Evening star., 1932-12-09
WILL OPPOSE PITT
TOMORROW NIGHT
American U. Five Entertains
Hampden Sidney Tonight.
Terrors Are Good.
BY H. c. BYRD.


the university bearing the nams
of that city. The Blue and Gray
realizes it will be against one OF
the strongest fives in the East, ano
that it will be very, very fortunate
to win.
The teams went through about ar
hour Of scrimmage yesterday with the
Maryland squad and showed fairly well
Coach Freddy Mesmer expressed himself
as being well satisfied with the workout
GEORGETOWN had the better Of the scrim-
mage, its players shooting much more
accurately than the Marylanders.
Apparently Mesner intends to use
Hardigan, Crowley, Murphy, Connors
and Carolan as his regulars, as they
were in the scrimmage virtually all the
time. PARCELS, foot ball halfback
showed some ability when he got on
the floor.
This is the kind of practice that
should develop teams more rapidly than
anything else," agreed both Coach Mes
mer and Coach Shipley of Maryland
eff such workouts as this will not put
men on their mettle, then we don't
know what will. Wen get together
again before long"
"A MEXICAN UNIVERSITIES basket
n ball team goes on the floor again
tonight, with Hampden Sidney as
its opponent. The local school Is likely
to have a good deal stronger opposition
than it met Wednesday in Maryland
State Normal.
Hampden Sidney usually is represent
ed by as strong teams in all sports as
the ordinary small college puts out, and
it may be good enough to take Amer
ican us measure.
CALLAUDET plays its first game to-
" morrow with a team made up of
its alumni The showing to be
made by the Kendall Green five should
depend q good deal on the physical
condition of the alumni. II the gradu-
ates are able to stand the pace and
have been working together, then Gal
laudet may have anything but an easy
row to hoe.
MARYLAND has two men certain to
lVl be regulars on its basket ball
team sitting On the bench with
injuries, unable to practice. Vincent.
who alternated last year with Norris at
center. got a badly bruised shoulder in
the last quarter of the final foot ball
game. while Yowell slipped and twisted
his ankle Yesterday in practice. Both
men will be missed from the lineup If
they are not able to get in soon, as both
stand well over 6 feet and are good
shots.
Maryland probably will have con-
siderably taller team, as whole, than
IL had last wear It Is likely that four
of the five regulars will stand over q
feet and the fifth about feet II inches.
Vincent, Yowell, Chase and BuScher
are the tall boys, while Snyder Is not
far short of feet. Unless Evans,
Walker or Weber show some very rapid
DEVELOPMENT these are the five men who
will make the regular berths. Evans a
graduate of the Hyattsville High, Is
picked to give somebody real battle
for a permanent place. He is probably
the fastest man on the squad.
yYTIILIAM AND MARY is changing
w its associations in Washington, as
it is to meet Georgetown next sea-
son instead of George Washington. In
cidentally, Georgetown foot ball sched-
ule is about complete, although
not yet announced. Carnegie Tech is
TO come here again, which shows that
Georgetown Is not daunted in the least
by whipping.
THE following query came this morn
i ing to the writer:
"Just how good was the Western
Maryland College foot ball team, and
was it flash or did it measure up
with the strongest Eastern teams9"
An answer to the above in one re-
spect Is easy, in another not SO easy.
It is hard to tell just how good any
foot ball team really is. Some days 1t
may be very, very good and some others
not SO good. However, be that as it
may, in the opinion of the writer, the
Western Maryland eleven at its best
was good enough to meet on even terms
virtually any other team in the East.
It probably would have been whipped
easily by Pittsburgh, Army, Colgate or
Brown, because it did not have the
ends to withstand battering attack,
but would have done well against any
of the other elevens. The one weak
phase Of Western Maryland was in its
end play. The two ends were not bad
the standard of the remainder of the
team.
incidentally. Western Maryland was
one of the best coached teams in the
East There are few, If any. better
coaches in the country than Dick Har-
low.
CTARS Of college foot ball are gath
~ ering in Baltimore for game Sat-
urday, to be known as the North
South game. The players of both
elevens undoubtedly will be competent
enough, but cohesive play on the part
of the two teams seems more or less
impossible of attainment. When 1t Is
considered that coach feels that a
month is all too short time to get his
team ready for an opening game. one
wonders how anybody could expect 4
team to be got ready in three or four
days. In this kind Of game it is the
which proves attractive.
MARYLAND students have raised
lv1 rather an interesting point in
connection with admission to
athletic games, particularly foot ball
Their contention Is that when Mary
land team plays away from home Mary
land students ought to be allowed to see
the game without an admission charge
And, of course, IL that works, schools
that send their teams to Maryland
should have their students admitted
there. This is not exactly the way the
question has been raised by the Old
Liners, but there is no real reason why
some such arrangement should not be
worked out. 1t certainly would not cost
contending schools anything worth
mentioning, and might work out te
create much greater interest in the
games.
PLEASANT PLAINS BUSY.