Evening star., 1940-01-13
1errapins Hosts
In Basket Ball
To Richmond
Hoyo and Cord Quints
Fare Poorly, While
GuIIuudet Wins
By LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

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the collegiate household, muscles in
on basket balls territory tonight
with matches scheduled at College
Park and Catholic University.
You can take your pick and hardly
go wrong. Maryland is host to its
old and warm Southern Conference
enemy, Duke, and the Redbirds will
do their swinging with a mighty
potent Miami outfit.
BY way of an appetizer basket
ball will be served at Maryland at
8 o'clock, with the Terrapins meet
ing Richmond, boxing following ap-
proximately an hour and q half later.
Catholics match gets under way
promptly at $3.50.
But before getting into the nights
program you may as well hear the
doleful tidings of touring District
court teams. Duquesne ran over
Catholics representatives at Pitts
burgh and left them in badly man
gled condition, 60-32, while Scranton
beat Georgetown by the weu-known
beezer, 1881.
Humbled Hoyas Return.
Two defeats in as many games are
enough for Georgetown and it is
returning home, but Catholic has
an engagement with st. Vincent,s
tonight at Latrobe, Pa, and another
with st. Francis tomorrow night at
Loretta, Pa. Fod Cotton's ambitious
charges expected to bag a victory
in one of the two.
Some balm for the Districts smart
ing wounds was supplied by Gallau-
Diet, which put the skids under Tow
son Teachers, 1890, at Kendall
Green. Tonight Blair Smiths Blues
take their pitcher back to the we'll
for refill at Shepherdstown Teach
ers expense. The game will be
played at Shepherdstown, w. Va.
Wilson Teachers game with Blue
Ridge College, starting promptly at
8 O'Clock in the Wilson gym. rounds
out tonight's local collegiate card.
Wilson hopes to regain its winning
stride after dropping a heart
breaking 1-point decision to Johns
Hopkins.
Catholic, reverting to boxing, has
fighting chance against the Hur-
ricane. Eddie LaFond, the Cardi-
nels' underslung mastermind, who
has seen his teams lose only twice
in three years, is optimistic enough
to believe his young gentlemen
have an inside track on the visitors
although admitting in the next
breath that they aren't in the best
condition. Football is to blame, for
LaFond's lancers were obliged to
interrupt their training routine and
hustle back into grid harness for
the Sun Bowl game.
Miami an Upsetter.
Eddie is counting on "Bingo"
Slant, national intercollegiate mid
dleWeight titleholder; Gerry Strang,
Joe Bunsa and Jay Turner for
enough points to tie Miami. at
least, and has an ace in the hole
in Lenny Baritone, slender feather
weight. He secretly harbors a no
ton the five of 'em may win, but
II the Cards take any other bouts
Ii will be pleasant shock to him.
With the Cards forced to count
points in such miserly fashion, it
isn't difficult to see what a sham
bles their hopes would be reduced
to by an upset-and Miami is as
well known for upsets as for beaches
and pretty gals. The visitors roster
includes Joey Church, lightweight
clever enough to make the last
Olympic ring squad, and Benny
Lovett, promising 120-pounder. Low
EFT is being touted as the next ma
tlonal titleholder at his weight.
The lineup reads like this, with
Catholics delegates mentioned first:
120 pounds-Ted Mandris or Price
WEIGH VS.. Bunny Lovett; 127 pounds
Len Baritone VS.. Jerry O'Connell;
135 pounds-Don Miller or John
Tedder VS.. Church; 145 pounds
Huch Hughes VS.. George Bach; 155
pounds-Joe Bunsa VS.. Joe Bonano;
165 pounds-Gerry Strong VS.. Bud
Stern; light-heavyweight - Fred
Slant VS.. Red Cameron; heavy
weight-Jay Turner VS.. Tom Kearns.
Blue Devils Below Par.
Maryland is well fortified with
material, and Duke apparently is
not up to the mark that made it
a power in conference ring circles so
many years. The Blue Devils took
a pasting from South Carolina last
week and are expected to do the
same tonight
Whether the Terps are strong
enough to retin their conference
crown despite the loss of two cham
pions is the burning question their
supporters want answered. Off,
(see ATCHIsON, Page A-l3.)