The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1921-12-21
k|DSSTAGE HOT
C0NTESTSFOR
SOCCER TITLE
Three Teams Out Of Sixty-seven
Remain In Grammar School
Competition.
By r. ID. THOMAS.

Fourteen hundred Washington
grammar school youngsters started
out in October to decide champion
soccer team and of sixty-seven
schools represented then only three
remain in the competition. Undoubt-
edly It 10 one Of the biggest events.
in point Of numbers participating. in
local sport history.
The Pierce School, Of the Rosedale
division; Emery. OF Bloomingdale and
Monroe, of Columbia Heights, are
fighting II out for the title and q
fine battle 10 due today when Emery
and Monroe clash on the ROsedale
playground at $50 o'clock. The
rivalry In intense.
This viii be the final contest in
the western section and the winner
will be privileged to meet Pierce
School, victor in the eastern section.
In a three-game series for the city
championship.
TO achieve its present standing.
vision and then triumphed over the
other elevens in the Rosedale d.
vision ana TIM triumphed over the
winners Of the two other divisions
In tho eastern section. eliminating in
all an even dozen teams.
Win Division Titles.
In the eastern section, the Brent
School won the Garfield Park division
title; Lenox, the Virginia avenue. and
Pierce, the Rosedale: and in the west
ern section, the division winners were
Addison, Georgetown division; Monroe,
Columbia Heights; Abbot, New York
avenue, and Emery. Bloominedale.
The schools were grouped according
TO the playground divisions in which
they were.
There were seven playground dfvi-
sions. Georgetown had the greatest
number Of representatives, with
twelve schools; Rosedale had eleven,
Bloomingdale and Virginia avenue.
ten each; Columbia Heights. nine New
York avenue, eight. and Garfield Park
seven.
Winners of the division champion
ships will receive trophies and q silver
loving cup will go to the city cham
pion. The prizes were put up by the
playground department under TIE di.
rection Of which the tournament IL be-
ing held.
Kirk Has Sweet Job.
Each school was allowed twenty-five
players from the start, and no player
whose name was not on the original
eligibility list has been allowed to CON-
pete. The competition has been well
managed by Frank z. Kirk. director
az boys' activities of the playground
department. to whom much credit Ia
due for the development of sports
smons the kiddies.
Supervising an athletic event in
which fourteen hundred poppy boys
are taking part is no small task and
Kirk admitted as much today. Seven
games have been played a day during
q large part of the scheulde and kicks
and protests have been wrestled with
by Kirk almost continually.
Boys playing soccer have a way,
when the referee isn't looking, Of
using feet and hands in a manner not
within the rules. Kirk has had a
tough time Strengthening out some of
the protests over due to rough play.
Each protest concerning a referees
decision has been carefully investi-
gated and in cases where a kick was
justified the games have been played
over.
A hot series between the section
winners Is expected. The first game
will be played tomorrow on the Rose
dale playground, with Pierce and the
victor in today's game as the con-
teatanta