Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-12-18
COACHES PLEASED
With EARLY T|LTS
CoIoniaIs Play Baltimore To-
morroW-BuIIet Taken
From Terps' Knee.
BY H. C. BYRD.


' ton is to play here TO-
morrow night and the
two contests Catholic University
has scheduled on foreign floors
tomorrow and Saturday, college
athletes in this section will lay
aside their uniforms until after
the holidays. George Washington
plays the last game here with the
University of Baltimore, while or
its trip G. u. meets Rider College
at Trenton, N. j., and Manhattan
College at New York.
Both George Washington and Cath
Ollie University are pleased over the eff
forts of their teams in their opening
games Tuesday. OF course, it isa well
realized that the teams they met did
not offer much opposition, but. after all
were just the kind of warm-up oppo-
nents desired Both the Colonials and
Cardinals could have whipped much
stronger quints than they face6 in their
first contests, and both rather enjoy
the prospect of looking ahead to games
with better teams tomorrow and Sat
urday
University of Baltimore may prove
strong against George Washington.
When 1t played Georgetown just few
days ago it started out like great
combination, but did not have the con-
dition to go through. If it has devel-
oped stamina since that then the local
university may have more of a battle
than it wants Coach Pixlee, though,
Is hoping the Baltimoreans will prove
Just strong enough to give his team the
hardest kind of a struggle, but not
strong enough to win.
Coach Gagnon thinks that Catholic
University has possibilities, although he
IS not looking upon the situation as
especially rosy. He has hard schedule
and, like Ptxlee, rather welcomes the
opportunity to meet two teams of con-
siderable strength, so that he may get
real idea Of what strength he has at
his command before he opens the big
part of his schedule in January. Rider
College and Manhattan College may
both prove exceedingly difficult.
ERNIE CARLIs, University of Mary
IL land tackle, is in the University
Hospital in Baltimore, where he
underwent an operation last Saturday
and not the usual operation for foot
ball player either CarliS had removed
from his knee 22-caliber bullet, which
he accidentally fired into it from rife
five years ago. In the game with ST.
Johns Carlis got bad br1ise over the
spot where the bullet was imbedded in
the bone and had good deal of trouble
with 1t thereafter. He was IN only two
full games after that, as it seemed I'M
possible to prevent water gathering
around the knee because of the irrita-
ton. DR.. Arthur M. Shipley, head Of
the department Of surgery in the Uni
versity Of Maryland Medical School,
performed the operation.
ONE foot ball player in this part Of
~ of the world who is not get
ting the credit he deserves Is
Ekaitis, quarterback at Western Mary
land College. Ekaitis by far was the
best defensive fullback the writer saw
on teams from Yale on down the At
1tantic Coast. He was better than
either Of the two men who backed up
the line for Army or Navy While
playing quarterback, Ekaitis on defense
held down the fullback's job. Not only
did Ekaitis play brilliantly on defense
but he also did remarkably good job
in directing his teams play It was
his last year of college foot ball and
Western Maryland will miss that young
man more than any other three it might
have lost.
ONE of the backs GEORGETOWN loses
~ this year also will be missed more
than anybody now expects. The
fact that the nimble and elusive legs
OF Johnny Bozek are not to be grabbed
at and missed by opposing tacklers is
not going TO help the Blue and Gray
any on the odenSe. Bozek was one OF
the brilliant ground gamers for George
town under both Lou Little and Tom
Mills and there have been few games
in the last three years in which he has
not been about the most dreaded
ground gamer.
A FTER all, though it is extremely
"A doubtful If there was any back in
this immediate section, possibly
not any back anywhere, who meant as
much to his team as did Rinele ot
Gallaudet. Not only was the husky
fullback the main cog in the offense
in blocking and clearing a way fol
other ball carriers, but he was a great
ground gamer himself. Few teams In
this section had a better back than
Ringle as a cog in their offensive sys-
TENS, and on defense he seemed to have
an uncanny intuition in diagnosing
plays. 1t is related that year ago he
almost beat Maryland single handed
Ringle could have made any eleven in
the South.
THERE seems to be a rather definite
i feeling among followers of college
basket ball that the teams due Il
represent Georgetown, Catholic U.
George Washington, American u. Gal.
laudet and Maryland this Winter viii
measure well above the caliber Of thos,
that wore their colors last season. The
hrst three Of these schools have started
well and won their opening games with.
out difhculty
Whatever may De the results of theil
schedules, their followers now feel thai
they should continue throughout tht
season with greater success than at.
tended their efforts a year past. Gal.
laudet and American University have
the same optimistic outlook, Will,
Maryland, though without much pros.
pect Of good reserve material, shoulC
have a good team. One or the other o.
the teams may fall down somewhat
one or the other may do much bettel
than now is looked for. but there seem,
20 be a good deal of reason for believ.
ing that on the average the local col.
leges should measure up to higher
standards this season.