The Washington herald., 1918-03-09
CENTRAL EASY
SCHOOL CHAMPS
Basketball Title Conceded
Mount Pleasant Tossers.
Thomas Star Of League.

The high school teams have ended
one Of the most successful seasons
in the history of inter-high basket
ball. Central High carried OF the
bunting after one of the greatest
struggles in scholastic athletics. The
title was conceded the Mount Pleas
ant lads before a contest was played,
but, although they, only lost lone
game out of eight, they only won in
the other seven by the hardest kind
Of an uphill fight. In only two con-
tests did they have any great mar
gin and that was in the contests
against Technical and Eastern.
Central had a seasoned team to
start with, and the boys on the team
were much older and heavier in COM
parison. Central did a whole lot bet
ter against other quints than those
in the league, as they had little trou-
BILE trouncing those oppoECHtS
Wee" Willie Thomas was the par
ticular bright star OF the series, as
it was entirely through mis- splendid
work that Eastern was able 10 en-
volve a three-coronered tie with West
ern and Business. Willie scored 50
of his teams total number of lUl
points during the series. They never
came too big for this lad.
The Central quint showed its SUI
periority over all other quinIs by de-
feating the University of Virginia
freshmen last week. 81 to IS. This
was the worst defeat suffered by the
freshman in many a season.
Western. the little fellows from
Georgetown, were not considered
Of 10
but the other fellows coon found out
to their sorrow that the boys from
across the creek were 4 tough nut
to crack. They had one of the best
defensive quints in the league
Business and Technical were
without the services of permanent
coaches. and this apparently was
the cause of their inability to land
closer to the top. Business should
have done a whole lot better than
they did, but Tech. practically
made up of new players, was with
out the services OF a coach during
the entire season.
The guards on the teams far out
shone the forwards this season. The
work of the teams on the defense
was much better than that on the
scores being uniformly close
the season.
In the twenty games played. four
of them were decided by a single
point, three by two points. three by
three points, which gives an idea
of the close guarding.
The work of the guards far out
shone that of the forwards. Fos-
80 fra 1.
Wight and Sinclair. of Western:
Newman, Eastern: Towles. of Busi-
ness. and Gurevict. of Technical.
did better work on the defense than
the forwards.
Thomas, of Eastern; Anderson.
Technical: Schneider and Schafer.
of Business, and Heron and Eisen-
ger. of Western, were checked re-
peatedly for one basket a game by
the guards.
OF the centers. Wilson. of Cen
trail, stood out prominently. Pep
per, of Western: Fegan, of Business:
Ham, of Eastern, and Browne, of
Technical, were behind Wilson in
scoring and on defensive work. al
though Pepper. of Western. made
the best showing against the Cen
tral crack.
The attendance at all the con-
tests was a prominent factor. The
galleries were crowded at nearly
every contest. The past season will
be long remembered in High School
athletic circles. Scholastic basket
ball has been successful this season
because OF its organization. When
the teams were playing indepen-
IDENTIFY few persons attended the
contests. but under conditions where
something tangible is at stake in
each game great interest has been
shown. Local colleges began to
recognize that situation last spring,
and they also have had more sue
cess this year than usual. because
of the organization effected early
last fall.