Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-12-08
BY n. C. BYRD.

Georgetown University will have the
honor Of opening the basket ball season
here tomorrow night, when it meets
the quint representing Mount St. Jo-
seph's College of BALTIMORE. The Balti-
| moreans have been the first five on
the Hilltoppers' schedule for number
OF years. and the meetings have in
| variably proved victories for the local
institution. The contest will take place
in the Ryan gymnasium, where all the
games are to be played, with the pos
sible exception of one or two of the
| most important.
Georgetown should have another
strong Quint as it has three of the reg
ulars of last season back Jim Tormey.
center; Kelley, forward, and Foley.
guard, are the men from last winters
team who will likely be in the lineup
at the beginning of tomorrow's contest
These players formed the nucleus of
Inc squad year ago. and their pres
ence now undoubtedly preSa gcs another
successful schedule
Within the next week each of the
| four local institutions which support
basket ball will be under way. With
Georgetown opening the season tomor-
row night, Catholic University, Gallau-
det and George Washington will play
their first contests shortly afterWayd.
The Brooklanders and Kendall Green
ers are to open up Saturday night with
contest against each other in the
| iatters gymnasium, while George
| Washington is to begin with a con-
| f1ict on the National Guard floor
It is much to be regretted that Catho-
| lie University's basket ball team will
| be without the services of the star
player of that school. Bill Donnelly.
| in the first part of its schedule. DON
nelly was the main factor i'll the at
tack of the Brooklanders a year ago.
and without him the quint is sure to be
much weakened. That he will be out
| of the contests to be played before
Christmas may cause. in a measure. the
effect of a splendid season to be some
what married. If the team were to be-
| gin and lose three or four games to
| schools of lower standing there would
be considerable damper thrown on
the season, no matter how good 1t
might be thereafter. But, of course, it
would not be good judgment to take
chances of injuring Donnelly's weak
/ ankle further and thereby run the risk
of not having him in good condition
| for the final contests with the big
| auints 1t would be a splendid thing.
though. for C. Z. IL he could be gotten
| in good enough shape to play against
| Yale December %.
! Catholic University is being coached
by Fred Rice again, and that is almost
| a surety in itself that the team VIII
play good basket ball. Rice has estao'
lished himself recently as very capa
| BILE coach, having turned out success
| full fves at c. L. with material tina
was not much above the average.
| Georgetown's i've is being coacnet
this year by Physical Director OReiiiy
| Followers of athletics in this sectiol
have not been very familiar with M,
| if he is as successful as among tht
high schools of Boston they soon VII
be. O'Reilly is said to have turned
out some splendid quints III the Massa'
| chuset.S town.
George Washington is again under
the tutelage of Frank Schlosser. the
| former Georgetown player Schiosse,
has high hopes of developing one o!
the best quints G. W. L. has ever mao
especially if one or two payers ne =
banking on are made eligible. Schios
| ser saws he expects a much more capa
I HE combina ton than the one he had
wear ago. provided nothing Unforeseen
| happens to mar the prospects
The Friends School quint won from
the Army and Navy Academy yester.
day by IS to 10. The former outpiayeo
! its opponent in every department, es-
| pecialiy In team work.
6. King. who played right forward ar 9
for Friends. starred by throwing slS
goals from the floor: His work was
brilliant, the ball being handled in a
manner that 1t did not admit Of the
least fault being found.
The outcome of the wrangle at the
University of Pennsylvania regarding
the coaching system for next year is
likely to be that George Brooke will no
longer take An active part in the
coaching. Brooke's contract has one
! more year to run, but there is SO much
sentiment being stirred up against him
that it is not probable he will be in
direct control in 1915. The whole var