Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-12-22

two titles.
Gonzaga, Dewitt, st. Johns and En-
erson shared the various honorS in the
prep school field.
basket ball title, dislodging Central,
which had captured the championship
for four straight years. Eastern sue
ceSsfully retained its base ball crown
and also triumphed in the Spring track
meet, vanQuishing Tech. which had won
the meet for five straight years, in q
thrilling battle for points, so to IS. 1t
was the first time the Lincoln Park ath-
letes had ever won the championship.
games.
Gonzaga handily won the first prep
school basket ball league title. Emer-
son also had an unusually capable
quint and several of the other prep
school flves were formidable. Episcopal
Captured the prep school lightweight
league crown.
In base ball also Gonzaga was Just
about the class of the prep schools.
Friends won the prep school lightweight
diamond league title. Dewitt ruled the
roost in track and Its foot ball team
defeated Gonzaga. IL to 8, in . game
billed for the prep school champion
ship. Emerson refused to concede
Dewitt the crown. These teams did
not meet.
Tech Springs Surprise.
Tech, shy Of seasoned material, was
not expected to win the basket ball Sc
ries, but its rugged, hard-fighting team
time and gain was able to produce the
punch that carried 1t to victory. 1t
won six games and lost two. The Me-
Kinley teams triumph was tribute to
the worth Of its new coach, Artie Boyd,
former University of Maryland athlete.
Centrals mediocre showing was some
what of a surprise. Admittedly, the
Blue and White had little seasoned
talent, but Coach Bert Coggins had been
building champion teams out Of tndif-
ferent talent so long that 1t was hard
to figure him turning out other than q
winner. Toward the last Central showed
strongly but 1t lost Its first six games,
finishing last In the race, having won
just two games.
Western, finishing secopd with I'VE
wins and three defeats. did somewhat
better than expected. Clifton r. Moore
coached the Red and White for the first
time. Eastern, tutored by Harley p.
Sanborn, was third with four wins
against as many defeats. its showing
being somewhat disappointing. Bush
ness, which was fourth. with three VIC
tories against three setbacks, played
brilliantly at times, but was not con-
Sistent enough to finish among the lead
ers. without doubt the best player In
the series was Jake Goldblatt, the cool,
heady captain and center Of the Tech
team.
Goldblatt was picked for one Of the
forward posts on The Stars all-high
team, the others chosen being Ted
Capelli, Eastern, forward: Bob Freeman.
Western. center, and Paul Brown, Tech,
4 L. L.
In annexing the public high base ball
title Eastern COMPOUNDED critics for the
second season in q row. Eastern adj
mittedly had q group Of formidable
players at hand, but Tech was generally
regarded as the favortte. However, after
barely beating Western, 81, In the Sc
rieS opener, the Lincoln ParkerS went
on to sweep their next three games into
the bag by healthy margins. Tech was
second. with three wins and one de-
feat. Central was third, with two wins
with one victory against three defeats,
and Business was last, losing all four Of
its starts.
Stars All-High Nine.
This all-high nine was selected by
The Star: Bud Hanna, Eastern,
| pitcher; Bob Snyder, Eastern. catcher;
Ben Mccullough. Eastern, first base
man; Herbie Thompson, Western, Sec
ond base; Willis Fisher. Eastern. short
stop; Bill Heflin, Tech, third base: Cody
Shapiro. Eastern. left field; Homer
| DriSsell, Tech, center field, and Archie
Ware, Eastern, right field.
GonZaga's superiority in base ball in
the prep school group was marked. The
Purple nine did not stack up so i'm
pressively against the public high nine
| 1t faced, but in the prep school group 1t
disposed dispose Of Georgetown Prep and . b.
team. Devitt's nine was mediocre.
Emersons team played only two games.
but in one Of these 1t defeated Eastern,
the public high school champion. st.
Adams record was unimpreSSive.
Scholastics had an active season In
track and field. AS usual, the annual
public high school championships and
the yearly &C" Club meet attracted most
attention, but many took part in the
second annual meet, held under auspices
of Dewitt School, and other affairs. The
junior high schools also had an inter-
esting championship meet.
Eastern, Tech and Dewitt gained
most track honorS. In addition to tri-
umphing in the public high meet, East
ern won high school point trophy In
the annual Dewitt meet, Tech won the
CO. Club meet, In which Dewitt was
third
To win the public high meet Eastern
gained first and second place In the
javelin throw, the last and deciding
event on the program. Conrad Allison
was first and Everett Oxley was second.
This brought the Lincoln ParkerS' point
total to SO, against 48 for Tech and %
for Central. Western and Business did
not score.
Edwards High Point Scorer.
Jake Edwards of Tech and Grover
Everett and Frank Miles of Eastern
were the outstanding performers. Ed
wards, who was largely responsible for
Techs victory in the 1928 meet, was
high point scorer in the 1929 games,
with 20 points. He was first In four
events, winning the 100. 220 and 40
yard dashes and the shotput. Everett
was first in the 120-yard high hurdles
and the 220-yard low hurdles and was
second In the broad Jump. Miles had
the distinction Of breaking the only
record, when he stepped the l mile
In minutes 402s seconds. The pre-
vious standard was set by John Gross
Of Tech In 1920.
Tech. with rs points. won the &C"
Club meet. Staunton Military Academy
was second with 20la points, just
point and half ahead Of Dewitt, which
was third with 10. It was the sensa-
tionar work Of Jake Edwards that was
largely responsible for his teams vie
tory. He won the 440-yard dash in the
meet record breaking time Of so lilo
seconds. and triumphed In the 22O-
yard dash and shotput. He also ran
anchor on the victorious Mckinley team
in the &C. Club mile relay champion
ship: Edwards time OF so lilo seconds
ESNa. ~ 49, l. -
ter than the former mark of 81 As Sec
ondS, made by Horace Hebb, also Of
Tech, In the 1926 meet. Incidentally,
it was the lone meet record to be shat