Evening star., 1932-12-19
6-F0OTERS CLASH
ON R|TCH|E COURT
Rangy Badgers, Old Liners
Due to Face Friday-G. W.
Battles Baltimore.
BY H. c. BYRD.

i the floor in a college basket
ball game in this section
are due to line up against each
other Friday night in Richie
Coliseum when University of Wis
consin comes here to meet Uni
versity of Maryland. Only one
man of the 10 slated to start the
game is under 6 feet, and he
stands about S feet II inches.
Take that Wisconsin five, analyze its
physical characteristics, and 1t seems
almost impossible to prevent 1t scoring
freely. Mcdonald. at center, tips the
scales at ITS pounds and stands feet
2 inches. ReWey, one Of the forwards.
IS feet 3 inches in height, while his
running mate at the other forward
Poser, Is only little shorter. One of
the guards, Miller, is only feet, but
the other, Hamann, makes up for that
slight shortcoming by having a rangy
form that extends feet inches in
the air
Hamann also is the heaviest man on
the Wisconsin five, scaling Just
pounds short of 200. Rewey is the
next heaviest player, with 181 pounds.
But, while the Wisconsin team seems
to be beyond reach of anything except
a giraffe, a glance at the heights of
Maryland players shows that the local
school almost matches the WeSternerS
In ability to reach toward the baskets
Vincent, who will start at center. IS
feet 3 inches, which gives him an
inch advantage of his opponent. Spen-
Ger Chase and Roy Yowell. Old Line
forwards. each stands feet 2 inches,
while Alton Buscher, one of the guards,
IS an even 6 feet Bob Snyder, the
other guard. is the baby of the two
While Maryland comes very close
to matching Wisconsin in heights. IN
the matter of weights the Western five
will have the advantage. Vincent. with
$50 pounds. is the heaviest man in the
Maryland lineup, with Buscher, at ITO,
next. Chase. While very tall. Is slight
in build and carries only $50 pounds.
and Yowell is something of the same
type, although 10 pounds heavier.
Snyder weights 1865.
Last year Maryland played at Wis
consin and lest by one point after be-
ing in the lead by one point with less
than 80 seconds before the games end.
IF Columbia is as strong as 1t usually
i is, then Navy's one-sided victory over
that university Saturday would seem
sufficient reason for saying that Navy
may this year have one Of the strong
est basket ball teams 1t has ever de-
veloped.
1t simply ran away with Columbia.
It seems that Navy has now what it
lacked all last season, fast high-scor-
ing forward. Berries appears to fill
that bill admirably. Against Columbia,
he scored 10 points, with IA of them on
goals from the focr. Loughlin, star
guard, also was at his old tricks, as he
made IS points.
THE announced intention Of several
i Of the smaller colleges in this sec
ton to form conference OF their
own and hold their schedules as much
as possible among themselves Is in
telligent.
1t is said that st. Johns College OF
Annapolis and Hampden Sidney have
taken the lead in efforts to organize
such body. The most foolish thing
that small school can do is to Sched-
ule too many games with schools with
which it cannot compete on even terms
One or two such games each season
probably would be all right, but any
more than that is mistake.
st. Johns College itself has played
entirely too manv games with larger
schools. It played too many such foot
ball games last Fall lost good many
and now has some members Of its alum
nj group bowling for the scalps Of all
who have anything to do with athletics
there.
OF course. the present head Of the
college is too intelligent. and Is in too
strong position personally. to pay very
much attention to such howls, but in
schools where conditions are often
good deal different the howls probably
would get somebody's scalp.
JUST who will coach Yale's foot ball
team next Fall should furnish food
for gossip by sports writer's for
some time to come Some think that
Adama Walsh. who has been line coach
for four years, will be the man, while
others are just as decisive in their
opinions that another Yale graduate
will head up the team.
One rumor that has come to the
writer with a good deal of persistence
is that Tad Jones is to take hold of
the reins again. 1t seems that a good
many peop,e at Yale feel that they did
not properly appreciate Jones until
after he left and that ne should again
be given charge. Yale could make a
good many worse decisions.
Stevens winds-up his coaching career
at Yale after about the worst season a
Yale eleven ever has experienced. OF
course, he leaves his pest in good favor
and with good feeling, but despite the
fine sentiments expressed by both him
and the Yale athletic authorities, the
real situation probably is that Yale
does not like to lose many games any
more than other schools do.
nUKE UNIVERSITY came here and
l. walked away with both Georgetown
and George Washington, which
apparently gives University of Maryland
a good break on its game with Duke
here later in the year. 1t is always
easier to play against highly success
full team in any sport than against one
that sometimes is good and sometimes
is not.
Duke bore out advance notices of its
proves. and 1t is very interesting to
note that the two Thompson bows, for
merly of Western High School, we're
the mainsprings in the Duke attack
and defense.
IT is almost Christmas, but foot ball
j still is holding the front page head
lines. Saturday, three Southern
elevens met three from the Far West.
with victory in one case and disaster in
the other two.
Florida sprang a surprise by whipping
the eleven that everybody felt was better
than either of the other two Western
schools that met Southern institutions
Florida took the measure of the Uni
versity of California at Los Angeles,
while Georgia Tech, which beat Florida
was soundly whipped by University OF
California.
One might think that the long trip
cost both the U. c. L. A. and Georgia
Tech a good deal if one did not re-
member Immediately that Oregon
journeyed to Baton Rouge to whip
Louisiana State.
The truth probably Is that Florida,
Nth . green team and losing season,