Evening Star Newspaper, February 25, 1932, Page 40

SPORTS. ‘pe | soss ___ ns svevive smm wasweron, D o mvmenw pemasy mows sorts ‘Maryland Off to Defend Basket Title : C. U. Meet Offers Line on School Rivals DIXIE TOURNAMENT OPENS TOMORRON Terrapins Meet Florida in First Game—Virginia Host to Ringmen. BY H. C. BYRD. ARYLAND'S basket ball team gets off today to compete in the Southern Conference tournament at Atlanta, beginning tomorrow. The first games are scheduled at 1 o'clock, and before midnight every | one of the 16 schools entered will be a victor or defeated. Mary land’s first opponent is Florida, | which is to be met at 5 o'clock The Old Line squad is due tc at Atlanta t OITOw morning at o'clock. will watch. one > it tal No teams | are allowed to practice on the newly built floor except for a few minutes be- tween the halves 9 or es opener. able . Ron , Buscher, May, Wright, Vincent, Sr % Norris are making the trip. They will | be under the direction of Jack Faber, | freshman coach, as Coach Shipley is ill | men are the regulars May, Berger, Norris and Chalmers seniors and will be taking part in their last college games. HAT Maryland may accomplish | this year is only a conjecture. | In a down and out tournament, | what may seem to be the strongest | team entered may fall by the wayside in the opening game against some op- | ponent that is stronger than its rec- | ord indicates. Caught by surprise in such a case. a team has very little op- | portunity to recover and none to re- deem itself. | Ungquestionably Maryland is one of the two or three best teams in the tournament. It ought to whip Florida in the opening game and then strike its first real hard going in its second bat- tle, when it will meet either Duke or Vanderbilt. Of course, the Old Liners may never get by the Florida game. Certainly they cannot hope for such | breaks as they got last year, when they won nearly every one of their games by a point or two. Maryland and Kentucky are in the top and lower brackets, with the brack- ets so arranged that it is possible for the Old Liners and the Colonels to go right down to the finish and battle it out again in the final game for the | championship. Then, again, it is just as possible that neither of them will get that far. The second games on Saturday will be | between the winner of Maryland-Florida and Duke-Vanderbilt, Georgia-Missis- sippi State and Virginia-Alabama, Au- burn-North Carolina State and Georgia ‘Tech-Louisiana State, North Carolina | State-Tennessee and Tulane-Kentucky. | And, of course, the above pairings are the games to be played tomorrow. ‘There will be eight games tomorrow, four Saturday, two Monday and the final Tuesday. | HILE the basket ball tournament is going on at Atlanta, the Southern Conference also will be staging its annual boxing tournament at Char- | Iottesville under the auspices of the | University of Virginia. In some respects | the boxing tournament is more inter- | esting than the basket ball, although the basket ball usually draws the largest | attendance: So many entries have been made in the boxing events that | it has been found necessary to stage | some of the preliminaries today. The | events will run three days instead of two. Maryland is gepresented in the boxing by only one man, Keener, in the 145- pound class. OINCIDENTAL with the tournament at Atlanta the Southern Conference will hold a special meeting, Jargely | to decide whether or not to create the position of commissioner, virtually the | same type of job now held in the West- | 1 Conferenc Maj. John Griffith. | reason to believe that the job eventually will be created, if not at this meeting, at some future meeting. Right now a good deal of opposition to the plan comes from the financial stringency being experienced by a good many of the schools. It is not a secret that more than @ few schools in the conference are going well in the Ted this ome of them are retrenching where it hurts in order not with too big a deficit. Under such conditions, and apparently such | conditions are more or less prevalent in | three-fourths of the membersh these | schools hold it is not good judgment | and ce not good economy to create a new office the minimum ex- penses of W be $10000 or | $12.000 per year t 1se an additional | drain on tretched | finances want a T or no, | pointed, t e conditions. Just decision will be no one | very certain ideas. | | where it ‘Tomorrow y on and then left tod meets St. Joseph's ton the Colonfals will joi to_play S 18 Opposi- s hardest n's and Rider, SCHOOL MEET IS OFF. .PH!! ADE yeet, which more than 20 neoned this season | T AR, WASHINGTON, Events Scheduled For Local Teams COLLEGE. TODAY. Basket Ball. George Washington vs. St. Joseph's at Philadelphia. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Virginia Medical College at American University. | George Washington vs. St. John's at | Brooklyn, N. Y. Maryland vs. Florida in Southern | Conference tourney (opening game in | Atlanta). U. Columbia vs. Bliss at _Silver| Spring Armory (Washington Collegiate Conference game) | SATURDAY. Basket Ball dgie Tech vs. Georgetown High George Washington vs. Rider College | at Trenton, N. J. North Carolina A. and T. at Howard University. | at | Track. Catholic University gymnasium, 7:30 p.m. SCHOLASTIC. TODAY Basket Ball John's vs. Hyattsville High at tsville Armory. TOMORROW. Basket Ball. Western at Gonzaga, 8 p.m St. John's at Boys' Club, 8 p.m Bethesda-Chevy Chase High Friends. St. Albans at Camp School, Gloucester, Va. SATURDAY. Basket Ball. Tech vs. Georgetown Freshmen at | ech, 7 p.m. (preliminary to Carnegie Tech-G. U. Varsity game) Western at Alexandria High. St. Albans at Christ Church School, | Va. meet at C. U.| H, at Chesapeake Track. Catholic University gymnasium, 7:30 p.m meet at C. U FRENCH FAVORITE OVER VIC QUINTET - With Mesmer at Hand Again| Team Looms as Winner in Semi-Pro Tilt. OLSTERED by the return of | Freddy Mesmer, coach at George- | 1 French A. C.'} town University, basket ball quint will be the favorite over Vic Sport Shcp Sunday, when these teams meet in the semi- | pro championship series at 3 pm. in | the Silver Spring Armory. Mesmer, who coached and played with the French team, will be remem- bered as Georgetown's star floorman for three years. Howitzer Giants and Skinger Eagles will clash in another series game Sun- day at 8 p.m. in the Bolling Pield gym- nasium. | Tenight and tomorrow players in the 100, 115, 130 and 145 pound divisions | of the District A. A. U. basket ball tournament, which will open March 1| at the Tech High, wiil weigh in at the Boys' Club between 6 and 9 To date the entry list sho of 125 teams, a new high. Court scores last night: United Typewriter Grays Sextet, 19; Rockville, 10. United Typewriter Grays Five, 51; Rockville, 15. Ingram, 36: X Ingram, 34; Kelly, 21 Knights of Columbus, 35; Scholas- tics, 32 Fairlawn, 37; Moseans, 10. Fairlawn, 27; Katz, 19 Jewish Community Edgewood, 8 Texans, 40; St. Martin's, 20 Bolling Field, 34; Census, 19. Delaware & Hudson, 24; cury, 9. Palace, 17; Washington Cards, Patent, 32 Union Printers, 22 Epiphany Juniors, 46; Burns, 43. p.m. ws a total Center, 25; 15. | court | 0L SEADOLFOES N FLOOR CONTEST |Gonzaga, Western Quintets | Clash Tomorrow—Tech to End Play Saturday. EVERAL basket ball games prom- ising snappy action are booked this week end for District scho- lastic quints. Following this week the season for schoolboys virtually will be through, only a few scat- | tered games remaining on the books, | though considerable interest attaches to | the annual Washington and Lee tourna--} ment next week end at Lexington, in which several District teams will com- | pete. Gonzaga and Western, old foes, and St. John's and Boys' Club, both boasting formidable quints, will battle it out to- morrow night. The former tilt will be played at Gonzaga and the latter at the Boys' Club. Both will start at 8 o'clock. | ends and Bethesda-Chevy Chase High are to meet at Frient and St. Albans is to go to Gloucester, Va., for | an engagement with Camp Chesapeake School in tilts tomorrow afterncon. In the feature contest Saturday. Tech will close its season against George- town Freshmen at 7 p.m. on the Tech The game will be a preliminary to the G. U.-Carnegie Tech contest. Western will face Alexandria High at Alexandria, St. Albans will end its foray into Virginia with a stand against a rival of long standing, Christ Church School, near Richmond. and Emerson will go out to Silver Spring for a tilt with the Takoma-Silver Spring High quint in engagements confpleting the day's card. Hyattsville High tossers were to en- tertain St. John’s five this afternoon on | the Armory court in the Maryland town. Staging a scoring spree that netted 25 points, Anthony Latona led West- e High' to a 44-to-24 triumph over | ational Training School five yes- | Western led all the way. Summary: Western Natl. Train. (24 1 Hartung, | cosccoresccomy oooroomooy Totals... N Totals.. EET Rallying in the final five minutes to | score 9 points, Tech High's basketers scored a 39-to-30 victory over St. John's College freshmen at Annapolis. Summary: St. J. Prosh_(30) G.F.P lor. 2.....8 i terw'th. ¢ 4 1 0 Tech. High Wheeler. ... Reichardt. 1 Daly. ¢ i i Delisio. & Donahte. & Totals Russell. &....0 Thomas, &... .14 230 Totals.....18 339 for Episcopal at Alexandria and dropped a dull 51-to-11 game. Afier running up a 24-to-8 lead at half time, Episcopal ran in its second stringers, Summary: Episcopal Watts. 51) ( GF [PETEREPIR N Emerson (11) F Pt Whalen, f. Wocd. 1. G.F P o 20 00 Hardy, 2.0 0 Campbell. .. 0 0 Totals ALLEGANY HIGH WINS. CUMBERLAND, Md., February 25— Fifteen hundred persons. the largest crowd to witness a basket ball game at the new St. Peter and Paul gymna- sium, saw Allegany High defeat La Salle Institute, 29 to 26, and clinch the championship of the Western Maryland Interscholastic League for | ! soonoorssony Emerson Institute’s five was no match | Basket Tourney For Quints TLANTA, February 25 (4).—Con- fident of their ability to sur- vive first round competition in the Southern Conference bas- ket tournament here tomorrow, Mary- land and Kentucky are looking ap-| prehensively toward their second day opponents. The top seeded teams, 1931 cham- plon and runner-up, face Florida and Tulane, respectively, in the opening skirmishes. Based on the season’s rec- ords, Florida should not prove dif- cult for Maryland, but Tulane may offer Kentucky some moments of con- sternation. Granting they are victorious in their games, Maryland will have either Duke or Vanderbilt as its next foe, while Kentucky must face either North Caro- lina or Tennessee. Maryland needed an extra period last week to stop Duke 20 to 18. And Vanderbilt’s capability of playing in- spired basket ball against supposedly superior opponents was demonstrated a few nights ago, when the Commo- dores handed Kentucky a rude surprise. And the outlook for Kentucky is just as dismal. Maryland—the other front ranking team—and Tennessee twice has de- feated Vanderbilt, victor over the Wild- cats. In fact, first round drawings seldom have arranged for the quick exit of so many formidable teams as s the case this season. The Vanderbilt-Duke and North Carolina - Tennessee contests should be real battles with no favorites quoted The road will also be uphill and rocky for Auburn and Alabama, the other seeded quintets. Auburn espe- cially drew a worthy adversary in North Carolina State, which Tuesday night reached its top form for the tourna- ment by trampling North Carolina 36 to 17. Gus Tebell. who coached North Carolina State to its only title in 1929, will bring a strong team down from virginia to face Alabama. The Cava- liers appear powerful, despite their up- set by Washington and Lee Tuesday night ¥ Georgia and Georgla Tech are to be more than first night combatants they must have their scoring habits on for Georgia Tech meets Louisiana State, one of the conference's highest scoring teams and a squad boasting two Basket Ball Tips One of ITowa's pet basket ball tricks on a set play is worked around its center, No. 3 in the dia- gram. He circles as shown in order to lose the opposing center. In this play the No. 4 guard has the ball As No. 3 comes back along the sideline on his circle, 4 passes him the ball. No. 3, in turn, rele to the right forward (2) br across court. By this time swinging around 2. No. 2's guard is backing cover 3. So 2, instead of pas: 3, pivots and takes a shot ¢ basket from the foul line, foll up the shot along with 3, in ce the third year. Meridians, 41; Congress Heights, 11 Meridians, 27; Swann's, 18. 13 TILTS FOR V. P. 1. NINE Six of Games on 1932 Schedule Slated at Blacksburg. BLACKSBURG, Va., Fel v 25 (P —Thirteen games, six of them home, are listed in the 1932 base ball schedule of Virginia Polytechnic Insti- tute, released by Athletic Director C.P. | Miles up to|, 2 at Chapel Hill, N._C % May 13Dy t Durham, N May 14—N h, c. EPIPHANY JUNIORS WIN. Epiphany Juniors won a hard fought game from the Burns Savages in the former’s gymn m, 46 to 43. The winner’s line-up is as f J. Tilton and Sykes, forwards center. . s THE NEW HUPMOBILES Beauty and performance of highest priced cars . . . without the high pricel SIXES AND EIGHTS °795 ano up DISTRI AT racromy BUTORS MOTT MOTORS, Incorporated 1518-20 Fourteenth St. N.W. 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Georgia apparently will have easier sailing against Mississippi State, but & victory for the Bulldogs can not with any certainty be forecast. | FEDERAL QUINTS BATTLE Naval Medics and Aviators Have Chances to Move Up. Naval Hospital and Bolling Field are expected to increase their chances of capturing the National Federation trophy when they engage Union Print- in Government League basket games at Bolling Fleld, il Census, first halt winner, is virtually out of the second series running due to a forfelt defeat and last night's setback has shown a complete reversal of form since the restart The standings W Tam oW nion Printers v Census “3 Investigation ng Field ] 1 1 Bo! 1 Fort 1 ommerce . nterior MARINES LOSE AGAIN Drop Becond Game to Fort Meade Basket Ball Team. FORT MEADE, February —= Weakened by the absence of star players, the Quantico Marines vester- day dropped a second to the Fort Meade tossers, the score against them being 34 to 23. The first half was hard fought, with the Soldiers leading, 14 to 12. Marines (33). <] Posik. 1 Zener. 1 Sheiton Mcintire, | Gann, & Seldon, & yer. | Totals ..... BLISS PLAYS COLUMBUS. Bliss, which has clinched the title in the Washington Collegiate Conference basket ball series, will entertain Co- lumbus University’s quint in a con- | ference game tomorrow night at the | Silver Spring Armory. FEBRUARY ers and Commerce, respectively, tonight | at the hands of Bolling Field. which | 25, 1932. CENTRAL, EASTERN, TECH T0 COMPETE Columbia Heights Students Appear Headed Back to Track Supremacy. BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR. OLLOWERS of track in the | public high schools here will | F have their first opportunity this season of getting a line |on the comparative strength of |the Central, Eastern and Tech squads in the Catholic University meet at Brookland. There will be no field events for the scholastics, making it impossible to obtain an % !idea as to how they stack up In this respect, but there will be six |runnin- tests, including 50-yard | low hurdles, 50-yard dash, 440, 880, | mile and mile relay. | Central, once the king bee in the | public high school track whirl here, but which in recent years has occupied a place in the backgrouhd, will regain her place in the sun in this sport this year, ! it now appears. The Columbia Heights | School has much more in the way of seasoned material than Eastern, public high champion, and Tech. Both East- srn and Tech have a few boys of proved worth, but Central has able performers in both track and fleld. ENTRAL athletes will be engaging in their first meet of the cam- paign Saturday, but Tech and Eastern were represented in the Mead- owbrook games Jast week by small but capable squads. Bob Slye, Eastern’s great little hurd- ler, captured the 45-yard low hurdles in the Philly event and is figured likely {to win the 50-yard timber-topping test | Saturday. Tech, too, showed that it | must be reckoned with in the hurdles as Dudley Smith of McKinley finished second to Slye. Jack Smeltzer of Tech finished fourth in the 50-yard dash SPORTS, after winning his first heat and placing second in a semi-final. Tnmu is considerable interest in the mile relay so far as Tech and Eastern are concerned. Central is TITLE TILT SoueHT for a long time, and Eastern have lost heavily by graduations. Tech will pick its team from Livingstone, Wohifarth, Hartman, Cohen and Edwards and Eastern will use Mostow, Slye, Rickard and Truitt. It is difficult to predict Saturday's winner of scoring honors among the scholastics but with West Catholic High of Philadelphia, Episcopal High of ‘Alexandria, John Marshall High of Richmond and others competing, the District boys are apt to encounter the sternest sort of opposition. TITLE TO ALEXANDRIA | Beats Washington-Lee High Quint Whether St. John’s, Eastern Will Meet Likely to Be Decided Today. CHOLASTIC basket ball followers and the St. John's and Eastern quints, respectively prep and high school champions, today were awaiting the outcome of a conference between Stephen E. Kramer, assistant for Third District Laurels. superintendent of schools, and Dr. | Cloyd Heck Marvin, president of George BALLSTON, Pebruary 25.—8coring | washington University and one of the over Washington-Lee High yesterday. 16 | sponsors of the prep school tourney, re- to 14, Alexandria High's basket bn”‘:wrd;;}r( a game between teams for the team clinched the third district cham- | 17 s cistan: Sumeintonint Kramer plonship and won the right to compete | gives his consent, the game will be for the championship of the Eastern |DPlaved tomorrow 'in the Tech High half of Virginia, to be held at Char- [ School gymnasium | Iottesville, March 11, St. John's, in a thrilling 22-to-19 | The first half ended in a 6-to-6 tie, | §3me, yesterday defeated Georgetown | but Alexandria took the lead in the |Prep for the prep school championship. third quarter and never relinquished it. Until just before the end it appeared Summary: as though Georgetown Prep, was to up- | Alexandria (16) set the dope, but Keating and Allan, ar | forwards, were banished with 2 minutes |to go because of personal fouls and | the favored Cadets overcame an 18-to- | 14 lead. Johnnie Breen shot two fouls | and then a field goal to tie the score. Mike Scanlon then came through with a long t —__{in front, whfle | | | Wash.-Lee (14) G, - | somonomas shot to put St. John's Hartnett sewed up the title with a last-minute snowbird. Against this. Georgetown's weakened team was able to score but 1 point, & foul shot by Nurre, The winning team was awarded the Post trophy after the game, while Tom Keating, Georgetown Prep forward, was given a trophy for scoring the greatest number of points in the series, 25. Mike Scanlon was awarded a trophy for being the most valuable player to his o Totals . 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