Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-01
SCHOLASTIC FNES
IN GAMES TODAY
Central Plays "Y" Boys and
Tech Meets Gonzaga Bas-
keters-Other News.
BY a. C. BYRD.

Two'high school basket ball fves are
to meet strong opponents today Tech
nical goes against the undefeated Con
.zaga quint in the Y NJ c. A gymna-
SUM and Central plays the Y M. c. A
boys in the boys gym Both contests
ought to provide some of the best
scholastic basket ball Of the year.
Tech already has been defeated by
the Gonzaga five, but hopes to even up
the score in the contest today. The
Manual Trainers gave the North Capt.
tai street aggregation real tight on
the home floor Of the latter. and now
that the contest today is on a moor
with which Tech Is more familiar 1t
thinks it has better than an even
chance to lower the colors Of the I'M
feated quint. Centrals always plays
hard basket ball against the Y. NJ. c. A.
boys and vice versa.
Another basket ball game listed TO-
day is that which takes place at the
Mount Vernon Hall in the Service
League between Camp Humphreys AND
Fort Myer. Tonight'S contest VIII De
| The first in which the Humphreys men
have taken part, and they think they
will have one Of the best teams in the
IIection. The Humphreys quint is said
West Point players.
Central Highs auint played the final
game yesterday of the 1913 season
| d efeating a team composed of alumni
Lemon, a regular forward. led botn
teams in shooting goals caglhS eish'
from the floor.
Western played a practice game with
| its second team and won by - 10 -
| The next contest scheduled for the
Red and White is to take place in
Baltimore Friday with the Baltimore
| City College.
| A swimming meet is to be held this
afternoon in the Y. NJ c. A. boys
pool The competitions are closed to
members Of the boys "Y," and viii
pound class, 120-pound class anu I'M
| limited.
| Two races are to take place this
afternoon around the Ellipse. One Is
to be a walk and the other a. relay
event. Both are being heid under .ne
! auspi ces of the War Camp Community
Service and are closed to members OF
military organizations in and around
Washington.
Frank o'NeiI. foot ball coach at
l
| the suggestion that seasonal coaches
| in foot ball be eliminated from inter
/ collegiate athletics. He is quoted as
| follows in a New York paper as
result Of a reply he wrote to an ar
ticle published in that paper:
II read with interest your artlcIe
to the effect that we poor unfortu.
mates who are coaching foot ball mus
give up our work. / have also noted
with a great deal of interest in the
public prints that Dean Angel OF
| Chicago University has decreed that
! the seasonal coach must go. l ven
ture to say that the dean has not
seem an athletic contest for ter
years. and probably never. He is
! therefore. fully qualified to discover
| the disease that exists in connection
with college athletics. as wei as 10
prescribe a cure for 1t.
eff it is a fact that the influence o,
| the college coaches over their men Is
not for the better then such coaches
should not be tolerated. If, on the
other hand. their influence is and has
| been for the good of the men. fher
this disease. which the deans are try
| ing to cure, exists only in their I'M
agination and the coaches should stay
| There must be some way of finding
| out what the truth is in that regard
and I should like to suggest a, test
| have been a professional coach fol
| sixteen years, during which time
| have been connected with William:
| College and Colgate and Syracuse uni.
| versities. During that period upward
! of a thousand boys have come under
NV direct influence and they have
| also had that of several college deans
J I would propose that a vote be taker
| among those men to ascertain
| whether, to their minds, my influence
! was more of 4 help to them morally
| mentally and physically, or was thai
of the deans of the college. Certalnl!
| that would be a fair test and woulc
| be willing to abide by the result
| And far as he is concerned, ONe1
| is about right.
| Talk about condolences, how about
this: Johnny Bowling and Kenneth
Cole played on the lacrosse team AT
Maryland State in 1915. The former
| went into the Marine Corps as a
lieutenant and the latter in the Am
! bulance Corps with the same rank
On the fourth day Of the fighting al
Chateau Thierry Bowling was shot
| ave times The ambulance lieutenant
who crawled out of a shell hole and
risked his life to pull Bowling back
for treatment was Cole. They had
not seen each other since leaving COL
| lege and neither knew the other was
within a thousand miles.