Evening star., 1932-02-15

In Ritchie Coliseum the biggest
man playing basket ball in Amer
lea. Victor GrieWank, center,
stands 6 feet 9 inches, according
TO report from Lexington.
Griewank is so tall that against Will
liam and Mary last week III the flrst
game in which he appeared he stood
under the basket and pushed the pail
down through il instead OF tossing II
UP and over the ring.
Last week Washington and Lee over
whelmed William and Mary 81 to II
and no small part of the one-Slded
victory was the result of giant centers S
handling of the ball at center and
under the basket. 1t seems that with
his height it was simply a case OF Will
liam and Mary, once he got his hands
on the ball, waiting to see what ne
would do with it. Against the de-
fensive play of the big middle west
erner, William and Mary was able 10
make only four goals from the floor.
DOWN at Lexington in January
- MARYLAND defeated, Washington
and Lee 40 to 49, Tonight, it is
claimed in Lexington. the Generals
should be so per cent stronger. largely
through the remarkable physical specl-
men they have at center and the great
advantage given the team by his helght.
Both Marylands games with Wash
tngton and Lee were scheduled in jan
uary, but the Old Liners agreed to post
pone the one here from January to
tonight so that GrieWank would be
eligible to play The big center be-
came eligible at the beginning OF the
second semester. in time to play for the
first time against William and Mary.
No man as tail as Griewank has ever
plaved basket ball here, or ever been on
any other kind of team, not in recent
years anyway. George Washington S
center. Hertzler. stands six feet five
and is about the tallest man any local
five ever has had in its lineup What
a center six feet nine will be able to
do, Maryland players especially are
rather anxious to know.
It is likely that Maryland will start
the same team against washington
and Lee that went on the floor against
Virginia and which played most of the
game against Washington and Lee at
Lexington. Washington and Lee will
have the same lineup, too, with the
exception that Bailey has been moved
from center to guard to make room
for GrieWank. Bailey is the 200pound
fullback of the Generals eleven of last
Fall
The game is to begin at 8:15.
CEOR G E WASHINGTON'S basket
" ball team has gone to Pittsburgh
to play its second game of the
year with Duquesne University. The
Colonials won from Duquesne here, and
won without a whole lot of trouble.
Out at Pittsburgh. though. Duquesne
may be a good deal harder to beat. In
fact. it would not be surprise, nor
should it be accepted as a criterion of
weakness. if the Colonials have their
undefeated record shattered. Followers
of the local university, though. are
hoping for another victory, and expect
ing one. too. with the idea that if the
team passes tonights test it may go
through without the loss of game.
However. to do this George Washington
will have to Surmount two more dlttl-
cult hurdles. as both st. Johns of
Brooklyn and Rider College of Newark,
N. j., have good teams, which must be
met on their own floors.
The greatest interest in the George
Washington five right now centers in
whether or not is can complete its sea-
son without defeat. There is not much
doubt that it will win the remaining
games on its own floor but these tests
on foreign floors with DuqueSne, St.
Johns of Brooklyn and Rider College
are quite another thing.
JAMES G. DRIVER, director of ath-
letics at Virginia, said this morn
ing Just before leaving here to re-
turn to Charlottesville that he expects
two of the greatest contests OF the year
in the South Atlantic section to take
place this week end. These are the
boxing match between Virginia and
Yale at Charlottesville and the basket
ball game between Maryland and Duke
at Durham. In giving his opinion OF
these, Driver says.
Our boxing match with Yale ought
to be one of the most brilliant affairs
of the kind ever staged. Yale has
lost only three or four dual boxing
meets in the 10 or u years it has had
the sport, while We also have a fine
team. 1t ought to be one of the great
est intercollegiate dual meets of all
time And I think that the basket ball
game between Duke and Maryland is
going to be the best the South Atlantic
section will see this year That Duke
five is a hard outfit to whip and. frank
", 1 lock for it to win, despite the
brilliant record Maryland has"
Boxing at Virginia, according to
Driver, is the most popular of indoor
sports It is his expectation that the
dual meet with Yale Saturday night
will out-tax the capacity of the big
gymnasium in which the bouts are held.
The ordinary boxing meet at Virginia
nearlv fills the gym, which not only has
a big first floor, but also a gallery. and
such a meet as the one with Yale
promises to create a demand for tickets
beyond the supply.
CEORGE WASHINGTON ran up
" AGAINST Baltimore University
Saturday night the biggest margin
BY which any local basket ball team
has won a game in years, and 1t may be
the biggest by which any team here
ever has won. To make 70 points, even
AGAINST weak five, means exceptionally
accurate shooting, far more accurate
than an average basket ball team
could do.
For about 10 minutes of the second
half of the game between Maryland and
Virginia the former gave about as bril-
liant an exhibition of basket ball as
could have been expected on any floor
or by any team. Everything it did
worked with machine-like precision, its
passing and accurate shooting being
almost uncanny. If they could hit that
gait at the beginning of game and
keep it up, there would be no other
college five able to take the measure of
the Black and Gold. incidentally, Mary
lands wide margin of victory over Vir-
ginia was just as unexpected to Mary
landers as to Virginians. and the only
factor that produced it was that 10