Evening star., 1939-01-08
Conference Champs
Top College Court
Card This Week
Hoyos Hosts to Temple
Tomorrow; Duke PIoys
At Maryland Friday
BILL DISMER, Jr.

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Two conference basket ball cham
pions will appear here in Washing
tons first full week Of college bas-
ket ball being inaugurated aus
piciously tomorrow night when
Temples Eastern Conference title
holders invade Tech High for a
game with Georgetown's still un-
beaten Hoyas.
Even though no establishment
is needed, the preliminary will add
zest to the evening for through it
the resumption Of Georgetown
George Washington relationships
will be marked by a game between
the freshmen f1ves Of those insti-
tutions.
The Georgetown Temple game
serves as the starting point of q
week during which 10 games are
scheduled for local college fives,
six Of them at home. The biggest
night Of the period will be Thurs
day. when George Washington,
Catholic U. and American play
hosts to a trio of Southern schools.
Big Week for Maryland.
The second championship team
will play here on Friday night when
Duke, which copped the Southern
Conference title last winter, plays
Maryland at College Park. It will
be Maryland's second major op-
ponent in two days for on Wednes-
day afternoon the Old Liners make
their annual trip to Annapolis for
a game with Navy.
For a starter, local court fans
hardly could wish for a better at
traction than tomorrow nights
Georgetown Temple game figures
to be. Last year these same two
teams met in the Eastern Confer
ence opener and Georgetown, a
distinct under-dog. handed the
Owls their only defeat of the con-
ference campaign. From that point,
Temple went on to win % straight
games, in and out of the conference,
and the conference championship.
This year the situation is re-
versed. Tomorrow night George
town will enter the game as the
favorite to beat Temple, for the
Hoyas are an improved outfit over
the 1878 Hilltoppers and the Owls
have lost two of their three all
conference stars.
Owls Lose Big Scorers.
Meyer Bloom and Don Shields,
who scored 1913 points between them,
both have graduated, leaving only
Ed Boyle, a guard. Howard Black,
the other f1rst-string guard, and
Don Henderson all played regularly
last year, however.
To date this season Temple has
had in-and-out luck. It beat North
western and the Penn A. C. but lost
to Southern California, Minnesota
and La Sale Of Philadelphia. Fail
ure to make more than IL OF ~
free throws cost them the game
with the Trojans by 12-point mar
gin, while the Minnesota defeat
came by 1896 score.
Coach Elmer Ripley, having seen
his charges march to four straight
victories, will cling to his starting
lineup of Johnny MCGOWAN, center;
Capt. Joe Murphy and Ed Kurtyka,
forwards, and Johnny Schmitt and
Irving Rizzi, guards. Murphy and
Kurtyka are seniors, Schmitt a
Junior and MCGOWAN and Rizzi
sophomores.
G. w. Faces Strong Roanoke.
Next to tomorrow nights game,
the most attractive" designation
lies between the G. W.-Roanoke
game on Thursday and the Mary
land-Duke tilt the following night.
Because Roanoke won the State
championship of Virginia last year
and went to the final of the ma
tional tournament, 1t may give the
Colonails a little trouble, but until
that has been proven it would be
folly to bet against G. w. on the
Tech floor. It hasn't been beaten
there for nearly two years.
Despite Marylandis 2-and-3 rec
ord thus far, 1t still has q .666 aver
age IN Southern Conference play
with victories over Clemson and
Davidson overbalaucing q lone de-
feat at the hands Of Richmond.