Evening star., 1934-03-19
COACH JIM PIXLEE of George


Washington has had his gridiron
squad working out in the gym
nasium for several days, and will take
them on the field as soon as the turf
is dry enough to stand foot ball prac-
tice. The Colonial coach, like Berg
man, is not decided in his own mind
as to how long practice may continue.
One thing, though, in connection
with George WaShington'S prepara-
ton for foot ball next Fall that is eX-
ceptionally interesting is the fact that
Pixlee believes he will have a better
team than last season.
"Our team next Fall will be better
mechanically than it was last year"
says Pixlee, land it will be far better
fixed in the backfleld. We shall get
from the freshman eleven several
backs of sufficient strength. weight
and ruggedness to stand the gaff, and
on the whole I feel we ought to be
better fixed than we were last year"
Maryland's foot ball squad has been
working out indoors and outdoors for
about 10 days. The Old Liners field
Is not in especially good shape, but is
good enough to practice on. Maryland
has out the largest squad it has ever
thrown into Spring practice, and the
chances are the players will remain
out for practice longer and more
seriously than they have in past sea-
sons.
GEORGETOWN and Maryland are the
only local colleges that plan to have
base ball teams this Spring. The
Blue and Gray began workouts yes
terday. Maryland has been at it sew
eral days. The field at Georgetown
really is in better shape than it was
expected to be, and Gabe Murphy,
graduate manager of athletics, ex-
presses a good deal of satisfaction
about being able to begin practice
earlier than he thought would be pos
sible.
Coach Shipley of Maryland's base
ball team is not so peSsimistic now as
he was this time a year ago. Then
he had no pitchers, and good pitch
ing is about 90 per cent of a college
ball game Now he has eligible one
or two men who were not eligible last
season because of scholastic difficulty.
1--WE ought to have about as good a
ball team as we have had in several
years." said Shipley this morning.
after watching the fellows work out
for several days, the squad seems
much better to me than in a long
while. We shall be able to hit and
also have good pitching and fielding,
and these things make a ball club"
TACK FABER, who is taking charge
Il of Maryland's foot ball destiny,
apparently is going to have hard
time making both ends meet. He has
an assistant, Al Heagy, looking after
lacrosse for while, but plans to
move over with the lacrosse squad
during Easter vacation and continue
with that squad He will have to put
somebody else in charge of the grid
iron squad for the remainder of the
Spring workouts, probably Roy Mack
ert, who has been identified with Old
Line foot ball since he played fullback
and tackle in 1919 and 1920.
Some time ago the writer offered
suggestion that tournaments Of the
Southern Conference might well be
devoted to teams or individuals win
ming championships in intrsmural
competition in the various institu-
tions. However, there is at least one
sport to which that would not apply
boxing. The Inen, even If they were
to go through an intramural schedule,
simply would not be in sufficiently
good shape to stand the rigors of a
conference boxing tournament. 1t Is
very questionable if they are in good
enough shape to go into such a small
tournament as was held last week,
with Catholic University, Georgetown
and Maryland participating Anyway,