Evening star., 1932-03-25
SURVIVORS SLATED
FOR VARSITY TEAM
PixIee Goes Easy on Spring
Grid Work-Dixie Tank
Meet Called of.
BY H. C. BYRD.

A PPROXIMATELY 200 men
~ will try out for the George
"A Washington University ten
mis- team through a plan
initiated last year by Director of
Athletics Jim Pixlee. The CO.
lonials have scheduled an intra-
mural tournament, and the sur
vivors of this are to be selected
to take part in the intercollegiate
matches. No man who does not
pass through the tournament is
to be allowed to play on the
varsity.
Last year for the tournament we
had about ITS men who took part, and
it was a great success" said Pixlee this
morning. Il expect it to be even better
this year, because to now 200 men have
signed up and by the time play begins
this may be increased by another so.
I'VE have a way OF running of this
tournament that enables us to hold it
with minimum of effort and with dis
patch. The men sign up and we pair
them to the best of our ability and then
leave it to them to sign up for courts
in various parts of the city and play
the matches at their most convenient
hour. All matches must be completed
and the results turned in within cer-
tain time limit, and If one of the con-
testantS in any of the matches fails to
show up for his match, the one who
does wins forfeit.
''TTHIS system proved so successful
l. last year in helping us to get out
for competition good many men,
that probably we shall continue it
through future seasons. 1t probably will
grow to even larger proportions as the
years add interest
With the exception of the tennis team,
George Washington will have no inter-
collegiate squads this Spring. In the
mear&ime Coach Pixlee is keeping his
foot ball squad at work in an effort to
get a line on the men he will have
available for his team next year. The
squad has been working since March ],
outside when the weather has allowed
and inside when conditions have been
too bad to go on the field.
CARl CooCo do U6lIlS
fairly we'll satisfied with the progress
he has made. 1t is not his aim, he
says, to give the squad a lot driving
work, but simply to hold such practice
as should give him an idea Of material
available for work in the Fall.
TTHE Southern Conference Swimming
l. Meet. scheduled at Atlanta, has
been called of due to the scarcity
- - d. AI.-A T.,
of the % members intended to send
teams, and it was felt that this was
not sufficiently representative to call
it championship tournament. The
same thing happened last year IN con-
nection with the wrestling tournament
Apparently there are not enough
schools in the conference supporting
these two sports to warrant champion
ship tournaments. Wrestling, except
at two schools, is on the down grade
and has been for some time, while the
cost of intercollegiate competition in
swimming for those schools that have
pools is too great to carry under pres
ent conditions.
A FEW more days like yesterday and
n today and intercollegiate teams
should make some real headway in
their efforts to get in good shape for
tlIc OpCllA1lS VI ORIlLB oSIc0ulcS.
During the holidays Georgetown and
Maryland are having their base ball
squads out for two workouts a day,
morning and afternoon
A week of such practice works Won
ders with group of college men, who
get in shape much more rapidly than
professional players. The collegians
usually have been engaging in other
sports during the Winter and do not
have TO work out the kinks due to a
layoff, such as most of the professionals
take. About all the college man has TO
do is to accustom his arm to throwing
and TO swing his bat and get his eye
on the ball
If this were written about a profess
sional ball player it might be said that
he needed some time to get his eye on
the curves, but that hardly holds good
with college men, because there never
was a college nine that could hit a
good curve ball any time. A pitcher
with a good curve usually stands the
average college team on its individual
and collective head.