Evening star., 1934-01-05


ket ball in store for local
L college quints this week
end, but not much of it
here.
Only one of the seven games
scheduled tonight and tomorrow
is to be played on local floor,
and that is almost sure to be
rather one-sided, with Catholic
University on top in meeting
Gallaudet at Kendall Green.
Georgetown has two games away,
both with strong teams. Tonight it
plays Manhattan and tomorrow New
York University. Both games would
be claSsed among the best of the sea-
son if played here. Two contests to-
night, in which George Washington
faces Wake Forest at Raleigh and
Maryland plays West Virginia at Cum
berland, should be bang-up affairs.
American University, like George |
town, has two games on foreign floors, |
tonight with Elon at Elon and tomor-
row with Guilford College at Guilford, |
both in North Carolina. Last night
American U. was beaten by Hampden- |
Sydney, 20 to 0, for the second reverse I
OF the tour-game Jaunt.
1t is to be regretted that at least one
of four games, either of GeorgetoWn's, |
or George Washingtons, or Maryland's, |
is not to be played here. Any of these |
would give local followers Of the sport !
one attractive outlet for their en-
thuSiasm.
Bare Chance for Blues.
If Gallaudet had such a team as rep
resented it some years ago, the game at
Kendall Green might be worth while,
but it would take considerable stretch
ing OF the imagination to predict that
Gallaudet has much chance against |
catholic U. The gymnasium at Ken
dali Green is not large enough for good |
basket ball and Gallaudet should have
quite an advantage in it, but even that
is not likely to be sufficient to enable |
it to win against the kind of play Cath |
olic U. put up before the holidays
If c. U. fails to play its best, though, |
and Gallaudet devotes itself to slap |
bang defensive effort then the former |
may have difficulty getting points. In
this event Gallaudet should hold c. U. |
to a closer score than otherwise would
be possible.
The foregoing about Catholic Uni
Eersity and Gallaudet is preSaged on |
The contingency that the former plays |
Dust as good basket ball as 1t showed |
before the holidays. If it does that, the |
only possibility of Gallaudet victory
would be something close to a miracle. |
However, if c. U. does not measure
up, and we're to play low grade OF |
basket ball, then Gallaudet, at home |
sn a gymnasium which should give 1t /
a great advantage, might get away with |
the long end of the score, but hardly |
in any other way.
MARYLAND sends a basket ball
MI team to Cumberland tonight |
for the first athletic contest OF
any kind that one of its teams has |
played in that city. The game with .
West Virginia was arranged at the re-
quest of alumni in that section and 1t |
is probable that one of the biggest |
crowds that have ever watched an in
door event there will turn out. At least
that seems to be the indication from |
advance information about interest in |
the contest If the game turns out
satisfactorily it may become an annual
affair.
Fumbles Sap Stanford Morale.
IA PPARENTLY used to playing on
~ fast field and in dry weather,
Stanford failed to handle the
ball on a wet field as well as Colum-
Goia, and in that seems largely to lie
the story of Columbia's victory.
Seven fumbles made by Stanford are |
sufficient to wreck the chances of any |
foot ball team in a close game as |
usually two or three are accounted |
disastrous. Not only do fumbles cost |
opportunities to score. but they force |
a team to give up advantageous posi-
tions on the field, which is about as |
bad thing as can happen to a foot |
ball team
When an eleven fumbles on its op-
ponent's 30-yard line it means that !
punt may back it up in its own terri |
tory and put up to it a fight to get |
out, instead of it being able to knock at |
the opposing goal line for a touchdown. |
Furthermore, such things are. to say |
the least, not very encouraging to a !
team, and morale is bound to break /
somewhat under the strain of one such |
occurrence after another.
TOR 20 minutes American University |
promised to hit its stride and |
score its initial court victory of |
the season last night against Hampden-
Sydney at Farmville, Va. but, after |
trailing only to at half time, the
Eagles folded and the Virginians went |
on to a 20-to-10 victory.
Had the Washingtonians been able to |
check the scoring activities of Douglas, |
Hampden-Sydney guard, they might |
have Jared much better The Tiger
tosser dropped in four field goals and |
three free baskets for a total of IL |
points.
Score:
A. U. Qo0 G.FPts; H.-s. c2o. GFPts