Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-22


~ tailed base ball schedule
While no list has been an
nounced, it is understood to be
practically complete, with a total
Of about 20 games instead of the
80 played last season. Also the
Northern trip, with which each
season for several years has been
ended, will not be taken.
Gabe Murphy graduate manager of
athletics at Georgetown, says that there
is no particular reason for playing fewer
games this year than last other than
simple inability to schedule as many
through failure to agree on dates and
so on. The Blue and Gray. according
70 Murphy, plans to open its season
late in March with games at Lexington,
Va, with Washington and Lee and Viz
g1nia Military Institute on March %
and %. The season is to run until late
In May.
In curtailing its base ball schedule,
Georgetown is taking action that fol-
lows what several other colleges and
universities have done The Blue and
Gray, while it does not say so, and
probably will not, is in something of
the position in which a great many
other schools find themselves, which is
that Of asking themselves If they are
getting from base ball full value for the
money expended thereon. Running an
intercollegiate schedule of 80 or more
games entails a considerable layout in
hard cash, with nothing coming in and
without much interest except among the
actual players. For that reason a good
many schools, and probably Georgetown
among them, are quietly considering
various aspects of the problems in
Spring sports and seeking some solution
which will enable them to use their
money to get larger returns in the way
Of values to their student bodies as a
whole.
TEORGETOWN expects to announce
~ its complete schedule within the
next week or so. The list of games
virtually is complete, except for one or
two doubtful dates here near the end
Of the year.
Appointment Of clipper" Smith, as
sistant coach at Georgetown last Fall.
TO be head coach of foot ball at North
Carolina State College settles the
coaching situation there, but right here
1t brings out another problem for
Georgetown. The local school now
must cast around for somebody to fill
Smiths shoes as line coach next Fall.
In speaking Of Smiths appointment,
probably no more all-encompaSsin
comment on the kind of man North
Carolina State is getting could be made
than to quote Tom Mills estimate of
him when asked whether or not Smith
should make good. Said Mills:
Clipper is one Of the finest men
I've ever known. I'd go the limit for
him in anything because he's worth it.
He was an All-America guard at Notre
Dame, and knows more about line play
than any man I've ever seen in the
coaching game. He, in my opinion,
was the greatest Of Notre Dame line
men. He coached at Notre Dame when
was there and made good, and, unless
! miss my guess, hen make good at
Raleigh
THE news Of Bob LeGendre's death
i will be q great shock to his many
friends in and around Washington as
well as in otaer sections of the coun-
try The former Georgetown athlete
was the type of man who made few
enemies and many friends. His pass
ing is all the greater shock when one
thinks of him as the kind of man from
whom death seems iarthest removed.
Big strong, cheerful, always with an
engaging smile, he seemed well able to
hold his own in competition with
disease as with world stars of the Gin
der path and jumping pits The pass
ing Of such an one Is Just a part Of
the journey along that mysterious way
on which only the final rending of the
ven can shed true light.
University Of MaryIand's basket ball
team goes TO Baltimore tonight to play
Johns Hopkins in the first of two games
between these schools Maryland won
both contests last season, but Hopkins
apparently has a much stronger five.
The game Is to begin at $3.50 in the
Loyola College gymnasium. Maryland
Is likely to start the same five men
who have borne the brunt Of the cam
paign so far, Berger, Chalmers. Norris,
Ronkin and May.
Tody Riggs, athletic director and head
coach Of foot ball at st. Johns College,
says that McCartee, former Tech High
athletic star who entered st. Johns last
Fall, is the greatest basket ball player
he has ever seen in a first year at col
lege. 1t Is Riggs opinion that Nc
Cartee should develop into one Of the
best men in basket ball ranks. Riggs
also is authority for the statement that
McCartee personally is just about as
high type Of chap as one ever comes in
contact with. This opinion bears out
the statement made by Artie Boyd, Tech
coach, when McCartee was a star under
him, which was that "McCartee Is the
best high school basket ball player I've
ever seen, and one of the rnest fellows"
TEORGETOWN'S basket ball team
" got back into the won column last
night by defeating Mount st.
Marys, "a to %, in the Tech gym.
The Hoyas were not pressed, the
Mount st. Mary's team was not strong.
and as result a rather listless exhibit
ton was on tap.
Georgetown ran up 17-to-2 lead
before the first half ended and after
that the game was q mere formality OF
formulating the Al rninutas Of nlaN