Evening star., 1933-01-17
ST. JOHNS RECORD
SHOWS NO DEFEAT
Next G. U. Basket Ball Foe
Has Won 10 in RoW-Tiit
at C. U. Tonight.
BY II. C. BYRD.

~ game Friday night with
st. Johns College of
Brooklyn as one that probably
will take precedence over any
other it is to play here this season.
St. Johns has not yet lost a
game and has 10 straight victories.
This, coupled with the fact that
Georgetown also is playing eX-
ceptionally well, ought to produce
a brilliant contest.
Certainly. so far as can be foreseen,
there should be no other team here this
Winter that right now seems anything
like as strong as the Brooklynites.
Something of the strength of the st.
Johns five may be gagged by its vic
tory over City College of New York.
Some time ago Nat Holman, coach of
the City College quint, made the state
ment that he had the strongest team
he had ever turned out, and consistent
ly hes turned out some of the best
teams in the East. Yet City College
went down before the st. Johns cut
fit in the only game it has lost this
year
Georgetown expects the game to prove
20 attractive that it is planning to take
the university band down to the Tech
gym, thus to lfven up still more what
promises to be a very lively. evening,
The Blue and Gray has seldom planned
to put on as many sidelights as 1t is
trying to develop for Friday nights
game.
TATHOLIC UNIVERSITIES quint
~ goes on the floor again tonight
at Brookland. this time with Loy-
ola College of Baltimore as its opponent.
The Baltimoresns usually are well rep
resented in basket ball, and often have
had brilliant teams. And any team
that whips c. u this year must travel
fast gait. especially on the offensive,
as the local five has exceptional ability
as defensive combination.
EARLY word came from Annapolis
IL that Navy this year would gun
especially for three of its basket
ball opponents, the three to which it
lost last year. One of these, American
University. already has been taken into
camp. and the other two, Pennsylvania
and Maryland, are to be met this week
and next.
k0O tllC HdNY live lldS Ue6il CulllllR
down its foes with such ease that one
can hardly believe anything other than
that at Annapolis Is about the best five
that has worn Navy colors in many
years. Navy is not only winning its
games, but winning by big scores.
Given fast players who are fairly
good shots, Coach Johnny Wilson can
put together about as good basket
ball team as any other man in the
coaching profession. Any way, over
a period Of years his teams have bril-
liant records.
nNE sport that seems. in a fair way
~ to take rough bump. possibly
even rougher than those being
taken by the other Spring sports in
many colleges. is lacrosse. In former
years many big Northern schools came
regularly to the State of Maryland, but
right now the list of teams due to visit
the Old Line State is dw.9dling consid-
er2bly. 1t may not be long before the
Maryland teams have few opponents
except among themselves.
Lacrosse is the most expensive of
Spring sports, except rowing, and that
Is the factor not mitigating in the least
in its favor. 1t begins to seem very
much as if intercollegiate sports may
develop along lines of those sports that
will carry themselves financially, while
many OF the others given intercollegiate
status in recent years may be relegated
to the realm of intramural contests as a
part of a general physical education
plan.
If such plan is not in the ofing,
then the signs of the times are not
truly indicative of the trend
COLLEGE base ball is in rather an
~ unusual situation also, as well as
Lacrosse. A summation of the con-
uitions in the colleges in the South At
lantic section seems to indicate that
little interest exists among college stu
dents in the game. To the question,
How many spectators do you have at
your base ball games" the invariable
reply is from so to 100 And. if that
reply actually represents all that is be-
ing got out of base ball by the students,
then the game in the colleges is not
worth the money being expended on it
because the money could be expended in
other ways to get larger returns.
CEORGE WASHINGTON received
" little more than a workout from
the Marines last night at Guam
tico. The home basketers went down
to a 66-to-20 defeat. The Colonials
led in victory by Wick Parrack, giant
forward, displayed passing attack
which bewildered the Marines.
The regular G. W. quint, with Par
rack scoring 19 points, rang up a lead
OF 34-6 in the first half and although
the collegians' lineup was dotted with
reserves in the final. 90 minutes the
Ieathernecks were unable to gain The
play of GsW. reserve forward, Jimmy
Howell, showed promise Substituting
for Forrest Burgess, Howell rolled up II
points in the second period.
Line-upS:
George Washnrton. Marines
GFPts. GFPts