Evening star., 1933-02-20

~ tercolleglate League basket
ball game, are scheduled
for the most important local con-
test of what virtually is the last
week of the indoor athletic sea-
son. The Panthers come here
Friday night as league leaders,
with four victories and without a
defeat.
Pittsburgh, besides having spotleSs
record in its league games, also has
done well against other teams. For
instance among its victories are two
over Minnesota and Purdue. 1t also
has whipped Carnegie Tech and split
with Notre Dame in two games. One
of its most remarkable achievements
was the 47-to-l6 triumph over Ford
ham, probably the biggest margin by
which any Fordham i've of modern
times has been whipped.
nROBABLY the outstanding player
L of the Pitt team is Don Smith,
forward. He is feet l inch, an
excellent shot and very fast. Coach
Carlson, who has developed at Pitts
burgh a rather distinctive style of play,
says that Smith is one of the greatest
all-round floor men of all time and
that he Is unquestionably good enough
to make the all-America team. Wilson,
the other forward. last year led the
team in scoring. The other players are:
Cribs at center, feet 2; McCamant
at guard, 6 feet, and Oschenshirt, the
other guard, stands 6 feet 2, so that Pitt
has about as big a team as one ever
sees.
Georgetown lost to Pitt out at Pitts
burgh just before Christmas, but be-
lieyes 1t has much better chance this
time. The Blue and Gray was not in
anything like the comparative shape
then that 1t Is now, and its followers
expect one of the greatest games Of
the year to result from the meeting
with Pitt.
TEORGETOwN holds two of the
" records in the Eastern Intercol-
legiate League season so far, those
for scoring the most field goals in one
game and the record by an individual
for high score in one game Against
West Virginia the Blue and Gray got
q goals from the floor, and Hargaden
of Georgetown got 18 points against
the same school to head the individuals
The high individual scorer of the
league is Rosen of Temple University.
He has made 64 points in six games,
an average of IA points to the game
Pittsburgh. the leading team, has aver
aged N3675 points for all its league
games. while it has held its opponents
to an average of 22 points.
The Southern Conference holds two
tournaments this week, the basket ball
at Raleigh and boxing at Charlottes-
vile. The preliminaries and semi
finals of these events are scheduled
Friday and Saturday, with the finals
Monday. Eight of the 10 members of
the conference are entered in the bas-
ket ball tournament, while in boxing
the men who have made the best rec
ords are to be entered, with perhaps a
full team representing no one school
UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND has
" sent down four entries for the
boxing tournament at Virginia.
McAboy in the 155-pound class, Farrell
In the heavyweight, Burns in the 1885,
pound class, and Keener in the 145-
pound class are to represent the Old
Line school, Also Maryland is one of
the eight teams due to take part in the
basket ball event.
GaIlaudet plays two games this week,
tomorrow night with Maryland State
Normal at Towson and Saturday with
Baltimore University at Eastern High.
The Kendall Greeners have hopes of
breaking even in the two contests, at
least.
Wednesday night Maryland entertains
Johns Hopkins in basket ball. The Old
Liners were whipped by Hopkins in Bal
timore early in the year and are anx-
tous to even up the season. AS mat
ter of fact, Hopkins won the contest
IN the Monumental City by rather a
comfortable margin.
THE only other game of the week for
i local school is that in which
American University entertains the
Virginia Medical College. American U.
ought to get away with the long end
of the count.
virginia's victory over Navy in box
ing seems to have been quite a sur
prise, yet 1t should not have been, be-
cause boxing is a sport in which Vir-
ginia has consistently eXcelled for years.
The Cavaliers, by reason of their rec
ORD so far and because they whipped
Navy, generally should be favored to
win the Southern Conference tourna-
ment.
AL Kelly of Georgetown was third in
the dash event in the New York Ath-
letic Club meet Saturday night He
beat out Earl Widmyer of Maryland for
the place, to even up for Widmyer' S
victory over him in the Millrose games.