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0fPre-Ho|iday Slate

Basketball fans may be treated
to as good a game here Thursday
night as they'll have all season
when North Carolina State, South
ern Conference champion for six
straight years, plays George Wash
ington at Uline Arena.
This is the feature of q rather
skimpy schedule as the District
area teams start tapering off be-
fore the holidays. Only other
games here are on Wednesday
night. when little Hampden-Syd-
ney visits Georgetown and Sat-
urday night when South Carolina,
which hasn't done enough thus
far to scare other conference
teams, meets George Washington.
But the N. c. State game makes
up in quality what the schedule
lacks in quantity. Only a few
other games are booked for Dis
trict teams on the road. about
the most important of which arel
two for Maryland at lexington
against Virginia Military Wednes-
day and Washington and Lee
Thursday.
North Carolina State already
has been defeated once this season,
but that should make Thursday
nights CIV game an even better
attraction than it was before. A
Wolfpack team that is human
enough to lose a game, something
that has happened only about once
a season against conference op-
position since Coach Ev Case took
over, should buoy the hopes of a
very good George Washington
team.
Upset by Wake Forest.
The Wolfpack got its comeup-
pance only last Wednesday from
Wake Forest. It was by only one
point-51 to 50-and it happened
in Wake Forests little gym, but
1t was a defeat nevertheless. Even
with that setback, the Wolfpack
rates as potential national
power again. Right after that
Wake Forest thing, State re-
bounded brutally to knock off
Rhode Island State at Raleigh by
a los to 66 score.
Center Mel Thompson and For
ward Bobby Speight have been the
leaders of a Wolfpack five that
has depth, height and expert
ence. Thompson, at 6-foot-3,
is brilliant player and competi-
tor. and is known among team
mates and opponents as a smart"
player. Last year as sophomore
he averaged 1872 points a game,
and he is improving on that figure
this season.
Speight, 6-foot-8 scoring star,
is a co-captain and is regarded
around Raleigh as an An-America |.
prospect. In addition to his scor-
ing activities. he also is a rebound
artist of note.
These are only the top two men
on a team with plenty of talent,
even among the substitutes. And
they. of course, have a fine coach
in Case, the little man from In
diana who brought big-tilne
basketball to Raleigh. His teams
have been the scourge of the IT.
team Southern Conference ever
since he arrived. and frequently
they have been up among the top
nationally.
COlonials No PuShOver.
The Wolfpack naturally will
be the favorite Thursday night,
but it has no pushover in George
Washington this year. The CO.
lonials have height and reasonable
depth. Their conference loss to
high-scoring West Virginia last
week by only one point was no
disgrace. Not many teams come
that close to the Mountaineers
on their own court.
N. C. State won over CIV by
86-57 last year, but it wasn't as
easy as the score indicates. With
the Holup brothers-John and
Joe-Setting a hot scoring pace,
the Colonials are rated we'll up in
the first division of conference
teams. State thinks enough Of CIV
potential to have the Colonials
secuted last week when they went
to West Virginia.
Carl CButterl Anderson, Cases
assistant, was the man who took
a look at CIV up at Morgantown,
and he spoke highly of the team.
OF Joe Holup, Anderson said, He
is the best big man to come into
the Southern Conference in my
time" And Anderson has been in
the league for six years.
Terps Should Win Two.
Maryland's basketball team,
which like GW's is figured as
good bet to earn a place in the
Southern Conference champion
ship tournament, should win both
its league games at Lexington this
week.
This weeks schedule.
Tomorrow. |;
Montgomery Junior at Shepherd. |.
Tuesday.
Catholic u. at Washington College.
Wednesday.
Maryland at Virginia Military.
Hampden-Sydney at GEORGETOWN.
Montgomery Junior at GEORGETOWN
Freshmen.
Thursday.
Maryland at Washington and Lee.
American U. at Western Maryland.
North Carolina State at George Wash
anRton.
Saturday.
South Carolina at George Washington. Il
Gallaudet at Salisbury