Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-11

Although the football captains hav,
been chosen at almost all the schools tbs
Lansdowne High warriors still have &c
elect their 1916 pilot. This will be done
at the annual banquet to be held next
Saturday night in the art room of the
nev school building Donald Mclean
the quarterback, is the choice for this
post, and It is expected that he will be
unanimously elected.
Mclean played brilliant game prior
TO his injury WREN the team met the
strong Nor-tstown High School eleven.
In this game Don" received spralned
ankle anc y kept him on the side-lines
for some tine. He is now playing great
game as guard on the school basketball
team and is one of the best all-round
athletes in the school.
The Lansdowne High School alumni, as
we'll as former gridlron stars who won
their letter will attend the dinner. At
this time tie duties of manager VIII be
officially turned over to Fabian t. Ryan,
and Henry Davis will be named assistant
manager of the football team. Ryan Is
manager of the basketball team and VIII
soon be candidate for position on the
quintet He has almost fully recovered
from a broken arm received in the foot
bali eamo with Germantown.
Iasaile College football stars, winners
of the school letter during the season
past. will be honored with sweaters bear
ing the initial IL" at banquet to be
given by the school Athletic Association
some time in the near future. Coach Al
Bloom was much disappointed yesterday
Jfug1n
ketball game scheduled to be played in
the LaSalle gymnasium.
According to reports from Southern
High, Coach Ingber has several mem
bers of the secsud team pressing the first
team players for their positions" Stu
dents at LaSalle want to know why, If
the competition is so keen, some OF the
second team players could not have re-
placed those too III to play on the first
team against LaSalle yesterday?
Physical directors. athletic instructors
and coaches do not allow schoolboys to
smoke It is against the rules of the
Board of Education and also the Super
vfsory Committee on Athletics. Last sea-
son a number of athletes were barred
from footk all teams because they were
detected smoking cigarettes. The coaches
of the basketball teams of this city can
not be too careful l.: enforcing this rule,
Prof John D. Mahoney. of the West
Philadelphia High School. at recent
gathering of students at the West Phila-
delphia Young Mems Christian Associa-
tion, said in part: THE cigarette falls
into a different class because of two great
reasons-its adulteration with other mar
cottcs and the temptation to inhale
These reasons added to the fact that II Is
more readily procured by the high school
boy, make the cigarette today the great
est foe we have in the world of muscle
and nerve"
Drexel Institute. with basketball ma
terial equally as good as any found at
the schools in this section, continues 10
adhere to it's policy of playing out-or-
town and neighboring teams and not list
ing any of the local quintets.
Such teams as Moravian, New Jersey
State Normal School. Brooklyn Poly.
Brooklyn College. Baltimore Poly and
Delaware College are on the DreXel
schedule. Demaris and Ewes. forwards;
smith, centre; Captain Walls and Pier
son. guards, are regulars on the team.
The local schools would like to see Drexel
in the fold.
West Philadelphia High School scored
its second consecutive victory over Per-
lxiomen Seminary in the cage when the
Orange and Blue squad won, 22 to 16.
Captain Fred Bachman showed the
Pennsburg squad that the West Phlllies
could win in the Perkiomen cage as we'll
as at home. Mearkle, Bierman, McCas-
key, Hubert. Pinkerton and Gross helped
to accomplish this feat.
Schneider rTnan, the Central High School
forward. is playing a sensational game on
the Crimson and Gold quintet. Mouradian,
his running mate, is also doing so we'll II
win be a hard matter for Dave Broom
field TO win back his regular position on
the team. Captain Fowler, Stewart and
Welsh are also going strong.
It is hard to see how Catholic High can
lose the Catholic schools basketball cham
pionship OF this city with such players as
Dempsey, MCGOWAN. forwards; Pasque-
relic, centre; Glascott and Ferguson,
guards. and with a strong reserve team
consisting of Cole and Wood, forwards;
Leahey, centre; Dougherty and Dealey,
guards. ST. Joseph's College and LaSalle
College students have not overlooked the
fact that the Purple and Gold have won
four straight games to date. with no de-
feats TO mar their record.
zimmerling, Germantown High Schools
goal tender, played such a clever game
Of ice hockey In the initial match with
the Chestnut Hill Academy team. the ST.
Martins squad was unable to tally more
than one goal Captain Rodgers also
OtaycQ We'll IoI tho olduHcitu SCHOOL,
Chestnut Hill Academy will arrange a
number OF Ice hockey games. and such
PLAYERS as Hiliiard, Lowering. Savage,
Cheston, Barclay. Fairies and Taylor will
be IN the lineup. FAIRIES Is the brother
OF Randolph FAIRIES Jr.. former Univer-
sIty OF Pennsylvania star.
The University OF Pennsylvania fresh
men are having a hard time with the
local quintets this season. and the usual
Penn trinmphs over the scholastic teams
are not ia evidence. Already West Phil
adelphia and Central High have defeated
the Red and Blue fiFst-year men, La
salls College viii play at Weightman
Hal next Saturday night, preliminary to
the PENN Princeton intercollegiate League
game.
IN past seasons the schoolboys have
PLAYED under different rules from those
ii faree At Penn and have been very much
Handicapped. Now, with the Intercolle-
stats League rules In force and the open
nooF game, the high school youngsters
md themselves very much at home Ia
tbs Penn gymnasium and show their real
Erenstb. Perhaps this explains Why
fzan4 1915 solDs u the cage l. marked