Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-02


scheduled and some of them are
the entire indoor season. ESpe
ball games between Washington
night, and between New York Ur
night.
1t might be mentioned, too,
basket ball game tomorrow nigh
nasium, may be just about as go
West Virginia and Washington al
ington, w Va.
New York University is said to have
great basket ball team, and its game
here with Georgetown should be one
of the most attractive of the season.
The contest is to be played in the Tech
gymnasium. Washington and Lee also
has fine quint, generally rated among
the best In the country. 1t has in its
lineup chap of the name of williams
who is able to do about everything there
is to be done
AS one college coach put it, after
his team had been defeated by Wash
1ngton and Lee, that's the best basket
ball team I've ever seen and Williams
Is the best player. Nobody has stop
ped him and nobody will"
The next best basket ball game of
the week, aside from the two George
town is to play with West Virginia and
New York University. probably will be
that on Saturday between MARYLAND
and North Carolina University.
George Washington hooks up with
Catholic University in boxing, while
Catholic University goes to Lafayette
for a swimming meet Another kind
of competition set for the week is that
in which Georgetown runners will COM
pete in indoor meets in the Boston A.
A. games.
Following is a list of events for the
week, the contests being in basket ball
unless otherwise stated
MONDAY.
Georgetown VS.. West Virginia, Tech
High School Gymnasium.
Washington and Lee at Maryland.
WEDNESDAY.
George Washington at Catholic Uni
versity (boXing).
Loyola of Baltimore at American
University.
THURSDAY.
Georgetown VS.. New York University,
Tech High School Gymnasium.
st. Johns of Annapolis at Catholic
University.
Western Maryland at Maryland
Gallaudet VS.. Benjamin Franklin,
langley Junior High Gymnasium.
FRIDAY
Catholic University at Delaware
SATURDAY.
North Carolina at Maryland
George Washington at American Uni
VerSity.
Gailaudet VS.. Maryland State Normal,
Towson.
Catholic University at Lafayette
(Swimming).
An Omaha, Nebr., newspaper, and
Omaha is the home of Creighton Uni
Versity, in a recent story remtnlSced
considerably in regard to Tom Mills
appointment as head foot ball coach at
Georgetown.
Following is an interesting excerpt of
that story:
News of the recent appointment of
Tommy Mills, assistant to Knute Rockne
at Notre Dame University since 1926, to
the position of head coach at George
town University, succeeding Lou Little,
called back memories of Creighton foot
ball teams of yesterday to followers OF
> Creighton sports in Omaha and about
the campus
Tommy Mills coached Creighton
foot ball teams in the days when the
university was struggling for athletic
prominence among the other teams Of
the Midwest. Recollections of the days
when Martin j. Marty Flanagan
starred on the Creighton teams and
made his famous 90-yard run while
playing against Notre Dame; of Carl
Luter, Dutch Plotz, Eddie Mulhol-
land and Tip Long were brought back
to the minds of men who were Creigh-
ton students prior to the World War.
Mills was recalled last week as being
one of the hardest drivers and yet
among the most liked men ever to
coach a Creighton team. A summary
of his experience with foot ball dates
back to 1905, when he was graduated
Frh he no
a halfback on the varsity team. Fol-
lowing his graduation he studied law
at Wisconsin University, but later gave
up law to return to athletics in the |
capacity of coach. He was appointed |
coach at Central High School, where he |
remained for three years, leaving there
to take the position Of head coach at
Creighton.
For five years he guided the Creigh- |
ton teams through difficult schedules. |
He resigned his position at Creighton to
return to Beloit TO be the head coach
OF his alma mater
In 1926 Rockne invited him to be an
assistant. He accepted the position,
and remained a member Of the coach
ing staff until the end of the 1929 sea-
son. His duties at Notre Dame were
concerned with scouting rivals, but he
also aided in coaching the Irish" be-
tween scouting tours. While he was
only an assistant on the foot ball staff,
he was the coach of base ball, boxing
and wrestling teams. Tommy Mills is
also a member of the national boxing
committee"
This article bcc-s out statements
made to the writer by virtually every
body in the Middle West familiar with
Mills record in athletics. Coaches out
in that section think that Mills will
make good at Georgetown, and now
that sentiment seems to be backed up
By newspaper opinion from the very
town in which Mills began his good
work.
University of Maryland has started
two new sports this Winter as adJuncts
20 its general intramural program, a
part Of its policy of giving as many
men as possible opportunities to take
part in competitive sports Boxing,
under the direction of Kid Whip of the
Racquet Club, and wrestling under Tom
Clayton have been introduced in an
organized way for the first time.
Whip formerly was a brilliant pro-
fessiOnal boxer and is one of the few
men who really are capable of ham
ding college squads Clayton Is
Maryland man. but for several years
has been wrestling professionally.
Whether or not anything will be at
tempted in an intercollegiate way with
these sports depends largely on the in
terest taken in them and the kind Of
squads that may be developed.
Western Maryland College has lost
one of the best all-around athletes in
the section in the person of George
Ekattis, who recently left that college.
Ekaitis was the best defensive foot ball
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