The Washington times., 1915-02-07
GIL" KING EQUALS
SCHO0LBOY RECORD
Friends Captain Allows Peck ia
Hold Mark lust Twenty.four
Hours Before Tying It.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Raymond Peck captain of the West.
tern High School basketball team, was
In possession of record less than TWEEN.
ty-four hours when Gilbert King. OF
Friends, equaled 1t against the Friend,
School team of Baltimore in the annual
engag cement yesterday.
Against the Army and NAVY prer
team, Peck shot twelve baskets from
the floor before he gave way to Red"
Smith in the second half. Ieck made
eight baskets in the first half snc
four in the second. Gil King wa,
the whole works for his five YESTERDAY
caging twelve baskets during the con.
test and eauaIing the best mark set b,
Peck.
Both youngsters have tied before
King, making nine as his best ant
Peck having the same number against
AnaIoStan. once before this season
King has jumped into the limelghi
with record performance. In playing
the game against the A.. n. p. team
King shot nine baskets and got twelve
goals from fouls, making thirty point:
for his team. Yesterday his twelve
baskets and six fouls netted anothe,
lead for individual point scoring tor tn,
season. Friends defeated Baltimore by
So to 81.
HHotheT MAR WoIIny OF cOflSl1crat1OH
as record was that made BY Ham.
burger: OF Episcopal. yesterday againsl
the Georgetown Preps. Hamburger
shot thirteen baskets IN his own gym
when the Props were defeated by
score of % to 10. AS intercollegiat,
| rules were used the Props were at
decided disadvantage and had to TAX.
the short end of the score.
The Georgetown Prep juniors received
| tnalr first beating tho son zpbap ths
Episcopal youngsters trimmed them y
TO yesterday. The Props had wor
thirtcen straight games. without a near,
| Kay Wise, captain of the Busines,
| hasketball team, is out of the game foI
the remainder OF the season. accordint
| to reports. Parental objection ha:
forced Wise to remain idle for the res,
of tho games, and Business loses it.
strongest guard. The Stenographer
hayt suffered more hard luck than an,
of the other teams this year, as boti
Joe Wise and Ray Wise arc rated al
the best Of the players in the schools
Joe left school early in the new yea;
to so TO work.
! Finishing touches will be put on tn,
high school track teams this week il il
preparation for the George Wash
ington meet. number OF youngster.
will enter in the novice events, of whicf
there are two, while strong represen
tation is expected in the fifty-yard dasf
| and the 440-yard event. These event:
count for the scholastic trophy Ever,
high. school except Business will b,
| represented in the meet, according to re
| ports from George Washington.
Both Tome Institute and Mercersber,
! Will be represented in the Georgetown
meet, according to the management ant
| the scholastic events in the annual af
! fair are sure to bring out the classics
| of helds for the trials. All of the tract
teams here will have had the advant
agc of two indoor meets by the tim,
| Georgetown has its meet, and will prob
ably enter u larger string of athletes.
In Hill, Hunt. Gates, Bcrthr,ght Bowl
| ing and oyster. Central has a collectio,
OF quarter mil"rs sure to be heard from
! The pick of these runners will take III
the task of landing the point trophy fo,
central in tho meet next Saturday, an,
expectations run high at Central tina
the point trophy will be annexed.
Tho relay race between Eastern ant
Western will lind spirited competition
Saturday, Judging from remarks mad,
by the rival teams. MaXam and Wheel
;Chell Westerns only veterans, will prob
!, ably I've held out of this race to tax.
ii crack at the scholastic quarter. Gree,
runners will take up the relay 70:
Western. according to the dope.