Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-02-19
CAPITAL HILL BOYS
AFTER TITLE AGAIN
Have Nucleus of Good Nine
at Hand-SchooI Basket
Teams Playing.
BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr.


~ ASE ball preparation at
X Eastern High is scheduled
to get under way Monday
when Coach Charley Guyon
plans to look over his battery
candidates for the first time.
Though the Light Blue has lost
several StalwartS from its last
seasons championship team, it
has available a group of perfor-
merS of tried worth, and is hope
full of another highly successful
campaign.
Hanna, Fisher, Zahn, Shapiro.
Ware and Eagles are some of the
mainstays of last Springs team
no longer at hand, but such clever
players as Snyder and Taylor,
catchers; Chester Miles and Phil
lips, pitchers; Turner, pitcher and
outf1elder; Mccullough, McAboy
and KeSSler, inf1elderS, and Gle
vas. outfelder, are on hand.
Eastern viii not open its schedule
until April, according to plans. Last
season the team got started In q serious
way somewhat too early and as a re-
suit some of the tossers suffered sore
arms. 1t also Is planned to play fewer
contests.
So far only five games other than the
high school championship contests have
been arranged for Eastern. Emerson
has been booked for games April and
% on the Eastern diamond Gonzaga
has been carded for matches May j at
Eastern and May at Gonzaga, and
Maryland Freshmen have been sched-
uled for May 10 at College Park.
Negotiations are on for tits with
Georgetown Prep Georgetown Fresh
men, Catholic University Freshmen,
Episcopal, st. Johns and Swavely.
Just three games with only one to be
staged on floor IN the city proper are
listed for schoolboy athletes hereabout
tomorrow.
Ben Franklin and strayer win meet
In the Langley Junior High gym at 8
pm. in the lone game on a District
Afternoon engagement win orfng to-
gether Central and Hyattsville High on
the armory floor at HyattSviIle and
Landon and Silver Spring High at
Silver Spring.
Ben Franklin defeated strayer. SO to
ID, in the formers opening game this
season and the latter will be seeking
revenge tomorrow -
Central hung a 41-26 pasting on
Hyattsville a month or so ago and the
suburban scholastics who. Since have
defeated the championship Tech team
and Eastern, will strive b get even with
Bert Coggtns' protegeS.
Silver Spring and Landon appear
rather well matched and are expected
to stage a close game.
Strayer and Columbus University fiyes
are to hook up tonight on the Central
High floor at $50 o'clock Columbus
has shown improvement recently and
battle -
Seven other games, all afternoon
affairs. also were carded today
Eastern and st. Johns were to meet
at st. Johns, Alexandria Highland Cen
tral at Central. Western and Episcopal
at Episcopal, Tech and St. Johns Col
lege Junior Varsity at Annapolis, Emer-
sen and Tome at Port Deposit, George
town Prep and Gonzaga at Gonzaga and
Silver Spring High and HyattsviIIe High
at HyattSville. p
John Paul Collins, assistant principal
at Eastern, has announced that much
work remains before the Light Blues
1880 foot ball schedule is completed.
Other than game with Gonzaga,
which has been booked for Thanks
giving morning, and the public high
ESSISs AAOtAAA4A6 uC1lLl1tc HAS Dcen OoOkeQ.
Gonzaga replaces York, (Pa) High as
Eastern's Turkey day foe. These elevens
have been meeting on THANKSGIVING for
several seasons, but were unable to get
together on a date this year. However.
in scheduling the Gonzaga game East
ern has arranged bright contest, as
the Purple and Light Blue are old and
spirited foes
Episcopal will be met as well rs three
other teams. according to Collins He
hopes to be able to announce the COM
pleted schedule soon.
Gonzaga, which was to entertain
Georgetown Prep this afternoon. will
face other tough foes before ending its
court campaign.
In addition to the important engage
ment with st. Johns Friday night at
$3.50 O'Clock in the Cadets gym, the
Purple will meet Western February rs,
Leonard Hall February 81 and Strayer
March 4, all at Gonzaga
Another game with st. Johns is
pending for March Z, and Georgetown
Freshmen and Raymond Riordan may
be booked