Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-02-03
PUBLIC HIGH LOOP !
CONCLUDES SERIES
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To Decide Runner-Up Team
Tuesday-Prep Elves in
Many Matches.


phase of the scholastic basket
ball season here now Is history.
4 with the deciding of the public
high title Friday IN favor of
Tech, flock of games is listed for this
week. 81 to be exact.
Featuring the program will be the
public high title matches Tuesday be-
tween Central and Eastern and Business
and Western, which will end the cham
pionship series and upon the outcome
of which will depend the occupancy
of the runner-up position in the race.
Eastern and Western now are tied for
the position, each with four wins and
three defeats. It is possible, however,
for Business, which has captured three
contests and dropped four, to achieve
a tie with Eastern and Western This
could be brought about by Business
defeating Western and Central downing
Eastern.
Another interesting match will be the
prep school title game Wednesday be-
tween st. Johns and Gonzaga in the
Boys Club gym. Gonzaga Is leading
the league race with two wins In as
many starts. st. Johns Is last, having
lost both its games.
Tech and most of the other members
of the Capital schoolboy group are to
get action before the week Is over.
At least one game is scheduled every
day with Tuesday, Friday and Saturday
as the busiest.
Just one match is scheduled ton1or-
row, that between George Mason High
and Dewitt, here.
-Four -smes are listed Tuesday. In
encounters, aside from the Central
Eastern and BuSineSS-WeStefn clashes,
GEORGETOWN Prep and Gonzaga will
face in the Gonzaga gym and Alex
andria High and University Of Mary
land Freshmen win meet at College
Park.
In addition to the st. Johnston
zaga Prep School title game Wednes-
day, Tech win entertain woodward in
the Tech gym. and Eastern and Alex
andre yrsgh will meet at Alexandra.
Georgetown Prep win play host to
Mount st. Mary's Prep quint Of En-
mitsburg, Md, II the only contest list
ed Thursday.
Eight games are carded Friday, max
ing it the biggest day Of the week,
not of the season. ALI except one
the matches, that between Central a
Portsmouth High, at Portsmouth,
will be played here.
In games at home Western will h
Georgetown Prep as its guest, in
Western gym; Forest Park and
Adams viii meet on the st. Alba.
floor: Tech and University Of Mar.
land Freshmen have IN engageme-
at College Park, Leonard Hall W.
meet Gonzaga at GonEaga, in the at,
ernoon. and st. Johns In the Cadet
stronghold at night; Dewitt will er
terrain .Hyattsville High here. AMI
Cresaps Rifles and Bliss viii face in
the armory at Silver Spring, Md.
Catholic U. Freshmen will entertain
Calvert Hall of Baltimore on the G. e
floor, and Mount st. Mary's Prep az.
Dewitt will meet here Saturday.
Central is to come to grips with tn
Navy Plebs at Annapolis and Bliss VIII
journey to Leonardtown to face Leonard
Hail.
Play In the Intramural Basket Ball
League at st. Johns College here VIII
begin tomorrow afternoon in the school
gym. The league comprises two de
visions and includes senior ana
junior circuit. Zube Sullivan, coach OF
the basket ball team, hopes to garner
some good material for his regular team
from those playing In the league games.
The league matches probably VIII be
played as preliminaries to evening
games in the st. Johns gym, In which
the regular cadet team viii appear.
Because the squad probably will not
be in shape by that time Dewitt viii not
enter the annual University Of Virginia
indoor scholastic track meet to be held
February % at Charlottesville, but like
ly will make its first appearance OF the
season in the University of West Vir-
ginia games to be held at Morgantown
at a date to be announced This year
will mark the start of the West Virginia
affair.
Bin Summers, captain and pole
yaulter. who has a bad knee, and Fran
els Knott, quarter-miler. who has .
muscle injury, are leading members OF
the Dewitt team who are far from being
in shape