Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-04-08


Preparatory School Tennis
League, announced today a
Oa schedule of 10 engagements
for the season that will open
May 2 with a contest between
Dewitt and Friends on the latter
courts and close May 10 with George
town Prep and Dewitt meeting.
st. Adams and Woodward viii be
the other schools represented in the
loop. Woodward and Friends are new
teams that will take part
st. Johns has decided not to come
in this Spring because of the scarcity
of experienced material following
heavy losses through graduation.
Each team will play the others once
and postponed tits will be staged on
the first date convenient to the
teams.
1t has been decided 10 determine
the championship of the league this
season on the basis of individual
matches won which, it is thought,
will make for keener competition
Heretofore the team winning the
most matches of an engagement got
credit for a victory and the losing
combination was charged with loss.
President Callan says that a suit
able trophy virtually has been as
Sured for the league champion. The
idea is to have the victorious team
hold the trophy for one year, with 1t
becoming the permanent possession
of the school whose entry t1rst wins
1t three years.
An effort win be made again to
match the Prep League victor with
the public high winner to determine
the District title Last season St.
Adams won the Prep League crown
and went on to conquer Western, pub
lie high title holder, and achieve sec
tional honors:
The Prep School League schedule
follows:
May 2. Dewitt at Friends; 3,
Woodward at st. Adams; 4, Friends
at Georgetown Prep; 6, ST. Adams
at GEORGETOWN Prep; 8, Woodward
at Friends; Is, Dewitt at st. Adams,
Woodward at Georgetown Prep;
I6, Woodward VS.. Dewitt tplace I'M
decided; II, ST. Adams at Friends;
10, Dewitt at Georgetown Prep.
Five base ball games, four of which
will be played here and the other at
Alexandria, and a public high school
golf match between Central and East
ern are listed for schoolboy teams to-
morrow. The diamond tits will bring
together Central and st. Johns at Cen
etal Stadium, Business and Catholic
University Freshmen at Brookland,
McGuire's School of Richmond and st.
Adams on the local field, Gonzaga
and Leonard Hall here in the Puppies
opening game, and Western and Epls-
copal at Alexandria.
Today's varied card included two
ball games, a rifle match, a track
meet and a tennis engagement. Bust
ness was to open it season against
st. Johns on the Monument lot 1T
$50 o'clock, and Gaithersburg High
was to engage Georgetown Prep at
Garrett Park. in the diamond tits.
Central and Western shooters were to |
meet at Central in a match expected |
TO go far toward settling the public |
high title: Eastern High was to hold |
an interclass track meet and West /
ern's public high championship team /
was to take on Georgetown Prep at
Garrett Park, in the first net brush |
of the season.
In a game featured by fine hurting,
Dan Ahearn's Western base ballers /
squeezed out a 3-to-2 victory over st. |
Adams in the formers first regularly |
scheduled game yesterday. Bates and |
Schneider, Westerns pitchers, allowed |
the Wisconsin avenue school boys but |
three bingles, and between them
famed eight. Capt. Fletcher, who went
the route for the losers, allowed but
four safeties and famed 10. Ahearn's
proteges won in the eighth, when
Crouch dropped Fred Owens fly, al
lowing Hiileary and Stevens to count.
Bobby Stevens, crack Western short
stop, was the batting star, getting two
hits in four times at bat.
Hitting opportunity and with their
opponents erring at critical stages
Georgetown Prep routed Dewitt, to
/, yesterday in a seven-inning game
at Garrett Park. Dole. Georgetown
Prep ace, was in fine fettle. Bilkovic
and Bastable Occupied the mound for
Dewitt. The Garrett Parkers treat
ed Bilkovic roughly enough, but
Bastable was the victim of poor
support.
Eastern batsmen were able to get
but two hits off Joe Freschi, pitch
ing for Keane seniors, and the latter
took a practice game from the Light
Blue and White. to 0. yesterday at
Eastern. Coach Charley Guyon as