Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-28
RAUBER TEAM WINS
FOUR OUT OF EIGHT
Keefe and AbramSon Stars
as Mount Pleasant Eleven
Loses to Dewitt.
Central ended its foot

"NhOOGh StHIIA ehucu AUS AOOl
ball season yesterday with
1870 loss to Dewitt, it has
~~ been by no means an unsue-
ceSSful campaign for the Blue
and White gridders coached by LOUIS
J. (Ty) Rauber.
In eight contests Central won four
tied one and lost three. In the public
high school championship series the
Rauber-coached eleven bowed only to
Tech, 6 to IL, and finished second to
the Mckinley team, which won Nhe
title.
Beginning the season with 1876
victory over Forest Park High of Bal
tirnore, Central then waged q great
fight before Succumbing to the Mount
Vernon, N. Y, High eleven, IL to IL,
at Mount Vernon. Then the Blue and
White fought the York. Pa. High eleven
TO a TT tie, after which it lost to its
dearest foe. Tech, to IL, In the cham
pionship series.
However. Rauber's boys drubbed
Business. 81 to o, in the next series
: game for Central and then went on
to defeat Western, to 0, and Eastern
Is to s. before falling before Dewitt
yesterday.
Stars to Be Lost.
Yesterdays game marked the last
in a Central grid uniform for Capt
George Brandt and CasSasa. ends; La
mond, stalwart guard, and Eicholtz
rugged tackle, as well as for Murray
Magill, Hays, Johnson, Bannerman
Black and Follansbee, all forwards
Ssbatini, Graves and Rose are Blue
and White backs who will be lost.
However, Central again will have
the services of Picnkney, Cumberland
and other dependables when the next
campaign rolls around.
While the game with Dewitt was the
last of the campaign for the Central
eleven Dewitt may play one more game
it a season. There is understood to be
q possibility that the ST. Peters School
team of Jersey City may be booked.
DecisiveneSs Of Devitt's win yester-
day was surprise. It was thought the
game would be considerably closer.
Dewitt, however, led by Tom Keefe
hard-running halfback; Capt. Milton
Abramson, feet quarterback, and Capt
Fannie Knott, plunging fullback, was
the aggresSor virtually all the way
Central was unable to get within the
enemy 10-yard line and only twice got
close TO that stripe. On the other hand
touchdown In the second period and
adding two more in the third. came
dangerously near counting another. hav-
ing the ball on the Central 4-yard line
when the whistle for the half sounded
Pinckney Fails to Shine.
Larry Pinckney, big CentHaaGsasla.ssarp..
failed to show the class against Dewitt
that was expected of him. Both he and
Capt. George Brandt two of the Blue
and Whites outstanding players, were
forced from action during part of the
game with injuries.
In the first period Central made the
initial threat of its two when it con-
trived to reach the enemy 13-yard line
After the Blue and White obtained pos
session Of the ball as the result of two
Dewitt penalties for offside, Paul Hinkel
made another first down and then
Quarterback Frank Cumberland shot q
pass to Brandt that was good for II
yards and put the ball on the Dewitt l3-
yard line, but here Central was held.
In the second period Dewitt got its
attack tunctioning in high and as the
result OF q 70-yard drive pushed over
its first touchdown. Keefe scored the
touchdown when he ripped through
the line from the 7-yard mark. A pass
for the extra point failed.
Dewitt counted its last two touch
downs in the third period. Keefe scored
early in the quarter when he made a
short sweep to place the ball behind
the Central goal line Keefe put the
ball in scoring position when he made
Is yards at left end.
Knott accounted for the second
touchdown of the period and the last
after Dewitt had recovered a Central
tumble on the latter's 6-yard line
Soens failed to drop-kick the point this
time.
Just before Dewitt scored its second
touchdown Central had possession Of
the ball for the first time since the first
quarter.
Central, playing desperately, made its
best stand in the final period, holding
Dewitt at bay and reaching the enemy
10-yard line when De Lisio, substitute
fullback, intercepted a pass and ran a
short distance. Central however, soon
fumbled and Dewitt recovered.