Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1915-12-11


a. h''I nHbiIr schools of this city are re-
lne Do,iod TO give instruction in swim
W." A. is "A we'll known fact that not a
nhl,S, Ilnuio school has such an important and
aassarv nxture rs n swimming pool and
r " orlv through the Courtesies of ath-
is.iS club officials and the Young Mems
rsrlstian Associations that this Is pos
slble -...,...,,,,,,- l., ,,,o oi.,,
htoh schools receives little encourage
mt The Board of Education and the
nury,sorv nenS Committee of Athletics re-
ssrrnn,end that swimming be taught along
.,,h such games as baseball, soccer vol
~, hall. etc. but the tanks for this pur-
pose are lacking
ls some of the big schools are even
,,tbout gymnaslums at this time, 1t IS
sardIy likely that swimming pools VIII
Ss provided for the lower-grade students
for some time to come
7, order to encourage swimming among
"a students, the West Philadelphia
ulsh School officials have obtained the
nrIylleRe to use the West Branch y.
n c. A. pool and recently held
very successful intcrclass meet at ozd
and Sansom streets. Even this Is an in
Convenience for the swimmers, for it takes
~ a milo to reach the Y. NJ. c. a.
The Central High School students
usually always turn out a good swimming
team, but they find 1t necessary to use the
Central Y. NJ. c. \. tank, a privilege
gotten for them by DIR. Matthew Z.
oBr!cn through Mr.. James Sterrett and
others, prominently Unidentified with the
Central "Y." Southern High, German
town High. Frankford High and North
1t.t. f.,. ENN m N NJ
struction.
Southern High Schools basketball team
will make the other quintets hustle In
the High School League series TINS
winter. Monuros, Wattman, Lewbart,
Warscn. Lipkowitz, Black and Gottlieb
are all players Coach Ker may depend
upon when the league season opens
Nondross, Wattman and Lewbart are
showing up we'll as forwards, while
Black is doing excellent work as guard.
Kenneth Square High School should
mark up an excellent record in the cage
this season If the team work and all
around ability of the suburban five in the
game with Lansdowne yesterday may be
taken as criterion. Burton. Taylor.
Chandler, Skelton and Milhous were all
In form Kennett Square won the game
BY score of q to is due to the squirt by
Chandler and Shelton near the close OF
the contest,
The Freshmen and Sophomore basket
ball players at Central High are great
friends, in line with the usual feeling be-
tween the "Oh Fresh" and the Yea!
soph" classes, only the fight in this In
stance Is for the championship of the
Interclass Basketball League. The fresh
men beat the sophs l6 to II, and the
seniors trounced the juniors 10 to II yes
terday.
The freshmen (Koenig and Schneider
mann, forwards; Lukens, centre; Toll
and Elfman, guards) just managed to
win, and thereby tied for first place In
the league. on the sophomore team were
Ogden. Odolf, Fshman. Pike, Armstrong
and Fowler. Their policy was to pass to
Fowler, who made every single point
scored by his team-four field goals and
half dozen foul goals.
The Juniors and Seniors also had
hot battle. with those veterans of past
seasons, Mouradian and Ferry, of the
Juniors, and Broomfied, Tarr and Traut-
Eeln, OF the Seniors, eXcelling. The
Seniors gave the Juniors n surprise when
lhey had Norman Gotwals, the football
sar, playing guard. Gotwals showed
mat he could play basketball as we'll as
football and was all over the floor.
The team standing: