Evening star., 1922-01-01

The high schools, 50 far as material
is concerned, are well fortified for the
season and their championship series
should be especially interesting. This
is TO start week from Tuesday, with
Tech playing Business and Western
engaging Central These champion
ship games will be played in the
Coliseum, used last winter for the
Tits. double-headers being held Tues
day and Friday of each week until
each team has met the others twice.
Central Is Formidable.
AT present central looms as rha
strongest contender for III" tlii-.
" ith four veterans H,ailabi" '!e
Blue and White undoribrodIy has IA.
best combination with which to enter
the series. Dey. forward; McFadden
center, and Buckley and Wilton.
guards. who played in the last cam
palgn. are able toSSers. and under the
guidance of Jim Collifiower, one of
the best teachers of the court game
to be found in this section, are rapidly
attaining stellar form.
Among the promising new materia:
are Birthright. Hugh johnson, Allie
johnson and Davis. Birthright has
been with the squad couple Of sea-
sons and was used as a substitute last
year. This winter he has developed
into most consistent shooter and
appears To have earned a regular job
at forward. Allie johnson is beconl-
ing formidable guard and the others
are good enough to substitute for the
regulars in efficient manner.
Will Not BE a Romp.
However. with all its capable plan
ers, Central is not likely to romp 10
the title. Tech, winner last winter.
has the greater part of its champion
ship team at hand and expects to
"a int tjt,Jy fay la.
other schools. Aubinoe. McCormick
and QueSada. forwards: Supplee. con-
ter, and ShankS and BeavenS, guards.
are veterans that would be welcomed
by any of the other scholastic coaches
here.
Coach Apple also has in Harwood.
Rkees and House some very good ma
terial Tech has been somewhat slug
Sish in rounding into form, but in itS
last engagement flashed its char
pionship caliber, and should be quite
ready for the opening of the title Sc
ries next week.
AT Western Coach Green will havs
to work hard to prepare a sturdy
team All of last winters Red and
White quint left school in June. 50
Green will have to develop five from
remaining second string players. SO
far he has encountered much difficulty.
Several combinations have been used.
but none has been successful. The
most promising players on the squad
are Woerner, Wcedman, Frisby, Kent.
Baird. Thomas. Montgomery ANA
Sterrett.
Business Appears strong.
BUSINESS has number of good boys
out for the team. and Mike Kelly
who coaches the Stenograph hers. he
lieves they will give the other schools
real tussle. Barrett, Connor, Walker
and Bangs. forwards; Dennis, center.
md 'lat- a
guards. are husky boys. Most of them
were with the foot ball squad in the
fan and are in splendid condit ion. In
Dennis. who captains the quaint. Busi-
ness has center as good as any IL
the league.
Coach Guyon at Eastern expects to
have speedy team on the floor. With
Capt. O'Dea, center; Prender forward.
and Coleman and Cardwell. euard
Eastern has nucleus for a first-claSs
combination. These boys did well at
the game last winter. and in prelimi-
nary engagements this season nave
shown improvement. Burdine and
Roudabush, forwards. also are better
than average toSSerS.
Private schools in Field.
The private schools are taking to
the game in an enthusiastic manner
Army and Navy Props and t;onzaga
High have unusually good uuints in
PrepS regarded as District Scholas-
tics, although located at Garrett Park
Md. have senior and Junior teAlnS -
Johns intends 10 assert itseif in no
undecided fashion during the earn
paign, while Friends School and III.
I. NJ. Z. A. Day School are ready To-
meet all comers in their class
The more important teams schcd-
uled to visit Washington during th.
season are University of Virgini..
freshmen, Baltimore Polytechnic In
stitute and Mount ST. JoSephs The
Charlottesville five will be enter
tanned by Central February 10, while
Baltimore Poly is due at the Mount
Pleasant school Friday. Tech will
play Mount St. Josephs Saturday
Central is endeavorinE to arrange a
game here with the Princeton fresh
men and probably will succeed
The local scholas sites Will invade
Maryland and Virginia. Several of
the schools have dates with Wood
berry Forest at Orange and Episco-
pal High at Alexandria, Business will
go to Front Royal 10 play Randolph-
Macon Academy. Central and Tech
are scheduled for matches with Tome
at Port Deposit, Md. and the Blue and
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