The New York herald., 1922-03-12
BASKETBALL POINT
RACE PROVES CLOSE
Five COllegians Have Chance
to Finish at Top Of
Standing.

gle for the championship In the Inter-
unusual interest has been awakened in
the race for the high scoring honors.
An unprecedented situation exists at
present among the six teams In the
race, in the sense that no outstanding
scorer appears among those who top the
list In fact any one of five players
who are now crowding each other for
the honors may emerge finally with the
highest total OF points In the league.
No particular reason exists for the
present condition except that the ma
jority of the teams in the league are
blessed with an accurate foul shooter.
1t is to be noted that each OF the lead
ing scorers shoulders the burden OF free
throw shooting for his own team. Per-
haps il Is for this reason that high
scoring records have meant SO little In
the intercollegiate league. The race has
almost always been limited to the few
players who are the foul shooters for
their respective teams.
If the rule which permits one player
to shoot the fouls for his entire team
were not in vogue in the league 1t is
improbable that any one of the leading
scorers to-day, with the exception OF
Grave OF Pennsylvania, would occupy
his present position in the race. Mil
Ter Of Dartmouth and Huntzinger and
Grave of Penn are far in the lead In the
matter of goal shooting from scrim-
mage.
only Grave VIII Graduate.
Under the present system the top
heavy scoring list is due to exist again
next season, for the reason that Cullen.
Loeb. Pulleyn, Luther. who with Grave
constitute the leading quintet OF scor-
ers have at least one more year left
In college competition.
Bill Grave is the only member OF this
monopolistic group who takes his sheep
skin at this June's commencement. Grave
has worn the colors Of the Red and Blue
varsity for three years. The rangy CEN
ter matriculated from Springfield High
School OF Massachusetts, In 1913, and mas
since earned reputation In collegiate
basketball surpassed by few other play
ers. Grave is to-day the outstanding
figure In the Intercollegiate League. AS
| pivot man there is no player In East
ern colleges that begins to approach nm.
and for all round offensive and deIen-
slye ability Grave has yet to meet his
match.
Art Loeb of Princeton. whose brilliant
| playing for the Tiger has carried nm
to the front ranks of college stars -
only a sophomore and engaging In his
\ first collegiate campaign. Loeb entered
Princeton from the Atlantic City Hign
| School, where he captained tnc Dashet
Lall team and last year attracted sreat
attention by his style OF game on ths
Orange and Black unbeaten Iresiii,as
| quintet. His foul shooting has aldeu
| him considerably in breaking into iast
/ counany 80 rapidly, but Loeb IL In addi-
ton a dangerous shot from the iloor anu
a strong man on the DEFENSE
! cullen. Luther and Pulleyn are three
players whose performances on the coui
this season may possibly earn them the
"a antaincies of their respective teams Tor
ire following year. All three are juniors
and have another year to represent 'heir
college basketball teams.
Cullen a star.
At Dartmouth Tommy Cullens name
has long been associated with the game
OF basketball He fret tooI his pre-
limInary training at the I<ooklyn Poly
| Prep and In spite OF f..s slight build had
little difficulty In making the varsity
| team at Hanover in the first year ne
was eligible. Last year. as sophomore
Cullen traiied McNicholl Of Penn for the
league scoring honors and Is fighting
Pulleyn OF Columbia a similar battle
| this year.
Bob Pulleyn Is having his second sea-
son OF varsity competition at Morning
side and is the only member OF the
Columbia five whose playing has proved
troublesome to opposing teams. Al
though he has had but little assistance
| from his teammate Pulleyn has led
the league In scoring for the greater
part Of the season and from present
Indications stands well I'm line 10 carry
off the honors. He has found few SUI
periors in the league this year as
| defensive player, while his record as a
scorer Is a very impressive one. Pulleyn
| Is a graduate of Horace Mann School
In this city.
James Luther OF Cornell. whose foul
shooting has set the standard In the
league this year, il playing his first
season az a regular. He learned the
game at the Oiean High School and In
his first year ~ Ithaca had no diff
Guilty in earning a place on the yeeriing
five. Last year he managed to land a
substitute position on the varsity. az
| Sidman and Molinet, veteran forwards
Of several seasons, were then still in
1 line at Cornell.