Evening star., 1953-01-08
Scoring Battle
Likely TO Draw
Crowd Of $500.
Georgetown to Send
Ace, BoIger, Against
CoIoniuls' Joe Hoiup
By. Bill Fuchs

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wire battle Is expected at Nc
Donough Gym at $3.50 O'Clock
tonight when unbeaten George
town faces highly regarded
George Washington in the first
of six games which will decide
the areas "big three" college
basketball championship.
Maryland, the third member,
plays at Richmond tonight and
entertains Georgetown Saturday
night. Each of the three teams
plays the others twice.
Tonight's game stacks up as
one of the better games offered
here in years, what with both
teams climbing to National
prominence. The Colonials are
the highest-Scoring team In the
country with an average of 92.8
points per game. The Hoyas
number among their five victims
Seattle and Rhode Island State
in the recent Boston Arena
Tournament.
A standing-room-on crowd
Of $500 fans is expected and
helping to draw them will be
the expected scoring duel be-
tween Joe Holup, GW's freshman
sensation from Swoyersville, Pa,
and Georgetown's Bill Bolger,
senior from Long Island, N. Y.
Bolger All-Time High Scorer.
Bolger, 6-foot-5 hook-shot
specialist, is Georgetown's all
time top scorer. He broke that
record, formerly held by Tommy
OKeefe, last season, while break
ing the Single-season mark. for.
merly held by John Mahnken.
His 80 points against Mount st.
Mary's last season set an indi-
vidual game mark at George
town, while his AIT points were
tops for season. He has scored
118e points in five games this
season for a 1880 average.
Freshman Joe is threatening
to break all CIV records. The
6-foot-6 former All-Pennsylvania
high school tackle in football al
ready has set an individual game
record for the school, 80 points,
against Duke. John held the
previous high OF 80 points. Joe
has an average Of 21.3 points
per game.aa,
Coach Bill Reinhart's other
scoring star is Joe's brother,
John, 6-foot-5 senior, who has
a 17.9 average.
Bolger. who never played bas-
ketball before high school, went
on to set an aI-time record at
Xavier High School In Jackson
Heights. L. I. A pre-law stu
dent, Bolger also has q younger
basketball-playing brother, Joe,
who came within 20 points of
breaking that Xavier mark. Joe,
6-foot-3, is playing with the
Hoya freshmen.
Gigante Averages 1l.6 PoiIts.
Bolger has scored more than
twice the number of points of
any other player. on the team.
Next in line is Lou Gigantic, a
driving type of player, with an
average Of 11.6 points per game.
The game is particularly inn
portant to those four George
town seniors who lost only to
Navy as freshmen and for the
next two seasons failed to live
up to expectations.
AS Bolger put it: This is our
last chance and tonight's game
is the big one. It could make
or break u.s."
Hugh Beins, 6-foot-7 center;
Denny Murphy, 6-foot-5, one
handed push-shot specialist. and
Bob Makatura played with
Bolger on that freshmen team.
The other starter was Barry Sui
livan, who left school after last
season and now is in the Army
and going to radio school at
Fort Dix, N. j.
CIV won the "big three" title
last year. winning it's only game
with Maryland and dividing two
games with the Hoyas. The
Colonials, who lost one-point
decision to West Virginia and
blew a big lead to lose to North
Carolina State, have a 6-2 rec
ord and are slight favorites
tonight.