Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-05-17
WIN, LOSE OR
OKAW By FRANCIS sTANN
Weep No More for GNU

WEEP NO MORE Tor George washington University,
which more often than not the years has been
an athletic sepchd in these parts The Coonias big
and good fortune couldn't happen more deserv-
ing OUTFIT
In football, you may remember, George Washington
had Till record equang the the schools history
Not Maryland or Navy but "tte" CIV got bowl bid its
rst one and then upset favored Texas Western $780,
the Sun Bowl at FL Paso.
In tennis the Colonials the Southern Conference
tournament for the second consecutive They posted
93 record in match competition then won the title
IN tournament at Davidson, N. C.
The golf team. coached by George Denbaugh Of Ken
wood the Southern Conference title the first time
championship and Warren Krick, his teammate, was
runnerup
IT WOULD BE CHARITABLE to gloss over basketball
which usually is GWs cup Of tea, because it wasn't the
Colonials But In baseball CIV has mopped up and
Coach Bill Remnants court wounds healed on the diamond
Going into todays game with Georgetown the Coloals
were l72 for the campaign and had ILL conference
record That ILL record naturally the Southern
ference crown, GW's second In a row in baseball
In rife the Colonials couldn't finish better than fourth
In the conference and third in the regonas conducted by
the National Rifle Association. Paul Nordquist an
Arlington sharpshooter, selected to the AAmerca in
tercollegiate rife team.
I'VE DO HAVE A SMALL rifle range" Carroll Hall says
suggestively I'VE don't have much Of anything else"
Carroll Hall is Gws ebullient public relations expert
and Of he referring to the hardshps that
faced by Just about all Of the Colonial teams
There Is no plush outdoor stadium, a showplace
neld house. at Maryland. There baseball diamond
golf course, tennis courts The Coonia to do
It all the hard way
Know where Frog Island is located? IT'S across the
Potomac from CIV There football field Of but no
dressing The players suit up at school, over
Frog Island scrmmage and bus home. player is hurt
alumnus assistant student manager win drive him
to the campus to have his wound tended.
Frog Island is where Football Coach DO Sherman put
together that 1855 team that lost only to West Virginia
was tied by Boston University.
THE CHAMPIONSHIP TENNIS TEAM coached by Bill
Shreve has been host" at the Washngtonian and
Pierce MIL both far removed from the university and has
two ago CIV played all Of It's matches the
old Forehand courts at Baeys Virginia.
which for all practical is not much closer the
campus than, say, Fargo, N. Oak.
The tite-winnng golf team plays all home matches at
Kenwood Country Club which is considerably than
stones throw. Yet the golfers matches lost
one, and went to Danve va and the Southern Con-
ference championship.
The basketball team too is homeless There is small
monsrosiy the campus called the Tin Tabernacle
Is useful for practice only When the Coonias play bona
hde home" game is apt to be at Uine Arena Fort
Myer or at Washington-Lee High School.
AS BASKETBALL AND BASEBALL COACH Bill Reinhart
is well used to travelling to seek sites far and WIDE
Perhaps the baseball locales give bigger headache than
basketball. For instance:
George washingtons so-called "home" diamond is on
the Epse back Of the White House. No dressing room,
naturally but the bases at least 90 feet apart
During the Cherry Blossom Festival Renhart must look
elsewhere His warriors have used the facilities of Mount
Vernon High and washngton.Lee High out Of desperation
and also site quantity named Turkey Thicket.
I'VE have used Grifnth Stadium twice this year." Hall
says, because we had other field"
Well, Grifth Stadium will have to suffice until CIV
gets its next ree-hour permit to play the Epse it's