Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-12-19
BROOKLAND QU|NT
OUTCLASSES W.&L.
Plays Brilliantly in Opening
Game of Season That
Ends As to %.

Catholic Universitys great basket
ball team ran. passed, trod and shot
it's way tn brilliant victory over
Washington and Lee last night in its
opening game. The score was is to
%, and there was nothing in the way
of good basket ball that the winners
did not display. 1t was one game in
which there literally and figuratively,
, or in any other way it might be ex-
pressed, was nothing to it except G. L.
Taking out c. US excellent play.
and that in the second half, with sub
stitutes in. slowed up, the game was
unnteresting The Brooklanders got
10 points before Washington and
Lee scored and the count at the end
of the half was 2S to 5.
Lives Up to Expectations.
It was the first appearance of the
Brookland quint. but it made good all
that has been predicted for it by
Coach Fred Rice and everybody else
who has watched it practice. 1t pre-
scented practically the. same lineup
as last year and the team, after it got
warmed up IN the opening three or
four minutes, displayed more basket
ball in any two minutes than Wash
ington and Lee did during the whole
half.
The first ] 5 minutes found Washing
ton and Lee utterly unable to solve
play in which Harvey and Foley.
guards were scoring alternately al
most as they pleased Each had four
i,rals before the half ended, usually
-; many as even a brilliant player
makes in contest. Then substitutes
went in for the visitors and the
guards play was stopped, but Long
was left more or less uncovered and
lac went crazy" In the last five
minutes of the first half Long got
i've goals from the floor and they all
came after neat bits of team play and
some sharp work on his part as an
individual.
Long Keeps 1t Up.
In the second half the Brooklanders'
guards play did not go SO well, but
Ions kept up his attack pretty well.
Had he renamed in the game th.re is
no telling how many points he would
have scored. He played only about
five minutes of the second half, but III
that time got four goals, making his
total for the evening nine. That
many goals for one player in basket
bail game is scoring with a vengeance.
SPOTS was the one player in the
Washington and Lee lineup. who
Despite the fact he was covered pref
ty well he counted five goals from the
floor, two in the first half and three
In the second. Incidentally, SPOTS
seemed TO be the one Washington and
Lee man who was able to find his way
about the floor to some real purpose
Washington and Lee played as well
as it knew how. but it simply did
not measure up to the standard of it's
opponent 1t could not shoot as well,
1t was not rs faS+, and it did not know
anything like as much basket ball as
its foe. 1t was a green team against
an excellently coached, experienced
aggregation of players, and there was
only one answer.
The only substitution made by
Catholic e. in the first half was
Shields for Keale, the former going to
center and Carney dropping out of
center to take the forward position.
That combination seemed even better
than the first. In the second half
Coach Rice sent in several substitutes.
using more than two full teams, but
the second stringers did not have the
punch nor much of the real basket
ball stuff that was shown by the first
FIVE.
The game marked the conclusion of
the trip for Washington and Lee and
Catholic Us only one until after the
holidays.
The game was cleanly PLAYED and
remarkably free from called fouls.
Only one foul was drawn by C. u.
and two by Washington and Lee.