Evening star., 1915-03-08
BY 81. c. BYRD.

| The Intercollegiate Basket Ball
League can boast of the greatest race
in it's history. Two teams, Yale and
Princeton, are tied for first place and
Cornell is third by only half a game.
Columbia is fourth, just one contest
behind Cornell. The real contest for
the championship lies between Yale
and Princeton, and it is likely that
the title will be decided tomorrow,
when these two institutions meet.
More interest probably will be noted
in the contest between Yale and Prince
ton than has ever been given to a
basket ball game between colleges
The winner undoubtedly will have the
right to the championship. as it Is the
last meeting between them. Each has
won six games and lost two, and the
tie has existed for the last three weeks.
None of the other quints has pdoved
strong enough to oust Yale or Prince
ton from the positions they hold.
Cornell is father back now than at
lany time in the last three years. The
lthacans won once and tied on another
occasion. but now they are third, win
the possibility of dropping back into
fourth place. Pennsylvania has won
only three games out of ten starts,
while Dartmouth has been unfortunate
enough not to have single victory
to its credit. 1t probably is the first
time in the history of the organization
that a university has gone through
nearly it's whole schedule without
lacine at least one game in its won
column.
Incidentally a basket BAH champion
ship is likely TO be decided here Friday
Business High and Western High being
scheduled to meet in a contest Whlch
may determine the winner OF the title
in the Scholastic League. Just what
will be the result of the contest is
hard to foretell. but the chances are
the Red and White Will be the victor
1t has shown consistently better form
than Business, and now stands III front.
If Business wins the best it can get
will be tie, and then it Will have to
win again in order to obtain the title.
BY comparison of the two quints on
their performances against the other
scholastic combina tionS it does not seem
proba BILE that Business will be able to
muster sufficient strength to accomplish
that feat.
! In Lynch and Donnelly Catholic Uni
| versity has the nucleus of splendid
outfleld for it's base ball team. There
are not two better players in college
! ranks in this section than these, each
! being able TO hit and field well. AS :.
matter OF fact, ii is questionable II
I tHeTe are more fellaDiG men III lllt
! south when il comes to a matter of
i base hits, and little fault has been
! found with their fielding. one man,
who has been. following base ball in a
professional capacity for years, had
| this to say of Donnelly:
| That man Donneily. playing with
Catholic University. is the best col
| lege ball player L have seen this year
He seems to be head and shoulders
| above anybody around here. and there
1,a l.
| there are more ca pa BILE men playing on
/ the college mines in the east ! have
yet 10 see them. and l have watched
| every one of the most prominent ones
! this spring.
! Rasmussen will do the bulk OF the
! pitching for the Gallaudet College nine
] this season. The big fellow has been the
: ma :s;nsta3- of the pitching staff for the
i last two years. and no new man is eN-