Evening star., 1920-01-09
HIGH SCHOOLS GET
CUNTS UNDER WAY
Tech Meets Business and
Central Eastern in Basket
Ball Opening.
BI II. C. BYRD

High school basket ball gets under
way today, when Tech meets Business
and Central plays western IN the
series. The contests gre to take place
in the gymnasium at Catholic Univer-
sity. and the first is to begin at 3:45
o'clock.
While it seems that Central. Tech
and Western should stand out in the
series. much the same as they did in
foot ball. there is considerable feeling
among followers of the sport that
Business and Eastern are going to
show much greater strength than is
expected. Eastern and Business have
good basket ball teams" said a high
school athlete yesterday. and ] be
lieve all five teams have a fair chance
for the ampionship-just about as fair
as could be expected in close race
between rather evenly matched teams.
You can take my word for it that you
are going to see more hard-fought
and evenly played court games in the
high school series this year than in
any previous season since the in
augura ton of the league"
Catholic University's basket ball
team resumes play tonight, following
a Iay-off which has lasted since before
the holidays. Lafayette is to appear
nasium at Brookland The Pennsyl
vanians probably will bring quint
which is up to the average of their
usually successful teams.
Tomorrow night Catholic University
and George Washington meet in the
Y. NJ. c. A. gymnasium. The Hatchet-
ties will be in their first contest since
before the vacation.
George Washington has practically
finished it's schedule for the remain
der of the season. Following the
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night it goes to Annapolis next week.
January II, to meet the Navy. After
the Navy contest come games a $ fol-
lows: January 81. Georgetown at
the Y. NJ. c. A; February T. Gallaudet
at Y. NJ. c. A.: February 12. Mount
St. Mary's at Emmittsburg; February
.. Penn State at state College; Febru-
ary IA. Bucknell at Lewisburg; Feb
ruary 16. Lafayette at Easton, Pa;
February IS. Lehigh at South Beth
lehem: February 81. Gallaudet at Ken
dali Green, and February 2S5 Catholic
University at Brookland.
The new proposition put forth by
the faculty advisers of the high
schools for the development of foot
ball next season is about as peculiar
as anything that has ever been ad-
the writer understands the edict. a
series of games will be played be-
tween weight-limit teams-teams
made up of players averaging 135
pounds or under-which will be the
regular high school championship
foot ball series. Besides these games,
which apparently are to be played in
order to keep Eastern and Business
in championship series, Central,
Tech and Western are to put out in
dependent teams, which will play
through regular schedules, just as
any other high school would. and that
these three teams will meet one an
other. but that the team which wins
will not be accorded championship
honors.
In all probability this arrangement
was effected in order to preserve a
cham pionship series in which Eastern
and Business would not be outclassed.
but even so. it is difficult to under
stand how a series can be called a
championship series if any school. or
in that series it's greatest strength.
That is of much the same order as
the unique championship track meet
instituted two years ago to take the
place of the usual championship
events; that championship track meet
sought to restrict the strength of
certain schools. and it went where
the woodbine twineth," if that is a
phrase to express the scrapheap. AS
a District championship series. the
135-pound schedule proposed is likely
to meet the same fate. If Eastern and
Business feel that they can no longer
meet Central, Tech and Western on
a fairly even basis in championship
games, then it is all right to provide
games to enable them to do so: but
after the Western. Tech and Central
squads are stripped to get the smaller
men, the series will not look much
like series of high school cham
pionship games, especially when
coaches of Central. Tech and Western
are giving most of their time to the