Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-06-03
TECH AND EASTERN
! WIN MAJOR TITLES
Split Honors in High School
/ Series-Prep Teams Also
| Gain Limelight.
By EDWARD A. FULLER, JR.

- CHOOLBOY athletes of the Dis
trict area have all but finished a
memorable year, a year teeming
with drama in the shape of Bit
Serly waged battles in which the par
Elephants fought their hearts out, stun
ming upsets and all the other features
that go to make fine, clean sport.
In public high school competition
Eastern and Tech were dominant in the
major sports. The Gray retained its
1929 foot ball and basket ball titles and
the Light Blue successfully defended its
base ball and track championships.
Honors were well distributed in prep
school ranks.
Tech achieved the public high school
foot ball championship for the second
straight season in a series packed with
thrills. confounding the critics swiftly
and coryincingly in the very first game
by vanquiShing Eastern, the favorite,
IA to 2. It was Techs dearest foe, Gen.
trail. that gave the Gray its sterneSt
opposition. Mckinley had to struggle
desperately to conquer the furiously
fighting Blue, IL to 6, in a truly epic
battle.
ETep SChOOIS DO we'll
Dewitt, Gonzsga. Emerson, st. Johns
and Georgetown Prep all showed well
on the gridiron among the prep schools.
Devitt's record particularly was i'm
presSive. Just one game was lost by
the fine eleven carrying that schools
colors, the opening contest with the
husky Mercersburg Academy eleven, at
Mercersburg Dewitt overcame Con-
zaga, IL to 6, in their annual clash, a
game, incidentally, which has not been
Tescheduled for the coming Autumn.
Aside from this, Gonzaga's only loss
was to the Catholic University Fresh
men. Emerson made a good showing
against teams in its class and played
an attractive schedule, high spot of
which was game against the Baylor
Tenn, School team in Clark Griffith
Stadium, which was won by Emerson.
St. Johns, coached for the first time by
Paul Byrne, former Georgetown and
Baltimore Loyola gridironer, had an
unusually good season, while George
town Prep also did well. Landon, a
new school, making its debut in sports
on the foot ball field, presented light
team, short on experience, but long on
grit. These Spunky boys played through
a four-gan1e schedule without making
single substitution and surprised by de-
feating Woodward, to 0.
AS in foot ball, Tech came through
In basket ball to gain the crown in
dramatic style. Its ranks depleted by
graduations, the Gray quint was not
figured able to cope with Western, the
favorfte, and after it had lost two of its
nrst three games 1t appeared that the
Mckinley boys were definitely out of
the title picture. How they did a COM
plete right-about-face and proceeded to
win their next four straight and the
championship Is now bright chapter
IN the sports annals of the institution.
st. Johns Is Consistent.
st. Johns continued the high-class
work on the hardwood begun on the
gridiron. GonZaga, however, defeated
the Cadets two out of three in trio
of unusually hard-fought games, the
Purple having a team which, though
somewhat cratic, played fine basket
ball at times. Georgetown Prep also
had formidable quint. Emerson did
fairly well. Dewitt had rather dis
appointing campaign.
Eastern held sway in base ball and
track by a wide margin in public high
circles. On the diamond the Lincoln
Parkers swept through to four straight
easy wins to boost their consecutive VIC
tory string in championship competition
to IL. Cleaning up in various meets,
the Light Blue track ana held athletes
Brushed aside Central and Tech in the
public high school championships for
notable victory.
There were several clever base ball
teams among the prep schools, includ-
ing GonZaga and Emerson, which rose
to the heights by twice defeating East.
ern, though it was not so impressive in
some other games. st. Adams and
woodward also had mines better than
Q campaign ago. Dewitt, hitherto
strong in track, showed little In the
sport this season, not pushing it with
the same vigor as formerly. George
town Prep, with Eddie Brooks, erstwhile
Georgetown half-miler, as coach, made
Q serious attempt to turn out good
track team with some measure OF sue
cess