The Washington herald., 1921-01-03
ALL COLLEGE CAGE
TEAMS EXCEPT G. U.
TOPLAY THIS WEEK
Collegiate Season to Get
Under Way With Three
Games Listed.
by JACK NYE.

quintet, which Coach Bryan Morse
has been busily priming for its de-
but this season, prances onto the
Coliseum floor Friday night to meet
the william and Mary tossers, 1t
might be said that the collegiate
basketball season is under way.
On the same evening the Catholic
University FIVE will take on St
Johns of Brookland in their own
gymnasium and on Saturday night
Gallaudet clashes with Lebanon
Valley. These two teams have al
ready staged a few preliminary
games, but the strenuous work be-
gins this week and lasts until the
floor game gives way to the call Of
baseball in the early spring.
With the passing of the week.
every college five in the District
will have opened its season save
that of the boys on the Hilltop in
Georgetown.
HfIItOppers Delay Start.
Not until January 10 will the
Blue and Gray men be seen in ac-
tiOn. They are far behind their
rivals in preparation. chiefly because
of the length of the football
schedule. Most Of the Hilltop stars
are also gridiron gladiators and it
was decided to give them a rest
until after the holidays before al
lowing them to turn their attention
to the strenuous indoor game.
His mind relieved of football for
the time being, Bryan Morse, direc-
tor of athletics at George Wash
ingtOn, is devOting a lot of time to
the Hatchetite bask ball Candi-
dates. They have no gym at George
Washington, so the work is being
done at Central High and the Boys
Y. NJ. c. A.
Having cut his squad down to
about a dozen men, Morse is able
to formulate a pretty good idea OIL
what his team will look like. At
the forward positions he leans
strongly to Eskew and Stephens,
who have shown a lot Of class in
dropping them through the baskets;
John LeOhler, of football fame, a
tall and rangy youth, showing
plenty of ability at center, while
DAILY, another gridiron man, and
Boiler. a guard Of last years team,
will probably be the guards. Bot
Ter, by the way. is the Hatchetite
captain and an Eastern High prod
uct.
Some Of the other good bets are.
Eskew. Spears, BracklOw. SPRING
stOn, Wright and Potter
In addition to his varsity team,
Coach Morse is tinkering with the
freshman squad. which has been
cut to fifteen men. The freshies
will play their next game with Bal
timore Tech here on Wednesday
night
Material Promising.
As soon as the men drift back
from the holidays things are going
to be buzzfng in the Georgetown
gym. Fees, star forward of last
years team, will be sadly missed.
but there are a number of vets who
will be back in the harness. Jack
Flavin, star of the football team,
will again be one of the chief goal
shooting dependencies. Capt Zaz-
zaIIi at guard and O'COnnell at cen
ter should be better than ever. 1t
Is hardly probable that Bill DUdack
will again take the floor, as a re-
suit of the attack of typhoid fever
he suffered last summer.
Longshak, who took Dudack's
place at guard last year until the
football star recovered from a
broken ankle, will also be avail
able In addition, there is a flock
of new material, from which some
\6tars should be developed. The
Hiutoppers have had about two
weeks practice with the exception
of the football men. Before the end
Of the week work will begin in
earnest.
Bears stock Climbs High.
That New Year football game at
Pasadena made a complete wreck
out of the GrandoIddope.
II anyone had said q month ago
that there was a team in existence
that could down the Western Con-
ference champions % to 0, the alien
lists would have assembled for con-
ference.
Before this post-season game,
Princeton was generally awarded the
football palm, but there's another
angle to the argument today.
The Buckeyes have not been
quoted as Offering alibis and it is
hard to see where they get away
with them. The climate? OF course,
it was warmer out there than it has
been in the Middle West But Har-
ward left the chilly East last sea-
son az the same time and managed
to put the quietus on Oregon by a
slim margin. The Oregonians, it
may be noted, also had a powerful
eleven.
The only way to dope it out is
that Andy Smith has turned out a
regular football team which has as
good a claim to the national title as
anything the East can boast Of