Evening star., 1940-02-26
CoIoniaIs 10 Entertain
81. John S Saturday.; ,
Hoyas Visit n. Y. U.
Unbeaten VioIets Hold
Foe in High Respect;
CurdinuIs Downed

After hearing enough tales about
magical New York basket ball squads
to scare the fuzz right OF their
manly chests, Georgetown and
George Washington get closeup
ganders at two this week in the out
standing attractions on q meager
sports card.
Georgetown faces New York Uni
versity's undefeated forces Wednes-
day night at Madison Square Gar
den and George Washington is host.
to another wrecking crew politely
known as st. Johns of Brooklyn.
This game is scheduled at Eastern,
not Tech, High School next Satur-
day night.
If two better teams are loose in
Greater Gotham, they hadn't been
discovered at an early hour this
morning. New York University owns
a perfect record of 16 victories and
has bear hug on national honors.
One of its victims was st. Johns,
which bowed by 40-38 margin, and
you can't make 'em much closer
than that.
Hoyas Hard Bent Upon Victory.
Georgetown is taking its game so
seriously it will roll out of Washing
ton tomorrow in time to hold a
couple of practice sessions on the
Gardens glass backboards. The
Hoyas bounced back to pin a sur
prising 1886 defeat on Penn State
last week, after being kicked around
earlier in the season, and figure they
may be able to pull an encore at
the Violets' expense. A win over
Howard Cams outfit would help
them to forget lot of early season
misery.
Nor are the Colonials taking the
st. Johns game lightly. The Colo
mails have been ordered out for
special practice this week by Coach
Bill Reinhart, who is cooking up a
new batch of hocus pocus to toss at
the visitors. If both teams are on
top of their games, it should be one
of the most entertaining spectacles
of the winter season Eastern's gym,
unfortunately, boasts seating facili-
ties even more limited than Techs.
Oddly enough, New York Is wor-
ried about the Georgetown game.
On form the Cannmen are at least
10 or IL points better than the Hoyas,
but these games do not run true to
form. The rivals have taken turns
upsetting one another in past years
and this week Georgetown's end of
the see-saw comes up. New York
should win, but don't mark it down
until the final whistle has sounded.
st. Johns, coached by the old
Celtic star, Chick Lapchick, is one
down to G. w. in their three-game
series. The Brooklynites won by a
56-44 margin last year after bowing
by points in 1898 and by 20 the
year before. The team turned in
one of its best performances of the
season against N. Y. u, losing only
after blowing" an S-point lead in
the final half. Bill Reinhart, who
saw the game, says the Johnnies
deserved to win.
Beaten Four Times.
The team has lost four games this
year, two in q row to st. Joseph's of
Philadelphia, to Fordham and to
Colorado before Christmas. It num-
bers among its victims Bradley Tech
(beaten in two overtime periods at
Peoria), Loyola of Chicago, Temple,
Manhattan, City College of New
York and Niagara.
Its outstanding stars are Co.
Captains Frank Haggerty and Bill
McKeever, Jimmy White, Dutch"
Garfinkel, generally recognized as
the best foorman and playmaker in
New York; Ken Barnett and Johnny
Ahearn. All stand more than 6 feet
tall and are fast and rough. T.
Catholic U. stops of at Setoh
Hall tonight on the way home from
Philadelphia, where La Sale gave
it 1929 trimming yesterday. The
Redbirds call it quits after Fridays
game with Washington College at
Chestertown, Md.
American U. meets Western Mary
land Wednesday and embarks on
road trip over the week end that
takes it to Drexel and Swarthmore.
Wilson has games with Newark
and Shenandoah.