Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-25
c. j. SHOULD WIN
FROM G. ". QU|NT
BrookIanders' Basket Ball
Team Stronger on Form
Than HatChetiteS.
MORE THAN FIFTY WORKING
ON M. A. C. TRACK SQUAD
Farmers Have Exceptionally Large
Number of Runners in Train
ing-0ther Gossip.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Catholic University should win the
basket ball game tonight from George
Washington without much trouble. The
Brooklanders are much stronger than
the Hatchetites. and on the form dis
played in the contests already played
ought not to experience a great deal
of difficulty in taking the long end of
the score.
The George Washington team prob
ably will make a better showing than
is expected. as is usually the case in
basket ball. Take, for instance, the
game last week between Gallaudet and
Catholic University. After the former
had been beaten by c. L. rather easily
Immediately following game in which
IL lost TO the Loyola team by a big
margin, it went to the Arcade and on
the Brooklanders' own floor proved the
stronger team during the greater part
of the contest. However, Virginia
trounced George Washington easily,
and yet it was beaten by comparatively
just as large a score by Catholic Uni
versity That would tend to indicate
an almost certain victory for the last
mentioned team tonight without much
trouble. That is not saying, though.
that the contest will not be fierce and
hard.
Just what is the matter with the
University of Virginia basket ball team
is causing considerable speculation
among the local followers of that in
etitution. The Orange and Blue has
out on its squad some excellent mate
rial. There are Churchman. captain
season: Luck. excellent guard, and
Dietrich, his running mate last sea-
son: Strickling, regular center, and
Nichols. who played the forward posi-
tion with Strickling last season. Vir-
ginia has practically the same material
as last year. with more added. and it
may be that is just what is the mat
ter-too many individual stars.
couple of lively races are likely to
be staged this afternoon at the Arcade
between members of the track squad.
of Catholic University and the Mary
land Agricultural College. The mile
relay teams will go against each other
in real race and there probably will
he a mile event in which two members
of each squad will figure. The two
squads will train together in order for
each TO get the benefit of real compe-
tition against an opponent.
The Maryland Aggies probably have
more men training for track athletics
than any other college in the south,
with the exception, probably, of Nir
ginia- There are between fifty and
ffty-five boys working out daily, which
IL really greater number than the
Farmers training quarters are capa BILE
of accommodating comfortably. The
squad has been divided into two parts.
and will be worked at different periods
About forty of the youngsters are alb
soiutely green. never having had the
at arIa tVNv
branch of field sports, but practically
all of them are freshmen. and some
will develop into very capable per-
formers.
After all the talk that has gone the
rounds relative to spring practice in
foot ball. il is rather original for one
of the big university coaches to come
out with the statement that he does not
believe in the early work. Bob Fol-
well of the University of Pennsyl-
vania says he does not think the work
in the spring beneficial in the least. and
that he undoubtedly will not have any
of it during March and April at Frank
lin Field.
About the only real good that can
come of spring foot ball is to teach
bunch of green men the fundamentals,
or rather give them practice in such
things. Falling on the ball, handling
the ball, catching punts, etc, come I'M
der that head. but the majority of the
big universities do not depend in the
least on such material Those men who
are out for the teams are generally
from big prep or high schools, and
have had a year on the freshman
eleven besides. which gives them suf-
fcfent grounding in the elements, or
ought to, at least.
According to report, Yale has settled
upon a man to direct it's foot bail team
next fall. that one being Tad Jones.
former quarterback. Jones several
years ago was one of the greatest foot
ball players in any of the big univer-
stiles. and was given an All-American
position by Walter Camp.
IL is difficult to understand why Yale
kettled upon Jones in preference to a
man like DR.. Williams of Minnesota.
The latter has had long experience,
much longer than Jones, and his work
has been successful in no little de-
gree. Jones has done some coaching.
though. and he may make the very
man Yale wants. Certainly he can
bring the spirit of former Yale VIC
tories and something of that kind may
be as much needed as anything else.