Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1916-01-04
C. H. S. PLAYERS
In POOR SHAPE
FOR HARD GAMES
Coach Usilton's Squad Idle
While Other Teams
Worked
OTHER SCHOOL Jew S
Today's Basketball Games
Northeast High at West Philadelphia
High.
Central High school at southern High.
Trade school Mt Darby High school,
Temple Prep at Nlneland High school.

With the High School League basket
! ball series upon them the Central High
! School basketball players find themselves
| in comparatively poor physical shape as
n result of falling to indulge In n single
| practice throughout the holiday season.
| For more than two weeks the squad has
| been idle, with the single exception OF
the Girard College game, which was won
last Saturday by very close margin.
The game with Southern High. always
hard struggle, may or may not be
| played today. pending final arrangements
regarding the hall for this initial league
contest, but whether Central wins or not,
the team will be handicapped and sooner
or later may feel the effects of not hav-
ing kept in trim over such a long period
While Southern. Northeast and West
Philadelphia were praCticing, Central
High was idle.
Jim Usilton coach of the Central play
ers, claims that II is not his fault that
the men were unable to work. He said
mo hall was secured by the Basketball
Committee for us to use The Central
High School gymnasium was closed and
the men could not play there. " ster-
day | took the men TO the gym but
Doctor O'Brien. physical director, re-
fused to allow us to use the floor for
practice. What else could we do?'
Chestnut Hill Academy students are
interested In the selection of the football
coach at Penn, and wonder whether Mike
Bennett really has a chance. You
know I.ud Wray thought Mike Bennett
a Dear in football when he played at st.
Martins, and Lud has quite a lot to say
this year as to the selection of the Penn
COACH" said one of the Chestnut Hill
Academy athletes yesterday.
It's the old, old story in the High School
Basketball League! They never seem
to know just where the games are going
to be played Yet If Mr. General Pub
lie should happen to take a fancy to see
one of the contests he would have n
pleasant time trying to discover Just
where he should 20. They are certain
of one thing, at least, Northeast and
West Philadelphia play in the West
Philadelphia High School gymnasium!
Northeast High Schools athletes. now
attending Germantown High seem to be
popular with the Mannheim boys. The
unanimous election of Boyd Burnett as
captain of the basketball team did not
come as big surprise Burnett played |
on Northeast,s second team in 1911.
Desson, of the Southern High School |
basketball squad is in line for the posi-
tion of forward on the first team. Pro- |
fessor Ker and Coach Ingber have about |
decided upon their first lineup, with Bun |
min, Watman, Weiss, Watson, Gottlieb, |
Llpkowitz and Captain Black the favor
ties
West Philadelphia High School will lose
a number of sterling athletes next month |
when the February class graduates, and
among them will be Buritt. the star field |
goal throWer For that reason Coach /
Herbert Hughes is not using him as a
regular In the big games, He does not
want to break up his team during the
middle of the season by the loss of reg
ular,
Kerrigan. of the Northeast High School
team, has been showing up
so well in the recent practices Coach
Walt Keating has decided TO use him as
a forward on the second squad. Mein-
hart will be his teammate, with Gillian
at centre: Barnard and Grippe, the
guards.
Since the University of PENNSYLVANIA |
holding the interscholastic
gymnastic championship meet the school,
boys In this section have taken little in
terest in interschool gymnastc compe-
tition. If Penn saw fit to hold a gymnas-
tic meet perhaps Central High, German
town, West Philadelphia and other insti-
tutions in this section would organize
gymnastic teams. Episcopal Academy is
always well represented in this work,