Evening star., 1938-12-11
Neighbor|y Contest
Of Eagles, Hoyas
Court High Spot
Clemson Invodes fof 3
Comes This Week; All
Capital Fives Busy
By BILL DISMER. Jr.

College basket ball, sparkled by
three games involving local fives
within the last three nights, roars
into an early season high about
Washington this week, with an in
teresting intra-city clash and three
appearances Of the runner-up for
the Southern Conference champion
ship Of 1898.
The battle of neighbors will send
Elmer Ripley's new Georgetown
quint out to American University on
Thursday night to meet q fairly
experienced Eagle team.
On the same night, Clemson,
which lost to Duke in the final game
OF the Southern Conference tourna-
ment last winter, will start q three
night invasion Of the metropolitan
area during which 1t will meet
Maryland, George Washington and
Catholic University in that order.
These are the high lights Of a
week in which six other games are
scheduled to compose an unusually
attractive six-day period, especially
before the Christmas recess. Ordi-
narily, the collegiate courtmen do
not rate the spotlight until they
return to classes after January !.
Maryland Meets Loop Foes.
Forays onto foreign floors also will
be made by A. U. and Maryland
which will 60 to Western Maryland
and Richmond, respectively, for
engagements on Tuesday night.
That, incidentally, is the night when
Georgetown will give the Capital It's
second game of the young season,
playing Loyola Of Baltimore at Tech.
The remaining contests will find
Davidson, Maryland's third South
ern Conference foe of the week,
coming to College Park on Friday,
The Citadel playing G. w. on Sat-
urday and Gallaudet travelling to
Johns Hopkins on Friday.
Already of to a good start as a
result Of its doubling of the score
on Western Maryland last Thurs
day, Georgetown will be a prohibi-
tive favorite over A. U. in their
backyard squabble. Ripley used
practically his whole squad in rum
ming up 46 points in the opener with
a rookie center, MCGOWAN, matching
the veteran forwards, Murphy and
Kurtyka, with three field goals.
American. under the tutelage of
Staff Cassell, will throw a team
composed Of everything from fresh
men to seniors at the Hoyas. The
lone frosh to start doubtlessly will
be Carl Byham, a 6-foot-4 center
from Pennsylvania whom Cassell
describes as quite promising. At the
forwards will be Capt. Emerson
(Sparky) Bartlett and Webb. with
two more veterans. Hugo Schulze,
former Western High School ace,
and Pete Brown at guards.
Terp Reserves Scarce.
Maryland, scheduled to open its
season against three conference foes,
finds itself with a veteran team on
its hands, but one woefully lack
ing in reserves. In Adam Bengoe-
chea. forward: George Knepley and
Pershing Mondorff, guards, and Ed
die johnson, center, Coach Burton
Shipley has four letter winners Of
the 1878 campaign. Only at the
other forward post will there be a
newcomer, but he is George De Witt,
sophomore who made his mark
while at Western High. and helps
give Shipley a good first team.
Gene Ochsenreiter, another soph,
however, is the only reserve to have
shown any sustained promise thus
far. Shipley is hoping that Bill
Rea, Bill Bryant and Francis Bea-
mer will recover some of the form
which earned them letters either
last year or the year before.
Good Tests for G. W., C. U.
George Washington. facing Glenn
son on Friday and The Citadel on
Saturday, should be able to get q
pretty good line on its chances to
repeat successes Of the last two
campaigns. Just how long Jack
Butterworth will be forced to idle
because of lung trouble is question
able, but in George CARRIER, Bob
Faris and Sid Silkowitz Coach Bill
Reinhart has a trio who helped
give G. w. the best court record