Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-11-13
league IOPtAN
FORBASkET BALL
District Collegiate Basketers
to Meet Monday to Discuss
Seasons Opening.

Final arrangements for. the opening
of the. District Interoollegiats Rasket
BAH League WIZ be made, Ut, meet
ing Of the organisation called by Presi-
dent G. E. Rsckett for next Monday
night 1t 8 O'Clock. This probably will
be the finalsEatheriug Of officials Of the
Organisations and REPRESENTATIVES, Of the
four colleges composing the circuit be-
fore the opening of the season Decem-
ber IL. -. y e.s
ARRANGEMENTS for the opening Of the
season are almost complete now, Two
meetings have bean held. at which the
schedule was arranged and adopted and
most matters pertaining to the. season
asFeed On. -. ,'.l.: 's:rfi -
Central High is scheduled to MAY tho
first foot ball game attempted this
season by amy local high school eleven.
The Blue and White meets Baltimore
CITY College: in the Central stadium.
Last year Central beat tho Balti-
moreans by something like s. to O..
sttonseE and Central probably Is some
what weaker. A contest worth seeing
ought to'result.
Army Medical School AleYen WAS can
esied by the latteEs Sad tIsteaI of that
contest the Blue And tlrsty Will meet
the combinatisH.t represent4f5x the ma
rine barracks. GeorgstoWS ought to
Flowers. one of 1eorgfa Techs
cracks. is the halfbaok who played
such brilliant foot ball for, Davidson
last season. Flowers last year was
rated as one of the AhrAe greatest
packs in the south, bs5nga played on
sne e. ail.southern team with Guyon and
Foot ball is under Why at the Uni.
versity Of Virginia. according to an
Lighter Aitcheson. Maryland State
end last year. Isl coaching the team.
Here is what the Charlottesville or
gan says:
After unavoidable delays practice:
for the. gridiron sportegot under way
this week. much to the, delight Of the
student body. which now: totals close
to 1000. Lieut.. J. Il ,Aiteheson has
been placed in charge Of. the foot
ball situation. He is managing,
training and coaching the squad,
and, while Virginia is not going to
have represented it in recent years.
it is expected that he will turn out
a combination which should put up
some good exhibitions of foot ball.
Lieut.. Aitchason is product of
Maryland State. where he starred
from 1914 to 1917 as an end
Most important :of the foot ball
games scheduled this week is that be-
tween the University Of Pennsylvania
and the University of Pittsburgh The
Quakers were much encouraged last
week because Of their rather easy
victory over Lafayette; Bob FoIwell
has brought the team forward at a.
rapid gait, and Penn followers think
their eleven will. give Warmers aggre-
cation all 1t wants in the way Of
strenuous struggle.
Maryland State got on the field again
yesterday, following what amounted
combination. except for bruised legs
sustained by Carter and Snyder. came
through the contest last Saturday
Juries.
Lack Of time in which to deve1ep the
finer points of foot ball is standing
in States way Of turning out fairly
gets only about twenty-five minutes
of practice each day. which is not suf-
f1cient for. anything more than to
learn the signals for a few PLAYS
State plays New. York University
here Saturday. Tie contest is the
only one that holds the date set for
it on States original schedule, the
once before has State met the New
Workers., that. contest having been
played In New York in 1916 and won
by 10 to Z.