Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-04

basket ball teams with games
~ tonight, the former with Mount
st. Mary's on its home floor, at
Brookland, and the latter with Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, at Blacksburg.
The Maryland-V. P l. game is the first
of a trip which also involves contests
with Washington and Lee and Virginia
Military Institute,
Going through what amounts to
rebuilding year, Catholic University is
having anything but successful sea-
SON And Maryland is not doing a good
deal better. However, the two univer-
stiles are not much disappointed, as
neither expected to be very strong.
c. U. will be against fairly good
combination when it faces Mount st.
Mary'S and does not have any better
than an even chance, if it has as good
as that.
Maryland meets Washington and Lee
again tomorrow night, and the drubbing
it took Saturday night at College Park
does not indicate much success.
1t may happen, though, that Wash
ington and Lee, imbued with a sense
of its own effectiveness and greatness
from the easy time it had beating Mary
land last week, will not play up to its
real standard. In other words, about
the only chance Maryland has to beat
overconfidence on the part of the latter.
Virginia Military Institute is not near
as strong as Washington and Lee. and
the College Park five ought to stand
about an even chance in that game.
Catholic University has another game
Wednesday night with Fordham at
Brookland, and if the New Workers have
a team as good as that which represent
ed them year ago the local school is
likely to taste of another defeat. An
other game the same night will take
place when Gallaudet goes over to
George Washington's gymnasium to
face the Colonials.
No games are scheduled Thursday
night, but Friday five are listed. George
town has New York University as its
guest, Maryland is to entertain North
Carolina, Catholic University has Ameri-
can u. as its opponent, Gallaudet plays
the Old Dominion Boat Club at Kendall
Green and George Washington meets
Davis-Elkins here.
Saturday night no contest of any
kind is scheduled here, but Georgetown
goes to New York to play New York
University a second basket ball game in
as many days. Catholic Universitys
swimming team goes to Williamsburg
Saturday for meet with William and
Mary.
Washington and Lee has about the
best basket ball team in its history.
About IA years ago the Generals were
represented by physically powerful
five that had some real victories to its
credit, but that team was not nearly SO
versatile nor so well coached as the one
that now wears the Blue and White.
The Washington and Lee five practi-
cally is made by Jack Williams, its
elongated center Williams is bril-
liant player and does everything there
is to be done on basket ball floor.
incidentally, Williams is great all
round athlete, having been star at
end in foot ball and is an exceptional
first baseman when he puts on a base
ball suit.
Dick Smith, graduate manager of
athletics at Washington and Lee and
basket ball coach and base ball coach,
has developed his team on sound lines.
He has the men playing well as lnd1-
vidualS and as team. Unless the Gen.
erals strike a slump they should be
picked to win the Southern Conference
tournament at Atlanta in March. Incl
dentally, Saturday night they gave
Maryland the worst beating the latter
has had in basket ball in years, and did
1t on just an out-and-out better grade
Of play.
West Virginia University has under
taken to develop a boxing team. The
Mountaineers arted the sport this
Winter with the sole idea of using 1t as
part of their physical education pro-
gram, but Penn State came through
and asked for meet at State College
during March, and West Virginia ac-
cepted on condition that the meet be
informal. Probably there will be lot
of very formal socks on the jaw for
many young aspirants for college ed
ucation, but if the meet goes through
satisfactorily it is entirely probable that
West Virginia will arrange fun sched-
ule next season.
DR.. Walter Meanwell. basket bali
coach at Wisconsin and one Of the most
accepted authorities on the sport in the
United States, has an enviable record
In the Western Conference. He has
coached Wisconsin II seasons and won
z championships. and in of the other
seasons was fighting for the title.
Wisconsin'S record of victories under
Meanwell is 121 against At defeats.
F1IJy-Illn6 games nave p6SIl playEC Will
non conference fives and 40 of them
won.
It is interesting to note that DR..
Meanwell Is a graduate Of the Uni
versity of Maryland Medical School.
Virginia and Washington and Lee
still are at sea in regard to coaches of
their foot ball teams for next Fall The
former apparently is in process of
general reorganization, while Washing
ton and Lee, with well organized and
smoothly running general system. SIM
ply is looking for the right type of man
to handle its foot ball work. And. in
cidentally, 1t may be that when Wash
ington and Lee announces the name of
a coach for next Fall followers of the
gridiron in this section may get a real
surprise. The man Washington and
Lee had hoped to get was Tom Lieb,
line coach at Wisconsin, but Lieb is
going to Notre Dame to help Rockne.
Wisconsin gave Notre Dame beating
last Fall. Rockne thinks that Lieb was
largely responsible for 1t, and the astute
Swede evidently had rather have Lieb
working for him than against him.
FORMER E.. u. RING STAR