Evening star., 1950-01-01
A.U. and Maryland
Face Rugged Tests
In Road Clashes
By Merreu WhittIesey

ance in Madison Square Garden,
an Armory doubleheader next
Saturday night, and important
road games by American Univer-
sity and the University Of Mary
land are the feature college bas-
ketball attractions for the first
week of 1850.
The Colonials meet Manhattan
Tuesday night in New York in the
opening game Of another Garden
twin bill, with unbeaten st. Johns
and City College Of New York
meeting in the nightcap. In the
second game, the Johnnies and c.
c. N. Y. will dispense with the un-
popular two-minute rule and play
the last two minutes under the
former rules.
The second Armory twin bill on
Saturday finds Georgetown and
Maryland in the feature game at
9:30, following an 8 o'clock South
ern Conference scrap between
George Washington and Rich
mond. It will be the only game
of the week for the Hoyas, who
were rudely bounced from the un-
beaten list by LaSalle by a 90-58
count on Friday.
Maryland takes a sad IT rec
ord into the Georgetown. game.
but the Terps twice were under
dogs against the Hoyas last year
and lost by only two points at the
Armory and four at College Park.
Richmond will bring a small but
fast team to meet CIV. and is well
coached under the veteran Mac
Pitt.
Terps Battle NC, Duke.
Maryland opens the New Year
in a hurry. playing North Caro-
lima tomorrow night in Chapel
Hill and moving to Duke on Tues
day. The Tar Heels. with a poor
pre- holiday record, beat Duke in
the Dixie Classic in Raleigh last
week, and unless the Terps show
a decided improvement it looks
like a rough trip.
Incidentally, Bill Vanish, a
brilliant basketball prospect who
quit Maryland two seasons ago.
shows up on the list of the Ma
tion's leading scorers with an 18-
point average for st. Francis of
Loretto. Pa.
American University and Loyola
OF Baltimore, co-favored to settle
the Mason-Dixon Conference
crown between them, open their
home-and-home series Wednesday
night in Baltimore. Loyola won
its seventh game of the season
Friday night. drubbing Regis, last
years Catholic Invitation Tourna-
ment champions and the NAIB
f1nalists by 10 points. The Grey
hounds victims include a pair of
Southern Conference teams. Wake
Forest and V. p. L., plus Morris
Harvey, Ohio Wesleyan and two
Conference teams. Loyola lost to
Villanova by only four points and
its other conquerors were LaSalle
and st. Francis of Brooklyn.
Cards Play Randolph Macon.
The Eagles meet the University
Of Virginia Saturday night, In
Charlottesville. Virginia's victims
to date include G. W. and Mary
land.
Catholic University has a lone
date with Randolph Macon there
on Saturday. while Navy enter
tains v. M. I. Saturday afternoon
in its only game.
Georgetown's 32-point defeat
by LaSalle was a shock. inasmuch
as the Explorers had lost twice
last week. The Hoyas played
against LaSalle second stringers
much of the first half and trailed
by eight points at halftime. But
it was a rout as LaSalle scored So
points in the second half.
The Hoyas missed Tommy
OKeefe and Frank Alagia but
may regain both for the Mary
land game. Alagia was injured
in the Harvard game before
Christmas and did not play, while
OKeefe played only a few min
utes against LaSalle after suffer-
ing an ankle injury in a court
collision. Both are regulars.
| The Weeks Schedule:
| Monday.
MARYLAND at North Carolina.
Tuesday.
George Washington at Manhattan (Madi-
| son Square Garden).
| Maryland at Duke.
| Wednesday.
American q. at Loyola Of Baltimore.
| Friday.
Washington Collese at Gallaudet Cast
| ern High.
salisbury Teachers at Wilson Teachers
| Saturday.
| MARYLAND at GEORGETOWN
| Richmond at George Washington,
| American o. at Virginia
Catholic q. ct Randolph Macon.
| v. M. !. At Navy.