Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-01-16
BY II. c. BYRD.

r UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA
and Washington College will
come here to play in feature
~ basket ball games this week.
The former is due here Sat
urday night for a meeting with Mary
land. and the latter is to come Friday
for game with Maryland that night
and one with Catholic University the
.rext evening. Several other contests
are listed, but. with the possible ex.
ceDtion Of the Catholic University
Loyo'a meeting Wednesday night,
none are real topliners.
Georgia had a fine team year ago
cd has hack the same five men who
wore its colors then. 1t is doing well
now and is banking on winding up the
current season with the best record in
its court history. The game it plays
here vii, he the third Of a three-game
trip North Carolina and Virginia be.
ing scheduled for the other two
Washington College is reported to
have one of the greatest teams in the
East In fact, for the last two or
three wears the Eastern Shoremen
have keen so capable that they are
having a hard time getting the kind
OF schedule they desire. Washington
College is said to be stronger this year
than ever and expects to take the
measure of the team 1t is to meet here.
incidentally. Washington College not
only has good players. but it is wei
coached as Tom KILLER. in charge of
the team for several years, formerly
was basket bali coach at Ohio State
and won four conference champion
ships in as many years.
Following arc the games scheduled
this week.
wEDNTSDAY--LosoIa College of Balti-
more at Catholic University; Roanoke College
~ IDeRy-EIebsnon Valley at GEORGETOWN:
Washington College at Maryland Blue Ridge
= AsTfITtsREIDSks,y-washingto College at Cath
. Ole University: Georgia at Maryland Bluc
Ridge at American University; VIllanova az
Geor~s Washington Mount ST. Josephs at
Georgetown.
It seems that almost all the con-
4 tests of the week are listed at the
end of the week. Some of the teams
due to play here are not very well
known, but some may have much bet
ter basket ball teams than might
ordinarily be expected. Lebanon Val.
ley, for instance, in it's game with
GEORGETOWN, may prove something OF
a Tartar. Roanoke against George
Washington may find the local out.
At hard pressed.
Basket ball games during the past
week have provided some real tri.
umphs and one or two hard defeats
for local elevens.
1t was brilliant victory that
American University won Wednesday
night from George Washington and
fl was correspondence bitter defeat
for the downtown school. Catholic
University got in victory over
American University, which had won
eight straight, and ii was hard
defeat for the Methodists. Maryland,
without much of a record, had vic.
tory over the Navy almost within
its grasp, but lost by two points.
Maryland also lost to Virginia by
small margin early in the week and
that was not invigorating for the Old
Liners. especially as they feel that
they have q stronger combination
than the Cavaliers.
Georgetown probably will send its
relay team North for its first COM
petition Saturday night in the Brook
iyn College games. The Blue and
q month, and bids fair to be as good
this year as last, despite the loss of
Vernon Ascher, one of the really
great quarter milers of the East. Two
of last years runners are sure of
berths, Swinbufne and Burgess, and
a third position seems to be certain
for O'Shea, who was a member of
the freshman on 1t year ago. The
other position r. being contested for
by Symansky, O'Neil and Thompson.
Tt is not known which of these will
win the coveted fourth place. O'Neil
and Thompson are foot ball men and
held down places in the Georgetown
backfeld last year. Both are fast
though not so experienced in track
As men like Swinburne and Burgess
Adams, playing center on the Mary.
land basket ball team, put up game
yesterday at the Navy that caused
q lot Of comment among those who
watched him. If there was anything
In the way Of good basket bali that
Adams did not show. it was not ap.
parent. He shot goals from all kinds
of positions, he played a fine defensive
game, and was the directing intelli
Eence of his team. Adams perform.
afce was all the more remarkable
when it is considered that he was not
sble to practice until after Christmas
holidays. due to a painful injury re-
ceived in the last foot bali game of
the season, and which kept him in a
hospital in Baltimore for more than
two weeks after Thanksgiving.
Bill Banta Of American University
has just about established himself as