Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-26
BASKET BALL, R|NG,..
TRACK TEAMS VIE.
Widely Separated Events on
Tap, Starting With Court
Clashes Tomorrow.
BY H. C. BYRD.
BY H. C. BYRD.
THREE Southern Conference
championships will be de-
i cided within the next three

Nf1nEE southern conference
championships will be de-
i cided within the next three
days in separate tourna-
ments to be held In widely sep
arated sections of the South.
Down at Atlanta the 16 strongest
basket ball teams in the confer
ence get together in an elimina-
ton affair that begins tomorrow
and will be concluded next week.
At Charlottesville practically all
conference schools that support
boxing are represented in the
tournament being held under the
auspices of the University of Viz
GINA, while at Chapel Hill the
track and field men compete In
the annual indoor meet. The
boxing tournament opens tomor-
row and winds up Saturday night.
Play In the basket ball tournament
begins tomorrow at o'clock and will
continue with only one hour Of inter-
mission until II at night. Eight games
are to be played and eight teams will be
eliminated. Saturday four games are
scheduled among eight winners of to-
morrows contests, Monday two games
will be listed, with the final to come of
Tuesday night as kind of a grand
climax
The boxing tournament Is almost a
duplication of the basket ball tourna-
ment, except that individuals instead of :
teams are bracketed and go through an
elimination series, the winner Of one
bracket meeting the winner Of another
until final winners are established, OF
course, in the boxing tournament, the
brackets are in classes, denoting each
weight at which men tight, instead Of
all being bracketed in one class.
The indoor meet being held at the
University OF North Carolina has lost
q couple Of entrants from the South
Atlantic section but has gained four or
fiVe from the far south. The meet has
now been held for two years and has
Won fair measure Of success.
COMPETITION in all three of these
~ tournaments Is expected to be the
best ever held. It seems to be the
general opinion that basket ball IL on
a much higher plane right now than It
has ever before been in the South, and
those In charge confidently look for the
games TO develop some exceptionally
good play. The same is true of the box
ing tournament. Virginia, North Caro-
lima, Florida and three or four Of the
other schools have about the best box
ing teams that have ever worn their
colors. And this is expected to be re-
Elected in large attendance.
Indoor track in the South has never
been very largely developed because of
a lack Of facilities for indoor training,
but with the construction Of big gym
nas1umS or field houses in many places
this condition is being improved to q
great extent and is being reflected in
greater attendance at the indoor games.
Coach Bob Fetzer of North Carolina,
who Is managing the meet, is of the
opinion that the games should bring
forth some new records. The prelimi-
naries and finals Of the meet will all
be run off Saturday night
7 UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND bas-
~ ket ball team leaves this afternoon
at 4:45 o'clock for Atlanta. The
Old Liners are scheduled to meet Louisi-
ana State University in their first game
OF the basket ball tournament at
O'Clock tomorrow night. If they defeat
Louisiana State, on Saturday they will
play the winner Of tomorrow's North
Carolina-Vanderbilt game.
MarylandS record in the tournament
has hardly done it justice. At least
three times 1t has been to Atlanta and
dropped It's first game, when 1t generally
was rated as stronger than its opponent
Last year 1t was whipped by Kentucky
by points in the opening game, yet
the Kentucky coach after the tourna-
ment said. I'VE put out the best team
in the tournament"
Once Maryland met In the first game
what was generally conceded to be tbs
strongest team in the South, AlabannA.
and won, but then dropped its second
game to what probably was the weakest
five that went to Atlanta that year.
Just what MarylandS chances are
this year, IS a matter of conjecture
only To win through a tournament
as grueling as the one at Atlanta re-
quireS some luck as well as q lot Of
stamina and consistently good play.
A team cannot afford to fall down even
In part Of a game, because once whippad
1t Is out. However, many Of those that
have watched Maryland play think
its chances are better than In any
previous year, largely because 1t has
proved to be the most consistent team
Maryland has ever had.
Maryland wound up its home schedule
last night with its second victory over
Johns Hopkins, this time by 81 to a.,
which almost duplicated its score
against the same team In January.
Maryland, after plugging along for
some time, jumped out in front and
finished the half with an advantage Of.
20 to IA.
With six minutes to 60, the Old
Liners held q 3f-to-14 edge. Then O
second string team was sent in and
Hopkins got 8 points before the Anals
gun barked.
Ronkin. Berger, Chalmers. Norris and
May divided the scoring pretty evenly
among themselves.
Line-ups:
Maryland t3D. Hopkins (79y.
G.FPtS. G.F.Pts.
saa@sFs H.: L. st syiSr' H. H.:
Ronkin' f.. G; Kelly f..