Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-12
METHOD|STS PLAY
DORA BASKETERS
Company F Meets WoodlaWn
Tonight in Second Game
at HyattsvilIe.

" EVANSVILLE, Md, December
~. -Hyatts vile Southern
Methodists and DORA qui1ts
will clash tonight in a Prince
Georges County Basket Ball
League game on the National Guard
Armory floor here. The game, starting
at 1880 o'clock, will precede a contest
in which Company F, National Guard,
basketers will play host to Woodlawn
A. C. team of Washington.
Should DORA tossers, who have won
two of their three league games, con-
uuer the MethodiSts tonight, they Will
be tied with the Company F quint for
second place at three wins and one de-
feat each. A victory for the Methodists
would put them in third place with two
wins against one loss, and would ShoVe
DORA into fourth place.
Company F, which has lost several
mainstays of its team of last Winter,
has shown steady improvement under
the tutelage of Coach Jimmy Vincent.
Upon request of Rockville High School
authorities, the basket ball game sched-
uled here tomorrow afternoon between
the quint representing that institution
and Hyattsville High has been post
poned. The Montgomery County school
wants q clear field tomorrow for an en-
tertainment to be given there. The
Rockville game was the only contest
booked for the Hyattsville team this
week, but Coach Stanleigh jenkins
charges will continue hard practice the
remainder of the week in preparation
for contests next week with the Oakton
Va, High team here on Tuesday and
with Tech Friday in Washington.
Coach jenkins has decided that his
best bets are: Manager Rolph Terrell
and Woodward Hurd, forwards; Warren
Evans, center, and Stanley and Marvin
Lewis, guards.
Leading substitutes include William
Morris, center and guard; Curley Byrd,
jr., guard; Burdette Cogar, guard or
forward, and Alvin McChesney, forward
Drafting of schedule for the second
half of the Prince Georges County
Basket Ball League, which will get
under way early next month, and the
eligibility of proposed new players
which various teams of the loop wish to
add will be considered at a meeting of
managers to be held Monday night at
IT'S o'clock in the National Guard
Armory here.
A foot ball game scheduled at River
dale yesterday afternoon between the
Hyattsville High eleven and the Dewitt
School lightweights of Washington was
Cancelled upon request of Dewitt au-
thorities, who said that their team had
disbanded.
This contest was the only one Of the
season scheduled for the Hyattsville
eleven, which was organized late in the
season in order to get line on material
for next years team. 1t was decided
only a few weeks ago to give the grid
iron game it's first trial at the HyattS-
vile school.
Some good prospects came to light
during the drills, which the Hyattsv1lle
squad has been undergoing since the
close of the soccer season a few weeks
ago.
Morris (Frenchy) Cohan, Hyattsville
boy, is making strong bid for berth
on the University of Maryland varsity
basket ball team, and is likely to see
action in the Old Liners opening game
against William and Mary tomorrow
night at College Park.
Conan is a graduate of Hyattsville
High School, where he was stellar all
around athlete.
No captain will be elected for the 1880
HyattSville High School soccer team, 1t
has been announced by Coach Stanleigh
Jenkins. Instead captain will be ap-
pointed by him for each game.
Jenkins said that such procedure will
be followed in connection with all ath-
letic teams which he coaches at the
school. He believes that 1t will make
for baker team play.