The Washington herald., 1919-01-17
SCHOLASTIC SPORTS.

Ed Murphy has been elected man
ager of the Central High track
squad, and he Is expected to do as
! well as the former manager, ID. NJ
! Tisdale. Tisdale left for California
not long ago. and is expected to re-
sumo track work there.
The strong Gonzaga tossers will
battle the Y, NJ. c. a. team in the
GonZaga gymnasium tonight. The
GonZaga quint has so far this sea-
son managed to win all games play
ed in and is expected to come
through with Il victory today. Con
Zaga will meet tn" "Y" team in a
return battle sometime next week.
Harold Powell. manager of bas-
ket-bal1 at Western. has returned
after being sick with the flu"
Powell has done exceedingly fine
work for the Western basket ball
squad.
Montgomery and Mills, of the Cen
tral High basketball squad. are be-
l ing given, a chance to show what
they can do on the regular squad.
These boys have been in the last
three games. and have displayed fine
basketball ability.
Willis Kern, a newcomer at Cen
tral. is out for the track team, and
is running in fine form. He is eX-
ceptionally well on the start and
the short dashes.
Shorty Price, captain of the ten
mis- team at Central, will return to
school at the beginning of the new
| term. 1t was first rumored that
Price would not return.
/ st. Alban's High School is begin
/ ming to round into form in basket
ball. The squad at St. Adams have
| been praCticing not more than two
/ or three weeks.
| johnny Goetz. of the Business
! High quint. injured his hand in an
automobile accident recently and
was unable to participate in the
! Business C georgetown Props game
! Wednesday.
Many boys who were released
, from the s. \. T. c. have returned
to their respective schools and are
/ participating in school sports. Some
of these boys are, Schneider. Of
Business: Gurevich and Carpenter,
| of Tech; Finney. of Central, and
! Groves. Pepper and Bresee. of West
! crn.
/ Technical High will battle the
strong Western High quint in the
1 freshman scholastic basketball Sc
/ rics in the Western gym today.
/ While this contest is playing, Busi-
ness will meet Eastern in the East
ern gym Western is now leading
| the scholastic Freshman basketball
series.
St. Adams is scheduled to meet
the strong Business High Quint now
| leading the scholastic basketball
series in the Business High gym to-
| day. Both combinations are in fin"
| form which is expected to result in
| a hard-fought battle.
! Eastern will meet the strong
Friends combination in basketball
8 contest in the formers gym today.
TIN, strong Shenandoah Valley Quint
, will travel to Washington to meet
. Central High in basketball Contes;
in tho Central gym, today. Th" She"-
anIoah Valley Quiut J., an exception
alIy strong combination, hut {" rn
, NIetZler. of Central. hopes to pull a
victory.
{ Technical HiEh viii meet the Balti-
= mere POLY quint in the formers gEn,
today baltimore Pcly has been vic
torious in most of is games. and
hypr. to come t'sTor = with victI,
, over Tech.
! Central High will travel to Tome -
meet the strong Iomc Combinatio'- u"
? basketball contest tomorrow. tome
m previ0us ears has always put forth
/ ~ excellent basketball team, and Is
axnrcted to do so tomorrow.
: ionZaga High VIII battle the regular
Catholic University team in basket
hall contest today Gonzaga has one
of the strongest combinations in the
city and is expected to do well against
+ tho regular c. L. team.
J. Childress. of the Central High
q Freshman basketball team. displayed
fine ability in the interclass game re-
Gently He scored all the points. to-
falling :.
| Tho Gonzaga Midgets have gone
through this season so far with only
I one defeat, that being the Georgetown
Prep Juniors They have been dis
playing fine basketball ability, and
/ have won the majority of their games
/ with very little trouble.
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