Evening star., 1941-02-24
H. Mexico Basket Game Gives International Flavor Slim College Card
Washington Schools
Competing Mostly
Away This Week
Terropins Given Slight
Chance for Ring Title;
Hosts 70 Wrestlers

American University's basket ball
game with the colorful University
of Mexico quint lends an interna-
tional flavor to this weeks collegiate
sports program.
The lads from the land Of hot
tamales and dark-eyed senoritas will
be here Thursday, pausing to play
the Eagles on their homeward Jour-
ney after spending the better part
OF two months touring this country.
But the most attractive events
listed will be committed in distant
precincts. George Washington goes
to Roanoke, Va, this evening for
a game with Virginia Tech, George
town plays Fordham in New York
Friday and on the same day Mary
land fires its opening shot in quest
of the Southern Conference boxing
championship.
Virginia Tech shouldn't be too
much of a hurdle for the Colonials
who figure to up their record an
other notch to II victories against
three defeats. The downtown
dribblers have their eye on their
games with st. Johns, a week from
today, and the windup and return
engagement with Georgetown the
following Wednesday.
Victory Might Win Invitation.
Although the Hoyas' hopes Of
crashing the championship" party
at the Garden next month just
about have reached the vanishing
point, a clean, decisive victory over
the Rams would merit new con-
sideration for Messrs. Charley
Schmidt, Buddy O'Grady, Irving
Rizzi g. Co., and that wishful
thought may spur the team to its
best effort of the season.
George Washington, incidentally
has an outside chance of getting
into the play-off but the thought
uppermost in the minds of Bill
Reinhart's crew is avenging that
earlier defeat at Georgetown's hands.
Collegiate ring fans will focus their
attention on Columbia, S. c., where
Marylands squad of dark horses
will join in a free-for-all for the
conference championship. Since it
shapes up as a wide-open tourna-
ment among the six teams entered,
Coach Mike Lombardo's hopefuls
must be reckoned with.
Virginia Tech probably will be
the favorite on the strength of its
stunning IL triumph over Clemson,
defending champion, and another
victory over North Carolina Vir-
ginia's win over Tech, after the
Cavaliers loss to North Carolina, has
confused the dopesters and left them
poring over statistics. Virginia is
not in the conference and will not
be in the tournament, of course,
but the critics can't figure how
". p. 7. and the Tar Heels stand
on q basis Of their matches with
the Charlottesville craftsmen.
Terps Have Gambling Chance.
on its match with Tech Saturday,
Maryland appears to have a gam
bler's chance of bagging its second
conference crown. "Hotsy" Alper-
stein, moved up a notch for Sat-
urday's battle, but will drop back
into his regular 145-pound role for
the tournament. It's tossup be-
tween Pat Quinn and Lefty Bill
Holbrook for the lightweight assign
ment and there will be no entry in
the 155-pound class. Otherwise
Maryland will send its regular team
southwark.
South Carolina is the only other
school which will not enter a full
team, but the Gamecocks will be
out Of only the heavyweight class.
Five individual titleholders will be
back to defend their crowns and two,
Lou Lempesis of The Citadel and
Bob Farris Of North Carolina, may
face each other. LempeSiS won the
145-pound championship last year
and Farris triumphed in the 1885,
pound field, but the latter dropped
back to the lighter division this
winter.
Other champions who will be seen
in action are Olin Mcdonald, South
Carolina 120-pounder; Eden Re6
Sanders, North Carolina's crack
middleweight, and Warren Golden
Boy) Wilson of Clemson, considered
the finest heavyweight ever devel-
oped in the conference.
While the mittenmen are away
Marylands wrestlers will be hosts
to the conference grapplers in their
annual title meet at Ritchie Coli
scum. The Terps, strangely enough,
have come up with fair to mid
ding team, featuring Paul Mcneil,
undefeated in 81 bouts of light
heavyweight competition, and may
win few points for themselves.
Mcneil is sure as sin to capture the
175-pound diadem and If a couple
of his mates contract the fever
there's no telling where the team
will finish.
Punch" Widener a Conner.
Coach Deacon" Douglas has a
conner in Punch" Widener, who is
enjoying his first year on the carpet
and displaying amazing aptitude for
tossing around gentlemen of 165
pounds. And in weighty William
Krouse, bulbous heavyweight,
Douglas has chap who is a dis
tinct title threat. Krause is no
novice at the business, having
wrestled at prep school in Virginia.
North Carolina, which last week
handed Washington and Lee its first
defeat since 1929, undoubtedly will
be the pre-tourney favorite. Earlier
in the season the Tar Heels tied Vir-
ginia Military Institute, which was
co-champion Of the circuit with w.
and L. last year.
Carolina boasts q veteran team in
cluding Don TORY, Pick Hamlin,
Charley Tillett, jr.; Gordon De
Loach, Roger We'll, Winston Broad
foot, steve Forrest, Hobie McKeever,
Walter Lambeth and Gene Davant,
and has been State champion two