Evening star., 1938-04-12
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

Washington beating Pennsylvania last
Saturday In handball, we mean
But before you start to scoff, please
be advised that handball has reached
the status of major sport in major
colleges all over the country. And G
W.'s victory represented the triumph
Of group of some 18 men over g
handball regularly.
This is the first year that George
Washington has sponsored the sport
on an intercollegiate basis. But Ber.
ME Phillips, one of the city's best.
known. all-around athletes. has beer
teaching handball to G. w. students
for the past four years. What's more
Phillips is teaching them out Of hi.
own book, for his recently-publishec
Fundamental Handball' has beer
adopted as the text for the sport al
Ohio State, Illinois and other uni.
verSities
Figuring that certain of his pupils
had reached the stage where COMPETE
ton with handballers in other colleges
might not prove so ignominiouS,
Phillips scheduled several matches thi.
year. So far, he has been signally
successful, has teams having beaten
st. Johns and Johns Hopkins before
defeating Penn. Only one of the four
matches was lost. Hopkins winning on
one-wall court over the Coloniak
who previously had played only on
four-Wall courts.
Cheap Game to Play.
Next year there is talk of an Eastern
intercollegiate Handball League, with
G. w. entering into formal competi-
ton with Pennsylvania, Columbia
Rutgers, Virginia and Hopkins among
others. But even if Colonial gym stu
dents never engaged in outside team
matches, the sport still would hold a
valuable spot on G. W's physical edu-
cation program. For as a means of
keeping in condition. Phillips declares
that handball has no equal.
1t is so doggone cheap that beggar
could play it if he had ball and
borrowed a dime. For that's all that
satisfactory cotton handball gloves
cost, although more expensive one.
can be purchased Some, however
play bare-handed. but the hands per.
spire which makes gloves an advan.
taee.
A sectional fad? Not when one
learns that handball currently also
is the rage at Notre Dame. Purdue
Chicago, Southern California and U
c. L. A. Rather, a sectional intro
duction.
Every lacrosse fan knows that the
big collegiate game of the year i,
the Maryland-Princeton game on May
Z. As co-national champions last year
the Terps and the Tigers regard thi,
game as settler of all disputes. Well
comparative scores would point to 8
Maryland victory Mount Washing
ton, one of the strongest club teams
in the country, nosed out Maryland
60. week ago Saturday Last week
end the Mounts walloped Princeton
1874.
Marquette Five May Visit.
A George Washington Marquette
basket ball game to be played here
next Winter was rumored today AZ
reports from Bill Reinhart filtered
in from Chicago. The Midwesterners
are scheduled to play In Madison
Square Garden In January and are
said to have booked the Colonials
on their Eastern trip It also is likely
that G. w. will play Purdue in the
1889 season. although the game
would be played in Indiana.
Incidentally, Capt. Tom O'Brien has
made another of G. W.'s 1898 victims
all-opponents' team. being selected for
ward on the st. Johns of Brooklyn
AL" five. O'Brien is found in such
company with Boudreau, the Illinois
star, and DuZ Duzinsky of Villanova,
Father Jerome Toner has been ap-
pointed coach Of Catholic University S
tennis team. taking over the duties
from DR.. Guenther, who held that
job last year. One of the most popu-
lar professors on the campus, the good
father is said not only to be an ardent
advocate OF the game, but quite q
player in his own right.
OF his 20 candidates, 18 are fresh
men, Norbert Behrendt and big
Six" Sullivan being the only leftovers
Bill Goldsmith, Bill DorasaVage anc