Evening star., 1919-03-16
Ga1laudet Opens Its Play.

Al the beginning OIL the SeCDH0 NAH
Gallaudet opened it's play a little and
began to develop some real offensive.
work. In the first ten minutes iei
scored ten points and had Georges
Washington. 20 to 10. The Hatchet-'
ties began to pick up gradually.
one time. GaNaudet had the stamina,
and fighting power in reserve to stavSi
off any belated rush and seemed to
play much more carefully and con-
servatively than usual With less,
than a minute left and the count 2si
to 81, Downes got the final goal Of
the season and Gallaudet won itDi
much-desired victory by a comfort
able margin.
The game as a whole lacked the
play usually put up by Gallaudet-,
From the beginning It adopted thel
rather unusual proceeding Of keeping,
three men back in defensive territory.
While that method of play prevented
George Washington scoring many
points it also probably kept tho Ken !
dali Greeners from making a great
many more points than they would
have got had they played their usual
game. However, it was a Gal1audetl
victory, and deservedly so. and that
is all that matters from a Gallaudsts
standpoint
Downes. as usual. played a big part
IN the winning of the game. The bigI
Gallaudet center not only was good iRs
his usual way, but kept his team ini
check at all times. and seemed to dill
rect his men as II they were to play Ai
game that was careful enough to win
championship with without takingi
chance of losing to what they believed
to be weaker team. Incidentally;
Downes threw five goals from theI
floor. three in the first half and twol
in the second.
Houze Enters Game.
laudet in the second half and counted
three goals. Twice in the first threel
or four minutes he was left entirely
uncovered, and made good his shots.
The third successful toss by House
was from difficult angle and while
Washington player.
Witt and Wilson did about an thel
offensive playing that was seen on theI
part of the George Washington quint.
The former tossed five goals from the
floor and three from the foul Zine, and
the latter got four goals from the
floor. Both men were after the BAH
all the time, and Wilson also was thel
defensive star of the Hatche tit e..
Lansche's work on the defense also
The contest was free from rsugh-
ness at all times. The play especially!
was free from fouls and the generall
aspect of the game from that stand
point was excellent
Two substitutions were madA. Hoytt
taking Ladd's place at forward foel
George Washington and Hou1e going
in for Dohrman for GaIlaudet. !
Meeting Of Managers.
Immediately after~the contest Presi i
dent Beckett called manages Of tnoi
teams together and had a brief con-
ference on the season and the poe
sibilities Of getting together neHt
year. The feeling was that tho year
had been successful and that an effort |
should be made to hold the league to- /
gether. A resume Of the finances of
the season showed a profit on the
games, just about enough to cover |
the actual expenses Of tho teams
aside from the equipment.
graduated Ga11audet's team on win
ming the championship.
Lineup and summaries:
Gallaudet. Position. O. Wash'n ,
Wilson. --..... Left forward .---LAdd. Hoytl
Houze. Right forward .Wikt
Downes.. Center wilson,
Bouehard. Right guard $4,000. .LAneehe
Goals from hoor-witt (0. Wilson az. |
Houze (3l, Wilson Of Galfaudet C21. D0wnes
-Dohrman CT, Witt t3). Refuee-Ms
Hughes. Umpire-Ar. Morse. Time Of haivsel
20 minutes each.