Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-06
BY H. c. BYRD.

ability the strongest of the teams
scheduled 10 play here will be at
Maryland tomorrow night, when the
Ave from University of North Caro-
At College Park. Catholic JJniversity's
game with George Washington and
Callaudet's with American Univer-
sity should develop some of the best
play of the season, especially between
local quints.
Maryland and Catholic Z. go on
trips, the former to Philadelphia on
"Wednesday to meet Pennsylvania and
then to Lexington, Va. Friday and
Lee and Virginia Military Institute
Catholic U. begins its trip Saturday
and then extends It over into the
following week. 1t opens with City
College of New York Saturday night
end. then on Monday. Tuesday and
Wednesday nights meets Yale. Ores
cent Athletic Club and Fordham.
The games for this week are:
Monday-North Carolina at Mary
land
Observation-Disclosures at American
University and Forth Carolina at
Maryland
wednesday-George Washington at
Catholic University and Maryland at
Pennsylvania.
Friday-Maryland at Washington
and Lee.
, saturday-Medical College of Vir-
Einia. at American u; st. Bonaventure
at George Washington, ST. Johns of
Annapolis at Gallaudet. Catholic Uni
versity at City College of New York
and Maryland at Virginia Military
Institute.
The team North Caroline brought
here this morning to meet Maryland
sgain seems to be one. of the best in
the South. 1t has lost only one game
50 far this season. and that only after
st had grown overconfident because II
led with double the number of points
OF Its opponent at the end OF the first
half North Caroline State College
which this year. thought ii had one of
its greatest teams. recently was wal
loped by North Carolina by 40 to %.
North Cardinals probable lineup
for tomorrow is r. Hackney and Van
Story, forwards: Zaggett, center; B.
Hackney and Morris. guards.
new system of play has been ins
stalled this year. and the team has a
new coach in the person of Jim Ash
more, who graduated from the Uni.
versity of Illinois and turned out bril-
liant teams at James Milliken Uni
versity, University of Colorado and
DePauw University. Ashmore also
formerly coached foot ball and base
ball at Western Maryland College.
While this is his first year at North
Carolina. Ashmore not only is proving
himself a good coach, but also is well
liked, and, furthermore, he is the
type Of man who viii be better liked
the longer he remains.
Maryland originally was scheduled
to play only one basket ball game with
North Carolina, but q rule of the
Southern Conference provides that In
order to he eligible to take part In the
annual championship tournament at
Atlanta q team must have played
games with eight other conference
schools. North Carolina has only
seven games and II was 10 enable 1t
to meet the eligibility requirements of
the conference tournament that sec
Ond game was listed between 1t and
Maryland. Those North Carolina and
Maryland alumni who desire to watch
one Of the contests would do well to
do so tomorrow night, because the
second contest, Tuesday. in al proba.
bility. will find the second string men
of both teams playing through the
greater part Of both halves.
With the lengthening "of the foot
ball season by the Southern Confer
ence to include the Saturday of the
week following Thanksgiving day, it
was not the intention Of the conference
for any of its members to play be-
yond the usual nine or ten games.
Some have more games scheduled for
next Fall. but after that 1t is likely
that all September contests will he
eliminated and the schedules begun
the first Saturday in October. Not
only is 1t too hot for games in Sep
-
the South. but 1t also Is entirely too
hot to have men hack two or three
weeks before school opens for prac-
tees sufficiently difficult to get them
In shape TO play in September.
Another tendency In the schedule
making OF Southern foot ball
teams is the getting away from So
called easy games TO play hard
game every week. Many of the uni
versities in the South now meet only
teams in their own class and of their
own size, while others play no easy
team after their September game.
And this proposition of playing easy
teams is getting to be just about as
uncertain as anything could be. What
IS expected TO he an easy team is
scheduled. but when the day Of the
game comes around anything hut an
easy team is encountered. Last Fall
Georgia Tech had Oglethorpe SEIZED
uled as an easy opener. but after the
dust Of battle had cleared away il was
found that Oglethorpe@was victor by
o score Of 10 s. The larger colleges
ere fast reaching the point where they
had rather meet and take the chances
in games with colleges of their own
class than to get caught unawares in
contest in which they expected a
somewhat easy afternoon. And, in
cidentally. this same feeling is de-
veloping in other sections as well as
in the South. a
While Georgetown has not accom-.
plished wonders in basket ball the
last two seasons. and 1t not maintain
Ing a very high standard this Winter
II Is claimed by those who have
watched the present Freshman team
in action that next year will see a far
different situation. IT Is said that the
Blue and Gray frst-year hasketers are
about the best seen in this section in
., long while and that when they be
come eligible next year for the varsity
there will be team wearing the Blue
and Gray good enough TO meet on
aAven teams the hest anywhere.
IT Is doubtful II any basket ball
coach anywhere has year in and year
out had better record than Fred Rlce
Of Catholic University. Rice has been
handling basket ball at Catholic Uni.
versity fifteen years and never has
had a poor team, and he has not al
ways had good material. Some of his
teams have had in them star players
and some have been just fairly well
balanced outfits. But whether we'll bal
anced or depending on one or two
PLAYERS for the scoring strength. Rice
has been able to work out a system