Evening star., 1915-01-27
BY 81. c. BYRD.

Two basket ball games of more than
ordinary interest are scheduled here to-
day, one to be played this afternoon at
the National Guard Armory between
Business High and Western High and
the other at the Carroll Institute tonight
between Gallaudet and Catholic Uni
yersity. The contest at the armory will
find two o. the best of the local scholastic
fives in competition. while the improve
ment lately shown by Gallaudet is reason
for believing that it will make better
effort against c. L. than on the occasion
o. their first meeting.
Western and Business have proved
themselves two OF the most capable OF
the scholastic quints in Washington.
Perhaps they are the strongest. and
if the scores Of the games so lar played
may be taken as a criterion, the cham
pionShip OF the District lies between
them. Business must play without the
services of Ray Wise one of its stars.
but it still has a capable combination.
The Red and White has an excellent
pair Of forwards and it's play during the
entire year has been exceptional. prob
ally better than any Western quint has
ever before shown. Business has Il
string of victories to its credit seldom
accomplished by a high school, and the
result of the conflict Will be watched by
the followers of scholastic sports with
great interest.
Catholic University will more tina n
likely defeat Gallaudet. The Brook
landers have a better all-round team
than the Kendall Green outfit and their
work on their own floor is hard to sur
pass. Any five that goes to Carroll
Institute and gets away with victory
may consider itself extremely fortu-
nate. especially If it is not made up of
as capable an aggregation of players
as has c. L. Gallaudet, though. has
shown considerable improvement of
late, and, while it will hardly win, it
should make a whole lot better show
ing than when il was defeated in it's
own gymnasium in the opening contest
just before the holidays.
Georsetown's team fell Il victim to
the Mount st. Joseph's quint at Baiti-
more last night. The Baltimoreans
played clean-cut basket ball and their
victory was well deserved. The Blue
and Gray failed to show the form eX-
pected: partly because of the limited
possibilities Of play in the gymnasium
in which the game took place. y
quint used to playing on good hoor.
as is the Blue and Gray, could hardly
be expected to show very good form
under such conditions.
Malone was the best player of the
Mount st. Joseph five. His work
was excellent in every department.
playing well on the defensive and dis
playing better form than his team
scored more than half the points made
by the St Joseph's outfit. getting five
goals from the floor and five from the
foul line. Tormey did the best work
for Georgetown.
hat Z
not enter the George Washington
| track and field games. to be held Feb
| ruary Is. Announcement was made at
! the Hatchetites' headquarters this
| morning that nothing had as yet been
, heard from the Blue and Gray as 10
| its intentions. One of the officials OF
| the meet said that he had no reason
! to believe that the Hilltoppers would
+ not enter. though. other than that no
! reply to the invitation had been re
/ ceived. He also went farther, and said
, that he hoped the Blue and Gray would
1 be represented, Ii would undoubt-
edly serve to aid in the renewal OF
relations in all branches of sport.
| Entry blanks have been sent to Nir-
! ginia for the Georgetown meet, to be
! held here February 81. The Blue and
Gray institution makes no ado abou,
| admitting that it forwarded the blanks
| to Charlottesville. and Graduate Man
| ager Charley Cox spoke in this wise
| of the matter:
| Il would not make the least attemp,
| to keep Virginia from entering oui
| meet. AS matter of fact. did we sc
| desire. we would not have the power t,
keep Virginia from sending men to take
| part in the South Atlantic Intercol
| Iegiate Association events Any of those
contests are open to the colleges in tho
association, and it would be beyond us
to prevent them being represented"
| When asked whether or not entries
| for the open events would be rejected
| Cox replied:
| mo, am pretty sure they would not
| No matter what the difference between
\ Virginia and Georgetown. we certainly
would not refuse Virginia the right OF
| competition in open events. For my
/ part. Virginia will be welcome to com
pete in our met in any event it cares
| to enter
| The game between Union Station ant
| the Trainmen in the Terminal Railroad
Y. NJ. e. A. Basket Ball League yester.