Evening star., 1919-02-24
HIGH SCHOOLS END
? SERIES. TOMORROW
Games Between Tech and
Business, Central and West
ern Finish Schedule.
BY II. C. BYRD.

Basket ball in the high school series
comes to an end tomorrow with games
between Central and Eastern and be-
tween Technical and Business. The
contest between the Manual Trainers
and Stenograp piers is scheduled for
/ the Central High gymnasium, and
Coach Metzier of Central is trying to
get Eastern to play there, too. in
orGer to make a good double header
for the wind-up. The results of the
games will have no bearing on the
chaHrpjenshtp, as that has been cap
tuted BY Business.
Tech and Business ought to. put up
close, hard game When theH two
teams met the first time Business
won br one point. Tech believes It
mas, as good a quint- as that which
dentaIly. Techs players, will work
like Trojans to register the only de-
feat against the champions in the
series. -
Gonzaga's basket bali team holds
no terrors for Coach MetzIer of Cen
trail High. The North Capitol street
men have split even with the Blue
and White in two games, but one
game was won by Gonzaga shortly
after the season opened. Last night
Coach Metzisr said that he would be
glad TO have his team meet Gonzaga
in the rubber game and that he
would be willing to play on Gonzaga's
floor if that school did not want to
go to neutral gymnasium Aetzier
has a lot of faith in his players, as is
shown by this statement:
II believe Central can whip any
scholastic basket ball quint about
here in two games out of three. If
Gonzaga wants to play us again We
will be tickled to death to accommo-
date them. Down at Shenandoah Val
ley Academy last Saturday our men
put up a splendid game. To tell you
the truth, / never saw schnol fiVe
Go any better work than Central did
against Shenandoah in the second
half of that game. The individual and
team play were just as near wonder
fuI as could be. l believe that we can
defeat Gonzaga on its home floor by
at least Is points Anyway we're
more than willing to try If Genzaga
thinks it is better than we are
Central winds up it's basket ball sea-
son Wednesday against Baltimore
City College. The Baltimoreans come
here for the contest -
a good foot bail schedule is being
arranged for Central for next season.
As the arrangements now stand the
Blue and White will meet Episcopal,
Tome. Shenandoah Valley Academy,
Baltimore Polytechnic Institute and
Baltimore City CoiteEe, esSern'
Eastern, Business and Tech. Tech,
Tome and Episcopal are to be the big
conteS
Only two of the local high school
physical directors have shown here
what they can do as foot ball coaches.
Betzier at Central and Morse at
for several years in charge of the
gridiron squads. but Derman of Busi-
ness, Battersby of Eastern and Apple
Of Tech have not yet had the oppor-
tunfty to prove themselves as grid
iron mentors. All three have been in
Washington through one season, but
that season resulted in just one game
that between Western and Central
late last fall. It is said that all three
men have had considerable experience
teaching foot hall and have been suc-
eessful at other schools.
Bryan Morse, Westerns all-round
ceaeh,. -sriii-get his base bali players
out this week for their opening prae-
tice. Morse says he has very little
material left from last year and will
have to build from the ground UP.
Not much interest has developed as
yet around Washington in regard to
the indoor track and field meet TO be
held in Baltimore March. % by the I'd
Regime nj. = Probably not more than
two or three schools will be repre-
sented and likely Georgetown will
have theaonry squad of college men
in competition from Washington:
The feature event of the meet is to be
relay race for the collegiate cham
pionsfiip of Maryland, which ought to
be more or less Of a walkaway for
Hopkins. q t2F