Evening star., 1918-02-15
FOUR MORE GAMES
IN COLLEGE LEAGUE
Contests Tomorrow and
March 2 Will End Basket
Ball for Present Season.
By H. c. BYRD.

Only four more games are scheduled
in the District Intercollegiate Basket
Ball League. Tomorrow night two are
listed, and after they are played none
is booked until March 2, when the sea-
son ends Tomorrow meetings take
place between Catholic University and
Gallaudet and between George Wash
ington and Maryland State. As usual
the games will take place in the Y. NJ
C. A. gymnasium, and begin at
o'clock.
If tomorrow nights contests result
according to previous form of the
teams. the championship of the league
will hinge on the final game of the
season between Catholic University and
George Washington. These quints now
are tied for first place. each with three
victories and one defeat. George
Washington. judged on what it has
shown SO far ought to get away with
the : long end of the score against
Maryland State, and Catholic Univer-
sity has a better team than Gallaudet,
notwithsta nding that it lost to the
Kendall Greeners in their previous
meeting 1t would be an awful jolt to
either c. L. or George Washington if
Gallaudet or Maryland State were to
win either Of the contests.
Bill Brockwell. Washington boy. who
graduated from Eastern High School
and later from the Maryland State Col
lege. is spending few days on fur
Tough with his parents after having
completed his work in the naval avia-
tion section at Pensacola, Fla. Brock
well has been commissioned ensign
and now is fell-fledged aviator in the
Navy. Brockweil played first Ease for
Eastern High School and later was
member of the diamond squad at Col
lege Park.
When asked how he liked the work.
Brockwell replied:
Pine 1t is great / never dreamed
that aviation held SO many attractive
features. I'd like to give you a whole
history of my experiences down at
Pensacola, but can't because it would
fill book. There is a feeling of
freedom and strength one gets in navi-
eating the air that comes in no other
way. 1t is almost unexplainable in
thing of a mastery of the air himself
in order to feel and know just what it
means.
First day 1 landed at Pensacola to
receive instructions I felt just a little
squeamish, but it soon wore off. One
man fell about three thousand feet and
was not hurt and another dropped sew
enty-five and was killed instantly the
day after my arrival, so / got about
the worst introduction one could have
expected. Actually you pay little at
tention to accidents, though, and ac-
cept them in about the same way that
you do railroad accident. You know
there can be wreck between Wash
ington and Baltimore on the railroad,
but thousands of people will travel the
same route on the same road the next
day and think nothing of it. We look
at it in about the same way. AS
matter of fact. flying has reached a
stage where it is comparatively safe.
when Ed Grove. former Georgetown
man, was lost in the gulf I was one of
the party that spent an hour and half
for twenty miles out over the gulf, and
a lot of other fellows guided machines
over the gulf and marsh lands. but
none of US even got glimpse of him.
Grove was lost and waves were run
ming fifteen feet high. No machine
could stay on the water under such
conditions, and the plane undoubtedly
sank soon after hitting. the sea. Grove
had life preservers, and if not killed in
a fall probably stkyed af1oat half a
day. There is thej possibility that he
was picked up, but the probabilities
are he was either killed or drowned"
to winning the championship of the Inter
collegiate Basket Ball League. The
Quakers won from Cornell at Ithaca night
before last in what almost was the de-
cisive contest. Neither quint had been de-
feated. Penn now is leading with four
victories and not a defeat charged against
it. Cornell is second, having won twice
and lost once
Dutch Peck. former Western high CEN
ter. is playing guard for Pennsylvania and
doing the job well that he is being
heralded as one of the most capable backs
in the big universities.
Western meets Technical and Central
goes against Eastern today in the High
School basket ball series The Red and
White has taken one contest from Tech
and this is the last between them. This is
The first, time Central and Eastern have
played. their original game having been
POSTPONED