Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-26
LONE BIG BATTLE
ON VARSITY CARD.
N. c. State Visits Maryland
Saturday-Three Indoor
Meets for Section.
BY H. C. BYRD.

b1 n. u. BYRD.
n ID-YEAR examinations in
M the several local colleges
wv are putting a crimp in
athletic schedules for this
week. Georgetown and Catholic
University do not play at all, and
none OF the other four schools
has a contest until Friday night.
1t is a week during which aspiring
young athletes, who may have spent too
much time looking for their names in
the papers and not enough on their
books, will try to convince their pro-
fessors, through written tests and 9TH
erw1se, that they know enough to get
creoitable marks in such lines as biol
ogy, calculus. sociology and languages
as wei as enough to get headline once
IN q while In the newspapers. It is a
week of reckoning, In which every chan
who has not kept up his work as he
should. spends lot Of time in wishing
he had.
The only game of the week that takes
on any importance is that which North
Carolina State College, Southern Con-
ference champion last season, comes
here to play with Maryland Saturday
night. The Raleigh School, under Gus
REBEL, always has a good outfit of
Dasketers, and it will have to have 1ust
that II 1t expects to take the measure
Of the Old Line five. Elon College also
Is here Saturday night for game with
American University
Friday nights games are between
Gallaudet and Juniata College at Ju-
nlaIa, ana between Randolph Macon
and George Washington on the local
schools floor.
While this week is for basket ball
games pretty much as the Sahara for
f1ne grazing, next week the colleges
Jump back into the sports arena with
an exceptional list of contests. All play
some important games, two of the most
important coming on Monday night,
FEBRUARY 3, when Washington and Lee
and Maryland hook up at College Park
In what should be one of the greatest
contests of the year, and West Virginia
comes here to play Georgetown. West
Virginia beat Georgetown when the lat
ter played at Morgantown recently.
Three indoor track and field meets
are being boosted in this section this
Winter, Virginia, North Carolina and
Catholic University are making efforts
TO build up what they hope viii be-
come permanent features Of their
athletic seasons. Virginia Is holding its
f1ve years ago, while North Carolina
has under It's auspices the first indoor
meet ever fostered by the Southern
Conference.
Virginia has q big gymnasium In
which its events are to take place,
while the Tarheel competitions will be
held in the Tin Can" a big tenn
porary building which 1t constructed
some years ago to serve as place
for basket ball games and other gem
eral indoor competitions.
Catholic University held an indoor
meet some years ago, but then
abandoned it. The Brooklanders now
feel that without any meet around
Washington or Baltimore that they
should be able to make one 60 and
build 1t into q real stable affair.
Following is self-explanatory COM
muication in regard to the Navy-South-s
ern Methodists foot ball game, sched-
uled at Annapolis next Fall:
II was very much interested IN the
Navy foot ball schedule, which recently
appeared in your paper. It was noted
that Southern Methodist University Ia
scheduled to play Navy at Annapolis
or Baltimore. The Post Of the same
date stated that the game would
probably be transferred to Baltimore or
Washington. The fact that the site
Of the game has not been finally set
tied leads me to hope that Washington
played here. It would prove a big at
traction for people from Southwest, and,
believe, the entire South,
IS. NJ. y. has a smart coach and
should have q fine team this year, one
capable of giving the Navy an interest
ing afternoon. They journeyed to West
hard battle, finally losing, is to il.
"I have talked with several persons
who have expressed desire that the
game be played here. This seems very
desirable, because, like many others, I
stand for more and better foot ball for
Washington"
At University of Maryland smoker
Friday night the subject Of hard foot
ball schedules was brought up and the
list of games Maryland Is to play next
Fall given the once over.
Maryland's 1880 schedule generally Is
credited with being the hardest any
school in this section has ever attempt
ed, but some former Maryland foot
ballers present gave 1t as their opinion
that others have been just as hard. In
fact, 1t was felt that the schedule of
1928, when both Pennsylvania and Yale
were played, was harder, except for the
fact that next Fall a game Is tombe
played the Saturday after Thanksgiving
day. Others felt that the schedule Of
1925. when Chicago and Yale were fea-
lures, also was just as hard.
Incidentally, at the smoker were John
Hough, now a lieutenant in the Marine
Corps, and Irving Hall, in business here,
who played the regular guard positions
on that 1928 eleven. At that time
Hough and Hall tipped the scales
around 1873 pounds. but now they look
something akin to twin brothers OF
Goliath Hough weighing around ais
and Hall, 230.
bers of the 1926 eleven that played
through long hard schedule very sue
ceSsfully, also were present and talked
a lot about foot ball and what 1t meant
to them. Adams was elected president
of the Old Liners Club, which is the
washington alumni organization Of