Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-04-28
GUARD IS PRODUCT
OF DETERMINATION
Bergman Lauds .153-Pound-
er, Who Is Assisting With
Catholic U. Drills.
BY H. C. BYRD.

hard work, application to g
given purpose and studiouS
attention to details can &C
complish has been found, accord
ing to Dutch" Bergman, athletic
director Of Catholic University
That example is the living person
Of Bert Metzger, brilliant Notre
Dame guard of last Fall, now as
sisting Bergman in Spring foot
ball coaching.
1t is Bergman's opinion that no other
guard in the whole h.stcry of the grid
iron ever surpassed. possibly ever
equaled, Metzger's ability to carry cut
the details o. fundamental tei~n:- e
AMI offensive line p ay, especially es IL
applies to the type OF play at NoS-e
Dame.
IT have never seen, and doubt If
there ever existed, in foot ball any man
who could equal Metzger in actually
doing in q line of scrimmage everything
q guard Is supposed to do. Last Winter
Rockne told me that Metzger worked
hours more than any other player on
the squad in perfecting the mech lnical
part Of guard play. And being excep-
tionally intelligent, 1t was easy for Metz
ger, once he mastered the intricacies Of
guard play, to put into effect what he
had learned.
"Rockne told me that in all his coach
ing he never had any other man so will
ing to put in so much extra time to
learn the fundamentals of line play.
And after all, you know, putting into
effect the fundamentals CT line play Is
about all there is to being great guard
And Metzger was all of th-t and
more. He Is small, it is true, as he right
is only relative In his case. He really Is
big, as have never seen a man of 100
pounds with a better pair OF HANDS or
mcre superbly developed arms and
shoulders. Physic lily he is enc Of those
chaps that one finds only once in q
great while. As soon as Metzgsr began
to work with us tn S Spring I readily
saw why he YVES a great guard. 1t was
simply q case Ct his being abe to do
things so much more productivity ami
expsrtly than his opponents that he
more than Offset any weight advantage
his opponents had"
Bergman expresses himself as being
very sorry that Metzger will not be with
him next season. It Is understood that
Dame In June and that he will 60 to
work for the Bowman Dairy Co. Of
Chicago, in which his father is an ex-
ecutive and director.
Temple University comes here today
to meet Georgetown In base ball. Not
much Is known Of the strength of the
visiting nine, but IL 1t measures up In
base ball to what 1t has been showing
in the last two or three years in foot
ball, 1t may be a tough nut for the
Blue and Gray to crack.
Hampden-Sidney's tennis team is due
here this afternoon to meet George
Washington In tennis.
Catholic University's track and field
squad leaves tonight for Wake Forest,
N. c., where 1t is to engage in dual
meet with Wake Forest College tomor-
show q little more improvement in the
field events, think they have better
than an even chance to win.
University of Marylands lacrosse
team started to pick up the threads to-
day in practice for its first big home
game of the year. that with Penn State
Saturday. The Old Liners meet Penn
State as a part of their annual Spring
Field day program, end it Is the first
time they have played in several years.
The Maryland team came through its
game with Syracuse without much
trouble. In fact, Maryland surprised its
own supporters by trimming the New
Workers so decisively, especially as 1t
game that Maryland was not likely to
draw anything better than something
like 3-to-2 or 5-to-3 defeat
CEoRGETowN viii be represented
~ in an intercollegiate ba-ket ball
conference OF or pc-sib'y 10 in
etitutions next Winter. II plans carry.
Preliminary consideration was given
the project at a meeting at Ph,ladel-
phia, at which Georgetown was repre-
scented, along with New York University,
Syracuse, West Virgfn.a. Pi"--hu-ge.
Carnegie Tech and Tempe. Co,got~'s
graduate mani ger was unable u att"n1.
A committee to work out pans was
named The committee will report 1T
meeting next month. probably in Phil
adelphia.
Maryland's base ball team tod,y viz
tually Is out Of the running for top
honors in the Tri-State League Of the
Southern Conference as the result of Its
lima State at College Park. State now
Is close behind the loop-leading North
Carolina team. The Old Liners have
won six league games and lost four and
have only two more loop contests.
Until the eighth 1t looked like q
Maryland win. State was trailing, TO
3, when 1t came to bat in that inning.
but before the session was over chased
across three runs. when Alien Nelms,
Wolfpack left fielder. got fiuky home
run TO score two ahead Of him.
tanning for State and McIlwee for
Maryland both pitched well.
Score: