Evening star., 1927-02-16

basketers of Williamsburg
wv Va, will come here tonight
for three contests with
local court aggregations.
The Indians. as the Williamsburg
Collegians are known. will tackle
George Washington in the II street
gymnasium tonight and will play
Georgetown at the Hilltop tomorrow
and Catholic L. at Brookland Friday
Tonight's game with George Wash
ington will start at O'Clock and it
should be a good one. as William and
Mary turns out good teams in all
branches of sport.
American University will play host
to Shenandoah College of Virginia to-
night in the Massachusetts avenue
gymnasium starting at S:l5 o'clock,
in the only other college game slated
hereabouts
Catholic L. will end it's Northern
trip tonight against Fordham. The
Brooklanders vanquished the New
Workers at c. L. several weeks ago
and the home team will be out for
revenge.
Georgetown basketers will end their
season with the William and Mary
contest. After the game with the viii.
liamsburg, Va, collegians the Blue and
Gray had been listed for northern
trip to end its campaign. but this
has been Cancelled. The tilt at the
Hilltop is the only game tomorrow in
Eolving a local college five.
There was only one college game
played on local court last night, the
Maryland-Virginia contest in Ritchie
gymnasium, at College Park, but it
was a whiZZ. The Old Liners tri-
umphed. 90 to IS. after extra period
Alertness of Fred Linkous was large
~ responsible for Marylands victory
lie entered the game in time to cage
the basket that tied the score at 25
points just before the end of the game
and registered the winning basket in
the extra period when he leaped to
bat the ball into the hoop as it was
spinning out, following Faber'S second
straight failure to register foul try.
Except for the first 10 minutes, when
Maryland held a good edge, the game
was f1ercely contested. With the score
TO i in Maryland's favor, a Virginia
man was fouled as he dropped in a
basket from scrimmage and was
awarded two foul shots, on both of
which he made good
A couple more Virginia court goals
enabled the Cavileers to tie the score
at 8 points. Maryland held a l1-9
edge at the half
With six minutes to go, Virginia
managed to fight its way to a 25-19.
But the Old Liners were not to be
denied and battling desperately
managed to even the count just be-
fore the gun barked for the half.
Maryland's triumph yesterday
evens scores with Virginia so far as
this season is concerned, the Old
Dominion lads having humbled the
irn %
vile.
Maryland Freshmen routed Hy-
attsville High, "A to 16. in a pre-
limtnary to last nights battle
RalIying brislly i'm the late mo.
ments Crescent A. c. overcamee a
Catholic University lead and went
1924 tilt last night in Brooklyn
Foley and Harvey did most of c. US
scoring, with kurtz and Keat1ng
finding the cords frequently for the
home team. The Cardinals held an
edge during the first part of the
game, though they Were always
closely pressed by their opponents.
While Maryland's relay team will
not appear in the University of Rich.
mond games Saturday night II men,
bers of the varsity squad will COM
pete in individual events. The Old
Line freshmen will have their relay
team in competition as well as two
men in the shot put.
The Old Line entries are:
Varsity-Pugh, 50.yard dash: Mat
thews, 50-yard dash and half-mile:
Whiteford, half-mile; Sheriff, 50-yard
dash and 50-yard hurdles: Thomas, so.
yard dash and half mile; Neuman, mile:
Blanz, half-mile; PIumley, mile; Gadd.