Evening star., 1925-11-04


Iowa Avenue. 1924 champions, will
endeavor to carry their delft blue ana
gold TO a second victory; Mitchell
Park has adopted red and black:
Montrose Park, olive and white; New
York Avenue, Kings blue and gray:
Park View, green; Plaza, gray ana
maroon: Twin Oaks, dark blue ana
white: Van Ness, red and white. ana
Virginia Avenue. blue and orange.
Eight whistles will blow stimuli
1aneouslv tomorrow afternoon at
O'Clock. calling 16 teams into action
in the first round of this all-lmpoftant
event for the city playground cham
Eonship. To be counted in tomor-
rows lineup is the goal toward
which more than 100 fair tossers have
been working throughout the past
eight weeks of rain and snow. Cheer-
fully they have slipped and skidded
over soGgy fields as they were SNAPPED
into efficient teams by their coaches
in preparation for the interplay
ground series.
The schedule will be run off in four
sections. The winners IN each sec
rion will meet in the Seml-fntllS- ne
final match to decide the title Will De
played between the two teams VIC
toriolls in the semi-fnals. The Iowa
fight before them if they expect TO
retain their laurels. az they have not
only suffered the loss of several star
nIayers. but are also without MISS
lack" Whiting. who coached them
on to victory for the past TWO years
Miss Whiting is now on the fappN
Hollow playground and VIII act as
coach for that team.
Tom 1rrow's schedule follows.
Section !. Mitchell Park at chevy
Chase; Happy Hollow at GeorgeloWi u
section ., Park View at Columpla
Road. Twin Oaks at William ,.
pbiIIins Section 8. Bloomingdale at
Plaza; Rosedale at New York Avenue.
section 4, Garfield at Hoover; van
Ness at Virginia Avenue.
Two exceptionally close games were
played yesterday in the Elementary
ScbooJ League, with Langdon and
Woodhurn deadlocked in the Bloom
incdale division and Cooke nosing out
Dennison by one point in an eleventh
hour" rally on the Happy Hollow
field. ,,,,,,,,,
Neither I.angdon nor Woodburn
WAS able to break the 2u-2O tie Whlch
held them deadlocked. Inc s,,. sanie
will be played over only if the result
is found to make a difference IN de-
Gliding the title Of their division.
Cook and DenniSon seemed doomed
+o share the same fate, but in the
last minute of play Cooke scored d
free throw which broke the tie ana
gave them the victory. from u
standpoint of teamwork, accurate
goaI.throwing and close cohpetltloh'
This game was the best that mas peeh
pIaved at Happy Hollow this year.
Gertrude Jacobs scored 10 of the 16
noints collected by the Benning team
against their opponents from Maury
in the first Rosedale division contest
YESTERDAY The game was Well piaSea
despite the soggy field, and Dotl
teams were on their toes. The final
score was 16 to in favor OF Bennlhg'
Pierce completely overwhelmed
Webb in the second game at Rose
dale, rolling up Il 54-to-O score. Dor
othy Harding. Pierce forward, play
cd rings around her guard, finding
he basket at will for q continuous
succession of field goals. Daisy
Robsion refereed both games.
Force-Adams' tOssers starred in
their game against Tenley, which
was Judged the best game of the sea
son on the Georgetown field. The
score was 1 to /. While few field
goals were scored, the teamwork was
excellent.
Peabody Hilton sprang a surprise
hy walking away with their game on
the Plaza field, defeating Blair Hayes,
II to O. The latter team had been
considered the stronger combination,
but Peabody Hilton disagreed with
the "dopesters" on this point-and
proved their argument. Lillian
Strobel scored IA of the II points for
her team.
The following girls composed the
winning sextet: Mercedes Berry, Lii
liam Strobel. Fadge Everett, Edith
Lvle. Elva Dreader and Regina Bean
Ruth Britt, director of the ground,
refereed.
Ketcham added another victory to
their record by romping on Lenox
az to s, in the Virginia avenue court.