Evening star., 1929-12-14

Swavely squeezed through to
20-19 win over Western in the lat
ter'S gym in another court game
yesterday.
Central High swimmers opened
their season with 1886 victory
over Baltimore City Colleges ma
tators in the Monumental City.
Aside from the Eastern-Hoya yearling
game tonight at tbs o'clock, which will
be a preliminary to the G. U. varsity
Tech gym, two more contests in which
schoolboy teams of the District area are
to figure are listed.
Strayer is to engage Army Head
quarters in the gym at the War College
and Bliss Electrical School and Blair
Takoma High quints are to fight it out
in the Silver Spring, Md. Armory.
Central's five was carded to engage
the Fredericksburg Collegians in the
Columbia Heights School gym tonight,
but the game was Cancelled to give the
annual Central foot ball banquet, also
listed tonight, 9 clear field. Members
of the 1929 Central grid squad will be
the guests of honor at the banquet.
They will elect captain for their 1880
eleven.
Though often they have proved to
mean nothing, comparative scores, new
ertheless, are interesting and so tans
who are trying to get line on tne
Eastern teams are awaiting with inter-
est the outcome of the Eastern-G. U.
yearling game tonight. Central last
Saturday conquered the Hoya Freshmen,
% to 25. in a game that required TWO
extra periods.
Eastern loosed withering attack IN
the last three minutes of play to trl-
umnh over Emerson yesterday. The
LIGHT Blue and White sharpshooterS
found the cords for three floor goals
during those minutes to put the game
in the bag. MT,
eran, forward. was the brightest figure
in Eastern's exhibition. This boy spar
kled throughout the first half, after
which he was forced to retire through
sheer exhaustion. OF the IL points
chalked up by the Light Blue. and White
during the first half, 10 were registered
by Fineran.
Barney Kane, forward, and Bill
Noonan. center, were other consistent
scorers for Eastern, each accounting Tor
6 points.
former Tech stalwart, was stand-out'
while Eddie Scanlon and Jackie Lewis,
erstwhile Business athletes, also holding
forth as forwards, showed well.
From the start it was battle royal,
with never more than few points sep
arating the teams. Emerson had 1872
edge at the half, Forney coming
through with a 2-pointer just before
the intermission to give his team the
bulge. Guyon used his light combina-
ton throughout the first half. In ad-
dition to Fineran, 1t comprised Danny
Kessler, as the other forward: Lieb, at
center. and Ralph Bucca and Ben Zola,
guards.
Beginning the second half, Coach
Guyon sent in his heavier five. This
combination, led by Capt. Jimmy Ryan
and Kane, showed ability to drop 'em
in, though it was given a nip-and-tuck
fight until the final three minutes, when
the Light Blue and White found the
cords for the three straight baskets that
gave it victory.
Western High basketers probably will
be much more careful from now on
as to how they disport themselves on
the court. Numerous penalties yester-
day cost the Red and White its defeat
at the hands of Swavely.
Just three floor goals were chalked
up by the schoolboyS from Manassas,
Va, but they made good on IA tries
from the foul line.
It appeared in the final moments that
Western might force the game into
overtime. John Eaton then eSsayed a
foul shot that would have tied the
score at 1920, but the ball trimmed the
basket.
Western was severely handicapped in
the second half through the absence
of Bob Freeman, Everett Buscher and
Dos Hatfield, who were forced from
the game on personal fouls. Freeman
and Buscher registered 2 and S points,
respectively, before quitting the floor.