Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-09-30
SPOTLIGHT
ON
SPORTS
Don't Give Up the Ship
BY MERRELL WHITTLEsEY

THE FOOTBALL SITUATION at the University Of
Maryland brings to mind experience at golf tourna
ment couple of years ago-the PGA championship in
Detroit.
Bob Drum of the Pittsburgh Press and I were walk
Ing with Lew Worsham day that Lew was having
his troubles in quarter-fnal match with Tommy Bolt
worsham was playing poorly, Bolt was well under
and after q holes Lew nine with nine to
play. We walked to the 10th with Lew but after the
drives Drum and left the match and started for the
clubhouse.
Lew missed moment or two later and finally
spotted US IS 100 yards away He yelled Where
you guys going? Several hundred spectators who
walking with the match stepped to see who Lew
yelling to.
Were leaving you" Drum replied, You've had IT,"
Come back here worsham shouted This is no
time to desert sinking ship"
YOU'D HAVE TO SAY the good ship Terrapin is
ounderng after that 1918 drubbng by North Carolina
State but it's not going to- help matters desert 1t at
this time. However there's liable to be a mad scramble
for the eboats the TerpS don't perk up against Duke
Saturday because the basis of the weekend games
the score of that could into really big numbers
There's twist to covering Maryland football
for the past two You keep going to the record
book just like you did when the Terps national
power and Tommy Mont backheld coach.
But you're looking for negative records First
shuou since soandso? Longest losing streak since
year? Worst beating since when? It's unpleasant keep
referring to these dismal statistics unfortunately
they're newsworthy.
For straight years Maryland has lost players by
injuries illness, service call and SUCH at alarming
rate BY the Duke game this weekend in Durham Coach
Mont will be without six of his top % men, several of
them for the season.
BUT THE BITTER TRUTH is that these losses are
particularly noticeable at Maryland because the Terps do
not have enough good football players play the type of
schedule they have this year, and in the future
The Atlantic Coast Conference is Dragging about its
football growth but Maryland obviously is not keeping
pace 1t recalls excerpt from speech that DR.. H. c.
Byrd made at the Stater when Maryland team
being honored a couple of years ago, when he
president
DR. Byrd wanted to know if the University of Penn
sylvania a better school now that it losing all
its football games than it when it winning them
all? The shoe may fit now at Maryland
On Operation Football" an early September tour of
the conference by group Of sports writer's every school
but Maryland Dragged about its freshman CROP Several
of the tour members from the Caronas remarked about
this And according to the prepared freshman rosters the
other schools must have ounumbered Marylands rosh
by two and three to The coaching staff is not
sponsible for this deficit
Maryland is obligated to. play five six conference
opponents for the next few years. plus Texas AIM Navy
and Auburn next year, with Texas upcomng Those
games scheduled under the pretense that Maryland
would have team to match and draw crowds that would
pay the stf guarantees.
MARYLANDS SCHEDULING and recruiting certainly
will suffer if there many Saturdays like the
/ last
The rout by North Carolina State was staggering
blow to the Maryland coaching staff 1t followed the best
week Of defensive practice of the in which extra
time was spent on punt and kickoff returns the
ones that blew the game wide open.
There is growing criticism Of Mont and his staff and
sreetcorner wondering to whether he's the for
the job The Terps have two lost nine and tied
since he and his young staf took over.
Personally, we believe Tommy bring them back.
He has made mistakes The biggest was per-
hitting Quarterback Dick Scarbath to fall behind his
grades last year. Day after day the practice field,
Scarbath the best football player in the stadium
Somewhere in Tonlmys organization, there a
sp-up that permitted Scarbath to miss passing grade
by slight margin. The Terps need him badly
But Dick whose brother Jack, was an all-Amerca
quarterback at Maryland is a year away and maybe
is Mont Man the pumps yes, but don't desert the ship
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