Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-08

ana tomorrow. IOmgnt tai
~ laudet gets it's last chance &c
stay in the bright spot in a
contest with American University in
the latter's gymnasium. while tomor
row night George Washington jour
neys out to Brookland for the first
of its two contests with Fred Rice S
team.
American University and Catholic
University should be victors, although
Gallaudet and G. w. ought to put up
warm battles.
Gallaudet has two brilliant forwards
and. If they get going at top speed,
the result of the contest may be other
than what is expected
Catholic L. has been playing better
basket ball than George Washington.
hut the latter has a team that NAV
come through in any game it plays.
Out at College Park this afternoon
al o'clock the University of Mary
land and University of North Carolina
hook up in their second contest in as
many days The game today was not
originally scheduled. but was listed in
. order TO give North Carolina an eighth
contest with a Southern Conference
school. 1t is necessary to play eight
conference games in order to be elig-
IDLE to take part in the annual cham
plonshlp tournament at Atlanta.
Last nights game between North
carolina and Maryland was a brilliant
affair No better contest has been
staged here in a long while, with the
possible exception of the game in
which Catholic University defeated
Fordham last week. North Carolina
jumped into the lead at the beginning
and within five minutes had Mary
land on the short end of an S-to-0
score, but it was not long before the
Old Liners began to pull up and when
Inc half ended the score was 1S-to-16
in their favor.
Probably no first half of a basket
bill game in this section in years has
been more fiercely contested than that
between the Tar Heels and Old Liners
The play was about as fast as it could
he and there was no letup at any
time. Both teams went after the
game as if their very existence de-
pended on the result. Both played
fine basket ball and both demonstrated
that they stand out among the best
of Southern quints.
With North Carolina playing a
wide-open offense, banking mainly on
its ability to shoot from any place and
TO pass, well, Dean. the midget Mary
land guard, was given an opportunity
10 show his wares in great style, and
he did. If any guard at Maryland
every played more intelligent game
than Dean did last night and if any
guard ever contributed more in a
mechanical way to a basket ball vic
tory than the former Central High
youngster, then those performances
are not within the memory of the old
est inhabitants of College Park.
The second half of the game saw
some great defensive play on the part
of the Marylanders. For fully 10
minutes they held North Carolina
without a goal from the floor, and
the brilliant Vanstory, who had done
some very accurate shooting in the
first half, was not able to get clear
at any time.
Yesterday one of the writer's friends
interested in boxing at Catholic Uni
versity said to another of the writer's
friends connected with boxing at
Washington and Lee, why don't you
get after 'Curley' and stop him from
knocking boxing all the timer That
friend from Washington and Lee said
a few words to the writer, and as a
result a journey was made to Cath
Ole University to watch for the first
time boxing matches between two
college teams-between Catholic Uni
yersity and Washington and Lee.
First-hand facts undoubtedly alter
opinions, and if the bouts last night
are a true criterion of the usual col
lege boxing matches a most humble
apology is in order for ever having
conceived of them as smacking of
brutality. If there was anything
brutal in the matches last night then
il would be wise to ban everything
in the nature of a sewing circle for
fear that some lady might stick a
needle in her finger. Certainly such
an accident would be far more pain
full physically and mentally than any
thing that happened in the G.. u. ring
1T was mainly process of hand
shaking, dancing or hopping or step
ping or whatever one may be pleased
10 call it. and wild swings One ia.
~Jniliar with real boxing, if he did not
take into consideration that the COM
batants, although the writer doubts
that that term is applicable-were col
lege men really trying seriously to
give their best in representing schools,
could write an awfully funny story
about those matches last night. Suf-
flee TO say that if last nights exhibit
ton was fair sample. then boxing
is not n sport in which the profess
SIGNALS need fear the competition of
colleges
Seriously, though, the matches at
G. L. were conducted in a dignified
way, as IL species of more or less seri-
Gus entertainment. The crowd was
not allowed to cheer, except dur
ing the intermissions, and the referee
evidently was instructed not to take
any chances of any of the partici-
pants getting hurt. Ladies were in
numerous attendance, and not enough
gore was spilled to shock even the
most modest senSibilities: in fact, as
one sweet young thing" whose
''bestest" was one Of the battlers re-
marked, Gee, l thought I'd get a
thrill"
Catholic University won six of the
seven bouts, and the decisions could
land boxers were the aggressive ones
in every bout. That is true except
for the first encounter, which was won
by Washington and Lee.
Even to the most fastidious, there
was nothing Objectionable in the en-
tire evenings entertainment. Even
the most conscientious objector among
the most scholarly of college profess
sors would have found nothing to
criticiZe-and not much to commend
The results:
115-pound class-Harold Osterman wv
and II won, decision over Bob Riordan &C.
o.. 3 rounds.
125-pound class--Jim Mcguire &c. u
won over Julian Black CIV. and L.. 4
135-pound class--Capt "Battler'' Byrne
&c. " won over Capt. Bill Price CIV. and
145.pound class-,Don Greece &C. u won
over e Mani0cp c A1rack " and LIZ rounds
over Pete t"Reds') Merritt wv. and L..
175-pound class-Jack Malevich &C. W
won over SPEEDY Thompson Nv. and l.. j.
by kayo in third round
Heavyweight elass-Joe Tferney &C. u
won over Buck Bailey CIV. and L.. 8
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