The Washington times., 1939-01-13
ROANOKE five
PROVES VICTORY
WASN'T A FLUKE

They say that George Washing
ton University's sudden demise as
a basketball power this season is
due to the fact that it's senior
ball club"-but I don't know.
After eyeing the team last night
in defeat against Roanoke College,
Of Salem, Va, it looks like little
Roanoke is too good ball club to
blame it's 47-33 victory on the lack
ing elements of the Colonials.
True, G.. w. has three seniors
in its so-called regular starting
lineup, but that doesn't mean a
thing. And to prove it, take a
look at the invading Virginia
quintet. Every member of the
starting team is a senior and not
substitution was used.
Roanoke is a fine ball team and
probably the finest to show here
this season. 1t could move into
Madison Square Garden and give
Long Island u, st. Johns and all
the rest of the top-notchers a run
for their money. It's just too bad
the club was not afforded the op-
portunity to do so.
Roanoke was runnerup in ma
tional collegiate cage tourney last
year, bowling over a flock of the
standout quintets of the nation.
And when a team can cruise
through that sort of opposition, it
is really good.
The invaders showed the best
passing, assortment of plays and
defensive performance seen in
Tech gym in recent years. Time
after time these lads stole the ball
out of the dribbling mitts of the
Colonial tossers. And playing fol-
low up shots led more to the down
fall of :he locals than any other
factor.
Roanoke worked the ball in for
lay-up shots and SnoWbirdS and it
could shoot from the center of the
floor ana send the ball SwiShing
through the cords for points.
Every once in while college
comes up with a team like Roanoke
possesses this year. And it's a
pleasure to watch such team in
action.
Oddly enough, the players hail
from every section of the East.
Paul Rice, forward, is the lone Vir-
ginian on the regular starting
team. He's Roanoke boy. Gene
Studebaker halls from Bluefield,
w. Va; Bob Sheffield, center of
the club and high scorer of the
game last night, calls Amherst,
Mass, his home town. Johnny
Wagner and Bob Lieb, guards,
come from Mamaroneck, N. Y,
and Chattanooga, Tenn, respec-
lively.
THIRD G. w. DEFEAT
The game marked only the
third setback for a Reinhart-
coached basketball team in the
Tech High gym in his four years
of coaching at George Washing
ton. Once Loyola of Chicago
turned the trick, 1854, and then
Long Island, 1924.
The final score tells the story
of the G. w. setback; suffice to
say that the Colonials were lag
ging behind at halftime, 21-12.
Bob Faris, high scorer of the
team, took but two shots at the
Roanoke basket and he scored on
both occasions. The report is out
that he has a mad" on, but no
body seems to know why. Maybe
it is just as well.
Catholic University's victory
starved courtmen dropped another
last night. This time to Elon Col
lege, the small school that sent
three grid candidates to the Wash
lngton Redskins. The Cards lost
in their own domain, in a see-saw
tilt, 35-32. Wayne Ambrose,
leading scorer of the D. c. colleges
last year, returned to the top of
the list jy snaring 10 points to
GUST Faris, of G. w.
The Flying Cardinals were be-
hind, 17-15, at halftime. Elon
showed a good passing attack and
won in the closing minutes of the
game. 1t was C. us fifth straight
setback for the season.
American University'S basket
ballers were humbled by Hamp-
den7Sydney, 41-31, last night in
the Eagles gym. Center sgd
Weed and Guard Bud Murdoch
scored 81 points between them to
pace the victorS. George Brown,
center of A. u, who recently was
rendered the most valuable player
award of the Eagles football team
last fall, proved his worth as a
court star by sinking 10 points and
keeping his team in the ball game.