Basketeers End Disastrous Season with Three Defeats
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Basketeers End Disastrous Season With Three Defeats — KEYDET KOMMENT — Cagers Show Rare Form = By Al Carr and Charles Beach ALL SPORTS FARED BADLY this week-end at VMI. Three losses in Against VPI; Defeated basketball and two in wrestling left us a very big gap in the win column. But—there'll come a day! The only question is when the day will come. With the darkest prospects In baseball and track in many years coming By Terps, W-M, Spiders up because of ineligibilities and sheer lack of material, indeed the day seems far In the future. Coach Jimmy Walker's basketball team crashed the win • » • column for the third time this season when they completely While on the subject of crips, our neighbors across the way have beaten outplayed the Techmen from VPI on Tuesday, Feb. 20. The every one from Podunk Extension to Puddle Creek in their recently com- Keydets found their shooting eyes for the first time this sea- pleted season in wrestling, coming out of the season with four Confer- ence wins and being undefeated besides. As both W. & L. and VMI are son and buried the Gobblers under an avalanche of baskets. undefeated in the Conference, these two should meet in a bout to decide They soon lost their newly found shooting ability, however, the Conference champion on the mat, and not in the papers, as will be and lost three games in as many days on the last road trip the case If there is no Conference meet. Would not a W. & L.-VMI meet of the season. Last Thursday VMI looked good against Mary- make money for any one promoting the meet? What more could one land, who was hard-pressed to beat them, but went all to want . * » • pieces against William and Mary and Richmond, and lost SADLY DEFEATED BUT HIGHLY HONORED was the result of the both games by big margins. week-end of the VMI matmen at Franklin and Marshall. After the dis- VMI 50; VPI 35 astrous bout which F. & M. won 27V4 to 4Mi, the officers of the Lancaster Dewitt f. 3 1 7 Matching VPI's shots and tying Ochsenreiter f. 0 0 0 Pennsylvania, National Guard gave a gala reception for the Cadets in the the score several times in the first Woodward c. 0 0 0 Armory. Southern hospitality was well In evidence in Yankee-land at four minutes in their game last Rea c 3 0 6 Mondorff g 1 0 2 all times on the trip. On the return trip, General and Mrs. Hierome L. Tuesday, the Keydet quint started Opie entertained the entire squad at Oakenwald with a buffet supper. Weidings g. 1 0 2 slow in their major win of the sea- Multz g. 2 0 4 The Opies furnished dates for the wrestlers, and outdid even the Yan- son. With hard luck, which had pur- Totals 12 8 27 kees in showing the team a good time. sued them all season, left far be- • • *• hind, Bob Foster and company just W-M 59; VMI 36 Bob Deaderick, Charlip Rockwood and Jimmy Dale are the only vet- sank more shots and played bet- erans returning to Colonel Read's track squad this spring. The loss of Cliff ter, faster basketball to down the Williamsburg, Va., Friday, 23— The Keydets took a merciless beat- Weaver, Manley Simpson and Rudy Weiss hits the squad hard in its weak- Gobblers, 50 to 35. ing from the William and Mary est points, weight and distance. Charley Chewning looked very good in Although Coach Walker started Indians in the form of the Andrews the cross country earlier in the year, and should be a candidate for a his regular line-up of Stumpf, Sho- brothers and Vince Taffe to the regular berth. Ineligibility hit Col. Read's men hard, removing Bosh mo, Parrish, Foster and O'Keeffe, tune of 59-36. The ConferenOe- Pritchard and Nelson Catlett. Paul Shu is a doubtful possibility with his Eddie Gayle soon replaced Shomo bound Indians hit the basket con- injured knee giving him trouble at times. and since the new combination • * * sistently from all angles in the sec- functioned smoothly"they stayed in ond half after the hoplessly out- Spring football started Monday with approximately thirty candidates until the entire second string was classed VMI basketeers held them out for the squad. The first day was spent in limbering up by blocking substituted for the first time dur- to a six point lead in the first half. and passing, and some of the rats looked very good for next year's ing the season. Jimmy O'keeffe led the Keydets Squadron. Outstanding for the Techmen was in the first half, but he couldn't Ingram with a total of 15 points— stop the Indians for any length of Baseball will start soon, and the same old story will dominate it—the among the largest number scored time, as the height and accuracy of ghost of academics h#unts Alumni Field this year. Nelson Catlett and in Cocke Hall by one man this sea- the Williamsburg quint ran the Bosh Pritchard are both out of this sport because of Mid-term exams. son. Although Foster with 12 took Keydets ragged for the entire first That leaves the team without a catcher if Shu's knee does not heal. Sev- scoring honors for the home team, half. V. Andrews scored nine points eral good men are coming up to thevarsity from last year's rat team. every man playing any length of in the first half to pace the Indians, Dick Williams and Wray are strong contestants for the infield, and should time made two or three baskets. and O'Keeffe was high for VMI with strengthen the team a lot with their hitting. VMI shot four of eight fouls and five. * * *' the visitors seven of eight of their KEYDET KOMMENT ARIES opportunities. The game roughened consider- ably as the Keydets tried to stop Bob Foster made the second All-State team picked by the AP last Fri- Richmond,'s cage captain, Stukie Hoskins, shown making a field goal in second half of THE SUMMARY the landslide on the glassy floor, day . Foster scored 103 points this season to lead the Keydet bas- game at Millhiser Gymnasium Saturday night. VMI players behind him are Foster and VMI (50) G. F. PF. TP. and both sides used frequent sub- keteers . After seeing the basketball courts at Williamsburg and O'Keeffe. Richmond won, 52-21. (Photo courtesy Richmond Times-Dispatch.) Stumpf, f .4 3 11 Shomo, f 0 | stitutions. Bob Foster, VMI's second Richmond, we are thankful that the spectators at" the games here at least Gayle, f .4 ' team All-State guard, was high have some place to put their feet besides on the playing floor for the Woodward, f ..1 scorer for the Cadets with eight players to stumble over ... At least two feet of space on each side of Baby Gobblers Williams, f 0 F-M Trounces Woodberry Parrish, c 5 points, while the Indians had Vince the court were lost to the players . The crowd at William and Mary Defeat Rat Totten, c 0 Taffee with 19, V. Andrews with 16, seemed similar to a great, big, happy family in their enthusiasm over the Foster, g 6 and T. Andrews with 13 points. game Friday. Thank goodness we go to a non-coed school . Uncle Varsity Mat Downs Rat O'Keeffe, g 2 Cagers, 59-41 Summary Charley Moser coached theTast team that beat Coach Ed Gallagher's Pike, g 1 Shelby, g 0 G. F. T. Oklahoma A. & M. wrestling team. Mr. Moser coaches the Franklin and Team Sluggish and off their game, the Wrestlers 23 VMI (36) Marshall wrestling team that "shaded" the Keydet matmen 27Mi to 4Mi Little Red basketball team lost VPI (35) G. PF. TP. Stumpf f .'. 2 2 6 The Woodberry Forest matmen last Saturday . Randy Huyett, Fighting Squadron end of the 1938 The blue clad wrestlers of Frank- their final game to the yearlings Haff, f 2 0 6 Gayle f 1 1 3 took a decisive 18-10 victory over the season, is back at school for Spring football practice. Huyett has been lin and Marshall continued their from Virginia Tech by the score of Ross, f 2 Shomo f 2 0 4 Baby Keydets last Saturday to keep Chamberlin, f I Woodward f 2 0 4 out of school this year because of illness . George Raab, F. & M. undefeated march by outpointing 59 to 41 in a game played last Tues- their State record clean for the sea- Ingram, c 7 Williams f 0 0 0 175 pounder, wrestled his first match since a gold fish episode in which the VMI cadets 27Ms-4% at Lan- day as a preliminary to the var- Mast, g 0 0 son. With six decisions over Parrish c 3 6 he wrestled some of the finny friends down his gullet last year. Some caster, Penn. last Saturday. The sity encounter. Henderson, g 2 Foster g. 3 2 8 Dutchmen were able to sweep every the Cadets, the Orange matmen add- Biggs, g 0 O'keeffe g 2 1 5 fish . Franklin & Marshall is undefeated this season with one Montgomery of VPI scored 27 bout with the exception of the 165 ed VMI to the impressive list of DeMuro, g 0 Pike g. 0 0 0 match with Gettysburg to go. They should finish this match off easily points for the visitors to lead all Totals 36 lb.