nome stretch when
he began to crawl up alongside him
inch hy inch. He was behind within five
| feet of the tame. but there was not day
| light between the two. Within about yard
Of the tape Norris literally threw him
! self forward. breaking the string by
margin Of not more than five or siN
| inches.
! Norris is only one OF two men Who
entered Virginia last fail Of iicaIcuabi.
yalu. in track meets. Tie other is Ear
| ker, former captain of til" University OF
! Mississippi squad. Barker won the shot
| ,lIt r.ithrr easily. Il was r;it.rr sltnust,ig
/ 10 watch his .it"rts III toniI,arisur I"
Sonie cf the "t'I'rs ia tht Hopkins meet.
| Three. or foiIr tutu h;id hurt -s,. he shot
and it had f;,li'u shout h;.if way across
u bic, mat ltid ou tn, floor To lresk tine
sound OF the fail " hon Parker stepped
/ into the ring for his put and Let 20 th,
i shot il sailed into tl, air and clear over
! the mat hy about tlvc feet. The mouths
of the majority of the other contestants
! opened III alniZrfn"nt -th" put was about
| two feet farth.r than the rest that is
/, generally done in the southern meets. II
| might also fc mentioned in this connec-
| ton THAT Bark.r ~as a star lineniali oi
the foot bah team a: Mississippi L.. aud
| there is no doubt that he viii prove
, star III tins section, too. If he is UP 10 his
| standard shotputtrr
/ TI,c work "f Tic Western high
| school boys who took part IN til.
! events III Baltimore Saturday night
| Wa something Of surprise. " was
! thought after the loss of Jones and
| Brewer that the Red and White school
| would have Il difficult time getting to-
+, gcthcr any Kind of a combination that
| would he anything like successful but.
| Judging by what was shown. ii ap-
! pears that the squad is going to be a