Evening star., 1932-01-17

~ Wednesday of this week
the University OF Mary
" land dedicates its new
athletic building
The structure is to be known a.
the "Ritchie Coliseum" in honor
of Gov. Albert c. Ritchie.
Maryland's basket ball opponent
in the dedication game will be the
Naval Academy, which for the
first time is sending its quint to
play on a local floor.
In all probability this marks the hlgh
spot for local college athletics for the
Winter. The dedication exercises are
10 be held at 7:45 o'clock and the oas-
ket ball game is scheduled TO oeem
at $40. ,,,
GOV. Ritchie will be present, as Will
many others high in the public NE OF
MARYLAND. In fact, the majority OF
those who are high in the pubic lie
of the State have signified their lnteh-
ton to attend. Senator Millard E. "
dinEs Of Maryland is to make the deol-
cation address. There probably Will ne
q brief response by Gov. Ritchle. PIol.
Charles S. Richardson, heao OF lhe
public speaking department and
member of the athletic board since 1t
first was organized 80 years ago and
John ONeil an alumnus who was
president of the Student Government
Association when the plan for the erec-
tion Of the building was developed, are
~ c4va three minute talks.
NAVY and Maryland are fairly sure
~ to put up a great basket oali
game. That is, the game should
be sreat II it measures up to any OF
the contests between the two lnstitu-
tions in the last few years. usually
one or the other wins by two or three
points in a game that just about gives
all the thrills that can be got out OF
court contest Rivalry between Navy
and Maryland has been growing until
now that meetings between them at-
tract the largest crowds that see inter-
collegiate contests in Maryland:
Navy has one Of the greatest LOT.
wards in basket ball in the person OF
I Iouehlin. Last year he almost whipped
MARYLAND single handed, for his play
certainly represented to Navy good
deal more tnan the three-point mar
gin by which 1t won. This year Navy
bas an exceptionally good quint, and so
has MARYLAND. The result should be
one Of the greatest basket ball struggles
of the year.
WITH the Navy game, Maryland
w puts into use one Of the most
complete buildings Of its kind in
the country perhaps the most complete.
Actually, the structure Is an indoor
stadium. with a good deal added. For
basket ball there are 4,262 reserved
seats, 2,131 on each side OF the court.
Every seat in the building offers plain
view of both baskets. For boxing
match there will be reserved seats for
close to 5000 persons.
an the right of the lobby, at the
~ front entrance, Is a small loung-
ing room and an Office. On the
left is another office and stairway
leading to the second floor, on which
Is @ big trophy room, womans walt
ing room and lounging room for
members Of the university faculty. In
the front lobby are ticket booths and
stairways on each side leading to cor
ridors running the length Of the build
ing under the stands, off which corridors
are dressing and supply rooms. On the
right corridor is an equipment room,
public smoking room, laundrl,
room for games officials, visiting
team room, trainers room and foot
ball dressing quarters. On the corr1dor
to the left are the training quarters Tor
the boxing team, consisting of room
for the ring and dressing room, la
crosse dressing room, a storeroom ana
rooms for the track team, for the fresh
man teams, and basket ball and base
ball. Each room has its own showers.
Both corridors lead to a rear lobby
From this rear lobby Is q stairway that
goes to visiting team quarters on the
second floor. The visiting team quar-
ters consist of large dormitory for
sleeping purposes, a dressing room,
showers and so on. A third floor over
the rear lobby provides six additional
dormitory rooms. The construction OF
the room in which the playing floor is
located involved the erection OF the
longest steel girders of the kind ever
placed in a building in the State. The
whole building is network OF steel,
brick and concrete.
FOLLOWING the game with Navy
i the building is to be kept open Tor
two hours so that alumni and all
others interested may go through IT,
A force of $50 men have been working
night and day for the last month SO
that 1t might be complete in time 10
dedicate it with the Navy game. All
that remains now Is the shaping up OF
some odds and ends. cleaning up deorf
and painting All the painting VIII NOT
be finished.
The M Club, the organization OF
MARYLAND athletes who have won their
letters. has donated 81 900 for gate
wsy to the drive leading to the building
and it was hoped that this might also
be ready for the dedication, but that
now seems impossible owing to delays
in the construction Of the roadway ano
grading occasioned by the rains OF last
week.
ID ESIDES the Navy, Maryland meets
ID two other rivals this week, Virginia
at Charlottesville on Thursday and
Johns Hopkins at Baltimore Saturday
The Virginia game originally was sched-
uled Tuesday, but was shifted at Mary
lands request, in order to clear the
situation prior to the tilt with Navy
incidentally, all three games give indi-
cations of being real struggles. Virgins
was defeated by Navy by only one point
after II had led easily during the create
part Of the play, and Hopkins seems t.
have about the best five it has eve
turned out.
Tomorrow night Loyola comes her
10 meet Catholic University, and IN
Baltimoreans have good team. any
uav II was good enough to whal
Maryland by 28 to 27, when it caugh
the latter more or less unawares. Cath
olic University, however, seems TO 0
rapidly improving with every game
plays. and is giving its opponents som
rather rude jolts, despite the fact !
started off as If it were going to b
weak.
DUQUEsNE UNIVERSITY is to visi
IL washington for three games Tues
day, Wednesday and Thursda!
The first is with Georgetown, the sec
ond with Catholic University, and tn
third with George Washington. 1t
understood that DuqueSne has baskt
ball SQUAD that compares favorably wit
its fine foot ball team Of last Fall. Ant