Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-17

It is probable that Episcopal,
be three of the teams in the leagu
tuition, which is represented by its
according to plans.
League play probably will begi
Central High basketers who we're to
entertain Silver Spring High School S
quint this afternoon in the Central
gym, also are to get action few
hours later, being carded to engage the
George Washington freshmen in the
Colonial gym at tbs o'clock in the pre-
hminary to the Colonial Varsity-Shen-
an6oah College.
In another game tonight Ben Frank
lin will entertain Y. M. c. A. College
in the Langley Junior High gym at
8 o'clock.
Four other games involving schoIas-
tics were listed here this afternoon.
Emerson and Business were TO face
in the Business gym. Alexandria High
and Western IN the Western gym, Po-
tomac Boat Club and Eastern in the
Eastern gym and Hyattsville and Oak
ton, Va, High fives at Hyattsville.
Business lost its first game of the
court campaign last night, bowling to
Catholic University Freshman, % to
50. in the Brookland gym, in the pre-
l1mmary TO the Cardinal Varsity High
Point game. The StenogS, however,
won an afternoon game, swapping
woodward, Al 10 s.
st. Adams basketers took the meas
IRE of Hyattsville High, 81 to %. and
the Landon faculty tossers drubbed the
school team, 26 to 8.
Ohicials handling the public high
school championship basket ball series
starting January have not been Sc
lected from the District of Columbia
Approved Board of Basket Ball OfficiaIs
as they usually have been.
Bruce Kessler, erstwhile Eastern High
and American University basket ball
player, and Amedus j. Caruso, formerly
of Pittsburgh, are the officials who have
been appointed to handle the series.
DR.. G. Harris White said the fact
that neither Kessler nor Caruso are
members of the District board has no
significance. They were simply the
choices for the job. Kessler has had
experience as a court official hereabout
and Caruso was member Of the APP
proved board in Pittsburgh.
Fifteen members of the 1929 Central
High School foot ball team today are
Boosting letters which they were awarded
at an assembly at the school yesterday.
They are: Retiring Capt. George
=, Brandt, Capt:-elect George McGinty,
Casassa, Black. Eihcoltz Murray, John
son, Lamond, Bannerman, Cumberland.
Colella, Hinkel, Pinckney, Sabatini and
McGtll. Manager Martin Daniels also
was presented the insignia.
Horton, high school golf champion,
was awarded trophy and Clyde Smith,
received a trophy for having won the
school tennis tournament.
Central ard rVeipn.s t,uo 1o-. ,,.,,
able players because of scholastic ineligi-
bility, it has been announced.
Donald DeVeau, center, and Charley
CaSassa, forward, have been lost at
Central. DeVeau had taken part In
most Of the Blue and Whites games.
At the same time it was announced that
Frank CWhitey) Cumberland, high pro-
missing basketer, had quit basket ball,
because his family thought that in TAX
ing part IN foot ball and base ball he
was devoting enough time to athletics
Business lost four reserve players.
1t was a rough game in which the
Catholic University freshmen defeated
Business, Is foul shots being tried.
The setback was the first for the
Stenogs in six starts this season.
Matte Newman and Bobbie Lucas,
high scoring little Business forwards,
were checked. Carney led the Cardinal
yearling scorers with IL points.
In drubbing woodward, Coach Wood
worth used Just about every player on
the Stenog squad. From the start this
game was all Business.
Chiles, clever center, was the big shot
for st. Adams as that team downed
HyattsVille Highs tossers. This boy,
besides playing a clever floor game,
found the cords for Is points. Crouch
hung up points for the victors.
Stanley Lewis was most consistent
on offense for Hyattsville, registering
points.
Gordon Kessler, Landon athletic
director. starred for the faculty team
In its easy win over the school five.
Kessler scored six goals from scrim-
mage. The Teachers held the whip
hand all the way and at the half were
In the van, IL to 4.
Ben Franklin School tossers have
listed game with Union Printers for
Thursday night in the Langley Junior
High gym at 8 o'clock.
Ernesto Castillo, 13-year old Spanish
boy, who attends Dewitt School, is a
keen gridiron student. Though he has
been In this country only Is months he
has devoted himself so aSsiduously to
learning the game that he really now
has q fine grasp of it.
During the season just past he
watched the various prep school teams
in action, taking keen note of the work
of both the individuals and the elevens
as q whole.
He decided upon an all-prep eleven
which admittedly would make a formi-
dable combination, even though 1t might
not be generally conceded to be the
strongest that might have been as
sembled in prep school ranks.
CaStillos selections follow:
Buscher, Emerson, left end; Farrell
Gonzaga, left tackle; Soens, Dewitt. left
guard; Robinson, Georgetown Prep
center; Shugrue. Emerson. right guard;
Tangora, Dewitt right tackle; Pyne,
Gonzaga left end: Abramson, Dewitt
quarterback; BuSSink, Gonzaga, left
halfback; Keeke, Dewitt, right halfbaCk,
and Knot, Dewitt, fullback
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