Evening star., 1915-01-11
oege Basket Ball Teams Have Strong Opponents Booked This W.
LOCAL BASKET BALL CUNTS
PLAY HARD GAMES THIS WEEK
Georgetown Team Resumes Work, While
Catholic D., George Washington and
Gallaudet Have Two Contests Each.

! talk was made not long ago Of match
between the Virginia and Princeton
one-mile teams, and 1t will indeed be
regretted by the local followers of
both institutions If the negotiations
have fallen through.
Concentrated practice by candidates
for the Hatchetites track team will
begin today Several Of the students
eral days, but they will be brought to-
gether today and it is expected that
many more will answer the call re-
Gently issued for candidates.
Charley Cox. graduate manager Of
Georgetown athletics, says he is going
to have more local events in the Blue
and Gray meet this year than ever be-
tore: He intends to stage several con-
city. which should make the games
much more attractive than usual. An
lnterhigh school relay, a prep school
relay and like races between local
clubs and colleges will be featured. OF
course, big university teams also are to
be brought down, but the aim is to
give Washington athletes a better
chance for competition than they have
ever before had
Howard Foley. who is wrestling in
structor of the Memorial Athletic Club,
is perhaps more responsible for the
showing of that organization in the
man. He has labored diligently for
years to make the club a big factor in
i that branch of athletics, and since he
discontinued his work as a competitor
of the other grapplers. 1t might be
mentioned in this connection, too. that
Foley at one time won the 125-pound
championship of the south at a wres-
Ting carnival held in Baltimore. The
Memorial Club is to hold a dual meet
Saturday night with the Y. NJ. c. A.
mat artists. and Foley is of the opin-
ion that the greater number of the
bouts will be won by his pupils.
While the George Washington Uni
versity basket ball team was defeated
by the Virginia Military Institute Sat
urday night in what was reported to be
an exceedingly rough contest. the
the least. The Hatchetites lost by a
margin of only five points, which is not
a decisive defeat by any means when
playing on a strange floor, especially
one that is said to have as many dis
advantages as that of V. NJ. l.
There is more dissatisfaction ex-
pressed by those connected with cross
country running, and sometimes by
those who take part in it, than is the
case with all the other sports com-
bined. More than once athletes from
Washington have gone over to Bal
timore to take part in distance af-
fair and have come back with tales of
mistreatment. Now Baltimoreans have
come out with sarcastic comments on
the manner in which the south Allan
tic ten-mile championship run was
handled here Saturday. There is really
less interest in cross-country running
here than in any other sport and it is
indeed poor state of affairs when a
small run cannot be staged without its
management being attacked for al
legged negligence. 1t also is poor way
to revive interest in an almost dead
sport, and it is indeed rather an unap-
preciative attitude for Baltimore peo-
pie to take toward man who has
been working hard of late in an at
tempt to give the game greater popu-
larity.