Evening star., 1939-01-12
Co|onia|s Yearn
To Even Count
With Roanoke
Cardinals Face EIon,
Eagles Meet Tigers;
Terps Bottle Duke
BY BILL DISMER, Jr.

BY BILL DISMER, Jr.
A full week end of basket ball for
local college teams. with five games
scheduled here and three away, will
be begun tonight with a trio of
Southern quints playing at George
Washington, Catholic and American
Universities.
Because it involves one of the four
teams to beat the Colonials in the
past two years, the Roanoke-G. w.
game at Tech High most interests
the general public, but c. us game
with Elon and A. us tilt with
Hampden-Sydney should draw their
own bands of supporters.
The game at A. U. starts at 8
o'clock, the one at c. U. at 8:15 and
the one at Tech at $3.50.
Tonight's games, however, only
mark the beginning of a three-nigh
stretch which will find Maryland
battling Dukes Southern Confer
ence champions at College Park
tomorrow night and Georgetown's
undefeated Hoyas fighting Carnegie
Tech for the leadership of the
Eastern Conference at Pittsburgh.
Saturday, Maryland entertains
Hampden-Sydney. GEORGETOWN
moves on to Morgantown for an
other conference clash with West
Virginia and American U. travels to
Lewiston, Pa, for game with Buck
nell
Colonials Draw Tough One.
Not since the fag end of the 1867
season has George Washington lost
a game on the Tech floor. Since
being beaten by Long Island in the
next-to-last game that year, the
Colonials have won 13 straight
games in the high school gym. But,
according to reports, the Roanoke
team which tripped the Colonials,
47-41, last Saturday night is Just as
menacing as L. I. U. was two years
ago and G. w. will have to step to
take the return game. To date. the
Virginians have lost only once in
seven starts, Villanova beating them
by 6 points in the second game of
the season.
Paul Rice, who scored 10 points
against Bill Reinhart's team, is
their star, but every man on the
team was a regular last year and all
are over 6 feet tall. Sheffield, the
center, is 6-feet-5.
g.. WIS record to date is three
victories as against two defeats,
Both G. U. and A. U. will take
losing records into their games with
Eion and Hampden-Sydney, but each
is accorded chance to break its run
OF bad luck tonight. Elon beat
Randolph Macon, 47-41, last night,
but c. U. has rested since last Sat-
urday and should be able to give a
good account of itself. In Wayne
Ambrose, the Cardinals again will
present their threat for District
scoring honors as the husky blond
is averaging 1872 points per game
for his first four contests. Despite
Ambrose's point productiveness. C..
U. has been beaten in each of its
four games.
Terps Out for Revenge.
A. u, winner over Western Mary
land IN its first game, has not won
since, but the caliber of opposition
has had something to do with that.
Georgetown, Manhattan and Seton
Hall all put the bee on the Eagles.
but Hampden-Sydney's Tigers
should be more in their class. Hugo
Schulze, Sparky Bartlett and Carl
Byham has been playing good ball
for Staff Cassell.
Maryland, beaten by Navy yester-
day. 47-27, will enter the Duke game
tomorrow night holding a one-game
edge in its long rivalry with the
Blue Devils and slightly ahead of
them In current Southern Confer
ence standings. The Terps' two VIC
tories as against one defeat give
them .666 average, while Dukes
4-and-3 record is only slightly better
than 500.
Furthermore, the Old Liners feel
that they have a special score to
settle with tomorrow's foe, for it was
Duke which eliminated them in the
semi-f1nals of the Southern Con-
ference tournament last winter,
1892. The Terps were leading up
until the last three minutes of play.
when Eddie johnson, who was play
See DISMER, page C-30