Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-12-13
c. v. FIVE TO OPEN
WITH c. j. MONDAY
Meeting of Hi|ItopperS and
Hatchetites Will !naugurate
College Basket Ball.
BY H. c. BYRD.

Georgetown ana George WaSHlllStoH
are to open the local collegiate basket
ball season Monday night, the old rivals
being scheduled to meet in the Hilltop
gymnasium. The contest usually is the
best attended of all the court games
here during the year. and it is rather
unusual for it to be scheduled so early
in the season.
John O'Reilly, coach of Georgetown's
basketers for several years, has his men
in much better condition than usual at
this time. and Coach Almon of George
Washington claims that he has a squad
which should give good account of
itself in any contest in which it takes
part. The meeting of the two teams
will give fairly good idea of the kind
OF basket ball that may be expected this
winter. as it is fairly sure that Catholic
University and Gallaudet, represented
by veteran players, will have strong
teams. Games between George Wash
ington and Georgetown always have
been productive of much spirited COM
petition.
To judge by the following editorial
student newspaper at the Maryland
state College. nobody is going to ac-
cuse the students of that institution
of any lack of confidence:
Perhaps every one has at some time
heard that favorite of epigrams,
originator of this pithy bit of advice
intended 1T as an inspiration to the
individual to set no limit in his ideals
and ambitions; to climb as high as he
believed it possible to go, and then
some. But what is good for the in
dividual is good for the group, or or
ganlZation, or college, or university
or what not.
we are all more or less familiar
with the athletic history of Maryland
state. There are men in the faculty
who still remember those dark days
when st. Johns and Hopkins talked
of sending their second teams to meet
our varsity squads. Those days are
gone. From obscurity we have risen
to the point where we are consistently
the state champion. But we must not
stop there. and we are not stopping.
This season we have gone creditably
through contests with West Virginia
and Yale. considered among the
strong teams of the east. Maryland
State is asserting herself in the world
of big league college sports. Last
spring our base ball team awakened
universal interest. State is coming
into her own.
Let us hitch our athletic wagon to
a star! Think foot ball. understand
foot ball. and above all talk foot ball.
The time is coming when Yale, Har-
ward. Princeton. Dartmouth, Colgate
sites of the east must reckon with
Maryland State in deciding the east
ern foot ball championship. We have
made but a beginning; we are just be
ginning to try our wings. There is nc
limit to the possibilities. Next fal
We shall place a strong, experienced
team on the field. Our prestige grows
each year; our student body is grow
! ing; our reputation is growing; We
are expanding all the time. We have
| hitched our wagon to start Let:
go!''
Election of foot ball captain
scheduled at Maryland State yester
day. was postponed until next week
Inability of the players to get to
gether because of examinations wa
the reason given by Manager Groton
Friends School of Baltimore is t
appear here tonight against Contra
High School in a dual swimming NEE,
The Blue and White squad should Wi
the affair, as it's swimmers proba bl
are too experienced for the boys from
the Maryland town.
/ Georgetown's basket ball team is t
take a trip to the middle west dur
ing the Christmas holidays. Creighto
University and Nebraska are to b
played, according to announcement
from the Hilltop.
Two dates settled on Georgetown
foot ball schedule for next fall ar
with Navy, November 6. and wit
Georgia Tech, November 49, Whethe
or not Washington and Lee will com
here next season is not known. How
ever, the above mentioned dates WI
form the principal games of the Blu
and Gray schedule.