Evening star., 1915-12-22
BY 81. C. BYRD.

night, was defeated by score of Al to
10; CATHOLIC University. pitting its
strength against Mount St. Josephs in
Baltimore. won by 23 to II. George
town was on the short end of the score
al the time in its contest with the
Gotham quint, while Catholic Cniver-
slty went into the second half with
the count standing Is to 10 against 1t,
out rallied in the closing period suffi-
| clently to get the lead and win by SIX
points,
| New York University's experienced
qulnt was too much for the Blue ana
Gray. The local school was unable at
any time to make headway against the
older and stronger five. and in the sec
ond half found itself playing against a
| team made up mostly of substitutes:
Catholic University also was compelled
to compete against a team every bit as
old and experienced as it's own men,
but managed to win by Il close score
y Shlft i'll the lineup of the BROOK
landers seemed to work to good advan-
tage, Lynch taking one of the positions
at forward.
Kelley did most of the scoring for
Georgetown. The star guard Gagged two
goals from the floor and four from the
foul line, making eight CT the fifteen
points as his teal. Lynch registered
eight points for Catholic University by
reason of four goals from the floor,
while Cartwright scored eleven on nine
from the foul line and one from the
floor.
A floor so slippery that to play bas-
ket ball on it was almost ridiculous
made the Observation-Disclosures game yes
terday pretty close to- a farce. 1t was
simply impossible for the light school
boys to hold their footing. and there
never was a time when it was certain
that ball would be procured by the
man 20 whom it was passed; it was i'm
possible for a player to get the throw
in
and when he got the ball he could
never stop suddenly to make toss for
the basket nor to make an accurate
pass to one of his teammates. The re-
suit was that the ball went outside
about twenty times more often than it
ordinarily would on good floor. I'm
less something is done to roughen the
smooth dance floor it will be impossible
for Catholic University to play it's col
lege games there without having them
become more or less farcical Heavy
men would have just about as much
chance of going through a basket ball
game and playing up to their usual
standard on that floor at the Arcade
that foot ball team would if playing
on ice.
Western defeated Business because il
played better basket ball from
standpoint of teamwork. And not only
did it win by big margin--45 to 10
but had it made good on the same per
centage of throws for the basket in
the first half that it did in the second
it would have won by many more
points. Business did not have near
the attack that did Western, and its
defense was not so good. All in all,
there was little. real comparison be-
tween the two quints. Business seemed
to have good material which may find
itself later, but it will have to play
much better basket bali as team If
it hopes to beat out Western for the
title.
Besides being an accurate goal toss
er, Peck of Western has the very de-
sirable attribute of getting the ball
away from him fast. He gets the ball
almost with the same motion He ex-
cells all local scholastic players in this
respect.
Buck Wise was elected to the cap
,taincy of the Business High foot ball
team at a meeting of the letter men last
night Immediately after the banquet
rendered the team by the school Wise
ter in four branches Of sport at Business
ball. foot ball. base. ball and
track.
quint is to open it's basket ball season
today at the Naval Academy The
are not likely to win, though
they are reputed to be stronger than
year ago.
Brown University, which local report |
had as probable opponent for George |
town here next Thanksgiving day, will |
play Colgate at Providence, according to !
the schedule published by the first-men- |
toned institution. 1t is not probable, |
either. that Syracuse will come down here |
for a contest on that date. And, as a |
matter OF fact. it is going to be a diff |
cult proposition for Georgetown to get |
any Of the big institutions from the north |
ern cities to come to Washington for a |
contest Thanksgiving. Any team which |
plays in big city, especially those In
the north, wants to have home game
On the holiday because of the extra gate
receipts which result. Washington can
not draw a foot ball crowd sufficiently
large to warrant Georgetown offering
Syracuse guarantee enough to bring it
here. Syracuse. and probably some of the
other universities. would like to come here
for contest, but the ever-present
financial problem of foot ball stands in
the way.
Athletics in the colleges today are in
such finely developed state that it
takes lot of money to carry them on.
and foot ball is the sport depended
upon to bring financial profits Three
or four thousand persons form an ex-
crowd to attend a game in
and ten thousand or f1f-
teen thousand would probably be a |
small crowd for Syracuse to play be-
fore on it's own field Thanksgiving day.
It looks very much as II the best propo-
sition Georgetown could get for game |