Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-28
C. H. S. BOYS IN
HOLIDAY GAMES
WITH GIRARD
Coach Usilton's ProteCo,
Line Up Against Collie.
gians This Week
OTHER SCHOOL NEWS

Coach Jimmy Usilton's Centr,, m.
School basketball players will har. 49, sn
first real test in the cage vbor u,et
line UP against the Girard Colleg. auy
and second team games next sat,lst nIst
afternoon in the Girard gymnasirne
tne meantime the Central coach NJ
hoped to keep his men on the tnro,, asa w
without avail, for tho Quaker Clty ,9v pW
letic Club, at 26th and Dauphin strso.l
could not be secured, and the CaS.ss,
High School gymnasium is now n.ns.s
Girard College came very near un.,,
ting West Philadelphia High schnoI.
plans for victory in the game befora ~
holidays. Captain Fowler, Davs Rroosn sne
field, Welsh, Pearce, TrautweIn. Al,
strong and Alsentzor are all loomina w.
strong, and Coach Usllton NAV obsrsgs
his men around before the Grard rams
captain Fowler is playing splendH
game at guard.
Wesley Gadd, who played on the s.,,,.
interclass basketball team, will not :.
port for basketball but will devots Il,
his time to track work. He announe.s
recently that he would even discon,lnr.
his work with the swimmers The trsrk
candidates will soon report for ,naoor 3
work. and Gadd will specialize in broad
jumping. the quarter and half-mile run,
Coach Leroy Roth is pleased with m,
collegiate rules for the schoolboys. Ths
Swarthmore Preparatory School cass
tutor. however, is one of the minority
The majority of the basketball coaches
would like to see n return to the Old
rules. Such player-coaches as Jimmy
Usilton, Central High: higher, Southern
and Walter Keating, Northeast. would
welcome the change to the old rules.
Yarnall. brother of the player help.
Ing to win the Delaware County HIrh
School League cage title for Swarth.
more High School, Is doing such great
work as n forward II is likely that he
will be given the choice over Hoyt ths
football star, who is still making keen
bid for a place on the Swarthmore Preps
team. NJ
Catholic High Schools next game Is
with the Brown Preparatory School quIn-
tet. As the Brownies have Cancelled q
number of their games. the Purple and
Gold students are wondering II the gams.
for next Wednesday week will really
be played as scheduled
Coach Stanley B. Sutton, of the Ger.
plenty of time to get his youngsters into
condition after the Christmas vacation,
for the Mannheim quintet will not open
the season until Wednesday, January Il.
when Germantown High School will bs
played in the academy gymnasium.
Football proved so popular with the
Lower Merton High School students last
autumn and the eleven came through
such successful season, the school Of
ficials have sanctioned a much harder
schedule for next year. Consequently,
Manager Barnard is placing number OF
new schools on the list and quite few
surprises are In store for the students.
With such stars as Captain Lennox and
Twoes, forwards; Gravatt, centre Carl
Geiges and Jimmy Clancy, guards, inc
Camden High School students look for.
ward to victory over the Quaker CiV
quintets scheduled to play In the cage
across the river.
Captain Frank Dodds and Manager
Leonard Carmichael, of the Germantown
Friends School basketball team' are
much elated over the recent improvement
shown by the cage squad. They are now
looking around for team TO play In ths
Friends School cage on Friday January
I. This is one of the open dates on the
schedule.
Israel e. Hough, the all-around athlets
at the George School, is captain oil the
basketball team. Norman w. swayne'
the brilliant tennis player is manaseI'
and Roy l.. Ewes, assistant manager
Captain Hough's first hard game is with
the Girard College quintet next SATURDAY
a week. Both the first and second teams
will play in the George School sym
nasium.