Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-26

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Naval Academy track
squad would come here to take
part in the Catholic University
indoor meet early in March. And
this, coupled with the promise of
a few days ago of Virginia to send
its squad, means a good deal more
for the Brooklanders' meet than
1t would ordinarily seem to.
With these two squads entered, it is
likely that all colleges in this immediate
section, with the probable exception of
Georgetown, will be represented, with
the result that c. U. probably will put
on the biggest indoor meet held here in
years
Nays participation in any set of
games means a lot. Few teams are as
attractive and none more attractive. A
complete list of entries as a team from
q school like Navy creates far greater
interest among students and the gen.
eral public, makes much keener COMPETE
ton, and adds prestige to the meet
itself. The Catholic University au-
thorities could have done nothing that
would add more to their games nor that
tend more to help carry them to the
position of real Importance in the local
program of Winter sports.
Dorsey Griffith, coach of track at
C. u. and the man who has been work
ing hard for the last three years to
build up the sport there, seems in a
good way to get somewhere. This year
he has a schedule of meets that is
longer than any former c. u. teams
have had. and far better. That in
itself should help a lot in creating in
terest in track athletics, and now in
establishing his indoor meet on such a
basis that 1t attracts schools like the
Navy he IS going a big step further.
The revival of the indoor meet last
year filled a great need among local
athletes. For years no set of games has
been held here, not since Convention
Hall was taken over for bowling alleys.
and indoor track athletics has Ian
guished largely because of that. The
meet in 1880 did not attract a whole
lot OF attention, but is attracting much
more this Winter and in all probability
will grow to be one of the big features
OF the indoor season.
TEORGEToWN lost twice in New
" York Saturday night in what, in
athlstic vernacular, are termed
heart breaking def ats. The Blue and
Gray relay four ran great race. but
was nosed out by Holy Cross, and the
basket ball team was beaten by New
York University, generally regard d as
the leading college team in the east. by
only points. In both competitions
Georgetown teams did well enough to
win undsr ordinary circumstances, and
the one satisfaction that remains after
losing that way is in the fact that there
is loss neither of self-conf1dence nor OF
prestige.
Jimmy Driver, Virginia's athletic di-
rector. must hava known something of
what he was talking about last week.
when he said that boxing was coming to
the front as the greatest Winter sport.
At least, he knew exactly what he was
saying as it relat-d to his own institu-
ton, as in Virginia's opening match
Saturday night, with Virginia Polytech-
mic Institute as its opponent, the biggest
crowd that ever gathered in the GYM
nasium there to watch an indoor event
was PRESENT Virginia won the match
with four victories against three
EXPERIMENTS with coachless COL
- lege teams apparently do not
work so well. At least, not at !
Harvard. And. food for thought. it |
seems that the students themselves
rose up against the scheme Last year
Harvard tried out the proposition OF !
having its base ball squad go through |
the season with the coach sufficiently |
removed from the scene that he could |
not direct the team. Now Harvard
announces that the scheme did not
work so well. At least. not at
1t. During the coming Spring the
Crimson coach is to go back on the
bench TO take care of his men and see
that his team plays as good ball as it Is
capable of playing. Yale, which also
tried the same thing last season. states
that 1t will continue the experiment ut
least for this year
One Harvard player advanced a
rather unusual argument against keep
ing coaches of the bench He said, in
substance, that the players have to 20
TO classes all day and have only the
two-hour recreation period in the after
noon to think about base ball: that
they cannot afford to be worrying dur
ing class hours about how to run the
ball team during the recreation period.
and that the thing to do is to bring
the coach back on the bench and lei
him do the worrying.
Southern colleges and universities
Will be later this year in picking their
ofhcials for foot ball games next Fail
than in many seasons. Under a new
system OF handling officials for South
ern Conference games, the assignments
VIII not be made until the first week
In March, when the conference basket
ball tournament Is held at Atlanta.