Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-04
COLONIAL TOSSERS
FACE Strong FOES
Cardinals Resume Action,
Old Liners Open Play.
HoyaS Alone Idle.
BY H. C. BYRD.

~OLLEGE basket ball this
week makes its re-entery
~ on the athletic stage.
Georgetown is the only
local institution without a game,
and it does not play until January
Is, when it meets Johns Hopkins
at Baltimore. George Washington,
Catholic University and Maryland
have several contests.
George Washington has the toughest
opening assignment, as 1t goes to An
napolis Wednesday for a game with
Navy. The Midshipmen are about as
tough q foe in basket ball, especially
at Annapolis, as any quint one cares
to meet. Few teams are harder to
whip.
incidentally, George washington has
two other games not likely to be set
ups, Vlllanova and Drexel, both away.
Vlllanova usually has good teams in all
branches of sports. Drexel is said TO
be way above its average.
Maryland opens its season Wednes-
day with Gallaudet and is far from
reality, it seems that Coach Shipley is
worrying more about this game than
about some Of those later in the year
with the big schools. After playing
CIallaudet, Maryland leaves Friday aft
ernoon for Lexington, Va, where it
plays Virginia Military Institute on
Friday night and washington and Lee
On Saturday.
Catholic University is to take part in
two games, both at home. Thursday
night it entertains the Benjamin Frank
lin University five and Saturday has
an engagement with Geneva. The
Geneva five Is likely to give the Brook
landers exceptional opposition.
American University has only one
game, that with Gallaudet in the
American University gymnasium on
Friday.
TT generally is expected that basket
i ball competition in which local coll
leges are to appear this Winter
should be as good as any in the history
Of the game here. George Washington
Is firm in the belief it will have just
about as good five as has ever worn
its colors and that this i've should
hold its own against the best quints it
Is to face. Georgetown looks forward
TO q successful year, with team well
UP to the high caliber Of other George
town teams.
Maryland has not yet been on the
court in q formal game, but is expected
to have q strong combination that may
be lacking in reserve strength. The
Old Liners have back sufnclent
nucleus from last years squad for one
good team, but beyond that things do
not seem so bright.
MO doubt college basket ball, and to
IN some extent boxing viii flourish in
local gymnaSiums during the next
two months, but indoor track may not
be on as high a plane as IN some
recent seasons.
Georgetown apparently is not paying
as much attention to indoor track as
other local college that has made mucn
of an attempt to carry on the sport
on q fairly big scale, is not going In
for 1t so strong.
Catholic University again Is to foster
an indoor meet early in Marcn ana
this may be tile center around which
more widespread track activity may be
developed.
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND is
" going In for intercollegiate boxing
this Winter on a small scale, more
as q .tryout for the sport than any
thing else. There seems to be good
deal Of hesitancy on the part of those
colleges that have boxing to give the
sp-rt too much of a good recommends
ton. and Maryland expects to tread
cautiously In handling it.
Three matches have been arranged
for this Winter, two with Washington
and Lee and one with Virginia Military
Institute.
Cornell University also is taking up
boxing for the first time. but is to run
only exhibition bouts, without decisions
II now is asking several colleges TO
meet 1t on that basis.