Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-09-08
SCHOOL GR|DDERS
GETTING TO WORK
Several Squads Are Out and
Others to Take Field
in Short Time.
- CHOOLBOY foot ball warriors of
the District area will get down
to earnest preparation for the
cooeoo THE u,ook fho1IUh it will

- CHOOLBOY foot ball warriors of
the District area will get down
to earnest preparation for the
~ season this week, though 1t will
not be until around the middle Of
the month that the squads of all the
schools will be at work.
Central, Eastern and Tech gridmen
started training last week and this
week will enter upon serious work. The
Blue and White is establishing at its
training camp at St. Jehn's College,
Annapolis; Eastern is drilling In its
own stadium and the Mckinley squad
is being put through its PAGES at the
University of Maryland, College Park.
Business and Western will not begin
preparation until school opens.
Dewitt and Gonzaga foot bailers are
/ at work. st. Johns will start this
week and Emerson September 16. Ian
don School, the newest private school
here, also soon will have its squad busy
definite line on the probable strength
of teams, it seems likely that the Wash
| ington area will be represented by sew
eral elevens of more than average
ability as scholastic foot ball combina-
tons 60.
Eastern, because of its generous sup
ply of seasoned material, looms now
as the best bet in the public high
group and as the likely choice to win
the public high title. Tech, which won
the crown last Fall, is woefully shy OF
experienced material, while Central Is
Just about as bad on in this respect
To form an idea as to how the prep
school teams will fare Is somewhat
more difficult this year than is ordi.
narily the case, as three Of the schools
Emerson, GonZaea and st. Johns, will
have new coaches, and another, the
Landon School, will be represented on
| the gridiron for the first time. Nat
urally Harley Sanborn, Orrel Mitchell
and Paulie Byrne, the new mentors al
| Emerson, Gonzaga and st. Johns, re-
| spectively, will be at somewhat of q
handicap at least for the first part oil
the campaign or until they get used to
their surroundings. Gordon Kessler
who will tutor the Landon School team
will be coaching for the first time and
| his friends will be watching with in
terest the work of the former Univer-
sity of Maryland athlete. AS the Lam
don School Is a new institution and
naturally will not have such big en-
rollment Kessler is not expected to dc
a whole lot, however.
develop a quarterback at Gonzaga to
take the place Of Charley McVean,
crack triple threaten, and a couple of
other 1928 regulars are missing, he has
a group of seasoned players on hand
and is likely to turn out quite credit
able team. Mitchell, incidentally, has
had little coaching experience.
Dewitt has lost some valuable play
ers, but also has some highly capable
material and probably will have a first
rate eleven. Jim Mcnamara again will
tutor the Dewitt eleven.
How Paulie Byrne will fare at st.
Johns is hard to predict. The Cadets
seldom have a great deal of material
and the chances are that Byrne will
have to hustle to put an eleven on the
field much better than the creditable
teams which usually represent st.
Johns.
Sanborn has been at Emerson before
so the post will not be so new to him.
He has had much coaching experience
and with more seasoned material than
usual Is hopeful of turning out the best
eleven in Emerson's history. .