The Washington times., 1915-12-12
Georgetown, C. U, and GaIIau-
det 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
will enjoy it's greatest success this
winter. Preliminary school battles
have shown that the schoolboy teams
are fairly we'll 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
skirmish for tryout with an inde-
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's charges meet the players
from Mt. st. Joseph's. O'Reilly has
Donnelly. Scott, Curry, Kelley, Berar-
dini. Klauberg, O'Lone. Sullivan, and
J several others in tow and in starting
off with the Maryland team will prob
ably have to 20 the limit for 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 iirsl trip of the season. meeting the
Brookiyn polytechnic Institute team In
Brooklyn. On Monday Seton Hall Is
pIayed at South Orange, n. j., while on
tuesday New York University will be
Played; On Wednesday St Johns Col
leRe ~ New York VIII be taken on.
On this same date the George Wash
naIom basketball team will journey to
Annapolis lor the opening clash with
the Naval Academy tive. A team will
ne selected some time this week. Prof.
Dougherty. coach of the George Wash
ington University five, is making no
predictions as to the strength OIL the
leam. Manager Terry maintains that
the George Washington boys will be rs
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
and 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 schoolboy
games listed for the week. Tomorrow
business and Friends meet in the
Friends gym. The Quakers held the
A. n. =. team to a 45 to 80 score on
Friday and proved that they can cope
with any of the schoolboy quints in the
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
sluln 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
early In the week to get accustomed t.
the Arcade floor before its battle on
Friday with A. n. p, and will endeavol
TO arrange game with =. u. Lee
Hart. one of the Epiphany guards oi
last season. is expected to play regu'
larly with Central, as he is eligible on
this last advisory. 1t Is understo"d
Central will be selected from Captain
Marlury. Cissel. Feed, Diezendorf
White. Hart. and Selden.
Coach s. T. Kimhel is keeping his
Eastern team out Of the iimelieht NJ
present. but will come through on Fri.
day against St Adams. Both teams
will be composed of the greenest ma
terial, as few players on either five
have been in games before.
Ford. NIcaly. Sullivan. N-elch. Nell.
gan, Wilson. Blake, and Dyscr are be.
ing whipped into shane 20 represent
GonZaga this season. The team will be
coached bv George ColliTower two days
week The loss of Schmidt. ;.ardrer
Yara this season. These plav""s were
Instrumental in winring the Prer
League title last season.
The games for the week follow: To
m0rrow, business VS.. Friends n
Friends: Tuesday. Central VS.. G. u
: Second pending: Wednesday. George
gym; Western Second VS.. A, n. p. Sec
ond. at \. n. P; Thursday Western VS.
Friends. at Western: Friday Contra
vs.. A. y. p. and Eastern VS.. st. AL
hans. Arcade. n. m. IntersCho'asti
League opening: Saturday. Catholi
University at Callaudet; Georgetown
vs. =. +. J.. In BROOKLYN. n. Y.
Pete Tranzen. one of the stars at tn
4. n. +. last wear. is making a trv a
tho Naval Academy basketball team
nunk Kennedy. another \. y. p. boy
earned his letter in football this season