Evening star., 1928-11-18
PREP GRID BATTLES
NOW HOLD INTEREST
Gonzaga and Emerson Listed
to Clash Friday-0ther
Attractive Frays.

Though the public high school foot
ball championship has been decided In
favor OF Tech as the result Of the Ma
room and Gray's TO win over Eastern
Friday. there are still several bright
features remaining on the District
scholastic gridiron card, the most I'M
portant of which is the deciding of su-
premacy in prep school ranks
Emerson and Gonzaga will come to
grips Friday probably in Clark Griffith
Stadium in the first really decisive ba:-
tie In the struggle for prep school
honors.
Another high spot for scholastics this
week will be the i1tersectional battle
which will take the championship Teen
eleven to Tuscaloosa, Ala, to meet the
crack high school team there. This
match Is carded for next Saturday and
is virtually certain to be played.
Central and Western are to meet In
the final game of the public high school
title series Tuesday afternoon in Gen.
tral Stadium. It will be struggle for
third place, each team now being tied
for that position with one win and two
defeats.
Eastern will entertain st. Johns In the
Eastern Stadium Friday and Western
will go to Hallston, Va, Saturday to en-
gage Washington-Lee High eleven in
the only other matches of the week in
which Washington schoolboys will figure.
In addition to Emerson and Gonzaga
the only other logical contender for the
prep school crown is Dewitt. Georgetown
Prep. st. Johns and st. Adams have
not shown much.
Games thus far have afforded little
on which the comparative strength OF
the three contenders can be gauged.
All three have played Eastern. Gonzaga
drubbed the Lincoln Parkers. % to O,
and Emerson turned the trick. to 2.
but Dewitt bowed to the Light Blue and
White, 6 to 18. This would seem to
stamp Gonzaga as the most formidable
team of the group. but the fallacy Of
forming judgment on this kind of dope
has time and again been proved. Both
Dewitt and Gonzaga trimmed Calvert
Hall School Of Baltimore by one touch
down.
Dewitt and GonZaga will clash De-
cember In Clark Grifith Stadium in
the only other important struggle bear
ing on the title.
Coach Hap Hardell yesterday wired
the Tuscaloosa authorities that he was
willing to play the high school team
there Saturday. The Alabama people
wanted to stage the match Friday. 1t
is known, however that the Dixie school
is especially desirous OF meeting Tech.
1t could have booked strong teams from
other sections for the engagement, but
preferred the eleven from the Capital.
In the Tuscaloosa High team Tech
will be facing an eleven which has not
been beaten in three seasons. Advices
reaching here are that the Maroon and
Gray will come to grips with A team
of its own cfaracter--that is, one which,
while not blessed with preponderarlce
Of heft. Is unusually fast and clever.
The trip to Tuscaloosa requires some 30
hours, and the Tech party probably will
leave here Thursday.
In making the long hop the Mckinley
boys will earn the distinction of taking
the most extended trip to fill an ath-
letic engagement that any District
school team has made.
Hardell says that at first he was in
clined not to accept the Tuscaloosa
offer which was made by Champ Pick
ems. Southern sportsman. as the pros
pect of engaging IN an attractive post
season game here with prominent
prep school team from considerable
distance loomed. but developments yes.
terday induced him to change his mind
and accept the Alabama proposition.
It appears that Central and Western
will wage the tightest sort OF battle.
Both bowed to Eastern, 0 TO 6, in the
title series and lost by big margins to
Tech. Each scored over Business, the
series cellar occupant, Central winning,
l8 to 0, and Western 6 to 0.
Eastern is favored tn win over St
Johns Friday, while Western is apt to
encounter stern opposition in the WASH
ington-Lee eleven Saturday.