Evening star., 1918-02-21

TW0GAMES HERE
PennsyIyanians Due Tomor-
row to Meet Catholic U. and
Georgetown in Basket Ball.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Lafayette's basket ball team comes here
tomorrow for two basket ball games. The
first takes place at the Y. NJ. c. A in the
afternoon. with Catholic University, and
the second with Georgetown, at George
town, Saturday night. The C. U.-Lafay-
ette contest begins at and the George
town game at o'clock.
Georgetown already has met Lafayette,
having been defeated by the Eastoniana
on its trip through Pennsylvania two
that game with its star out Of the lineup
and Saturday night it expects to get the
margin, as that player again is in good
shape Catholic University has not met
Lafayette prior to this, but in all prob
ability the Brooklanders will have some
real work cut out for them if they are to
win.
into healthy surprise last night when
it tackled the basket ball team repre-
senting st. Johns College of Annapolis
IN the boys gymnasium of the ~"
short end of a q to 10 score, after one
of the best local contests of the year
catholic University did not use Glas-
colt in the first half. and that players
score at the end of half time St.
Johns led then bv Is to 9. With Glas-
cott in the game in the second half
the Brook1anders pulled up. but could
not quite reach the mark which would
have meant victory.
OBrien led in the shooting for C. U.
He got six baskets from scrimmage
and tossed three out of five attempts
from the foul line. Glascott and O'Brien
played excellent basket ball for the
losers. while Cook was the stellar figure
in the lineup of the victors
Georgetown had no more trouble de-
feating Gallaudet than was expected,
getting So points against 25. Gallaudet
never had look-in for the long end of
the score at any time, one player in the
lineup OF the Blue and Gray scoring
enough points to defeat the Kendall
Greeners.s Fees it was who tossed the
ball into the basket often enough to
net his quint 26 points. He got nine
goals from the floor and eight from
the foul line.
OLone also took a big part in the
scoring fest, dropping the ball through
the net eight times. It was Georgetown's
game from the beginning to end The
Blue and Gray outpassed and outpIayed
the Kendall Green combination from
every angle at every stage of the. play
Greater experience of the individuals
and more telling team play were the
big factors in Georgetown's one-sided
count.
Central High uuint again proved its
strength last night in game with the
~ boys five. winning % to % con-
test. Even in the second half, with Will
son out of the game, the Blue and
White outscored the "Y'' youngsters
Both teams played good basket ball. It
was one of the best contests of the
year in which scholastic teams have
appeared.
Two teams representing Western
High lost games in the Gonzaga gym
to the GonZaga quint yesterday The
first-string five, which actually was
the second-string combination. lost by
16 to %. and the midget quint went
down before the Gonzaga midgets,
to Is.
st. Alban's failed to present much
af defense against the Army and
Navy Props. and the latter quint ran
up 80 points against %. 1t was the
biggest score any basket ball team
here has made against another quint
Business High won from team rep
resenting the George Washington Med
lcal School, taking the better end of
a 67-to-12 count. Raedy of Business
was the high scorer. getting II bas-
ketS from the floor.