The Washington times., 1931-12-29
Tech and Eastern Lead Interesting Sports Year.
PREDOMINANT.
IN EVERY
SPORT
By GARRETT WATERS


A review of sports happenings
is always interesting because of
the abundance of events con-
tanned therein. A review OF
scholastic athletic happenings
during the past year offers a CO.
incidental example.
Briefly, the year was most in
teresting to those involved, as it
brought glory in some way or
another to each team, taking
football, baseball, basketball, and
track as the major events.
In football, the Tech High
School eleven held the upper
hand, because Coach Hap Har-
dell turned out another powerful
team, a team that went through
the inter-high series. schedule
without a defeat and a team
which played almost to perfection
because of being so we'll drilled.
Fourth Title for Tech
The championship won by Tech,
and, of course. nothing else but
championship could be won,
in view of the teams undefeated
record, marked the fourth title
for the Manual Trainers in the
last four years.
Western and Central possessed
good teams, but both were handi-
capped when they needed their
strength most, with the result
that they were forced to trail
along behind their despised rival,
as has become the custom for
them during the past four sea-
sons.
Western, with probably the
heaviest team ever to appear in
local scholastic ranks, finished
second in the series after adding
several capable players midway in
the season, while Central, stripped
of 10 dependable players, man
aged to end up in third position.
Eastern was fourth and Business
last to complete the details.
Seven Tech men were awarded
positions on The Times AllHlgh
team, namely: Wohlfarth, Melkle-
John. Rhodes, Baxter, Sachs, Ha,
tos and Edwards. Charlie MadeS,
of Eastern, was given post, while
Jackie Lynham, of Western, and
Hank Gibbons, of Central, COM
pleted the selections.
Eastern Showed EN-
Eastern predominated the base
ball and track seasons last spring.
The Lincoln Parkers took every
thing available in track. while a
fourth consecutive championship
was won in baseball.
In track, Eastern, with Grover
Everett and Bob Slye, hurdlers
and broadjumpers leading the
way, won the Inter-high and &c"
Club meets easily, Tech High,
with AL Reichman as its star, Of
fering the only real opposition.
Eastern also made an excellent
showing in the MeadoWbrook
games, Grover Everett advancing
as far as the finals in his partlcu'
lar speciality.
BY annexing its fourth conSecu-
tive baseball championship the
Eastern High also hung up an
other imposing record. 1t was 60
ing through fourth season with
out a defeat. In other words, the
Lincoln Parkers established a win
ming streak of Is straight games
in this period.
Athletic director of the high
schools, John Paul Collins, offers
an interesting bit of comment
here. In securing the actual
facts on this baseball situation,
he had this to say:
Eyes, that's right. Eastern
has not been defeated on the
diamond in four years. The last
time they bit the dust was in
! 1927 when the old Business
team was coaching beat them
by a score of 10 TO 7. And say,
what a game that was! 1t not
only brought glory to the Ste
nOgS, but several feathers as
well, as the result knocked East
ern completely out of the rum
ming for the championship
just when a victory for Chief
GuyOn and his gang was most
needed. l know I'll never for
get the incident and I'm quite
sure GuyOn will always remem-
ber it"
Bill Lanahan, left-hander, was
Eastern'S star hurler last spring.
The youngster was the unani-
nous choice for All-High honors
because of his splendid work. En-
NETT BuScher might have taken
this post had he been eligible dur
ing the entire series. as every one
of the three games his Central
team won were because of his
! strong pitching. Central finished
third, because of heart-breaking
losses in the final weeks.
Floor Series Exciting
Ever interesting because of the
tense games put up by the teams
involved. the basketball series last
year proved to be one of the most