Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-11-12

Saturday La Sale Prep had been un-
beaten, but on that day 1t bowed to the
undefeated Catholic University Fresh
men, a to 0, In one Of the feature:
of the Homecoming day program at the
Brookland school.
Despite that several members Of the
Dewitt eleven, particularly in the line
are comparatively inexperienced, the
team has shown well. The average age
of members of the team is just trtfie
under Is, II and eleven-twelfthS to be
exact
In I'VE games the Dewitt eleven has
suffered Just one defeat. That was al
the hands Of the strong Mercersburg
Academy eleven early in the season
Since then the Upton Street School
eleven has vanquished Eastern by 10 to
0, Washington-Lee High by IL to 0 and
Mount st. Mary's Prep by IS to o. In
the game before the Mount st. Mary's
contest Newport News High was held to
TT tie in the Virginia city.
La Plata (Md.) High School athletes
have won both the boys soccer ball and
the girls field ball championships Of
Charles County. The soccer ball ttals
was won over Lackey High in an over
time thriller, to Q. At the end of the
regulation time the score was tied at
gall and two 10-minute extra halves
were played, with the La Plata hooters
scoring the deciding goal in the first OF
these.
La Plata girls conquered the 0lasva
High girls, 6 to 2, to win the county
title.
Play in the Soccer League for former
junior high school hooters will start
next Sunday, according to plans OF
George F. Youngblood, athletic director
of Stuart Junior High School, who is
sponsoring the new loop.
Teams made up of erstwhile members
of the Langley. Hine, Jefferson, Column
bia, Stuart and Mcfarland Junior
High Schools have signified their desire
to enter the loop. the games In which
will be played each Sunday ut o'clock
on the Monument fields preceding the
unlimited class matches there
Youngblood reports the league has
aroused much interest.
This is the story of young fellow
who didn't use to like foot ball, but
now-well, try to keep him out OF a
gridiron suit.
Louis (Bozey) Berger, former Tech
High School basket ball and base ball
luminary, Is the young hero OF the
yarn.
When at Tech Hap Hardell. director
Of athletics and head foot ball coach,
noting Berger's fine physique and his
particularly large hands, sized him up
as a fine gridiron prospect and urged
him to come out for foot ball. But
Berger was not interested. He did not
care for the game.
Entering the University Of Maryland
last Fall, the coaches there also urged
him to try the gridiron game, and
though he did not want to he finally
capitulated.
In the Yale game Saturday when
Maryland came back to tie the Bulldog
at 1913 in a dramatic rally 1t was this
same Berger who scored both touch
downs.
After the game Curley Byrd, Mary
land coach, asked him:
Guess you feel pretty good now,
Wouldn't your" Berger answered, his
face beaming.
give up the gridiron game for good
while.
Incidentally, Hap Hardell believes
that the ball-catching ability shown by
Berger against Yale Che caught one
pass on which he scored touchdown
and another that put his team in po-
sition to count its other touchdown
can be lald TO MS DaSkeC Dali training.
This training, Hardell says, dates back
to the time when Berger. the son OF
an Army man, fooled around in the
gym at Fort Myer with basket ball.
Berger starred with both the Fresh
men basket ball and base ball teams
during the past season at Maryland.
Central and Western elevens were TO
clash this afternoon at $3.50 O'Clock
in a public high school championship
foot ball game in Central Stadium.
Should Central win it will gain
second-place tie with Eastern at two
victories and one defeat in the series
race, and Western will be relegated to
fourth place with one win and three
reverses. A Western victory Will give
1t a chance to finish in q triple tie
for the runner-up position with Gil
trail and Eastern.
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