Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1932-01-18

they feel JlaJ announcer WIN, WHICH Will
be almost a triumph, should place
them on the high road to an eXcep-
tionally good year, or, anyway, far
better one than anybody had any good
reason to expect.
Bus Sheary and White are the main
springs in the c. U. five, and they bore
the brunt of the offense in the defeat
of st. Joseph's and Villanova last week
However, the work of Gallagher, a
Washington boy, who recently won a
Job at center, has been a factor as he
seems to have added Just about what
was needed to give the team a fair
chance against strong opponents.
Loyola is to present against the
Brpoklanders a team hard to defeat. At
least Maryland found it tough enough
opponent last week. If C. U. can get
away with the long end Of the score
It will be its best accomplishment this
season, and certainly should develop in
the players a good deal of confidence.
And such a victory would be an
indication Of future successes.
FORREST COTTON, coach of the
i BrooklanderS in basket ball, is
much encouraged over the i'm
provement the team has shown. When
he began work with the squad last Fall,
Cotton'S outlook did not seem very
bright. However, he dug in, at first
with more or less Indifferent success,
but he has effected a gradual improve
ment until now it seems that he has
brought his men to a point where they
are good enough to give any Of their
opponents fairly even battle. If the
c. U. team continues throughout its
season the kind of play it showed last
week against st. Joseph's and Villanova,
whether or not it wins its games or
loses, Cotton should be given credit for
having done an exceptionally good lob.
Prior to the varsity game tonight,
the Catholic University Freshman team
meets the Loyola Freshman. The game
between the flrst-year quints is to be-
gin at o'clock and the varsity imme-
dtately after that, about $50.
Duquesne University comes here for
three games, meeting Georgetown to-
morrow night in the first. 1t plays
Catholic University Wednesday and
George Washington Thursday.
NAVAL ACADEMY has one of the
IN greatest forwards in basket ball
in the person of Elliott Loughlin.
Tall, slender, and hardly built to stand
the strain of rough contact games, FL
lott bellies his looks and actually has
endurance for almost any test. Not
only Is he fast. but in one way or an
other seems able consistently to elude
his opponents. And, once he gets clear,
1t nearly always means a goal, as
he Is wonderfully accurate shot. It
was his brilliant play that pulled the
game with Virginia out of the fire, and
Saturday he made l6 points of the
total got by Navy TO beat Duke, SO to IS.
ANY time one player cages the ball for
16 points and, comparatively speaking,
does 1t in nearly every contest, despite
the preparations and watchfulneSs of
his opponents, that player is worthy
OF lar more than ordinary consi6era-
ton. He Is the one man on the Navy
team that Maryland is jumpy about,
and not without. reason, as he PLAYED
the stellar role on the Navy five that
last year beat Maryland by 8 points.
, A MOTHER foot ball coach has shown
"A greater fondnesS for his alma
mater than for higher honors in
his profession. Tex TilSon, former Vir-
GINA Polytechnic Institute tackle, who
has been coaching Davidson's line for
several years under Monk Younger, Is
70 return to V. P. I. next Fall as line
coach, despite the fact that he has been
offered the Job at Davidson as head
coach. Younger recently left Davidson
70 coach at V. P. l., and Tilson pre-
ferred to go with him to taking the
higher position at Davidson. This ar
rangement at V. P. l. gives the Blacks
burg school an all-V. P. I. coaching
STAFF for the first time. Henry Redd.
former freshman coach at V. P. l., is to
hold the nominal title Of head coach,
but 1t is understood that Younger is to
be given a pretty free hand, with Tilson
as his assistant. All three men, to
Judge by their previous records, are
good coaches, and V. P. l., with the
very good material it has, should have
Its best team in years.
MARYLANDs basket ball team is
W playing Just about as much "in-
and-cut" basket ball as is possible
Tor the same team to play, apparently
Hardly a game goes by in which it is
not part OF the time mediocre and at
other periods brilliant. That has been
its record so far in every one Of its con-
tests. Out at Wisconsin il had the
game seWed up, but threw it away BY
letting down in the second half. Even
with that letdoWn it was leading. with
only three seconds left to play, when a
long shot tied the score and it subse-
quently lost in an extra period. Against
Loyola and Washington and Lee 1t was
flrst good, then bad, or first bad. then
good. And its contest Saturday against
Virginia Military Institute showed the
same falling. The latter had the Old
Liners on the short end of a l2-to-1
score before there was squirt which
enoed In a comparatively easy Mary
land victory, If it is TO go through
Its season with the record it hoped tc
make, then Maryland will have to shake
out OF that habit and keep up its ton
gait from start to finish.
VIRGINIA came back after its heart
v breaking defeat by Navy and gave
Washington and Lee a real drub-
blng Saturday night The Cavaliers
held the Generals to three goals from
the floor ard won, rs TO IL.
George Washington kept up its win
ming streak against Villanova and now
stands with five victories to its credit
without defeat. The team is playing
about the best basket ball that George
Washington teams have shown since
the Collihowers, Schlosser and Fowler
were in their heyday.
Foot ball teams, base ball pitchers
and almost every kind OF team and in
dividual seem to have stumbling blocks
exceedingly difficult to surmount. Fol
the University Of Tennessee this seem,
10 be Kentucky. Two out OF the las
three years the Tennessee eleven haI
been stubbed by Kentucky, and las
Fall was kept from getting an invita-.
ton to the Rose Bowl, instead o!
Tulane by the 6 To tie with Ken.
lucky. And Saturday night in baske
ball game the jinx still held good, al
Kentucky won, % to 81.
Until No. got a Job as a base bal