Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-23
DEFEATS EASTERN
FOR SECOND TIME
viii Remove Last Obstacle if
Western Is Beaten in
Game Friday.
rzEcH will meet Western Friday in

T@ECH will meet Western Friday in
a public high school champion
ship basket ball game in the
4 Tech gym and should the Nc
Kinley team win 1t will be
virtually in" so far as the title is con-
Cerned.
In fact, followers of the Maroon and
Gray team believe that it is just about
all over now, following Techs triumph
yesterday over Eastern in a 1891
siz2ler. Western drubbed Central. 26
to IL, in the other game of the double
header.
Business will meet Central in the
other half of Fridays usual double bill
in match for cellar honors.
Tech today is stepping out in front
IN the title race with five wins in as
many starts. Eastern and Western are
tied for second with three victories
against two setbackS apiece. Business
stands fourth with one win and three
losses and Central is last, having drop
ped all five of its series starts.
In vanquishing Eastern yesterday
Tech brushed aside the team that was
regarded as the chief obstacle in its
march toward the crown. Western by
drubbing Central preserved for itself
mathematical chance at least of cop
ping the bunting, and gave the badly
punished Central team kick that sent
it farther into the cellar.
In other scholastic matches yeSter-
day Emerson doWned st. Adams, "a to
IS, in the American University gym.
Georgetown Prep was a 22-15 victor
over Hyattsville High at Hyattsville, and
Business beat Westinghouse High at
Ballston, Va, AZ to %.
Eastern will entertain Georgetown
Prep in the Eastern gym in an after
noon match and StrayerS will face Ben
Franklin in an evening game at g
O'Clock in st. Martins gym in contests
in which schoolboy teams here will fig
ure tomorrow.
Dewitt was to meet Gonzaga in a prep
school league championship floor match
this afternoon in the Boys Club gym.
Eastern's quint was at Episcopal High
at Alexandria for an encounter.
Jake GOidblatt again was the chief
inquire in producing Tech victory yes
terday. 1t was his shot from scrim-
mage in the dying moments that
brought his team from behind and put
1t one point to the good in the battle
with Eastern. A moment later Mac
Cartee sent foul shot spinning through
the net to put the game in the bag for
Coach Artir Boyd's proteges
From the outset it was hair-raising
game. The score was tied six times
during the match and eight times the
lead changed. With Goldblatt and
Paul Brown standing out for Tech, Capt.
Ted Capelli and Jimmy Ryan, sharp
shooting little forwards, played superbly
to keep the Lincoln Packers in the thick
of the battle.
Goldblatt registered 16 points on
goals from scrimmage and 4 from the
foul line, against 10 points for Capelli,
who five times found the range for two
pointers. The pair have been waging a
hard fight for individual scoring honors
Though outscored by the Tech captain,
Capelh certainly was not outgamed.
The hashy little Fastener literally
played himself into exhaustion and at
the end of the conflict had to be carried
from the floor. Most of Capelli's shots
were of the spectacular type, in which
he specializes. Ryan also Gagged several
brilliant shots.
Tech took the lead soon after the
start Of the game, when Brown regis
tered two-pointer. A couple of fine
shots by Capeli and one by Ryan fol-
lowed, however. At the quarter Eastern
was ahead, 6 to 3.
At the half Eastern was still hanging
on TO a slender 1915 edge. Two goals
from scrimmage by Goldblatt were fol-
lowed by a pair by Ryan near the end
of the half.
Eastern continued in the van, &c to
23, as the third period ended. During
most Of this quarter only one point
separated the rivals. Capelli came
through with another shot from scrim-
mage just before the whistle.
Following desperate battling in the
final quarter, Mccullough, with min
ute and half to play, put Eastern
ahead, 81 to 80, on foul shot. At this
stage Goldblatt once more came through
with two-pointer to give his team
kictory.
!. Western was held to 1911 lead at
Ehe half by Central, but the Georgetown
scholastics got going with will in the
final half, counting Is points while
holding their rivals to just one foul goal.
Herbie Thompson, forward, was the
Header on attack for Western, registering
10 points, while Mike Hunt played his
usual steady all-around game at guard.
Central Q2). Western (26l: