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Evening star., 1937-01-13

~ ACK in the thick of the public
- high school basket ball series
title fight, which already has
- become somewhat muddled,
Eastern's crack club today performed
an autopsy on its amazing 1924 last
second victory over Western yesterday
while Techs prospects assumed a rosy
hue following its 22-l9 win over
Roosevelt.
Fulfilling predictions that the pres
ent series probably will set a new high
in heart throbs if nothing else. Ralfe
Clinton, inserted in the last Is seconds
of play by Coach Mike Kelley, capital
lied on his only shot of the game to
upset the favored Red Raiders.
Synchronized with the bark OF Time
keeper John Jankowski's signalling
the end of the game, Clinton's shot
nestled in the cords to climax some of
the most hectic action ever packed into
any scholastic fray.
Four Quick Points.
IF THIS was fiction it would be un-
believable. Trailing, 24-2l, with
25 seconds to play, Eastern could have
named its own odds on winning
George De Witt. Western center, had
tipped in foul shot just second
before which apparently assured VIC
tory for the Georgetowners
Out of a wild scramble underneath
the Western basket, however, Clint
Quantrille. Eastern center, launched
an attempted goal. 1t missed, but
Russ Lombardy followed it up and the
Lincoln Parkers were tagging by only
one point 1t was at this stage that
Coach Kelleys substitution of Clinton
paid dividends.
Taking the tap from Quantrille,
Claude Colley passed to Clinton, who
was poised at an angle between mid
court and the foul line. Clinton
launched his heave and thereby be-
came candidate for the No. / series
hero.
Eastern displayed a vast improve
ment over its losing showing against
Central as each of the seven players
used by Coach Kelley figured in the
scoring Lombardy, with six points,
paced the winners, while Dewitt and
Gerald Burns. with nine and eight
points, respectively. were Westerns
outstanding scorers
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Three About Even.

IN THE positions of S, and z am
forced to bracket Stoefen, Ramil-
Ion and Plaa, due to a very strange
series of results. Stoefen twice de-
feated Cochet and scored two victories
over Plaa, but was in turn defeated
twice by Ramillon. Ramillon lost
twice to Cochet, once to Plaa and
once to Vissault-yet scored two vic.
tories over Stoefen and carried me to
five sets in the finals at lie Touquet.
Plaa defeated Ramillon and myself in
f1ve sets each in the English cham.
pionShip. but was beaten twice by me
and twice by Stoefen.
So in reviewing the performance OF
these three men can see little to
choose between them, and feel that
the only just placement is to bracket
all three. I am placing Bruce Barnes
at No, 8, due to his many meetings
with these men in past years rather
than to any definite results this
season.
The position of Albert Burke at
No. Q Is based on his carrying Plsa
to q bitter flve-set match In the
French championship and two good
performances in the sh-American-
Bonnardel Cup match against Stoefen
and myself, rather than on any out
standing victories. The tenth position
I give to young viSsault on the one
remarkable performance at La Baule,
where he defeated Ramillon in five
sets to none and to in the third
set. He also carried me to four close
sets the following day.
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FROM THE PRESS BOX
Needle. Threading, Other Events Not Held
In Year That Is Tough on Many Champions.

Underwood Of Mount Tom, Mass, no
contest.
Spaghetti eating Oinear)-Jimmy
D'Auria. Buffalo. N. Y. 1000 linear
yards of spaghetti in minute. IS Sec
onds. inhalation method. (This. rec
ord is under investigation)
Buck sawing-Thomas yelling Of
Peterborough. Ontario, three cuts Of
a 4-foot hard maple log in 81 seconds.
Claims worlds championship.
Chicken eating (Arbnckle tro-
phy)-Mrs. Edna Mae Potter of
Pasadena, Calf, 10 three pound
chickens. IS pounds of dressing.
Chair-rocking-Armand Vezina OF
Montreal claimed the title with So
consecutive hours of rocking. DR.
Alexander Meyer, who has bettered
this figure repeatedly in past years
was inactive. being occupied with the
perfection of his new device for timing
each rock automatically.
Beer-guzzling tfree-style) - Ray.
mond Du Val of Green Bay, Wis.
half gallon in 1s seconds fiat. Floyc
Verette Of Milwaukee. dethronec
champion, claimed a foul, but was
overruled by officials.
Match-piling Ton bottle)-Wade E
Brown Of Baltimore. 1900 matches
Other noteworthy performances in thi.
field were 1000 matches by George
Colus Of Pittsfield, Mass, and 4.20(
by DR.. Thomas H. Staggers of Cleve.
land.
All around eating - title
claimed by Police Sergt. Pat
Kelly Of Elizabeth, N. j.. holder
Of African and Australian belts
in the field of raw meat.
Sergt. Kelly engulfed 20 pounds o
meat at one sitting in 1886. More Of
less inactive were Tony Laurentis
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ST. JOHNS QU|NT
ADDS TO OPREST|CE
RoutS Wi|son-G. U. Prep
Winner-Devitt, Landon
Both Defeated.
CT. JOHNS basket ball team was

ut. JOHNS basket ball team was
another step nearer recognition
as one of Washington's leading
- scholastic fives today, following
a 1920 defeat of woodrow Wilson
High yesterday on its own court on
Vermont avenue. Wilson gave West
ern's highly favored team a real scrap
in the interhigh opener last Friday
and is set-up for none.
st. Johns victory was outstanding
in a day which found Georgetown
Prep stopping st. Adams, 1917, in an
interpret game. and two other preps,
Dewitt and Landon. losing to Bethesda
Chevy Chase and Episcopal High, re-
spectively.
Jimmy Giebel led st. Johns with
IA points, the Cadets never being
headed from the opening whistle It
also marked the first time that an
opponent had scored as many as 30
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Threat to G. w. Genuine.

IT'S beginning to sound like the
wolf. wolf" fable whenever the
first test for G. WIS five" is men,
toned. but it is a fact that the CO.
lonials will be facing top-notch
team when they entertain Wake
Forest tomorrow night in their gym
on H street. The Deacons' record
and their growing rivalry with G. w.
however. portends probably the stiff
fest fight that Bill Reinhart's boys
have faced all season.
Having won 10 of their II games
the Wake Forest boys include North
Carolina among their victims and lost
to Duke by only two points. 1t will
be G. W's last home game until
January 26. the Colonials playing two
games away before again showing to
local fans.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
20 YEARS AGO
IN THE STAR
CEVERAL golfers OF national rep-

SEvERAL golfers Of national rep
~ utation will be driven from
amateur ranks by the application
Of the new definition Of amateurs
approved in New York City during
the annual meeting of the U. S.
G. A. The rule, as amended and
adopted. makes ineligible as ANA
teur any player engaged in any
business connected with the game
of golf wherein ones usefulness
arises because Of skill in the game
itself"
Business and Tech loom as the
strongest teams in the interhigh
basket ball series. Their latest VIC
tories, in which Business defeated
Eastern, 23-16. and Tech trounced
Central. 1920. establishes them as
the two quints which possibly will
battle for the title.
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RUD HARTMAN, Episcopals crack
center, personally doubled the
score on Landon as the Virginians
swamped the local quint. 1875. at Alex
andria, Va. Harman dropped in six
field goals for IL points.
Ten of the IS players employed by
Coach Luke Fleming figured in the
scoring, as Landon was limited to one
field goal in the first half and one
more in the second half. Coach Flem-
ing used a steady flow of substitutes
after the half.
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oner what Is, at least a reasonably
accurate placement.
Here is my opinion:
/. Ellsworth Vines, jr., United States.
2. Hans Nusslein. Germany.
3. William T. Tilden, I'd, United
States.
4. Henri Cochet, France.
Bracketing S, 6 and 7-Lester
Stoefen. United States; Robert Ramil-
Ion, France; Martin Plaa. France.
8. Bruce Barnes, United States.
8. Albert Burke, Ireland.
10. H. ViSsault, France
On the insufficient data" list. one
must place Karel Kozeluh, Czechoslo-
vakia; the Facendi brothers. Chile;
George M, Lott, jr.; Berkeley Bell.
Francis T. Hunter and Vincent
Richards, United States.
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Unforgettable Peanut Pusher,

And what, when you get right
down to it, has become Of George
Clyde Martin, Annapolis, who set
the world on fire with his peanut
pushing for time and distance, with
nose) two years ago?
While these former aces Of track
and field were sulking in the dug
out, lesser men usurped their places.
We herewith append, for what it Is
worth. a list Of the best performances
of the year. Some of them are not
so bad, at that.
There is nothing fundamentally
wrong with American sport. There
is no cancer gnawing at the heart
of the body polite, as certain critics
have suggested.
There Is nothing amiss that
little hard work and public
spirit won't cure. In the words
of the great Thomas Jeffer.
son Note to stenographer:
Fill in any quotation from JET.
ferson. but keep it short.)
Here Are 1886 Champions.
Chicken plucking- Claimed Jointly
by John Peasants and Alfred Canada
Of Richmond, Va, one adult bird in
13 seconds fat.
Banana eating against time)-
Charles Brayo of lie Roy, N. Y, % ba-
nanas in 9 minutes. 80 seconds. (Mr.
Brayo is a graduate from the field of
free-style egg eating, with a record
Of 40 raw pieces Of hen fruit in min
utes, 1900
Tobacco splitting (for distance
and accuracy)-Jasper Davis of
Fishersville, Va. bullseye at IL
feet 8 inches, against the wind.
Egg eating-Sam Martin of Prince
ton. Ind, "a fried eggs. CMr. Martin,
who holds the world record for wolfing
fried eggs. with a total of 60, was
checked in his effort to better this fig-
ure by his landlady, who financed the
enterprise. Mr.. Martin said he could
have gone on indefinitely
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Switzerland, but vacation study
was quickly dropped in favor Of
tennis meets.

Clason won singles and doubles
championships in international
competitions at Zerwatt, Switzer-
land, and singles honors at Thun
and Lausanne. Among those he
defeated. were former Davis Cup
players of several European coun-
tries.
When he returned to America he
played less and less tennis, until
now he rarely swings a racquet.
The reasons, he explains, are that
he didn't have time and that his
friends all played Oolf
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College Quints

Southern Methodist. 2e; Texas Chris
Tulsa. 3s: Washington lMo.). ~.
Luther 43: Dubuque. %.
Wayne Teachers. 4": York. 10.
Kansas, 40: Mexico %.
Westminster 20: Carnegie Tech, %.
Salem, %: West Virginia. FL.
phiGi Sndi. 36 o7aI. Ohio Wesleyan Yes ysT1tsI 81; %
Case, 4S: John Carroll, 3s.
Wittenberg 80; Dayton. 81.
Cincinnati. 81: Miami. 25.
Randolph Macon. 81: Lynchburg 26.
Duquesne. 81: Richmond, 20.
Washington-Lee. "a: William and Mary. IS.
North Carolina. 3s; Virginia Tech. 26.
g. Johns IN Z, ;,4l,:.; a.: Niagara: .7,s
aaryaTd IA SaSepns H. s n MiSfi'snpi = @ State 2s
Tennessee, 35: Chattanooea. Is.
Vanderbilt. 46; Sewanee, 20.
Roanoke. 40; Catawba, 3S.
Elon, 81: St. Johns (Md.), %.
Columbia. 40: Princeton. %.
Pennsylvania. SO: Yale. %.
Wake Forest 81: Clemson. 80.
W1nOIs Wnohs stsse Morms 3 g. yatST
Kearney Teachers. 80: Hebron College 80.
Central Normal. AZ: Eastern Illinois Teach
NEBRASKA B.. "a: Doane College. IA.
Loyola. ~: st: Louis. 81:
Franklin "a; Wabash, 90.
GEORGETOWN College 81: Center: 33.
MoSard g. stass Union 80 oregon State s2
Colgate. 80: ct. Lawrence. So.
Baltimore. 3S; Western Maryland, IS.
Loyola Md, 81: Mount st. Marys. 20.
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Carideo Coaches Invaders.

ONE Of Notre Danes greatest quar-.
terbacks, Frank Carideo, will be
at the helm of the team which
comes to meet c. u. the former all.
America coaching the Southerners
court team in addition to assisting Maj
Ralph Sasse with the foot ball squad
Mississippi State is said to have as
tall and as fast breaking a club as
Duquesne. which routed the Cards on
Monday night.
c. U. held the Dukes on even terms
for the first half but wilted rapidly
in the closing 20 minutes. Hermie
Schmarr. currently second to Hal
Kiesel Of G. w. for District scoring
honors. should make the Cards a
threat. but. so far. Whitley Ambrose
is the only teammate who has proved
able to help him materially with the
point compilation.
Georgetown must win from Temple
or give up hope of winning the con-
ference championship for another
year. Already having dropped games
to Carnegie Tech and West Virginia.
the Hoyas cannot afford to lose three
in a row.
One consoling fact to Hilltop sup
porters. however, is the memory that
Georgetown has come through on two
previous occasions this year when the
odds were against them. The Hoyas
licked Princeton, after having played
only one warm-up game and then
proceeded to defeat N. Y. U. for the
second successive year. when the Vio-
lets openly were laying for revenge
in the familiar confines Of Madison
Square Garden.
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SET FOR TRIBE RAISE
Catcher Sullivan Prepared With
"Law" and Record Book.

CHICAGO, January IS R.-Billy
Sullivan, Cleveland Indians catcher.
is going to have both the law" and
the record book on his side when
he talks contract with his bosses.
Sullivan, a graduate lawyer OF Notre
Dame, is working this Winter in the
ONCE of his older brother, Joseph
S. Sullivan, who preceded him at
Notre Dame by several years.
When Billy isn't sharpening up his
knowledge of law he takes time out
to study his 1885 record, which shows
he led American League pinch hitters,
was second In hitting among catchers,
was third among league catchers in
average of runs driven in, per times
at bat; was second among leagues
catchers' chances accepted, per game,
and topped all his teammates in hit
ting with men on base.
Il think those figures will provide
q pretty good argument" he says.
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Sports Mirror
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
Today a year ago-John Jack
son, president Of United States
Golf Association, warned lawson
Little and other player-writers Of
ban on instruction-giving articles.
Three years ago-Jack Chevigny
appointed head foot ball coach at
University Of Texas.
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KoZeluh Of Courts.

UNDOUBTEDLY Karel Kozeluh
would be well up the list If he
had played in any competition this
year. but he restricted his efforts en-
tirely to coaching and cannot be in
cluded in the ranking list of playing
professionals
The Facendi brothers of Chile are
new names in professional tennis.
They scored victories over NuSslein
and Kozeluh during the South Ameri-
can tour of the latter pair.
The remaining names on the "in-
sufficient data" list are placed there
due to the fact that none OF these
men competed in any tournaments,
nor against sufficient number Of the
ranking professionals to warrant ade-
quate placement.
(Copyright 1887. Reproduction in whole or
in part prohibited without permiSsion.)
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RUSH INTO BIG RACE
e62 Nominations Already Made
in Arlington Futurity.

CHICAGO, January 13 R.-The
Arlington Futurity, which carries an
added money value of $4,000, already
has drawn 1862 nominations, track Of
ficials said today. -
The second payment date for the
Arlington and also for the Arlington
Lassie Stakes, the Washington Park
Futurity and Princess Pat Futurity
falls due Friday. Entries to date for
those stakes are: Lassie, 235: Wash
1ngton Park, 328, and Princess Pat,
20l.
Estimating that the combined NOM
ination list will total 1900. track
officials said the four stakes may have
O total value of S150,000. The added
money value of the Washington Park
Futurity Is $4,000, while the Princess
Pat carries $500 and the Lassie
Stakes $4,000.
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worlds champion consecutive nom
classical piano player u05 hoursD?
What has become of Jack
Garrison of Seattle, champion
hamburger-eater Of the North
west l21, without mustard?
What has become of w. H. Love,
also of Seattle. champion diaper
changer over the sprint route Q6
seconds, triangle and four pin
method?
What has become Of Alfred 8.
Howes of Brown University, inter-
collegiate Communicating champion
GO in Is minutes. so seconds?
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Terry Speaks Up.

Terry SpCdhS Up
MR.. WILLIAM HAROLD TERRY
A~A dropped around this week with
an 8-inch hickory log on his shoulder
instead of the usual chip. He found
that the Giants were being overlooked
right and left and center, and he didn't
like It, Stepping swiftly to the plat
form, Mr.. Terry cleared his throat
and emitted a wholesale consignment
Of assorted defiance.
1.-THE Giants" said William, will
finish first or second this year. You
can't rate 'em any lower"
Instantly several dozen ingenious
mugs came forward to prove, with the
aid of a blackboard, an apple. and a
glass of water, that it is very easy
trick to rate the Giants lower than
second. If you just know how to go
about it. First, they asked Mr.. Terry
10 name q line-up-any lineup at all.
II will give you lineup" said the
big fella haughtily. Il will give you
what I think will be our batting order
for next season, wind and weather
permitting. and then you may do your
worst. This is it,"
Whereupon Mr. Terry listed the fol-
lowing morsels of ivory. in order:
ChiozZa, 3b.
Bartell, SIS.
OFT, n.
Leiber, CT.
Moore, If.
Mccarthy, 1b.
Whitehead, 2b.
Mancuso, C.
There she blows said the old
Tennessee whaler. II figure Leiber is
good enough to play the outf1eld for
me, if he hustles, and I think Johnny
Mccarthy will make me a nice first
baseman, with Sambo Leslie standing
by to fill in. Then, too, I expect to get
me a lot of nice pitching this season
from my pitchers"
such as who?" said heckler.
Evening star., 1937-01-13

wrath OF the fol-
lowers of profess
Sional tennis by
giving a world
professional rank
ing for the year
1886.
In Offering a
professional rank =
ing one has much
lie IS d alta on
which to base an
opinion than one
working with an
a m a tie ur list.
However, we have
q sumcient basis
on past results to
Evening star., 1937-01-13
SHOW LEADERS NAMED
Gaskin, Warrenton Manager Since
1917, Is Retained.

WARRENTON, Va, January 13
R.-Fred D. Gaskins OF Warrenton.
manager Of the Warrenton Horse
Show Association since 1917, has been
reelected. Julian c. Keith again was
named president, CORTLAND H. Smith
and Herman E. Ullman. vice presi-
dents: j. North Fletcher, secretary.
and Harold e. Smith, treasurer.
Elected to the Board of Directors
were George w. Cutting. H. C. Groome,
Sterling Larrabee, j. Chauncey Will
hams and Robert c. Winmill.
Gaskins announced that the Amer
ican Horse Show Association had
granted Warrenton the october /,
dates for its thirty-eight annual ex-
hibition.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
Division g.
Tomorrow'S Schedule.

Tomorrow'S Schedule.
Division State VS.. Loans and Cur
rency. z; Standards VS.. Farm Credit. g.;
Procurement VS.. Public Health q.
Division 2-Controller of Currency vs..
Internal Revenue. z; I. c. G. vs.. g. p. O.. g.;
Archives VS.. Patents. 8.
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points against Wilson.

CEORGETOWN PREP had run up
22-7 lead at the end of the half
in its game with st. Adams and was
content to keep step with the city
school during the last two quarters.
Capt. Bob O'Shaughnessy, bespecta-
cled forward. led Ed Hargaden's team
with 18 points, while Billy Byrd
dropped in five field goals and two
free tosses.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
BY JOHN LARDNER.

A T THIS time We give YOU our
~ annual survey of the leading
~ sports achievements of the
past year. We give 1t to you
in a spirit of melancholy, with sad
shake of the head. because 1896 was
a bad year for sports, a year in which
champions brooded at home and
second-raters dominated the field.
It's hard to explain the dismal.
refractory, unpatriotic behavior Of
our better athletes. I am tempted
to refer to them as cads and bounders
and let it go at that.
What, for instance. has become OF
Bud Reynolds of Columbus, Ohio,
Evening star., 1937-01-13

ing their eighth victory in II games
this Winter by a 31-21 score. The
winners had 14-8 lead by intermis-
sion and outscored Dewitt. 1913, dur
ing the last half. Schneider got nearly
half OF the victors' points, scoring IA.
Evening star., 1937-01-13
TIES FOR CAR0M LEAD
Johnny Dodge Catches Champion
Ruark in D. c. Tourney.

Gene Ruark, defending the District
three-cushion billiard championship
in a tournament at the Royal, was
deadlocked for first place today by
Johnny Dodge, following Dodge's 35-
% victory last night over Frank Mast.
The leaders have won six matches
and lost one apiece.
In another contest last night Gene
Flynn defeated statland. $3.50.
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Vines without Peer.

I DO NOT believe any one will Sc
riously question the placement of
Ellsworth Vines, jr. at the top of the
professional list for 1896, even if he
did take a beating from Perry last
week. 1t is the general consensus over
the world that Vines was the profess
Sional-in 1896.
l am placing Hans NusSlein at No.
2, above myself, by virtue of Nus.
slein's victory in the English profess
sional championship at Southport,
where he won the tournament, defeat.
Ing Cochet in the final round in
straight sets. allowing the French star
only seven games.
I have placed myself at third. above
Cochet. on the following grounds. We
divided our own two meetings last
year. Cochet beat me in the tourna.
ment at La Baule. following which I
defeated him in the Bonnardel Cup
final round, and followed this by win
ming the final tournament Of the year
at lie Touquet, in which Cochet played,
but was defeated before reaching me.
There would be little to choose be-
tween us, since Cochet won the French
professional championship, beating
both Plaa and Ramillon, but I was
not included in the entry list. Natur.
ally Cochet follows at No. 4.
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WORLDS GREATEST
in SO, CLAIMS BILL
Puts NussIein of Germany
Second, Himself Third in
Paid Tennis Clan.
BY WILLIAM TILDEN. I'd

n ECENTLY left myself open to
~ the disapproval and disagree
ment Of the followers Of ANA
teur tennis by offering a
world amateur ranking. I will now
complete the wreck by incurring the
Evening star., 1937-01-13

levitt gave Bethesda Chevy Chase
q good fight, but was unable to
prevent the suburbanites from record
Evening star., 1937-01-13

Starting his net career by win
ming the Bates (Me.) College
crown. Clason captured Maine in
tercollegiate laurels before winning
a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford.
His Summers abroad he spent In
Evening star., 1937-01-13
ODDS ARE AGAINST
CARDS AND HOYAS
C. U. Battles Mississippi
State Here, G. U. Meets
Temple in PhiIIy. .
BY BILL DISMER, JR.

y A0hE1 oALL IcdIlio VI SdIIAo-
- lie University and Georgetown
will be cast in the roles Of
A> underdogs tonight as they take
the floor here and in Philadelphia,
respectively, against Mississippi State
and Temple.
c. us game with Mississippi State,
slated at Brookland after a o'clock
preliminary between the Cardinal and
Mount st Mary's freshmen, finds Fod
Cotton's charges up against team
which absorbed its first defeat Of the
season last night in Philadelphia.
Prior to that 1928 setback from St.
Joseph's. Mississippi State had con-
quered Duke and Florida.
Georgetown, still seeking its first
victory in the Eastern intercollegiate
Conference, will face team which
conquered it twice last year. To add
to the Hoyas' gloomy outlook is the
fact that they will be playing on
Temples floor. where the Owls
trounced them, 39-17, last Winter, in
contrast to the 1-point victory which
they were able to exc out here.