Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-07
C. ". FACING TEST
WITH NAVY TODAY
Expects to Extend MiddieS.
GaIIaudet Tilt Tonight
Worries Maryland.
BY H. C. BYRD.

teams, as a group, are likely
L. to achieve much greater
success this year than last
At least coaches of the several
squads have that optimistic out
look, and no one is in better
position to judge the kind of the
teams they have. No coach is
willing to say just what in the
way of victories and defeats may
be his lot, but every one is pre-
dieting that his team is sure to
play better basket ball than it
did a year ago.
Jim Pixlee of George Washington, for
instance, thinks that his men should
give Navy a great battle this afternoon
at Annapolis Pixlee does not say that
his team ought to win, because he
realizes how dificult it is to beat Navy
on the Annapolis court, but he does
say that his men will make the Middies
go the limit.
I'VE have a good basket ball team,
one that is pretty sure to play good
deal better than our team OF 1880, says
Pixlee. Whether or not we can beat
Navy today is a question l cannot
answer, but I do think we have a team
which potentially is not far behind
Navy anu which will make Navy go the
limit to win We probably will not be
in quite as good condition as the Navy
and that factor may tell against US. We
are looking forward to the basket ball
season as the opportunity TO begin the
series of successes which We expect to
be ours in all branches Of sport. Our
basket ball team may eXemplify what
we look for in other branches of ath-
Ietics-not win all our games, but to
be good enough to give good account
of ourselves in the strongest of COMPETE
ton"
BURTON SIMPLIFY, coach at the
- University of Maryland, has big
question mark in the back of his
head in regard to his teams chances
in the season that opens with the Gal
largely because he has just lost one of
his best players, Bob Gaylor. and be-
cause his reserve strength does not seem
any too good.
we will have one good team" Says
Shipley, but unless our reserves come
rapidly will be up against it for men
to send in to take the places of regu-
lars. AS far as our game with Gallau-
Diet tonight is concerned, it hardly
seems to me that we have anything
better than an even chance. GallaudeL
has good basket ball team, better than
it is being given credit for, and this
chap Cosgrove really is fine forward
He would make anybody'S squad. I
wish that Gaylor had remained in
school, because with him in the game
We probably would be winning games
by 3 or 4 points that We now lose by
that margin"
What Pixlee and Shipley have to say
about their teams is almost word for
word the expressions that Coaches Col
rick of Georgetown, Gagnon of Catho-
lie University, Young of American Uni
verSity and Krugg Of Gallaudet use in
speaking of their outlook. All feel con-
fident they should have good seasons;
that their teams should be able to
take care of themselves and play good
basket ball However, as far as maKlng
predictions about the winning or losing
of games, all are reticent and too in
Jelligent to speak of something over
which they have no control. Too many
little things influence the winning or
losing Of a game for coach to say
what his team can or cannot accom-
plish.
George Washington's squad left early
this afternoon tor Annapolis for its
game with Navy. The game is to begin
at O'Clock. Coach Pixlee plans to start
Conner and Burgess at forwards, Cham
bers at center, Zahn at one guard, and
either Mulvey or Fenlon at the other
Maryland's game with Gallaudet at
College Park Is its first of the year, and
this fact is wnat, in measure, is put
ting Coach Shipley on the anxious seat.
Shipley plans to start Norris at center,
Berger and Pitzer, guards, and Chal-
mers and Ronkin, forwards.
Catholic University, with a five that
seems to be tar superior to the Quint
last year, enterLains Benjamin Franklin
in the big Brookland gymnasium tomor-
row night The Brooklanders expect to
chalk UP victory.
WITH the foot ball coaching problem
w at Washington and Lee settled, 1t
stu remains fer Virginia and
North Carolina State to make some an
nouncement of what they expect to do.
It seems that authorities at both schools
are somewhat up in the air. North
Carolina State has been considering a
number of men for its job, while VIZ
GINA has interviewed several.
among a good many people connected
with Virginia that Gus Tebell, former
hear coach at North Carolina State, who
went to Virginia last Fall TO become
head basket ball and base ball mentor
and assistant in foot ball, would get the
Job. but It seems that he is somewhat
reluctant about it,
Some people at North Carolina State
also are inclined toward a man vino
g..
sistant, Slaughter, former Michigan
player. It is felt at Raleigh that
Slaughter did a good job last Fall after
the coaching situation fell apart in
midseason. It may turn out that both
Virginia and North Carolina may wind
I'D with TebeH and Slaughter in charge.
Tebell is looked upon as one of the best
all-round coaches in the South.
THAT the Army and Navy are not on
i good terms was shown during the
National Collegiate Athletic Asso-
citation meetings in New York, and, in
fact, there were certain things that gave
indications the breach between them
is far from being healed.
For instance, the Army applied for
admission to the intercollegiate Boxing
Association, but so pronounced was the
opposition, led, it is understood, by
Navy and Pennsylvania, that after q
consideration of the application before
the regular meeting it was decided not
even to bring it up.
So in the meeting of the association
the Army's application for admission
was not even officially considered.
1t was reported that the Army should
be notified that its application could
not be considered until after it con-
forms TO standard intercollegiate ELI
eyihilftv rules