Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-22

The basket ball squad was green
and started without much prospect of
a good record. but developed rapidly.
split even on the season and won
eight of the last eleven games it
played The freshman basket ball hve
captured the high school freshman
championship, and two midget teams
got the long ends of scores in thirty
of the thirty-six contests in which
they took part.
Does Well in Tennis.
In tennis Western took the majority
of it's matches with out-of-town
schools, and finished second among
the five high schools. Last year it
produced Taylor and Burke. who won
the District junior doubles champion
ship. and Edwards, who captured the
District junior singles title also is a
Western High product. Finishing sec
ond last spring among the five nigh
schools. Western developed Nord-
linger and Burke. rated as the two
strongest high school players of the
year in singles as well as doubles.
The school over which DR.. Newton
presides also did we'll in track sports.
1t finished second in the scholastic
point scoring in the Hopkins indoor
meet at Baltimore. won the high
school indoor relay championship in
the Catholic University meet and had
two other winning tours in the same
set of games. At the Penn relays the
relay. team was second in an event
which was run in faster time than
some of the colleges made, and in
cidentally it was the first time in four
trips to the University of Pennsyl-
vania that the school failed to win
first place. In the annual high school
championship meet the team finished
second to Central. and prior to that
captured triangular meet from Tech
u
Nicols the track squad had two men
who made records in the hop. step and
Jump and in the high hurdles. The an
nual high school freshman track
events were captured by Western,
Central and Tech being defeated. 1t
might be said in this connection. too,
that the track squad was hampered
all spring by having its track torn
up for repairs and being compelled to
do it's running on strip of cinder
path perhaps seventy-five yards long.
Diamond Title Recently Won.
Just what was accomplished in base
ball last spring is too fresh in the
memory of everybody to be forgotten.
The Red and White nine fought its
way through a hard schedule and
finally defeated Central in the last
and decisive game by 13 to IL.
1t really is astonishing what West
ern has been able to accomplish in
cOmpetlllOn Win Iecn ana central
The Red and White has been able to
hold it's own consistently with these
schools. notwithstanding that it has
only 500 boys from whom to select
it's teams. while Central has 1900 and
Tech 1000. Western has box which
it calls gymnasium. about one-third
the size of those in which it plays its
/ basket ball games in the high school
series: it has no base ball field and
no foot ball field. For both gridiron
and diamond practice the squads are
taken about half mile from the
school to a rough piece of ground
called 1.-THE hollow" Western squads
have been going up in the hollow
so long that it is a wonder they do
not feel that they own that part of
Wisconsin avenue.
Despite these handicaps. the fact
that Western boys are making good
on college teams proves that some
| mighty good athletes are turned out
there. Maxam, Penn star middle dis
lance runner, got his first training at
Western; Peck, PENIS fine basket
ball guard and captain. was a star at