Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-01-17
gilman Backed Leagues Meet Februay8
NO THANKSGIVING GAMES LISTED
YET FOR THREE LOCAL ELEVENS
Georgetown, Catholic University and Gal
laudet Have to Find Suitable Opponents
: for Holiday Contests Next Fall.

Georgetown meet is working hard for
success along that line. Coach John
0Reilly is paving strict I't attention tsIn TO
order to win the games for the Blue
and Gray il possible. Last year the
Hilltoppers came through, capturing
the long end of the count for the team
trophy. and have hopes of doing the
same thing again.
Coach O'Reilly did some fine work
with his men last year. and the Blue
to accomplish something worth while
again. O'Reilly is mighty well liked
at Georgetown and the men working
under him are loud in praise Of his
ing himself popular generally by the
courteous manner in which he treats
all visitors on athletic teams and by
the way he handles his end of athletics
in general.
The showing made by Catholic Uni
versity against the Navy Saturday is
something of which the Brooklanders
but to be defeated by only two points
is sufficient indication of just how we'll
they played and what kind of an &C
count they gave Of themselves. To
| most a victory. though, of course, the
game will go down in the record as a
triumph for the Middies.
Incidentally, the game was something
of an achievement for Fred Rice. coach
| Rice has been uniformly successful
since taking charge Of Catholic Uni
| doubtedly made record of which he
could well boast were he so minded.
His teams have been successful year
after year. Last season there were
Of his squad was due more than any
thing else to the fact that it played
| nearly all its games in the Carroll In
stltute gymnasium. which decidedly
~ fnsavr fcrv 1<
! floor. This season, however, Rice's
! team has played his one home game
SO far at the Arcade. won by a big
| score and has captured three contests
on floors at Gallaudet, in Baltimore and
| in Annapolis, and lost yesterday for
the first time. to the Navy, by only two
| points. Pop Lannisan. coach of track
Rice was the best center he had ever
seen play basket ball: was the best
because he was the ''headiest" Rice
now seems to be applying himself to
| teaching the sport just about as well
| as he played.
! Catholic University has basket ball
| games scheduled tomorrow and Wed
ginia University quint is to appear to-
! morrow and the Gallaudet five We'd
| nesday evening. The Brooklanders are
banking on obtaining victories over
both the visiting combinations.
| 1t does not appear that the supremacy
of the United States in track and field
sports will even be threatened in many
years by any other nation. England and
| Germany, which were developing in
that respect more rapidly than any Of
! the others, are having the ranks of
their athletes depleted so heavily by
deaths and wounds in the war that it
will be many years before they can
| hope to attain even the standard
| reached at the last Olympics. The pres
ent high plane of track and field ath-
! letics here is the result of years and
years of upbuilding and the efficient
| system of development which begins in
the grade schools and goes on through
| the colleges and athletic clubs. No
other nation can hope to rival America
! in this department of sports until it
has developed system something like.
the one which proves so efficient on this
continent.
The George Washington University
| basket ball team is in Virginia on its
annual trip for. games with the Eir-
ginia Military Institute, University of
Virginia and Washington and Lee. The
contest with Virginia was played Sat-
urday, resulting in defeat for the local
university, and Washington and Lee is
to be met at Lexington tonight Vir-
ginia Military Institute tomorrow and
Randolph Macon College Wednesday,
George Washington has one home game
this week, that being booked with
Washington College at the Y. NJ c. A.
Saturday night.
Georgetown plays two basket ball
games this week, both on forei gn floors.
1t goes to Baltimore Wednesday even
ing to meet Loyola, and Saturday it is
to play al Annapolis against the Naval
Academy.