Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-03

- basket bah season with g
game against the strong
IL Maury High School team al
Norfolk on February Is. Let
ter men of the Stenographer squad
probably will elect a captain for next
Winter on the boat returning from the
Virginia city.
Before the test with Maury, how
ever. Coach Jack Collins will send
the Business courtmen against two
or three stalwart foes. No games are
scheduled for the remainder of this
week, but Georgetown Prep will be
entertained on February in the
Stenographer gym and Bliss Electrical
School may be listed for the Business
floor on February 10. On February
is Coach Ken Simondinger's fast Con
zaga five will invade the Stenogra-
piers lair for a tilt postponed from
yesterday.
Only one member of the present
Business quint will he lost by gradua-
ton next June, but his passing is
bound TO be keenly felt. He is
Anthony CTonyl Stewart. rugged
guard, who also is clever foot ball
and base ball player.
Saturday will offer unusually attrac.
tive classes for a number of local
schoolboy fives. A triple-header card
at the Arcadia Auditorium will bring
together Coach Bert Coggins' snappy
Central High five and John Marshall
High Of Richmond, Va; Hyattsville
High and quint to be announced, and
n paiv of sturdy girls teams. Hyatts-
Vile and its opponent will face in the
opening game at Z o'clock. Central
and John Marshall will take the floor
at and the fair tossers will appear in
the nightcap. All the games should
be interesting. John Marshall is re-
ported to have a particularly strong
team and Central has established it.
self as one of the cleverest scholastic
quints in this section. Hyattsvilie has
an improved team, capable of giving a
sharp fight to most schoolboy fives, and
efforts are being made to match a pair
Of girls teams of as near even strength
as possible.
Eastern High also figures in an i'm
portant test Saturday, journeying to
Annapolis to engage the Navy Plebes,
starting at l O'Clock. The Lincoln
Parkers are all "het up over the en-
gagement. which will mark the first
time an Eastern team has ever met a
plebe combination in an athletic con-
test. large number of students are
expected to accompany the Light Blue
and White squad to the Maryland Cap
Aldl. I1ODAIlk 10 SHOW well against the
future admirals, Coach Charley Guyon
Is driving his proteges merrily. Yes
terday they scrimmaged with Gallau-
Diet and this afternoon were to engage
St. Johns in the latter's gymnasium.
Tomorrow the Eastern huStlers will be
given a final light drill.
incidentally, Eastern has booked
the Plebes for a base ball game at An
napolis the coming Spring.
4 game between Coach Sanborn's
speedy Strayer's Business College
quint and Manhattan A. c. at the
City Club is the only other engage !
ment for local schoolboy FIVE on |
Saturday.
Four senior scholastic tests are card /
ed tomorrow. Coach Ken Stmondinger
will take his fast Gonzaga team to |
Garrett Park to engage Georgetown |
Prep. Tech viii mix with Woodward |
School at the Boys Club gym, Stray |
er's will trade baskets with George |
town Freshmen in the preliminary to |
the q. U.-New York L. game at Ryan |
gym and Dewitt will visit Hyattsvilie |
Tor skirmish with the high school |
OF that place on the National Guard |
Armory floor. Friends will meet /
woodward in a Junior Prep School |
League tilt on the woodward floor.
In addition to the Eastefii-St. Johns |
game two contests were listed for |
scholastics today. Central was to |
line up against Hyattsville High on |
the National Guard Arlnory floor in |
that town this afternoon. and tonight |
Emerson is to invade the big gym at |
Brookland to tackle Catholic Univer- |
slty Freshmen in the curtain-raiser /
TO the c. U.-Stevens game.
Devitt's 1S5-pound basketers. who
are way out In front in the Junior
Prep School League added to their
lead yesterday, swapping Woodward |
School lightweights, 81 to g. Maxwell |
with II court and Frank, who gath
cred II points were the victors' scor-
ing aces. WignaI collected Wood
wards only 2-pointer.
With Hayes and Clews figuring
most prominently in their drive on the |
cords, Coach Jerry Parker's Wood
ward School tossers last night showed
the way to George Washington Fresh.
men, % to Is. in the preliminary to
the Cononial Varsity Davis Ellxins fray
In the II street gym. Young topped
the G. w. cubs in scoring with 10
POINTS.
T.oosing a whiriwind attack in the
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