The Washington times., 1915-12-12
Georgetown, C. u, and GaIIau-
Diet Get Action on Floor After
Preliminary Workouts.
SCHOOL LEAGUE TO START
Double Header Booked for Ar
cade Floor Friday Afternoon
to Begin Sport.
By BRYAN MORSE.


Collegiate and interscholastic bas-
ketball will hold full sway this week
and from indications the floor game
win enjoy it's greatest success this
winter. Preliminary school battles
have shown that the schoolboy teams
are fairly well matched. The col
lege fives have been working quietly
in order to work as smoothly as pos
sible in their opening engagements,
Gallaudet has already had a
slIirmish for a tryout with an indie
pendent team and has shown
strength enough to warrant the pre-
diction that it will be ready for
Catholic University on Saturday at
Kendall Green. 1t will be the first
game for both teams.
The collegiate season opens Wednesday
night at Ryan gym when Coach John
O'Reilly'B charges meet the players
from Mt. st. Joseph's, O'Reilly has
Dopnelly Scott, Curry, Kelley, Berar-
DIM. Klauberg, O'Lone, Sullivan, and
several others in tow and in starting
off with the Maryland team will prob
ably have to go the limit for a win.
Mt. st. Joe was to have met Catholic
University last night at the Arcade,
but the game was called off ON ac-
count of the death of a member of the
Catholic University faculty. Some idea
of the strength of the Catholic Uni
versity team and the Blue and Gray
five might have been CLEANED had last
nights game been played.
On Saturday night Georgetown takes
its tiTsL trip of the season, meeting the
Brooklyn Polytechnic Institute team In
Brooklyn. On Monday Seton Hall Is
played at South Orange, N. j., while on
Tuesday New York University viii be
played. On Wednesday st. Johns Col
leKe 81 New York viii be taken on.
On this same date the George Wash
inston basketball team will journey to
Annapolis Tor the opening clash with
the Naval Academy tive. A team will
lie selected some time this week. Prof.
DouRherty, coach of the George Wash
ngton University five, is making no
predictions as to the strength OIL the
team Manager Terry maintains that
the George Washington boys will be as
strong as they were last year, and that
The schedule admits of a variety of
games calculated to try out the team to
the extreme.
On Friday the Interscholastic Basket
ball League gets its start at the Ar
cade. The afternoon will find Central
ana Army and Navy Prep, and Eastern
and st. Adams battling for the lead.
Fred Rice and Shorty Hughes will OFF,
ciate in the league battles. The first
game Is scheduled to start at O'Clock.
There are many other scho6lboy
games listed for the week. Tomorrow
Business and Friends meet in the
friends gym. The Quakers held the
A. n. p. team to a 70 to 80 score on
Friday and proved that they can cope
with any of the schoolboy quints in the
city. Coach Zavitz has gotten a good
bunch together and is expecting vic
tory on his big games this year.
On Wednesday Westerns second
team will play the second team at the
Army and Navy Prep On Thursday
Friends will visit the Western gymna-
stun for game which is expected to
give the Westerners a thorough tryout
as Alexandria proved too weak on Fri
day to offer much opposition.
Central is casting about for a game
the Arcade fioor before its battle on IN
Friday with A. N. p, and will endeavor
70 arrange game with q. u. Lee
Hart. one of the Epiphany guards Of
last S9dSOn. 10 tNpecleu TO pay req u
larry with Central, as he is eligible on
this last advisory. 1t is understood.
Central will be selected from Captain
Marlury, Cisse. Reed, Diezendorf
White. Hart, and Selden.
Coach 8. T. Eimhel is keeping his
Eastern team out Of the iimeliRht at
present. but will come through on Fri
day against St Adams. Both teams
VIII be composed of the greenest ma
terial, as few players on either five
have been In games before.
Ford NTealy. Sullivan. NIe,ch. Nar-
gan, Wilson; Blake, and Dyer are be-
ing whipped into shane 20 represent
Gonzaga this season The team will be
coached by George Coilifowar two DAYS
n week The loss Of Schmidt Gardner.
and both FolNard hnVs Is fclt at Com
ZaEa this season These PLAYERS were
Instrumental in winning the Prep
League title last season.
The games for the week follow: To-
MORROW, Business VS.. Friends ut
Friends: Tuesday. Central VS.. G. u,
Second. pending; Wednesday. George
town VS.. Mt. St JoseDh's. ut RYAN
gym: Western Second vs. A. N. p. Sec
ond. at \. N. p; Thursday Western VS.
Friends. at Western; Friday. Central
hans. Arcade. 5 y. m. Interschoiastic
League opening; Saturday. Catholic
University at Gallaudet; Georgetown
VS.. b. p. l., in BROOKLYN. N. Y.
Pete Franzen. one of the stars at the
a. N. p last year. is making a try at
the Naval Academy basketball team.
Dunk Kennedy. another \. N. p. boy.
earned his letter in football this season.
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