Evening star., 1933-12-06
Terror TO INVADE
TECH GYM TONIGHT
Mesmer's Team Is Rated One
of Best at Hilltop in
Last Decade.
BY H. C. BYRD.

BY HI. c. BYRD.
~ GEORGETOWN, opening its
1 y basket ball season with
~ Western Maryland College
tonight in the Tech High
gymnasium, Is expecting one of
the most successful teams repre-
senting it in the last decade. Not
only is the real strength of the
1888 squad available, but it seems
that the veterans are showing
even better form than year ago.
Both Graduate Manager Murphy
and Coach Mesmer are unusually
optimistic.
For its first game the Blue and Gray
five is to line up with Hargaden and
Crowley, forwards; Connors. center;
Corliss and OConnor. guards. Harga-
den and Crowley we're brilliant last
season in the great majority of games.
while the other members of the team
at times also played exceptional bas-
ket ball. Hargaden was next to the
highest scorer on the Eastern Inter-
collegiate League last season.
Western Maryland may not be
walkaway, although the fact that 1t
has done virtually no practicing except
what it has been able to get in since
the foot ball season may hinder it
good deal. The majority of the Green
and Gold players are foot ball men,
while the Blue and Gray have been
devoting several weeks to workouts on
the court That difference in practice
should work to the advantage of
Georgetown and correspondingly to the
disadvantage of Western Maryland.
GEORGETOWN has every right to
" be optimistic over its prospects.
Every man in its lineup is
good player and at least two would
stand out in almost any competition.
The Blue and Gray players themselves
are confident that good year lies
ahead.
I'VE expect to have one of the best
teams Georgetown has turned out in
years." said Graduate Manager Gabe
Murphy this morning. while we do
not expect to win all our games. we
do figure on getting our share of vic
tories and we should give every team
we play real battle. When the year
winds up I believe we shall have a
larger percentage of victories and well
played games to our credit than any
other Georgetown team has had in
long WHILE
The game tonight is the first for
local. colleges this year and probably
\ tfrx f,rrr ,1trt fvox ~,
pecially coaching stats and players, Is
likely. Play begins at $50, but prior
to the varsity contest Tech High and
the Georgetown Freshmen are to hook
up. The preliminary contest is to
begin at 7:15.
T>HE fact that Columbia's eleven
has been chosen to meet STAN
ford in the tournament of roses
game will give another opportunity to
test the possibilities of a Northern team
ern team. So far the margin is in
favor of the South, as it has been far
more successful than the North.
Conditions in the North are so differ
ent from conditions in California at
this time of the year that it is i'm
possible for Northern elevens to get
In the same kind of practice and there
fore be in as good shape as the Pa
cific Coast elevens they face. Columbia
may win, but no more certain bet
should be looked for than Stanford.
Southern schools have been far more
successful on the coast because they
have from the end of the regular sea-
son until January l about the same
kind of conditions under which to train
that have the California schools.
Foot ball officials in the far south
simply are not as strict as the officials
in this section and up North. Teams
along the Gulf Coast and even farther
north than that indulge in illegal play
that would be penalized far more often
in this section than it is down there.
Especially is that true of pushing with
the hands in interference. holding, and
hooking with elbows.
"HE University of Florida has an
end, Rogers, who is about the
best player in that position the
writer has seen in years. Rumors have
come this way all year of Florida's great
left tackle. Starbuck. who was given
honorable mention on the all-America
list. but Starbuck is largely a great tao
kle because Rogers is a great end. A
really fine end often makes tackle
seem much better player than he actu-
ally is and vice versa. This chap Rog-
ers can do about everything that any
end ought to be expected to do. He Is
the best forward pass handler developed
in the South in years and blocks well
extensively and plays 'defensively as If
he knows exactly what to do and does
1t without hesitation and with an ease
that bellies the real difficulty Of an ends
play.
Rogers stands about feet and ap-
pears to weigh about l80 pounds. II he
had been playing at Yale or Princeton
or Michigan he would have been ALL
America without question. At Michi-
gan, as Michigan throws passes, he
would have been unstoppable without
fouling him.
Frank Cumberland, former Central
High School athlete, is a member Of
the Western Maryland basket ball squad
and will play tonight against George
town. Cumberland is 8 fine all-around
athlete, as he is good at foot ball and
base ball as well as on the court. Cum
berland is expected to develop into one
OF Western Maryland's best backs next
Fall.
1t seems almost certain that Mary
land and North Carolina will resume
loot ball games again in 1885. Both
schools tried to get together for next
Fall, but Maryland was not in a posi-
ton to accept either of the two dates
that Carolina had open. Maryland and
North Carolina played from 1920 until
1881, but have not met since that. They
have continued In the other sports.
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