Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1942-11-03
Old Liners Slice
Sports 10 -Four
For Duration
Football, Basket Ball,
Boxing, Lacrosse Top
Toughening Program
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Baseball and track, plus several
minor sports, today were abandoned
for the duration by the University
Of Maryland, which announced a
policy OF fostering only sports of
a toughening nature until the in
ternational agitation IS over. Foot
ball, basket ball, boxing and lacrosse
are the only sports the Old Liners
will continue.
In curtailing Maryland's sports
program, Clark Shaughnessy, ath-
letic director and head football
coach, revealed varsity and fresh
man combinations In baseball, track,
wrestling, tennis, cross country, Soc
Ger and golf, most Of which have
been carried for years, will be sus-
pended until 1t is practical to re-
sumo them.
While mounting transportation
problems figured prominently in the
drastic curtailment, the determining
factor was to concentrate on pas
times that would fit into Mary
lands military setup and Shaugh-
messy stressed the point that the
Old Liners physical fitness program
will receive first consideration in
future decisions.
Sports to Tougher Students.
Varsity and freshman squads will
be maintained in football, basket
ball, boxing and lacrosse as long
as it is feasible to do so, Shaugh-
messy said, emphasizing the re-
stricted program will be intensified
to tougher and prepare Maryland
students for the war effort.
Football probably will be trans
formed into virtually an all-year
proposition. It will be played as long
as weather permits and the more
than 200 players on varsity, jayvee,
freshman and commando squads
now in action merely offers a starter.
When the schedules of those teams
are completed their equipment will
be turned over to others. There
will be football round-robin among
companies in the ROTC regiment,
which embraces approximately $500
men; and 1t won't be long after
that is completed until spring prac-
tice will be started.
- Will Stress Physical Fitness.
Shaughnessy indicated a revised
sports program at Maryland several
weeks ago when he revealed the
Old Liners had purchased prob
ably more equipment than any other
college in the Nation" with the
goal in mind of carrying physical
fitness to every student.
Basket ball, with Burton Shipley
again coaching, will get under way
shortly. Maryland currently has no
boxing coach, with Bobby Goldstein
now an Army lieutenant, but the
Old Line fist fingers nevertheless
will start swinging later this month.
Activity in these sports as well as
In lacrosse also will embrace the
and physical education
units, with Shaughnessy a staunch
advocate of lacrosse as a condi-
toner. Jack Faber, head lacrosse
coach, now is captain in the Army
Sanitary Corps but Al Hegey, his
associate for years, will take over.
Maryland's Richie Coliseum, plus
its gym armory and the spacious
new armory due to be completed
around February l, give the Old
Liners ideal equipment for indoor
sports.
Develops Many Diamond Stars.
In discarding baseball for the
duration Maryland suspended
sport in which it has experienced
great success. Most famous grad
uate Of its baseball ranks is hard
hitting Charley Keller of the New
York Yankees, but the Old Liners
sent numerous other players into
organized baseball, including Bozie
Berger, Bobby and Kenneth Knode.
Vic Keene, Todie Riggs and Earl
Springer.
Maryland also has had many out
standing trackmen, among those of
recent years being Bill Guckeyson,
Jim Kehoe, Coleman Headley, Earl
Widmyer, Warren Evans and the
late Duke Alexander, the latter a
one-man track team in himself.
Alexander recently was killed in
action with the marines at Sol
onions.