New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1921-01-17
N. Y. Quintet
Continues Fast
Pace ON Court
Violet Five Has Met and De-
feated Several Star Teams.
Including Army and Union
By Ray Mccarthy


More evidence that this years inter-
collegiate basketball league race is to
be one of the best if not the keenest
ever held was furnished by the various
results of the games played last week.
Dartmouth, a tail-ender practically
since it's entrance into the league,
flashes forth with nifty quintet and
gives promise of becoming a real cham
pionship contender. Columbia, Penn
appear to be of championship calibre
so that we many expect the grandest
kind of whirl to be s-Aged. Yale
only seems to be outclassed by the
other teams. 1t wouldn't be at all sur
prising to see triple tie result for
first place when the season is ended.
The big feature of the weeks per-
formances of the college fves. how
ever, was the continued winning steak
In it's wild dash to championship hon.
ors the Violet has vet to lose a con-
test. Last week the New Workers. took
q fall out of the crack Army five, de-
feating the cadets on their own floor
in fast and thrilling struggle, Incl
dentally avenging the reverse Of last
season.
The University Heights students
took trip upstate over the weekend
sullied On Friday night Rochester
was beaten, and on Saturday night the
locals subdued the Union quintet in a
fast and exciting match, % to 49, That
is the closest call the Violet has had
this year From their present pace
it looks as though Ed Thorps proteges
will go on to another pennant.
Dartmouth Springs Surprise
The biggest surprise of the weeks
results was Dartmouth's defeat of Cor
nell at Hanover on Saturday night.
The Green's success to date will be
gratifying to those interested in the
game if only because of the fact that
it shows how we'll perseverance sue
students were becoming discouraged
over their teams showing and advo-
Gated abolishing the sport at Hanover.
The majority, however, were strongly
in favor of the retention of the game.
Dartmouth at present is leading tne
league with two victories and no de-
feats. Yale and Cornell were the VIC
Tins, the latter in an overtime con-
test.
Columbia's win over Princeton at
Princeton was also somewhat of a sur
prise, although the Blue and White has
been doing remarkably we'll this sea-
son. Few, however, expected the locals
to beat the Tigers on the Nassau court.
Last Saturday night the Morningside
students suffered their first defeat Of
the season at the hands of the Penn
sidering that the Red and Blue has
virtually veteran team and that the
game was played at Philadelphia, the
result was quite satisfactory to Co.
lumbia adherents. They are confident
the tables will be reversed when Penn
sylvania plays here.
AS things now stand there is no team
in the league that appears to have a
decided edge on the field. Pennsyl-
probably will become the favorte to
win the championship, but the Phila-
delphians are going to have a tougher
job in landing the laurel wreath than
they have encountered in the last three
| years.
Army and Navy Well Matched
The Navy quintet continues to win,
and as the time approaches for the
ArmyNavy conflict interest heightens.
as these two fives appear to be we'll
matched. At present we favor the
Army to win because it has met and
defeated stronger aggregations than
the Navy has.
Harvard in its first season since the
establishment # the sport at Cam
bridge is having an in-and-out season.
1t was moving along rather smoothly
until it bumped into the Wesleyan five
on Saturday night and lost out, 33 to
81.
In the first of the series between
those two rivals, Lehigh and Lafayette,
the Easton students were the victors by
Is to Is in the game played at Easton.
Another quintet outside the league
that shapes up as championship pos
sibility is Penn State. This team, made
up of football players, Haines, Kill
linger, Way and others, is wading right
through its opponents.