Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-09-24

than to mark the gen.
eral opening of the sea-
son, when teams of wide variance
In strength usually meet, several
contests are scheduled that may
develop into something more than
the usual opening Set-up for one
eleven and a good beating for the
other.
And in one Of what apparently may
be the hard, closely contested struggles
one of the local schools, Catholic Uni
versity, Is to play what it hopes may
be q big role. Other games likely to
develop into worthwhile contests are
on both the Atlantic and Pacific Coasts.
Taking Catholic University first, it
seems that there is chance the local
school may give Boston College great
battle, with, Of course, an outside chance
for victory. Coach Bergman says that
he has nine men who could make almost
any college team, and Bergman Is a
good coach. This combination ought
to produce q team capable of giving
Boston College q wild afternoon. And,
remembering back as far as last year,
Catholic University gave the Beam
eaters the scare Of their lives then,
losing only to IS. This Fall the local
schools feels that it will go North with
a better team and a far better chance
TO put across something worth while.
Georgia Is on Guard.
Down in the South two games are
scheduled that may develop into almost
midseason trays. At Durham, N. c.,
the Duke eleven entertains South Caro-
lima, and the latter is said to have one
OF the strongest combinations in its
history, possibly the strongest. Duke
also Is likely to have good team. This
Is the nfst game between two Southern
Conference schools. The other Southern
game that may. produce fireworks is
that In which Oglethorpe and Georgia
hook up. Last year Oglethorpe took
the measure of the Athens eleven and,
incidentally, Is confident now that 1t has
q good chance to turn the trick again.
Georgia, however, smarted q good deal
under the whipping it took in its open
ing game IN 1929 and it probably is
Dending its efforts very conscientiouSly
toward being the one in q position to
laugh last. Both these contests, though,
are likely to be far better than usually
are played in the South on the last
Saturday in September.
Out on the Pacific Coast Stanford
meets the Olympic Club Of San Fran
S>OS eno VIC OAyAip1C CluD usually mas
teams OF former college players able to
hold their own In any kind of COM
pany. Two years ago the Olympic Club
won nom Stanford, and last Fall the
Warner-coached team was victor by a
margin Of only 9 to 0. In the other
games out there that may develop some
thing worth while California meets
santa Clara, and wlSle California near
~ always wins from that school it SELL
dom does by any dig margin.
Two other games that may be better
contested than usual are between North
Carolina State and Davidson at Raleigh,
N, c., and between Oregon State and
0onxaga at Corvallis. Hardly any other
game listed gives any indication of a
real night, although It is possible that
some team which Is not now expected
70 be strong, may show exceptionally
perior opponent the hardest kind of a
time. Caught unawares, q big team may
encounter q lot of difficulty beating a
small one. It "a not easy TO get going
once . team finds itself up against
something much more difncult than it
expected 70 face.
Home Teams Favored.
OF the three games TO be played on
local fields. all are likely to result in
homes here. Georgetown may have with
Mount st. Mary's the best game of the
three, but Georgetown is almost certain
70 win by reasonable score The Blue
and Gray, even II in It's first game or two
1t fails TO measure up to the standard
Of last year, should still be strong
enough to get away with the Noun
tanners. American University should be
an easy victor over Shenandoah Col
lege, unless the latter is much stronger
than the woefully weak aggregation 1t
sent here year ago. Maryland usually
wins from washington College, and it
probably VIII win this time, despite the
word that has come from Chestertown
that the Eastern Shoremen have ma
terial for the best eleven In many years.
Gus Corsthers, former Maryland guard,
Il helping to coach Washington College.
Both Washington and Lee and Vir-
gtnia, the two South Atlantic schools
that opened their schedules last week.
IN some respects are gratified over the
work their teams did and in some other
respects are not. Jimmy Driver, atl1-
letic director at Virginia, said over the
phone this morning that we played
some good foot ball and we also played
some poor foot ball. We have a lot to
learn and are not arousing IN ourselves
any false hopes because we won from
Roanoke by big score. Last year we
felt at the start of the season that we
were going along we'll and then we be-
gan to take our bumps. This year we
are going TO wait to deliver before we
believe anything, no matter how well
We play in our first couple of games"
washington and Lee people think
that their team clicked better than any
previous Washington and Lee team in
years In an opening game. with the ex-
ception OF one season when North Caro-
lima State was Soundly trounced. And
with all that 1t is said that the Generals
are being brought along more slowly
this Fall, so that they may run no risk
OF going OF color later in the year. But
the Generals line play did not measure
UP and they think q good deal Of effort
will have TO be expended TO bring that
feature OF foot ball up to the desired
standard.