The Washington times., 1916-01-10
Bv BRYAN MORSE.

Basketball jumps right into its
OWL from now until the baseball
candidates begin to oil up their
gloves, heft their favorite clubs, and
loosen the kinks out Of the arms
that have rested since last year. At
Ryan Gym tonight Georgetown is
taking on a doughty rival in New
York University and or Thursday
will battle the George Washington
University quint which recently de-
feated Gallaudet.
Catholic University has plowed
along over it's opponents, and has
five wins to it's credit. Thursday the
first home game of the season viii
be played by the Brooklanders when
the Virginia Medical College, OF
Richmond, is taken on at the Arcade.
On Saturday the c. U. five will ven
ture down at the Naval Academy
to tackle Coach Jim Colliflower's
Mddies.
Gallaudet will meet a picked team at
the Noel House gym on Friday night
These games will comprise the list or
dates for the colleges during the week.
Schola site activities in the floor game
will start today when Westerns unde-
feated flvc meets the Gonzaga quint.
Central and Eastern will engage in
their game tomorrow at the Arcade in
their first meeting in basketball. East
ern has had floor quint for several
years and as this is Centrals first sea-
son it will he the initial contest for the
schools. Coach Kimbel. of Eastern,
showed a much improved quint in the
last engagement with Business and can
be expected to produce even better re-
suits as Central has had quite lay
Off since the defeat at the hands of the
A. n. L. team two weeks ago.
The Noel House gym games will be
played as usual tomorrow night six
teams taking the floor. Wednesday the
regular Phi Mu Sigma games and the
Sunday School League battles will be
fought out
One of the best games of the scholas-
tic season is expected on Friday when
the Army and Navy Props engage
Western in the lnterscholastic League
series. The A. n. p. team suffered in
its game with Business on account OF a
lack of condition. The acquisition OF
Williamson, at center, is expected to
strenGtheu the team. Waters, n for
ward, will be back in the game by Fri
day, and Zerbe can be counted upon
for the contest.
St. Albans is playing Central in The
second game Of the double bill at the
Arcade. Coach Green has been out OF
town for the past week, and can 10 *.
peCted to put the necessary finish or
the Cathedral Youngsters to carr! Cen,
tral along all the way. Business meets
Friends on Friday, in what is expected
TO DC IalrlN good contest. The Busi'
ness team will be en- it's own lloor anc
may make another record.
DeZendorf. White, Reed, Marbury, Cis
sci. and one or two others on the Cen
tral Quint can h" expected to show i'm
proVement As the season progresses
These lads are WOrNnG together for tn,
first time this season, ana as severa
of them have ono or more years il
basketball at Central it would not be- a
all surprising to sc" them develop int,
one of the best Of scholastic teams in
few years.
One of the advantages tnat St Alban
ard the Army Hnd Navy PrPu5 haV'
obtained over the other league tcarl
is the fact that they arc not h"ndCap
ped by having to hold out Tlayevs from
Central, Eastern, l'usntss, and West
ern have capable players warming tn
bench because Of the high school tacul
ty advisers ruling that boys must II
in school to receive two adv NisorH ma X
and n semi ster report before hHi"
eligible to participate in sports. %GE
and Navy Props got q c"rkin% 900
center in Ped" WilliamsoS. who nail
from California. Williamson came i
after the Christmas holidays.
Rho and Nh are expected to han
Alpha and Pi OF the Phi NJ
sigma Basketball League. great sun
urisc when the eleventh series OF III
league games are played 1T their gym
nasum at the Church OF INC NdNen
second and L streets northwest. q
Tuesday night January II. at o'clocl
Although AIpha. Md. and III are :
present leaders of the league. they vi
have to work hard to take tn" sainf
from their opponents. as they have bee
in Continual training since late m ~
Vcrher ard have captured tho maiorit
Of games with tho CutSid" teams Nhir
they have PLAYED. William NJ. IlHndih,
will he on hand. is usual, 1" refcr"" ~
games and will he assisted by JOSEF
u YLsat a. timekseper.