Evening star., 1925-01-14

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tween the two schools, and despite
be as strong as it was a year ago, til
OF action.
George Washington's team, de
come along and gradually develop
those closest to it. The HatchetlteS
bination than that which wore the
the season winds up their record '
town FIVE is figuring very strongly
over the Brooklanders.
Fred Rice is a fine basket ball coach.
fIe has demonstrated that in his many
years in charge of that sport at {. L,
hut he has one Of his most difficult
tasks this season. Rice lost the
mainstays of the fine quint he turned
out a year ago. and it remains to be
seen whether his ingenuity can offset
these losses.
MaryIand's varsity basket ball team
will resume action after a lay-off
during the holidays, when il meets
the Lafayette five in Rftchie gym
nasium al College Park tomorrow
night. in a game that will start at
o'clock.
The Old Line squad has had a great
deal of practice since college reopen
ed on January 5, but Lafayette will
have the edge in that 1t has figured
in a couple of games since the Christ
mas recess. The Eastonians played
Navy at Annapolis this afternoon.
Lafayette, as usual. has a mighty
strong combination, but the Maryland
outfit is far from weak and a real strus-
gle should result.
One of the track stars of the coun :
try, in talkingeto the writer not long
ago, made the statement that Bur-
CESS, now running for Georgetown, is
one Of the best middle distance run
ners in the country and would be
heard from before the end of the
season. ut is my opinion" said this
man. that Burgess is brilliant AMI
has it in him to clean up. You watch
him 60 and recall before the end of
the season how near right I am"
Bill Alexander of Georgia Tech pro-
posed some time ago a change in the
forward pass rule which would make
any forward pass blocked behind the
line of scrimmage free ball. At
present a pass blocked and incomplete
behind the line of scrimmage is dead
and the only result is the loss of a
down to the offensive team.
Under AleXander'S scheme the ball
would be the same as a blocked kick
and would go to the side recovering
it. The suggestion, if put into prac-
tice, would tend to increase the dan
ger of forward passing by increasing
the risk Of losing the ball Many
forward passes are blocked behind
the line of scrimmage.
University of Maryland, which is
sued a call for track and field candi-
dates a few days ago, had a more
generous response than could be
handled from a standpoint Of equip
ment. Efforts have been made to get
additional equipment to take care Of
the - or so candidates who now are
not taken care Of.
Maryland is making special efforts
to get out an exceptionally large
squad for track in order to build up
that sport 50 that the university ma Y
reach the same standards of competi-
tion in it that have been attained in
foot ball, base ball and basket ball.
IL Harvard continues, as II likely
will. its alumni system of coaching, 1t
is doubtful if it could find any Har-
ward man who gives as much promise
OF making good in the job as head
coach as Percy Wendell. It is rather
remarkable that few Harvard men
have succeeded in coaching positions,
or else those that have had oppor-
tunities TO succeed have not elected
to continue in that profession. So far
as the writer knows. Wendell, who
has done remarkably we'll at Will
liams, is the only Harvard graduate
who really has been successful in
gridiron work in the last few years
The changing OF the date of the
modified marathon run to be held
under the auspices OF the Washington
Post on March should result in an
enlarged list of entries, many of
whom ought to be better qualified to
run well. In other words the race
should be a much more attractive af-
fair coming the day before Inaugural
tion than on Washington's birthday.
The inducement that will be Of
fered to bring athletes to Washing
ton al that time, aside from the op-
portunity for competition in what
promises to be an excellent race
should be sufficient to draw some of
the stellar runners from the North.
And it must be remembered that
paavo Nurmi is a great runner at
10 miles, and ii may be that he will
enter the event. Certainly a little
pull exerted by big newspaper
through diplomatic channels ought to
come pretty near attaining the de-
sired result.
MaryIand'~ freshman basket ball
team will have three regulars in it's
lineup, when it goes on the floor to-
morrow afternoon against Business
High School in the opening game of
its schedule, who will average more
than 40 pounds. Two of them. Adams
and Woodward, are former Technical
High School men, while the third Is
Linkous, who comes from Street. Md