Evening star., 1942-02-15
Contest With Leaders
Is Among Biggest .
Of Season Here
MocMitchell Is Promised
For Catholic U. Comes:
Pros to Help FenIon
BY LEWIS F. ATCHISON.

indicates the deadly seriousness
with which Bill Reinhart is play
ing his cards for a tournament
bid in the Southern Conference.
The Colonials are lock bet to be
Invited If they maintain their cur
rent pace, and Reinhart rightfully Is
taking every precaution to see that
they do.
Dukes Blue Devils, perched atop
the conference like a church steeple,
will be the Colonials' opponents at
Riverside Saturday night, and the
affair shapes up as one of the most
important league games OF the year.
1t won't decide the championship,
OF course, nor will defeat for either
team erase its chances of gaining
the title round. but. conf1dentially.
the two are expected to battle it
OUT for the crown after all other
opposition has been swept into the
ash can.
It is noteworthy, too, that G. w.
has couple of comparatively soft
touches with v. M. l. and two days
rest before its second duel with
Georgetown, gentle hint that
Reintart intends to bag both games
with the Hoyas and atone for last
years twin ,setbacks. He has the
schedule planned So his boys will
have just the right amount, of rest
and will be in proper frame of
mind to deal with its remaining
Opponents-he hopes.
Bill Acts on Bad Steer.
Last year, acting on a well-intend-
ed but nevertheless bum steer, Rein
hart tried to get in enough confer
ence games-and victOries-to quail
ify the Colonials for the play-off
If G. w. formally was inducted into
the conference when it came off. To
do this it was necessary to take the
boys on an exhausting five-game
trip on which they met Richmond,
South Carolina, Clemson, Furman
and Duke within a week. They did
nobly, bowling only to Duke, but
they couldn't play in the tourna-
ment after all.
Later in the season, with bid
to the sports writer's invitational
tournament at Madison Square Gar
den hanging in the balance, they
met St. Johns of Brooklyn and
Georgetown in the brief space Of a
couple of days. The Colonials ap-
peared like a national championship
combination against st. Johns,
which was pretty hot itself, win
ming by a 59-42 count. But against
Georgetown they were terrible and
dropped a 41-34 decision. Rein
hart has taken private VOW 1t
won't happen this time.
Pros Help Richmond Coach.
Richmond's eleven, beginning four
weeks of spring practice tomorrow,
should have distinct pro league
polish when it's all over, what with
three National Leaguers helping out.
Ed Merrick will have the regular
line coaching job permanently If
not called to the colors, but the
pros will lend hand only during
the spring. They are Art Jones,
Pittsburgh back; Dick Humbert,
Philadelphia end, and Andy From
GEEK, Brooklyn tackle.
Fenlon, former G. w. star who
succeeds Glenn Thistlethwaite,
slated to retire July l as director
of athletics, is optimistic about his
first year at the varsity helm Eleven
lettermen are returning, along with
a batch of what he considers to be
fairly good freshmen in a squad of
IS players, but those who saw the
Spider frosh last year weren't ex-
actly enthusiastic about their work.
An unbiased forecast is rough
weather ahead for Johnny.
Trifle Lacking in Education.
Worried about the size of George
towns "Weasels," the potent and
undefeated freshman quintet, Grad
uate Manager Rome Schwagel has
sent out an SOS to loyal alumni for
a couple of 7-footers for future de-
livery. One alumnus wrote that he
had contacted a 6-foot 8-inch pros
pect in Arkansas who agreed to
come to Georgetown if given his
room and keep, but who lacked
about four years of high school and
seven of graded school to meet the
scholastic requirements.
He was asked about his Greek.
"Ain't no Greek in me-" he re-
sponded. "Ah'm q hunnert puhcent
American"
Les MacMitchell, the New York
miller, who went the distance in
4 :08 fiat and would have cracked
the record in the Metropolitan
games If pushed at all, almost is
certain to appear here in the Cath
olic U. games next month at River
side
On Dorsey Griffith's desk at C. U.
Is letter from MacMitchell's coach,
Emil Won Filing, which reads in
part .'"let me know the date of
your meet and who you want us to
send"
Griffith will write back this week
and ask for MacMitchell
Outstanding Athletes Named.
An ardent sports fan" wants to
know why local sports writer's don't
take a poll to select the outstand-
ing District athlete of the year. We
assume he means college athlete,
since most of our activities are con-
fined to that sphere. It sounds
plausible and without even thinking
We would nominate Matt Zunic, AL
Blozis, Tommy Fields, "Hotsy" AL
perstein, Buddy O'Grady and
Mearle Du Vail.
If he intended to include the en-
tire field, just deal us out.
And speaking of stars, Maryland
has an aH-Southern Conference
team selected through the years
which Burt Shipley would like to
try out right now. Bozie Berger
and Ed Ronkins are the forwards,
Eddie johnson, center; George
Knepley and George De Witt,
guards. "
University of Virginia has offered
the use of its Memorial gym to
Southern Conference officials for its