Evening star., 1935-01-23
IN" MEN TO HOLD
FETEFEBRUARy Z
Will Honor Gridmen, Then
Watch Basket and Ring
Teams in Action.
BY He. BYRD.
BY H c. BYRD.
r UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
"NKn CTTTP an organization

m" CLUB. an organization
of former athletes of the in
stitution who have won their
varsity letter, virtually has completed
plans for its Midwinter get-together,
to be held February in the university
dining hall, in conjunction with the
basket ball game with Virginia and
the boxing meet with Washington and
Lee.
ARRANGEMENTS are being made to en-
tertain about 800 of the stars of for
mer years at dinner at o'clock,
after which all are to attend the ath-
letic competitions as guests of men,
berS of this years teams.
Maj. Lindsay Med. Sylvester OF the
United States Army, himself a foot
ball tackle 25 years ago, is president
of the M Club and is the leader in
planning for the event. Maj. Sylvester,
ably aided by George j. Pollock,
alumni secretary. was responsible last
year for the biggest turnout the M
Club ever had, and the hopes to have
q bigger gathering this year.
One thing Maj Sylvester has an
nounced, and which made the affair
last year so popular, is that there will
be no speeches. but that light enter
tainment of various kinds will be pro-
vided instead. The dinner, and enter
tainment that follows, is expected to
last until 8 o'clock, at which time the
former athletes are slated to go to the
Ritchie Coliseum.
Letters for the foot ball men also
are to be awarded, with the M Club
certificates that go with them. A
larger group of gridironers from last
Falls squad will get the insignia than
has been so awarded for several sea-
sons.
Members of the alumni association
may attend the dinner and the games,
whether or not they ever took part in
athletics.
"A EARYLANDS basket ball team
VI plays Johns Hopkins tonight in
the Ritchie Coliseum at 1880.
The Old Liners expect to win. unless
they have a greater reversal of form
than seems possible. Johns Hopkins
apparently is not so strong this season.
In recent years the Black and Blue
has been rather difficult for Maryland
to beat, even at times when the latter
seemed to be much stronger.
a THLETIC directors and foot ball
n coaches are hopeful that their
charges will pass examinations
now being held in the local colleges.
They know, though, that some of the
young men are not any too strong in
their books-some of them as result
of long hours spent on the foot ball
field and in basket bau-and feel
pretty shaky about it.
All are hoping for the best, however,
and hoping especially that the men
they depend on the balance of the
year and next Fall may get by without
falling into too many difficulties.
ONE man who watched the Navy
play last week in two basket
ball games-against Georgetown
and North Cardinals of the opinion
that the MILDLY quint is not quite as
good as it has been regarded This
man said that Navy is not as strong
as I have been led to believe, and
would not be surprised to see it drop
several more games besides the one
1t lost to North Carolina"
This man, who knows basket ball, by
the way, says further that Navy has
only two really good shooters, and if
they are covered, the story will not
be written about Navy victory.
A RRANGEMENTS for the foot ball
n game next Thanksgiving day be-
tween Maryland and Syracuse
in Baltimore involve games for two
years following that. The game next
Fall was scheduled as an individual
proposition, but in addition to that
the two universities agreed to meet
the following two years under a con-
tract providing for the first game,
1885, In Syracuse, and the second,
1887 in Baltimore. The 1886 contest
is to take place on October "a, but
the date Tor 1887 is not yet determined.
A FTER watching North Carolina
n play basket ball games here and
at Annapolis last week, it was
the opinion of many that it should
waltz through to the Southern Con-
ference championship No doubt the
Tarheels are good-the best team that
has worn the Blue and White since
the great Carmichael and Cobb used
TO pot the ball through the loop from
almost any place on the court.
However, to win the Southern Con-
ference championship a team must
go through a down-and-out tourna-
ment, the most deadly kind of COM
petition. Once a team is whipped.
even if it is the best in the tourna-
ment, it is out of the play. And
teams do get whipped, even the best
Of them.
To pick any one team that should
go through tournament to the title is
so risky that even the coaches of the
strongest f1ves realize how almost i'm
possible it is