Evening star., 1932-01-11

IL the center OF Ine lOCd4 III
tercollegiate athletic stage
from now until March. And it be-
gins tonight. Three games are
scheduled, in one of which two
Washington f1veS hook up, and
right on through the Winter the
six colleges that support basket
ball here will be giving the best
they have against some OF the
strongest competition to be found.
The three games tonight in no way
compare with some Of those Scheduled
later. but, at that. may develop some
excellent play. Catholic University
usually whips Gallaudct but il may
have harder going than usual. IL eX-
poets to be much better than before the
holidays, though, and when the Ken
dali GreenerS go out on the noor at
Brookland they will be against flVe
ready to battle desperately to defend
the prestige won in basket Dali over
q long stretch of years.
George washington meets the Guam
tico Marines, and should win. How
ever, the game ought to be interesting.
At Quantico last week the Colonial
team won, but found the going not at
ali smooth. On their home floor they
should be victors again, but victors In
an interesting display Of passing and
shooting.
Possibly the hardest game for any
team will be Marylands effort to avenge
the defeat it suffered last year at the
hands of Loyola. The Old Liners were
whipped by the Baltimoreans then by
Of YNoiotc in q h11rtTiOp2T H0r-
test, and haven't forgot it by any
means. Loyola probably is not quite
as strong as it was last season, though
it seems to be hitting victorious gait
against other colleges in Maryland.
All three games are to begin at 8
O'Clock. The Catholic U.-Gallaudet
contest takes place in the formers
gymnasium, George Washington battles
Marines on its own floor in the H street
gymnasium, while Maryland meets
Joyola in the last game it will play in
its present gymnasium, all other home
games this year being scheduled to take
place in the new indoor stadium it is
to dedicate with the Navy game next
week.
CAPT. LAWRENCE JONES, known
~ to his many friends here as "Bif,"
will coach the Louisiana State
University eleven for the next four
years, and in doing SO gives up the op-
portunity to be graduate manager of
athletics at West Point for the same
period. In addition to coaching at L.
S. U, Capt. Jones will take over the
duties of professor of military science
and tactics, and handle the Reserve Of
ficers' Training Corps unit of that uni
yersity.
1t is not an easy task that Jones I'M
dertakes. The fact that no man seems
to have made good on that job in many
years is sufficient indication Of the diff
ficulties attached to it. However. It is
true that Jones will have standing in
the university that no other coach has
had and command attention such as
no other coach has.
Also in the matters of organization,
his wide experience in the Army and In
handling West Point athletics should
give him big advantage over the aver
age coach. If "Bif" could manage
next wear to get victory over Tulane
he would be the biggest man in the
State Of Louisiana, outside OF New Or-
leans.
GONE colleges in this section are cut
y ting down on their base ball
schedules for the coming Spring,
and northern schools are finding 1t in
creasingly difficult to get games on
their Spring journeys. Not only are
some of the schools cutting down thelr
home games, to keep down the outlay
in guarantees, but also are eliminating
from their schedules those trips on
which they are likely to lose money.
To nut the situation rather bluntlv,
two or three institutions in the South
Atlantic section are on the ragged
edge financially, as far as their sports
are concerned. and even with the re-
trenching they are doing are pretty
sure to finish the year in the red.
The st. Johns basket ball team Of
Brooklyn, N Y, due here Friday 10
rlay Georgetown. has not lost in It's
last 16 games. The last defeat Sunerea
nv IL was in a game with New YORK
University last season. SO far this
wear the Brooklynites have eight scalps
at their belt. The Blue and Gray
probably will have its hands full, maybe
more than that.
ATAVY certainly won remarkable
~ basket ball game from Virginia,
or. perhaps to put it more aptly,
won from Virginia in remarkable way.
1t was Navys first trip to Charlottes-
VILE. ana IL was pOllJeu OuG III tllAo
column last week that 1t might run into
more of a battle than it expected. 1t
did as Virginia at one time, about the
middle Of the first half, had the score
standing IS to in its favor. Navy
finally won by a margin of one point,
tossing the winning basket in the last
few seconds. Virginia has an eXcep-
tionally good five this Winter, f1Ve
that should plav on pretty close to even
terms with all its opponents.
University of Georgia has probably
the most remarkable record IN the mat
ter Of paying for its stadium that any
school in the South ever made. 1t con-
structed its field two years ago and
opened it with game with Yale, and,
though the structure cost nearly $4,000
the final payment on it is to be made
this year. A remarkable successful foot
ball team and correspondingly success
full schedules financially have enabled
Georgia to attain such phenomenal
conclusion to its stadium efforts.