Evening star., 1922-12-24

Scholastic activities undoubtedly
I predominate IN the realm of sports
here and this year they have PIC
pered to a greater extent than ever
before. Unlike other years. their pro-
motion was not left entirely to the
public high schools. Several of tn.
numerous preparatory schools in the
District and those near enough to II
10 be considered as local Institutions
were represented in all branches OF
scholastic athletic endeavor fostcred
mere and their teams compared favor
ably with those of the high schools.
Basket ball. track and field sports
base ball. swimming. foot ball and
Held hockey attracted many school
boys and girls and competition was
exceptionally keen. Contests in all
sports were generously patroniZed by
the public. The inter-high school foot
ball series proved particularly at
tractive, greater crowds attending the
matches than in any previous grid
iron campaign.
! Central the Chief Winner.
Central High School. as usual, gar
rered most of the laurels. but i; dis!
not garner them as easily as III past
years. Its track and field. basaet ball
md swimming teams swept every
-. ,hing before them and uuauestion-
ably were championship agsregaIioil@.
IL foot ball, too, Central had the
best team among the public high and
urepatory schools. Its eleven was hot
defeated by sch plastic inclination.
but no championship was conferred
Upon 1t by order of the board of high
school principals.
The gridiron title was lost when the
principals decided that Vincent
Plumpton. who had played in the
rush line for Central in all of its in
,er-high school games was tech
nj
school in athletics. Plumpton had
been charged with being a profess
sional boxer and with having per-
formed in professional athletics Un-
der an assumed name. The board of
principals side stepptt; the question
N Plumpton's Professionalism.
The first scholastic ritie earned
vas that In basket ball. This went
to Central only after q bitter strug-
gle. Although the Blue and White
suffering defeat. most of the con-
tests were unusually close. In the
High School League Business fol-
lowed Central, while the Stenogra-
piers were trailed by Tech, Western
and Eastern In order.
Prep Schools Were Strong.
There were several preparatory
school teams almost on a par with
Central. Gonzagas had a well drilled
qutnt. the Georgetown Props were
by no means weak and Swavely pos
-sessed a five with a punch. ST. AL
bans. Friends. Emerson Institute and
the Y. NJ. c. A. Day School were rep
resented by very capable lightweight
teams.
No aN-scholastic quint was selected
by The Star. but a mythical squad.
in which only public high school
players were considered. was named.
its first team included Dey of
Central and Connor of Business.
forwards: McFadden of Central, CEN
cer. and Shanks of Tech and O'Dea
of Eastern, guards. Second team
selections were Birthright Of Central
and Dennis of Business. forwards:
Supplee of Tech. center, and john
son of Central and Baird OF Westera.
Guards.
Western pointed the way in scho-
astic base ball hereabout. With>;t
,fecord of three wins and one loss it
.ook the interhigh school title and its
aine probably was bit better than
any turned out by the prep schools.
The latter institutions gave base