Evening star., 1940-12-21
Strive 10 Make
Blue Devils 4th
Loop Victims
6. W. Piles Up Score
On Clemson Team
Thot Beat Terps

If one wanted to be facetious
about the matter, one might suspect
that basket ball coaches of the
Southern Conference had lot to
do with delaying George Washing-
tons induction into formal member
shin in the Dixie loop until next fall.
The feason? They wanted one
more crack at the loops court title
before G. w. moved in and started
blitzkreig.
To date, G. w. has played four
basket ball games and won three
of them, at the expense of-you
guessed it-Soutla-1 Conference
teams.
Tonight. Bill Reinhart's current
five seek its for=th conference VIC
tim in team which. ike itself, also
won an impressive victory here last
night. Duke is the intended lamb
for the Colonial wolves and the
game will be played at Tech GYM
incidentally, it will be the last night
that G. w. will play on the high
school floor this season After to-
night, everything's big league at
Riverside.
Colonials on Scoring Spree.
Duke licked Catholic University
last night It's true. but c. U. S long
way from G w in basket ball
way and look what the Colonials
we're doing to another Of Dukes
conference colleagues at the same
time. Just piling up their biggest
score thus far to rout by 64-40
score. the same Clemson team which
had Walloped Maryland the night
prior.
The Blue Devils, though. promise
sterner opposition than the Tigers
offered. For the first court game
it has staged with G. w. in seven
years the Carolinians have four vet
erans who carried Duke to the final
of the Southern Conference tourna-
ment last season after winning 10
Of 26 games during the regular
campaign
In Capt Glenn Price Duke has
one of the outstanding all-around
| PLAYERS of the conference. while
Chuck Holley is a 6-foot-3 center
who may make Joe Conner hustle
| The other vets are Bill Mock. an
| outstanding forward and one OF
three scoring leaders against c. u.
and Cy Valasek, a guard who sets
up most of the plays.
Also, in Coach Eddie Cameron
! the Blue Devils have mentor who
has been just as successful in the
! Southern Conference as Bill Rein
| hart has been as an independent.
| IN II years as Dukes cage coach
| Cameron never has failed to have a
team qualify for the tournament.
Book Return Engagement.
1t will be the first of two games
| between Duke and G. w. this season.
A return engagement in Durham
on January Is has Just been booked.
/ Ten seconds after the opening
whistle had blown at Tech last
night the Colonials were away to a
lead over Clemson which mounted
to a 1910 superiority before the
Tigers could break the ice-6ia min
utes after play had begun. G. VS.
regulars were removed when the
score stood 1914 midway the first
half and against the Colonial re-
serves Clemson narrowed the ad-
vantage to 1920 at half time.
Matt Zunic's one-man scoring
/ parade, which was interrupted just
once as he hung up Ia points, turned
( the game into a rout at the start OF
{ the second half. G. W's second
( stringers again came back into the
game with the score at 1929 and
more than held their own until the
end The Colonials took advantage
of the game to practice working the
ball in under the basket, seldom
attempting set shots. On the other
/ hand Clemson never was able to
penetrate the Bluffs defense and
was forced into long shots, mostly
by Craig, the only sign of an offense
that the visitors could muster.
G. W.'s freshmen kept their per
feet record intact with a 74-57 rout
of Y. NJ c. A., although the latters
Heuer was high individual scorer
with 81 points. Gustafson nosed
out Graham for G. w. honors, Is
/ to Ia.