Evening star., 1915-02-02
GOOD BASKET BALL
GAMES SCHEDULED
Local College Quints Appear
in Difficult Contests
This Week.
ELABORATE PLANS MADE
FOR PENN RELAY RACES
Washington Institutions Are Class
ed Against Schools Of
Strength.
BY H. c. BYRD.

The local college basket bail teams
have an attractive list of contests for the
remainder OF the week Each OF the in
stitutions is scheduled to play impor
tant games. the biggest Of which is 10
take place tomorrow night at the Ma
tional Guard l.rmory. between George
Washington and Georgetown.
The meeting between Georgetown and
George Washington tomorrow Will not
only be interesting from a standpoint Of
an exhibition of fierce, hard play
but it will mark the reopening OF
athletic relations between the two uni
versities. Not contest has taken place
between the Blue and Gray and the
Hatchetites since the memorable battle
on the hilltop in that last Thanksgiving
day foot ball game
There appears to be little doubt that
George Washington will have an excel
lent chance to get away with the long
end of the score. but Georgetown Will
not succumb to the efforts of George
Washington without fierce struggle.
and the contest should be exceptionally
interesting.
Catholic University is to play its
first game of the week Friday night,
when Fordham will face it on the Car
roll Institute floor. The Brooklanders
night, Saturday, when the New York
University will be their guests. The
Black and Red aggregation was de-
featcd by New York University in a
close contest just before the holidays
at New York, but the tables are apt
to be turned this time. Fordham has
not played c. L. as yet, but defeated
Georgetown i'll Il hard game on its own
floor.
d After playing Catholic University
'r;l
appear against Gallaudet at Kendall
Green Saturday. Gallaudet- should
have at least an even chance TO win.
sylvania relay races. to be held the
last Saturday in April, or. rather, for
the Friday and Saturday both. Just
what is contemplated is well told i'll
this circular letter gotten out by
George Orton, who is in charge of the
track athletics:
"Pennsylvania's relay races this year
will be bigger and better than ever
Last year the limit for one-day meet
was reached and from now on the
games will be held on Friday and Sat
urday. This will permit the managers
to look after the enormous number oil
college and school teams that attend.
1t will also allow them TO develop the
games on the lines which they have in
view The management has always de-
sired to make the relay races nu-
cleus for 0lympic teams. and 1t Will be
on these lines that these famous races
will develop On Friday a pentathlon
for college men will be held. The regu-
lar events of the Olympic pentathlon
will be contested. namely, the running
broad jump. throwing the javeiin,
throwing the discus, 200 meter race
and l.50o-me race. This will be
practically an all-round championship
for the college men and it should be
one of the most Interesting and i'm
portant events of the college season.
In addition to this. two new relay
championships will be held Friday.
Both Of them are medley relays. In
one race the first man Will run a quar-
ter mile, the next man a half mile, the
third man three quarters Of mile and
the last man mile. In the other new
championship relay race the first and
third man 440 yards and the fourth
man $50 yards. The rest Of Fridays
program will consist mostly of events
for local schools and colleges. The only
big. event taken from Saturdays pro
gram will be the hammer throw, which
will be held Friday. Three other spe-
cial events will be given Friday
namely, the o6-pound weight for dis
tance, 440-yard hurdle and the hop.
step and jump.
Saturdays meet will be practically
the same as usual except that the
grammar school and parochial school
races will not be held that day. The
regular high and preparatory school
class races and the college class races
will be given as usual. and the cham
plonships for schools and colleges will
be the same as in previous years.
The classifcations of the college teams
at Penn shows the local schools to be
pitted against others of recognized cal
iber. Georgetown is down to run
against the Carlisle Indians Penn
State, SWarthmore, Fordham. Amherst.
Williams, Brown and Wesleyan. Catholic
University is rated in the same class
with Gettysburg. Muhlenburg, ST.
Johns. Western Maryland. Brooklyn
College. Manhattan College and Della
ware. The Gallaudet quint will con-
test with the Maryland Aggies. Wash
ington College. Ursinus. Eillanova,
Lebanon Valley. Juniata. Susquehanna.
Albright and ST. Stephens.
Friends won from St Alban's yester-
day in basket ball game by a very
close margin. Only a single goal sep
arated the two quints at the end of
the game. G.. King. playing right for
ward for Friends. was the star. though
March of St. Albans did some splendid
work. The goal throwing of King was
brilliant as he got nine tosses from the
floor. March scored almost as many
points as King and did exceptionally
we'll in the other departments.
star, has been elected to the captaincy
Of the George Washington University
track squad. 1t was stated in this COL
umn solne time ago that Connor proba-
bly, would represent the Hatchetites