Evening star., 1915-02-18
G.. ]. BOOKS EVENTS
FOR LOCAL TEAMS
Blue and Gray Aims to Fea-
ture Washington 0rganiza-
tions in Its Meet.
DEFEAT OF C. U. FIVE
PROVES BIG SURPRISE
Victory of Temple Quint Over
Brooklanders Not
Looked For.
BY n. C.. BYRD.

! for it's track and field games, to be held
! at Convention Hall Saturday week. be
! tween local athletic organizations as
! is possible to arrange. Graduate Man
| ager of Athletics Charley Cox, who is
handling most of the details of the
| meet, announced some time ago that
| the Blue and Gray would pay greater
attention to the development of interest
| in its games through courtesies to
! local organizations than previously, and
| he seems to be making good his in
| tentions. Already several contests
have been carded between local bodies
and more are yet to be booked.
| Local college teams will be brought
| into competition as much as possible,
while every one of the schools almost
| will take part in the events. Attempts
are being made to schedule race for
the prep school championship of the
District and for the high school cham
| pionship. Besides the numerous events
| which will be listed between athletic
clubs. schools and colleges, the grade
| schools will also get a chance to show
what they can do. The last. two races
to be agreed upon were between the
| Episcopal High School and Tome In
Stltute and between the Potomac Boat
! Club and the Washington Canoe Club.
From present indications there will
be more occasion for local interest in
| the Georgetown games than in any
set-ever before held under the au-
! spices of the Hilltoppers. The many
relay races-the most Interesting form
of track competition, anyway-between
, the District and nearby organizations
! which support athletics are almost SUI
ficient in themselves to guarantee a
worthy meet.
Just how such a team as represented
Temple University in it's game against
c. U. here early this season could have
won from the Brooklanders last night
by Il to 10 is hard to tell. The chances
are that the Philadelphia school had a
| more capable quint and better basket
ball players, individually speaking. The
aggregation which represented the
Quakers in the contest the Brookland-
ers won here by big margin could
never have turned the tables SO easily.
Creely, playing left forward for the
markable game against the c. U. ag-
gregation. He scored nine goals from
the foul line and four from the field,
which caused him to register seven
teen of the twenty-one points gotten
by his quint. The game must have
been very rough and hard, inasmuch
as eighteen fouls were committed by
each club. The inability OF the Brook
landers to make good in tossing the
ball through the basket from the foul
line probably cost them the game. The
Temple five registered nine from fouls
and c. U. got but two. one-ninth of
the chances it had.
a practice game yesterday between
Gallaudet and the Engineers resulted
in victory for the former by ~ to IS
The Soldiers We're never in the running
with the college five, being unable to
cope with it either defensively or Of
fensively.
Rockwell and A. wenger did the best
u t.o lacr 10 h t1n fhah has
of the Engineers was Dettimore. Det-
timore was formerly a college star
himself. and he proved to be the only
man who could consistently get points.
He Gagged the ball seven times A.
Wenger and Rockwell did their usually
brilliant work, being hard to cover and
adapting themselves quickly to strong
defensive game whenever the necessity
was apparent.
The contest scheduled between George
Washington and Syracuse University
last night was called off. The Hatchet-
ties leave today for Lancaster. Pa,
where they will open their northern
trip with a game against the Franklin
and Marshall five.
Catholic University is to. play Ford
ham at New York tonight. The Brook
landers will probably have greater
this time than they did in the contest
which took place at the Carroll Insti
tute little more than two weeks ago.
town last night under the direction of
Joe Bateman, who is teaching the game
to the Blue and Gray students, proved
quite a success. 4 soou crowd turned
out to watch the competition, which
proved of n much higher character than
was expected. The boys did good work
in the various bouts, each class show
ing good form.
The two main fractions were an
exhibition in which Bateman showed
how he taught his lightest and heaviest
pupils and the set-to between young
Martin, a former G. u athlete now
playing ball with the Boston Braves. J
The whole affair was voted an extraor-
dinary success. and 1t is generally |
thought will stimulate interest in box
ing on the hilltop.
The st. Albanfs School quint sprang
something of a surprise on the Bust |
ness High quint yesterday afternoon.
defeating it by a close margin. George
Green's youngsters played well enough |
to win. They just doubled the count on |
their opponents in that period. finishing |
with rs points against 49, Business |
strong enough to allow it to overcome |
the margin which had been made on
it in the first twenty minutes of play.
Be it said for Business. though. that
small gymnasium. The Stenographers
are used to playing on large. roomy
floor, and when they were cramped into
smaller quarters did not work near
SO we'll.
Announcement is made that johnny
Priest will coach the Gallaudet base
ball team this spring. The Kendall
Greeners should have good tutoring
until Priest reports to begin the sea-
ternational League. Priest had two
New York, and has played successfully
in many minor circuits. He should be
qualified to make a successful coach.
The Gallaudet Reserves are to play
the Georgetown Props at GEORGETOWN
today in a basket ball game. The col
leRe second team should win, as it is
much faster and composed of older and
more experienced men. However, If
the Blue and Gray youngsters get away
with a victory they will deserve all
the more credit.
It begins to look very much as If the
Battery team is going to win the cham
pionship of the National Guard Basket
Ball League. 1t won from the Company
M five, its closest rival, last night by
a wide margin. the final score being 55
to IA. Esler and Powers of the victors
were mainly responsible for the sue
| cess. both putting up a splendid Of
| fensive game. They followed the ball
veil and Esler threw sly goals from