The Washington times., 1937-01-05
Hoyas N Meet t
Champions
Tomorrow
BY FRANK BUCK" O'NEML

The basketball team of George.
town University, which left
Gotham gasping for day over its
defeat of New York University'S
Violets, moves into serious comps-
tition. The battle with the VioletS
was anything but child's play, but
six out of the next seven battles
on the Hoya schedule will count in
the final standings of the Eastern
intercollegiate Conference. The
next three Georgetown games will
be played away from home
The Hoyas tackle Carnegie to-
morrow night at Pittsburgh. The
Plaid won the conference title last
year, and is represented by team
fully capable of taking care Of the
best teams in the country this
year. On Thursday night the
Blue and Gray renews it's friendly
rivalry with the Mountaineers Of
University Of West Virginia, who
usually manage to put up a pretty
stiff battle in any sport.
Face Temple and Pitt
Following these championship
games in swift succession are con.
tests with Temple and Pittsburgh.
Temple proved itself to be a capa.
BILE sort of team by defeating Ne
braSka before the HuSkers moved
in to wage losing battle with
gorge Washington's SlaShing
team.
University of Maryland and
Navy share the activity Of the
courts tom morrow night with
Georgetown. The Terrapins
mingle with Johns Hopkins and
Navy faces Gettysburg, and both
games bid fair to produce a lot
Of stirring action. Navy follows
with a game against Duke on Sat-
urday night.
The slashing play Of Tommy
O'Brien, high scoring forward Of
the George Washington five, has
made him a popular favorite In
local court circles, and there are
plenty of folks here about who
are ranking him with the widely
advertised Luisetti, star forward
of the Stanford team, who made
New York blink with his jourt
technique. Bill Reinhart Is not
interested in how the fans rank
Tommy, beyond the natural pride
that a coach must take in a
player to make the combination
produce the proper results. What
interests both Reinhart and
O'Brien right now is winning
games, and they seem to be doing
well in that particular activity.
Benson Pots 'Em
Our local aces of the floor shot
will have to step along to hold
pace with Julie Benson, Of Long
Island University. Benson has &C
counted for 1876 points this year,
and each Of his four companions
in the Blackbird lineup are NOV.
ing along swiftly, all of them top
ping the 75-point mark with some
thing to spare.
The local basketball picture
shows UP pretty well when COM
pared with the situation in
Gotham, for instance. Up there
the boys who follow the fortunes
of the teams are singing the blues.
and with reason. The New York
club has been puShovers for Wis
itors.
Here are just a few: Indiana
beat Manhattan; Stanford beat
Long Island University; George
town gave New York University
a setback, and Springfield Y. M.
C. A. College triumphed over Co
lumbia University.
George Washington, turning
back Nebraska on Saturday night,
set a style which might well be
followed by the other teams here
about. The Colonials are moving
along under the guidance of Bill
Reinhart, who day by day is prov.
ing himself a blown-in-the-glaSS
big-league coach in anything he
tackles.
If the trip to Cuba did nothing
else for the five of Columbia Uni
versity, it gave the boys three fine
victories and left the CubanS
shouting the praises of the Blue
and White.