Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
MARYLAND OFFERS
MAIN ATTRACTIONS
Has Two Court Tits, Boxing
Observation-Disclosures Plays
Baltimore Quint.
BY H. C.. BYRD.

PORTS activities In local col
lege gymnasiums this week
- will center entirely around
Gallaudet and the University
OF Maryland, largely around the
week end program Of the latter.
Gallaudet, plays Baltimore Uni
versity Friday night at Kendall
Green, and, besides that game,
the only competition listed Is the
basket ball games in which Mary
land meets Virginia Military In
Stitute Friday night, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute Saturday
night, and the boxing match be-
tween Maryland and washington
and Lee Saturday.
The only other contest Of the week
Is that in which Georgetown meets
Army, Wednesday afternoon ct West
Point Catholic University, American
University and George washington are
idle. Midyear examinations are get
ting the precedence over everything for
the next few days.
Gallaudet should encounter q good
deal greater opposition from Baltimore
u. than it did from the Maryland
State Normal School last Friday. The
Baltimore school, too, usually presents
its best front in basket ball. It may
bring over a team strong enough to
give the Kendall Green players . real
battle. Gallaudet won from the Monu-
mental City school in foot bali.
MARYLAND already has met Viz
IVA ginia Military Institute once this
season, having won at Lexington.
It ought to take the measure Of the
Cadets when they come here Friday
night, unless they show vastly superior
form to that of the first contest
Saturday nights activities In the
Maryland gymnasium probably win re-
suit in one of the biggest indoor ath-
letic events ever held at the Old Line
school. As now programmed, Virginia
nve In many years, Is due TO appear
there at 1880 in q basket bali game
and washington and Lee immediately
following that in boxing match.
Both competitions ought to be close,
as v. p. I. seems to be good enough
to give Maryland all It is looking for
In the way of q difficult contest, while
Maryland, despite the fact that this
Is its first attempt to put out boxing
team, should give Washington and Lee
a warm evening.
WHILE basket bali is proving excep-
w tionally popular at Maryland this
Winter. probably because the team
has been doing so well, It is likely that
great interest will attach to the boxing
match. Certainly those connected with
Maryland are anxious to see what kind
Of an intercollegiate sport boxing Is.
While Maryland Is sending out box
ing team for the first time, 1t Is not
doing so without considerable prepara-
| ton. In fact, the Old Liners got to-
gether q big squad for boxing more
than year ago and since then the
men have been going through q course
OF training under w. II. Whip, who
at that time joined the stan at the
university as an instructor IN the
, physical education department.
Whether or not Whip Is too opti-
m1stic about his charges is not known,
cannot be known until after they have
been under fire, but he believes that
they win do more than creditable work
| in their first real tryout. Whip claims
that he has at least three youngsters
who win come through and he would
only need to get . lucky break In an-
other bout for his team to win It's FIRST
match. Whatever the results Of the
among his men Q liking for the sport
and an admiration for himself that
knows no bounds.
TT might be mentioned IN speUaSing Of
i boxing at Maryland that whatever
the result of its entry into q sport
about which it had considerable mis-
giving, failure will not be because of
lack Of high-type instruction and
leadership. Whip personally Is q fine
chap and will have the best interests
OF his men at heart, far above his nat
ural desire for victory. He is q credit
to any organization with which he Is
connected. For years he has been box
ing instructor at the Racquet Club and
continues to hold that job.
Maryland is having considerable diff
ficulty figuring out way to seat the
crowd. The gymnasium wiz take care
Of about $500 at basket ball game
and Of $500 at boxing match, and
the problem is to so arrange things that
all that desire may see both kinds of
competition. It is likely that the bas-
ket ball game will be played first, so
that the pressure for seats will be
eased up some by having those who
want to see only the boxing match
come little late. The present pro-
gram provides for the basket ball at
ian and hnwfRer az II