Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-07

His professional aolllty mas Deen
tested time after time against the
strongest quints in the country, with
honor to himself Rice's teams have
met year after year the best in basket
ball. and there are few that can look
back over such a consistently good rec
ord for so long q period. Rice seemed
always to have good teams, no matter
what the quality of his material, ana
when he had really good material 1t
became almost question OF how many
points his men would score.
In his Is years of coaching Rice has
had some great teams. During the
may be divided, before the war and
after the war, Rice probably had one
great outstanding team in each. Be
fore the war the combination on which
Tracey, Mcdonnell, Lambert and Koran
were stars was the best, and since the
war the team made up OF Foley, Long,
Carney, Harvey and O'Donnell takes
first place. In fact. Rice thinks That
the aforementioned five was the best
he ever coached.
OF all the brilliant players Rice has
developed, he agreed with the writer
that Ed Lynch was the best. Lynch not
only had the physical ability and in
tellirence to play basket ball, but he
knew basket ball so well that 1t seemed
to be almost his second nature. He
ulaved the game instinctively and bril-
iiantly. Foley also was great player
as were Tracey and Mcdonnell.
81 have never taken any action that
regret more than I do severing my
connection with basket ball., SAID rice
this morning. 1.-The sport has almost
been a part of me for many years, but
in the last three or four the pressure
of nv business has become so great
that I have devoted less and less time
to it. During the past Winter l gave
SO little time to coaching that l really
did the team an injustice and came to
realize that it was a case Of neglectlng
my business seriously or neglectlng
basket ball or giving up one or the
other. I could not give up my business.
40 rave up basket ball. I shall never
lose NV interest in 1t and shall always
follow it as closely as I can"
Rice entered Catholic University Law
School in 1911 and that Winter played
center and coached the team. The next
year he discontinued playing and de-
voted his entire time to coaching. He
has made remarkable record, was
characterized by Pop" Lambeth OF Vir-
GINA as 1.-The greatest center nave
ever seen" and in his decision to re-
tire from coaching, Catholic University
not only loses a good man but the
game itself will miss him as one who
has contributed greatly to It's progress.
Georgetown tomorrow night holds its
annual &c" Club dinner at the May
flower Hotel. The Blue and Gray is
planning big things for the event. as
1t is expected that notable gathering
of men from various sections of the
East will attend. A feature of the eve
,.fv. xvril1 kzA athletic n.
ors to men who won their letters be-
tween the years 1911 and 1915. Letters
also are to be awarded to athletes who
have attained the distinction of let
tiers during the current year. This is
to be the first time that Tom Mills has
appeared at a big function of George
town alumni and the first opportunity
the Blue and Gray folks have had to
honor him as their new athletic di-
rector.
Georgetown's base ball team is at
Princeton today for its second game
vious contest, which was played here,
Georgetown was victor. The Blue and
Gray ought to take the measure Of the
Tigers again.
The other ball game in which local
school is to play today is that in which
Maryland meets Virginia Military In
stitute at Lexington, Va. The OLD
Liners face team that has lost only
one game this season, and that 16-in-
ming, 1-to-0 defeat at the hands of Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute last Satur-
day.
Catholic University's nine seems to be
falling in the pace 1t set early In the
Spring. Yesterday Ii was defeated again