Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1933-03-09
SEES FINE CHANCE
| TO BEAT CARNEGIE
Victory Tomorrow Would Tie
for Third PIace-40 Grid.
ders Drill at Hilltop.

- GEORGETOWN plays Car
~ negie Tech tomorrow
~ night at $3.50 o'clock in
the Tech High gym
nasium in the final game Of its
basket ball season. If 1t wins it
will wind up its schedule in the
league in a third-place tie with
Carnegie Tech.
Our team is gong better now than
at any previous time this season."
said Graduate Manager Murphy today,
land, frankly. I expect to see VIC
tory tomorrow. Coach Freddie Mesmer
has done q wonderful job with the
against Pittsburgh, and We ought to
do Just as well against the Plaid.
incidentally, want to see our team
finish on an even basis with Carnegie
Tech in the league standing, and 1t will
take a victory to do that. Our play
ers are filled with the same idea, and
that should give them all the pep
they need to play rafting good
game"
Carnegie Tech won from George
town two or three weeks ago out at
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the Blue and Gray still seems to feel
that it can come out on top tomor-
row. Georgetown says that 1t has
measured the strength Of its opponent
and that, with its own advancement
since that time, it can win.
CEORGETowN began Spring foot
" ball practice in earnest yesterday.
The squad, numbering about 40,
which reported Monday. took the feld
under the direction Of Coach Jack
Hagerty, and will continue workouts
over period of five or six weeks.
Very little was done yesterday, other
than to take light exercises. but Hagerty
| expects to have the men in shape
shortly to 60 through about as hard
foot ball as they will face in the Fall.
You know what kind Of task that
confronts me-" said Hagerty, "and I
don't lock forward to next Fall with
any thought Of an easy job. We have
our work cut out for US In many
ways. In the first place we will not
have typically strong, rugged and ex-
perienced Georgetown material. and
will have to depend on lot Of game
youngsters who know very little about
the game. 1t Is going to be a case
Of build from the ground up, with
no illusions as to our problem. We're
going along and do the best We can.
Just how good that best will be. no
one can tell. know can't. However,
we should profit some by the expert
ences Of last Fall, and I believe we
should pull together and have a won-
derful team spirit. That may carry
US far"
Coach Hagerty expects to carry the
squad along for a few days until the
men get hardened to physical contacts
and then go in fer the rough work
without any wraps. He plans net only
| to practice foot ball but to play foot
ball and thereby give his players the
experience Of actual competitive con-
ditions.
DESPITE the fact that the present
/ - Southern Conference Is not as
large as the old Southern Confer
! ence, every record for the annual indoor
conference track championships last
week at Chapel Hill was broken except
two, it has been pointed out by one Of
the coaches
THE meet at Chapel Hill" said this
coach, was productive Of the best in
door performances that have ever been
set for Southern Conference games,
which. it seems to me. is quite credit
able to the schools in this section"
Incidentally, the present Southern
Conference membership Jared consid-
erably better financially in the basket
ball tournament this year and also In
the boxing tournament. 1t Is reported
that the two tournaments not only paid
all expenses for the contending schools,
but also made some profits for the con-
ference treasury. If so, this is the first
time that such excellent results have
been noted. 1t is particularly signifi-
cant, too, in the light of the depressed
! financial situation.
THOSE responsible for the financing
i Of college athletics are thanking
| their stars that the present situa-
ton developed at this time instead Of
next Fall. Happening during q foot
ball season. such conditions as now exist
would almost wipe out college athletics
for year.
College men directly concerned with
the management of athletics are hoping
that the country will have got itself out
of most of its financial difficulties by
the time october / comes around. II,
for some reason. it has not, then there
will be some retrenchments in college
sports TAR beyond anything even dream
ed Of in the last is or 20 years as re-
motely possible.