Evening star., 1932-01-13

Y UNIVERSITY OF MARY
LAND may hold an anna
" teur boxing tournament
for the championship of
the United States, east of the
Mississippi River, late this Win
ter. The project has gone farther
than the preliminary stages, hav-
ing been taken up informally with
representatives of the Boxing
Committee of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union. These officials have
been quietly working on the mat
ter since last Fall, and recent |
ly advised the Maryland authorl-
ties that the situation seemed very
favorable
Whether or not the tournament is to
be held depends entirely on whether or
not the best fighters are tied up by en-
tries in various local championship |
tournaments. 1t seems that nearly the |
whole of the American team that rep |
resented this country in Europe last
Summer are available, and it is said
that four or five of the stars of the |
Cleveland Chicago area are ready 10
take part. Report has it that match
between fiyweight fighter in Cleveland
and another youngSter who halls from
New York would make one of the most
attractive bouts that could be staged, as
the professional promoters have tried
again and again to get this match on
professional basis.
There is no hall in the East, except
Madison Square Garden and the Penn
pQlonCtrQ CIIlTQhlp n
boxing tournament as the building to
be dedicated at the University of Mary
land week from tonight with basket |
ball game with Navy. 1t is in this build |
ing that the tournament, If plans for 1t
mature, will be held.
CATHOLIC UNIVERSITY and Amer
~ ican University are playing on their
home floors tomorrow night, being |
scheduled to meet the st. Joseph's bas-
keters of Philadelphia and st. Johns |
of Annapolis. Both games probably will |
be well contested, with the chances that |
q good deal of fire may fly in the Amer
ican U.-St. Johns affair. st. Johns is
coming here with an exceptionally good
team. on which McCartee, praised by
Coach Artie Boyd Of Tech High as the
greatest high school basket ball player
he had ever seen, is playing a stellar
TOlb. anu, 1IlaSuluCu do ". |
has a strong five, the contest ought to
be at least little more than interest
ing. McCartee while at Tech High was
picked as the best scholastic player in
the District.
THE University Of Wisconsin next
i Winter will return Marvland's
visit to Madison last month. hav-
ing informed the Old Liners that it
hn~ osfk 49,,
or %. This will cause the game to be
scheduled at a time when the uni
versity is closed for the Christmas holi-
days, but 1t still may be seen by good |
many students, as perhaps go per cent |
of the entire student body lives within |
q radius of 35 miles. Wisconsin has |
for years stood at or near the top of |
the Western Conference in basket ball. 4,
and the system of play developed there |
has been carried through coaches al
most as far and wide as the Notre
Dame methods in foot bail. DR.. Wal
ter Meanwell, coach of Wisconsin,
spends practically all his Summer vaca-
ton teaching basket ball in several
Summer schools of physical education ,
in various sections of the country,
mostly in the Middle and Far West.
Whatever it may do during the re-
mainder Of the season, Maryland TOOK
an awful jolt on the jaw from Loyola
at College Park night before last. The
Old Liners underestimate the strength
of the BaltimoreanS and started TO play
a type of basket ball with which they
were not any too familiar.
Maryland apparently had better
team than Loyola but just did not
seem able to pull together sufficiently TO
get winning number of points. With
a championship team back intact, and
some excellent material from last year.
freshman five, Maryland has lost its
first two games by total margin OF
three points.
TIRE team. despite its two defeats,
should give a good account OF Itself
later.
IT the meeting of the Southern Con-
n ference in December the maxi
mum fee for foot ball officials was
set at $50 instead of the $75 at which
it has stood for several years. Nat
urally this has not come as very well
come news to officials and to many
members of the conference it was not
thought to be wise action. 1t is un-
derStood that the matter will be
brought up at the meeting Of the Exec
utive Committee Of the conference in
Atlanta the last Of February. Just
what will happen to it, though, is an
other question, as G. P. Miles Of Vir-
ginia Polytechnic Institute proposed
the new regulation and he is president
of the conference and in a powerful
position in the disposition of a ques-
ton that must be handled as this must
be If it is to be changed.
WHILE there is some feeling that
w foot ball coaches always are of the
opinion that officials are wrong and
give them raw deals more than once
actually the statistics of Southern Con-
ference games last Fall shows the con-
trary. The Southern Conference sup
ports its own board of officials and OF
these officials the coaches are expected
to make a report to the central oooK-
ing Office after each game. STATISTICS
kept at that Office show that OF the l3o
games on which reports were made, in
only 10 was the officiating classed as
poor. In 20 games it was marked as
excellent, in 60 games as very good, IN
81 as good, in IS as satisfactory. OF
the % coaches in the Southern Confer
ence, l3 coaches sent in reports that
their officiating for the year was very
good, three that it was good, two that
It was satisfactory, and three that it
was fair. Two coaches did not report
Incidentally, the distributing of PEN
Hfrfes is rather interesting. Naturally,
prfside penalties led with it called 542
times. There were 248 holding viola
tions, 80 for clipping, ll2 for roughncss,
As for piling on, u for unsportsman-
like conduct, 176 for men in motion
when the ball was snapped, 42 for il
legal shift, 81 for delaying the game
and lot for miscellaneous fouls.
The rather remarkable part of this
report is the number of penalties