The Washington times., 1915-02-01
Nine Contests Are On
The Card for Teams
Only Two League Games, However, Are to Be Found
on Lengthy List for District Basketballers.
Coaches Differ With Officials on Inter-
probation of Rules. !
By BRYAN MORSE.

Nine games are on the card for the
schoolboy basketers this week. But
two league contests are carded, that Of
the Army and Navy Props in the Inter-
scholastic League on Friday at the ''Y'
and one between Gonzaga and George
town Prep at Georgetown Prep.
st. Albans. which won its last start at
the Y. M. G. A. In a league game, is
needing tho Friends team in the
Friends GYM today. The Friends claim
a 43-to-40 game against Gonzaga in their
last engagement. in a game which has
caused a deal Of talk in scholastic cir
cles. st. Albans Is improving every day,
and will be ranked, with the best Of
them before the season is over II i'm
provement continues as 1t has during
the past ten days.
Western is taking on the Army and
Navy Academy team today in the Arm
ory. In the last engagement the A. N.
A. boys were victorious by q % to Is
count. Western was minus the services
Of Giblin and Leetch, guard and center
at that time. but expects to have a full
team on the floor. Since the final marks
have gone in Western has been aug
the league games.
The Gonzaga team tackles the Army
and Navy Props in the Gonzaga gym
on Tuesday. and judging from past per-
formances should hand the Props a
beating. Gonzaga has come rapily to
the front in scholastic basketball, and
presents as clever an all-around team as
could be wished for. The team Is al
most as small as the Georgetown Prep
aggregation, but is shiftier in every
way.
ond appearance in the league contests
against Army and Navy Prep with
prospects Of a win. Western has been
speeding along for wins. recently having
Friends in the last encounters. The
Red and White has grabbed or tive
straight wins in its last starts.
The best game of the week is that
scheduled between Business and st.
Adams on Friday at the Business gym.
this week and expects a tough custo-
mer when 1t meets the Cathedral uuint.
Holmes will outjump BUCK Wise for
a big advantage, and II the Cathedral
ties travel at a fast clip can be assured
Of holding Business down.
Saturday, Friends Select entertains
the Baltimore Friends team here in
the first Of series Of games played
annually. Last season the Baltimore
Quakers had things pretty much their
own way, but will be up against a hard
er proposition this season.
Conversations with coaches OF the var
ious scholastic Quints terA toward crit
icism of basketball officials in this
section, which Is, after all, q criticism,
and Justly SO. OF Themselves. 1t would
seem that there Is no uniformity of
ketball rules and that the teams go
into games where officials. generally
coaches, call few fouls. Other games,
chiefly those which are league contests,
have a number of penalties inflicted.
1t cannot be said that the "Y" officials
are at all lax in their duties. and 1t is
high time that the coaches Of the dozen
conference with the recognized "Y''
officials in order to hold down the teams
in the practice games.
As far as the two scholastic leagues
are concerned. record of the games
played need only be pointed to In order
to clinch the point. In the first three
Interscholastic League games no less
than sixty-six called. an average of
twenty-five per game or eleven per
team. In the Preparatory League but
two fouls were called In the opening
contest, and but six In the second and
five in the third. total Of eleven. or
St. ALBANIA Western contest OF two
weeks agoYn the older league. There is
no reason why the teams should not be
called together for a conference and in
depreciation so that better game
might be played.