Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-16
GRID HURT CHECKS
CENTRAL ATHLETE
May Keep Foot Ball, Field
and Base Ball Star Out
of Basket Ball.
BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR.

~ GORGE Brandt, Centrala crack
athlete, Is destined not 10 real
T lie his hope of gaining letter.
~ in four sports, a rare accom-
plishment for a public high
school athlete here, it appears.
1t had been thought that Brandt,
senior, might this season earn his in
sigma in basket ball, the only maloi
sport in which he has not achieved hi
&C" However, though he has showr
ability to play the game as guard or
independent quints, shoulder 1nJur!
in Central's foot ball game with Dewitt
the last of the season for the Blue am
White, is expected to prevent him flon
doing much in basket ball and ma
seriously handicap his efforts In ba:
ball.
At least it is likely that he will nc
be able to do any pitching on the min.
next Spring. Brandt, who has bee
playing third base on the Central team
is declared to have the making of
good pitcher and Central followers We
looking for him to take his turn on IT,
mound the coming campaign.
1t Is not at all unlikely that his II
jury may also keep Brandt from thro'
ing the javelin with the track team
the Spring
Brandt incidentally, plans now to
idea being to enter the University
oregon next September.
Buiness' hustling baSketers, who
far have won four games in as maj
starts, are expected to encounter stoI
foe in the Catholic University Freshnr
to be encountered tonight In the b
gym at Brookland. The game will /
curtain-raiser to the G. U.-Higs
Point varsity clash
Tonight's game will be the f1rst f.
the Cardinal yearlings as 1t will be IL.
the C. u. varsity.
Business will enter the game follow
ing an afternoon contest with Wood
ward which was set for the Stenc.
gym.
Eastern and Alexandria High quint
were to clash on the Eastern floor an
Landon Schools five was to open i.
campaign against a combination mad
up from members of the faculty Of tina
school in the Epiphany Church gym il
other court games hereabout this after
noon involving schoolboy teams.
Business and Emerson basket bal
teams will clash tomorrow afternoo'
at $3.50 o'clock in the Business Hig
gym in the brightest game of the bi
program of seven in which quintS
the District area are to flgure tomor-
row afternoon and night.
Though Emerson lost to Eastern. g
to "a, last Friday, the Streeters hav
formidable, rugged uuint. which doubs
less will furnish the fast-going StenoG
stiff battle
Eastern will entertain Potomac Boa
Club in the Eastern gym in g. game In
which the Lincoln ParkerS are expected
to meet the toughest sort of. opposition
The Boatmen have quint of high
caliber players. Eastern, though, has
looked mighty sweet in diSpoSing OF
Emerson and Georgetown Freshmen in
its last two games.
Western will play host to Alexandria
High and Coach Cliff Moore's protegcS
will be battling to take the scholastic
from the Virginia city to camp. The
Red and White lost a 20-19 thriller to
another team from the Old Dominion
Swavely, on Friday.
Central win be the busiest team o
the bunch, being down for two games
The Blue and White is not expected {.
encounter so much opposition in Silver
Spring High, to be engaged in the after
noon in the Central gym, but may find
the going considerably tougher against
the George Washington University Fresh
men, to be met in the Colonial gym in
the preliminary to the G.. W.-Shenan-
doah varsity game. 1t will be the OPEN
ing contest of the campaign for the
Colonial yearlings.
lin University and Y. M. c.. A. College
quints are to fight it out in the Langley
Junior High gym and Hyattsville High
and Oakton, Va. High teams are to
face on the National Guard Amory
floor at HyattSville, Md.