Evening star., 1918-12-02
bASKETERS SLATED
TO BEGIN PRACTICE
Collegiate and Scholastic
Squads Due to Get Ready
for Seasons Opening.
BIZ n. c. BYRD.

Basket ball is due to get under way
shortly in the schools and colleges.
The intercollegiate League probably
will not operate, but the interscholas-
tic organization is slated to go
through with what promises to be a
mighty good season. Inability to fill
the place made vacant by the with
drawal of George Washington Is the
factor likely to cause the dfsbanding
Of the collegiate circuit.
From all that can be learned. four
colleges here will be represented in
Independent contests. Georgetown,
Catholic University, Gallaudet and
Maryland State plan to put teams on
the floor. Managers at these schools
even now are busy arranging sched-
ules.
Three of the high school physical
directors stated yesterday that they
hoped to get their teams under way
today. Practice already has been
started in two of the schools. though
in a rather minor way. With today's
workouts. though, the coaches will
take active charge and put forth real
efforts to get their squads in the best
After three years of consecutive vic
tories the University of Pittsburgh
eleven Saturday went down to defeat
in what seemed certain would be a
fourth year without the loss Of q
game. However, as with all cham
pions. the great must fall. no matter
how long the fall be deferred. For
Pitt 1t had to be the Cleveland Naval
Reserve eleven which proved master
over Warmers system.
While Warmers eleven had to be
defeated some time, some excuse may
be offered for it's defeat, because it
The Saturday before Thanksgiving 1t
met the Georgia Tech eleven, Thanks
giving day 1t played Penn State, and
Saturday, after only one days rest,
took on the Cleveland sailors. The
Clevelanders must have put up a real
struggle. more of fight than any
eleven has made against Pitt in years.
incidentally, it might be we'll to say
here that Warner was quoted in an
interview in a Pittsburgh paper Fri
day as saying that he did not expect
to win.
In the Baltimore Sun Of yesterday
an a1l-Maryland eleven is picked by
Starr Matthews, sporting editor of
sitions on the mythical organization
to Johns Hopkins men, three to West
ern Maryland. three to Maryland
State and one to St. Johns. Bosley,
former Technical High halfback. is
awarded job at halfback and Stubbs.
end. and Carter. tackle. are the other
three State men to be given places.
Katenkamp and Burger. guards;
Hecht. center. and Jones. fullback.
are the Hopkins men on the eleven.
and Phillips, end; Langrall. tackle.
and Keller. quarterback. are chosen
from Western Maryland. Semler. one
of st. Johns backs, was given half
backs positions.
Two men on Maryland elevens not
given positions who would have made
places on any eleven in the south At
lantic section were Ward. Western
Maryland tackle. and Recher. st.
Johns. center. Ward weighs more
than 200 pounds and is of the ideal
build for tackle. Recher tips the
scales around 10, is fast. and has no
superior as a fast-charging defensive
and offensive lineman among teams
that have been representing S. A. T. c.
units In the colleges this year. It is
impossible to pick the best aI-star
team and leave those two players off.
- Camp Humphreys journeyed to
American League Park yesterday
well heeled with former stars Of col
legiate foot ball teams to do battle
with the Navy Yard eleven. And it
accomplished what it set out to do, as
far as doing battle was concerned.
because about the hardest played
contest of the service league sched-
phreys men did nots win and the
Navy Yard again emerged victor. The
score was to 0.
The first half was hard fought with
the odds favoring Camp Humphreys
somewhat. as play was mostly in
half Humphreys got the ball on
Navy Yards 20-yard line and 15-
yard penalty gave it the ball on the
Navy Yard 5-yard line. There the
men from Virginia were not able to
develop punch enough to get the ball
across the last chalk mark. Navy
Yard held and got the ball. When it
started TO punt, though, it booted the
ball outside on the 12-yard line.
That gave the Humphreys men an
other chance to score. but they could
not make good. Just after the ball
to rush the oval and by some good
line plunging carried the ball to the
center of the field. from where two
long forward passes placed it on
Humphreys 5-yard mark. The eleyens
changed goals and in three tries the
pail was SnOFeU ACROSS 1oT tHe only
touchdown of the game. Mcbride
kicked goal. After that. play was
about even and the two teams see
sawed about the middle of the field
until time was called.
AS an aftermath to the defeat of
Pittsburgh by the Cleveland Naval
Reserves. Director of Athletics Mil
ler and Coach Warner of Pittsburgh
claim that poor work by the officials
cost them the contest. Here is what
Miller says:
at seemed to me that Ray and Dur
fee. especially the former. were either
grossly incompetent or their actions
bordered so near the questionab bic
that they should be investigated.
when they Informed US that the time
keepers watch was broken we had
Jim Marks of Kiski time the periods.
and his watch recorded minutes and
As seconds of the fifteen-minute pc
riod when Ray suddenly blew his
whistle Just as Pitt was about to
score a touchdown from the 1-yard
line.
Pitt PLAYERS were exhausted, the ref
cree made them play twenty-six min
utes of actual playing time in order
to give the sailors chance to make
their touchdown"
Here is warmers statement as it
appeared ia several morning papers:
There is no question hut that the
Naval Reserves are good team. but
my team is better and should have
bean awarded the victory. but it was
impossible for anybody to win with
those officials The only man Asscould
get on the list OF officials was Merri-
man of Geneva. and Manager Gardner
OF the Sailors agreed to him. yet
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