Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-06
court GAME SOON
MAY Be TOPL|NER
Held Likely to Rival Foot Ball.
Georgetown Entertains
N. Y. U. in Big Game.
BY HI. C. BYRD.

NoIne oIle OF the SOuth'S
great sports, in the opinion
OF Dick Smith, graduate
manager of athletics and basket
ball coach at Washington and Lee
University. Smith, who was here
the past week end with his basket
ball team, when it beat MARYLAND
by four points, gave it as his opin-
ion that the only college sport
likely to remain ahead Of basket
ball is foot ball, and that boxing
and wrestling never will attain
the prominence that the court
game is fast gaining.
Basket ball in the South has been
growing by leaps and bounds in the
last few years" says Smith, land un-
doubtedly is the main attraction of
college Winter sports schedules. Not
only that. but, outside of foot ball.
basket ball is the best sport the COL
leges have. Base ball has gone back
ward, or to say the least, has not pro-
crossed, and boxing and wrestling, by
their very nature, are not going to be-
come generally popular. Boxing in some
localities may run far ahead Of basket
ball, but speaking Of the South as a
whole. basket ball during the Winter
stands alone, and no sport exceeds it
In value to student bodies and to COL
leges except that which is played on
the gridiron.
I'm the North and West basket ball
mas long enjoyed great popularity, not
only among the colleges and schools
but also professionally. Just few years
back 1t began to grow in the South
and is continuing to gain ground much
more rapidly than other Winter and
Spring sports. Of course, the time of
year during which 1t is played accounts
for this to some extent, coming as it
does during the more or less otherwise
dull Winter months. But the game
potentially Is attractive. and the South
ern Conference championship tourna-
nent at Atlanta also has done much to
sGlmulate interest In 1t, especially In
Boxing in some centers has attained
popularity, but there Is too much feel
ing against the sport in some quarters
Tor 1t to attain the general strength
tina belongs to basket ball.
Lacrosse Is not played in enough
schools to give 1t much consideration,
although where 1t is played 1t seems to
be very attractive as Spring sport.
The other college sports. wrestling,
tennis, swimming, rife shooting, etc,
DO not create much interest, even
among students in the college where
such teams are maintained and some
times think that it might be well to
relegate all such competitions to the
realm Of intramural athletics and
| eliminate them as forms Of intercol-
legiate competition"
New York University comes here to-
night to play Georgetown in what
should be one of the greatest games of
basket ball of the year, as the two
schools already have met twice this
season and each has a victory to its
credit.
Up in the Yale tournament, at the
beginning OF the season, Georgetown
won from N. Y. u, but later. in New
York, the Gothamites turned the tables.
so tonlghts contest actually is the rub
Der.
The game is to be in Techs Svm-
nasium at 8 o'clock.
University of Maryland has a game
with Western Maryland College tonight
at College Park and ought to win with
out difficulty. II it does not win, It will
De about the only five that has failed to
take the measure Of the upstate a10re-
CATION. AS one Western MARYLAND fan
stated short while back, Our basket
pail team is just as rotten as our foot
ball team was good"
GaIlaudet plays BENJAMIN Erank-
I'm University tonight in Langley Junior
Hlgh gymnasium. The Kendall Green
ers except to score another victory.
st. Johns of Annapolis is likely 70
afford Catholic University more onposi-
ton in the Catholic U. gymnasium to-
night than the Brooklanders want. The
Marylanders have played some very
good basket ball and have won some
tning ike seven out Of nine games. The
only fves that has taken the measure
OF st. Johns are Washington and Lee
and Johns Hopkins.
southeastern University defeated Co.
iumous University last night, 90 to "a,
In game that was close from start to
nnlSn: Loose lived up to his name and
got IS points for the winners.
The line-ups
Arnold. T. GFPts Colum U. G.F,Pts,