Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-24

T y the crucial game of the Eastern
High School interclass basket ball
series, Senior passers nosed out
i the 1926 championship Sophomore
squad. 81 to 81, yesterday after
noon.. Fast team play and accurate
goal shooting on the part of both sex
tets featured the match.
l. Sophs were in the lead in the OPEN
ing quarter. but the Seniors soon over
took them and for the rest of the
gene the score see sawed. Seniors
led by two points at half time, but in
the. fourth quarter y the Sophomorcs
climbed to the front again and only
Zemma Hawkins timely shot during
the last minute OF play gave the
Seniors the decision.
Miss Hawkins and Marion Gardner
occupied the Senior forward field.
Beryle Edminston played center with
Teresa Breen at side center. Mary
Kelso and Regina Thompson put up a
strong defense in guard positions.
Sophdmores were represented by
Misses Elliot" and Gray, forwards;
Wilkinson, center; katherine Haley,
side center: Snyder and Alexander,
guards, and Inlay. reserve side center.
Mrs. Woodin refereed.
Senior and Junior first team bas-
staged at Western High School yes
terday. The Junior clash with the
Freshmen was one Of the most spec
tacular games of the series. While
the rFrosh were unable to gain the
edge on the match at any time, they
pressed so close to the upper class
mems heels that excitement was kept
at al high pitch. Juniors won by a
23.to.14 count. Estelle Easternson and
Alathea Lawton being on the scoring
end of q woodworking machine, in
GLIDING sallie Abel at center; Jane
Mapes, side center: Patricia Joyce and
Marian Thomas, guards.
Catherine Crane, Freshman center,
distinguished herself by her clever
interception Of passes and keen head
work. Betty Shipp scored 10 points
for the Freshmen and Betty Hart
man four. Julia Houghton backed up
Miss Crane at side center, with Resale
Dunbar and Isabel Park making it
difficult for the juniors to score under
the basket.
35 to Z, in the second game at West
ern. Elizabeth Conway and Marie
O'Daniel got loose to score practi-
cally at will during the last half of
the game. Mary Gilbert and June
Robinson proved too fast at center
for their opponents Helen English
and Lillian Lindquist checked the
SOph scorers.
Virginia Tolson, Eleanor Herzog,
Ruth Doyle. Katherine Hillyer, Marion
Bailey. Usidora Dodge and Judith
Fishburn composed the sophomore
squad. Miss Tolson and Miss Herzog
divided scoring honors.
A ladder tournament will be fea-
tured this season by members of the
District Women's Tennis League as
a preliminary event to the annual
Spring round robin tourney, according
to- plan outlined last night at the
annual meeting of the organization.
All players In the league will be
placed on the ladder. their relative po-
sitions being based as nearly as pos
sible upon past performance. Each
racketer will be privileged to cfal-
lenge the one above in order to i'm
prove her position, Matches can be
played on concrete courts at any time
convenient to the players. The ladder
will be published in the papers and
copies supplied the members in the
near future In order that the challenge
matches can get under way without
delay. according to Ruth Curran the
new secretary.
On April Is, teams will be picked