Evening star., 1947-02-03
Crippled 6. U, Primed
10 Upset Terp Five
Tomorrow Night
By Lewis F. Atchison

By Lewis F. Atehison
Georgetown to beat Maryland to-
morrow night at College Park Is the
long shot of the week in District
court circles. If you can get q few
bob down without somebody yelling
"fix," grab 1t, because the Hoyas
are q cinch.
On paper they have less chance
than an honest man in politics, but
that's good, because the underdog
takes this one. Secondly, the
squad is so physically wrecked, what
with Danny Kraus out with a
sprained ankle and Andy Kostecka
peering dimly out Of purple mouse,
it couldn't possibly stand up for 40
minutes Of a typical Maryland game.
Form Book No Good.
But in these neighborhood Squab-
bles you toss the form book into the
ashcan, grab q handful of throat
lozenges and start yelling. Maryland
wasn't supposed to whip George
Washington, and did. G. w. didn't
have a chance against Georgetown,
that IL until the game started when
it proceeded to wallop the Hoyas.
Thus, it's toss-up as to who will
win.
Georgetown still remembers the
shellacking Ed Hargaden and his
pals took from "Spider" Chase and
his Maryland playmates a decade
ago In another game in which Mary
land didn't have chance" The
Hoyas have chance to scramble
the local social standings, but thor
oughly, tomorrow and with a re-
turn game with G. w. coming up
Elmer Ripley's pupils still think they
can finish in the top spot.
Smart G. U. Reserves.
The Hilltoppers have q flock of
smart reserves in Eddie LAWN,
Kenny Brown, Tom OKeefe, ETC.,
and If they did nothing else they
might run the pins out from under
their hosts. O'Keefe has looked par
ticularly good in recent games and
Is certain to see . lot of action
against CQe IerpS.
Maryland, on the short end Of a
6-3 count in the rivalry between the
schools, has two vets from their
last meeting in 1943, Tommy Mont
and Don Schuerholz. It also has the
Southern Conferences most prolific
scorer in Bill Brown, and the No. 2
man is Johnny Edwards.
George Washington, meanwhile, Is
off on three-day trip that will find
the Colonials well in the running for
a Southern Conference tournament
berth or almost completely out of it.
OTIS Zahn's pupils face Richmond,
v. M. I. and Washington and Lee on
successive nights. Saturday they'll
be at William and Mary and by that
time they'll know exactly where they
stand in the conference.
American us tossers who have a
date at Bucknell tomorrow night,
have been strengthened by the ad-
dition of George Lafferty, former
Coolidge High School star. Lafferty,
only recently separated from mill
tary service, played for the Phila-
delpnia Navy Vary qufnt, which won
40 of it's so games, lodging strong
claim for the national service cham
pionship. p H aF
Staff Cassell's squad will be home
this weekend, playing host to Penn
State Friday and Randolph Macon
Saturday. The Eagles are certain
to be invited to the Mason-Dixon
Conference tournament and a win
over Randolph-Macon will only
strengthen their position, giving
them a record of seven league wins
in eight starts.
Catholic University's tossers, get
ting back on a full time basis after
time out for exams, go to Philadel-
phia tomorrow for a game with La
Sale, come home Thursday to play
Washington College, and hit the
road again Saturday for a tilt with
Loyola at Baltimore.
Inc STEADY Improvement OF Cnuck
Dudley and Scotty Cranston, and
the consistent work of Gene Sklarz,
Fred Conners and George Nelson has
been heartening to Coach Ben Zola.
who still figures his squad has a
chance to get into the Mason-Dixon
Conference tournament. Although
their overall record isn't as good as
Zola would like it to be, the Cards
are in the thick of the conference
duel with three wins in eight games