Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-06
BUSY TIMES AHEAD
OF SCHOOL CUNTS
Will Play Ia Games During
Week End-Western Gets
Runner-up Berth.

w WITH ii games booked, high
a school basket ball teams of
NM the District area face an I'M
v usually busy week end. Only
one contest is carded tomOr-
row. but eight are booked Friday and
four more Saturday.
Western gained second place in the
public high basket ball championship
series by defeating Business, 26 to %,
yesterday in the Tech gym. Central
triumphed over Eastern, % to ~, in the
other match of the double header that
ended the series which was won by
Tech last week.
In other games yesterday Gonzaga
defeated Georgetown Prep, 80 to %, in
the Gonzaga gym; Alexandria High
bowed to University of Maryland
Freshmen, IS to 81, at College Park,
and Friends doWned st. Adams, SO to
II, in the Epiphany Church gym.
In the lone game tomorrow George
town Prep will entertain Mount st.
Mary's Prep basketers at Garrett Park,
Md.
All games Friday are to be staged on
home floors except that which Will hnd
Central meeting Portsmouth High In
the Virginia City. In the matches here
Gonzaga will play host TO Eastern IN
the I street school gym, Western will
entertain Georgetown Prep at western,
Tech and University OF MARYLAND
Freshmen will face at College Park,
Forest park and st. Adams will clash
on the st. Adams floor, Hyattsvilie
High will visit here to meet Dewitt, and
in night games st. Johns will entertain
Leonard Hall in the Cadets gym and
Bliss will play host to CreSapS' Rifles
in the armory at Silver Spring, Md.
Dewitt will entertain Mount st. Mary'S
Prep and Catholic University Freshmen
will play host to Calvert Hall in games
here Saturday. In out-of town en-
counters Central will meet Navy Pleoes
at Annapolis and Bliss and Leonard
Hall are to face at Leonardtown.
Prem School League games between
Gonzaga and st. Johns and Emerson
and Dewitt in the Boys Club gym were
to feature this afternoons schoolboy
floor card here. In other matches EAST
ern was to meet Alexandria High at
Alexandria, Tech was to entertain
woodward in the Tech gym and Dev-
tits lightweights were to meet 81. Al
bans in DevlttS gym.
Tech is to meet Catholic university
Freshmen tonight at Brookland IN the
preliminary to the G. U.-Fordham
Varsity game.
Both Western and Eastern deserved
to win their public high title games
| yesterday Western was pressed all the
Way. but had the better of 1t especially
| lot
| to show improved form, really held more
| of an advantage over Eastern than the
score would indicate.
Westerns win gave 1t a series record
of five wins against three defeats 10
! finish second, and EaStern'S defeat senC
| the Light Blue and White to third
place at four wins and as many de-
| feats. Business finished fourth with
| three victories against five defeats, and
Central, which won the title last year.
| was at the bottom of the heap With
! two wins against six setbacks.
Central was leading Eastern, TO z,
at the end of the first quarter yester-
day. but the Lincoln Parkers contrived
| to tie the score at the half, to 8.
Goals from scrimmage by LampSon and
| Cross soon after the start of the sec
ond half put Central ahead to stay,
| though its margin was menaced, espe-
| cially in the last minutes Capt. Ted
| Capelli, Eastern, was fouled just as the
whistle ended the game. Had he made
| good on both his shots Eastern could
have tied the score at 23-all. He regis
tered the first toss but failed on ,the
second.
Capt. Ken Fisher, Lampson and Cross
played best for Central, with Arthur
zahn showing to particular advantage
| for Eastern.