Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-01-26
WESTERNS VICTORY
HALTS TECH MARCH
Latter Quint, Though, Still
Is Fav0rite to Annex
Championship.

Business and Eastern and Central and
Tech will clash Tuesday in the Tech
gym in battles that probably will go far
toward settling the public high basket
ball championship. Until yesterday 1t
appeared that Tech was going to
breeze to a rather easy win in the
series, but Western came through with
1928 overtime win over Mckinley to
cut the lattcr's lead.
In the other game Of yesterdays
double header, Business took the meas
ure of Central, al to 33. 1t was Bust
ness second win over Central and
these victories, incidentally. have been
the only ones scored by the StenogS in
the series.
They have lost three matches. Gen.
trail has dropped all six Of its series
starts.
In other games yesterday involving
s:hoolboy teams of the District group,
st. Johns defeated Leonard Hall, At to
20, in the formers gym and st. Johns
Midgets nosed out Gonzaga Midgets, 80
20 30, in preliminary; Emerson took
Stanton Military Academy to camp,
20 to ii, at Staunton, Va; Hyattsville
High was a 27-l6 victor over Leonard
.1all at Hyattsville: Friends Juniors de-
feated Dewitt Juniors. IS to 10, at
Epiphany gym in a junior prep school
league game and Alexandria High
drubbed Westinghouse High of Ball
ston, Va, 48 TO -.
Tech now has won five games and
lost one, Western is second in the series
lace with four victories against two de-
feats and Eastern is third with three
triumphs and two losses. Though Tech
is still the favorite to win, Western and
Eastern cannot be regarded as out of
the running
Eastern beat Business, 80 to %, in
their firSt-round match, but the Stenogs
can be counted upon to put forth their
best efforts to down the Mckinley quint
Tuesday. Tech defeated Central, 10 to
l3, in their first match and is expected
to again win over its old rivals Tues
day.
Western won over Tech yesterday
in dramatic fashion. Trailing at one
stage in the second quarter, to Is, the
boys in Red rallied CALAMITY and, using
the block play to advantage, contrived
to white down Techs lead as the game
wore on until at the end of regulation
play they had achieved a 21-to-21 tie.
1t was Herbie Thompson, the smooth
working Western guard, who tailed the
points that brought the Georgetowners
victory in the extra period. His
brother Jimmie engineered the passing
that put the ball in scoring position.
After MacCartee Tech forward, had
registered nifty side-court shot to put
The Mckinley team in the van, Herbie
again deadlocked the count with shot
from difficult angle and soon added
another two-pointer. On the latter play
he was fouled and given two free shots,
one of which he made good to clinch a
victory for Western.
Led by Capt. Mike Goldblatt, Tech
got away to an early sizeable lead. At
the quarter Coach Artie Boyds boys
were ahead, 10 to 4. and at the half, Is
10 6. During the third quarter Western
got busy with a will and with Freeman
Using the block play, scoring three field
goals, Tech was ahead at the end of the
bird quarter by only 18 to Is. Free
nan made two-pointer and a foul, shot
20 enable his team to gain an 18-to-l8
lie early in the fourth period. Gold
olatt then came through with goal
from scrimmage, but Baer got double
decker and one foul out of two tries to
before the whistle ending the regulation
game Edelblut dropped in a foul for
Tech to make the count 81 to 81. i
Business had little trouble defeating
Tech. The Stenogs held 1874 edge
at the end of the first quarter and
we're in the van, "a to 13, at the half. |
Central rallied somewhat in the second
half, but the StenogS' lead was never
threatened. Newman and
Lewis did most of Business counting, |
while Cross was the leading scorer for
Central.