The Washington times., 1931-01-26
STEN0GSFACE
CHANCE To
RISE
BY GARRETT WATERS

looked upon as gay occasion by
students in the school world. Not
so this year with Business High
School claSsmen.
The reason is this. Their idol
and star of the basketball team
Bobby Lucas, graduates this Feb,
ruary /. And his departure will
leave a vacancy on the court team
which is going to be hard to fill
Bobby certainly has made the
Business High team what it is
today. And it could be said that
it has been his playing which
has caused his team to up and
cause the five-cornered deadlock
at the present time in the cur
rent series.
Tech, Eastern Beaten
Actually it has been that. Busi,
ness, led by Lucas, has defeated
both Tech and Eastern, foremost
contenders for the title. And
while doing this the team has
advanced itself into position
where it has as good a chance
to cope the championship as any
Of the others.
But the hitch is Lucas de-
parture, so fel Business fol
lowers. Naturally they are glad
Of the hOnOrS to be received by
him upon his graduation, but
they are sorry that he is leav-
ing at this time because of the
teams greatest chance ever to
get in there and work for
that championship.
Business certainly is presented
with grand opportunity to do
more things than they have al.
ready done, in the games to
come. But it is feared that they
will really have to work with
Lucas absent.
The race is going to be an in
teresting one from now on, by
the way. With all five teams
deadlocked, everything will be for
blood until the final whistle.
The second half starts tomor-
row with Business meeting West
ern and Eastern engaging Tech
at the usual site, the Tech gym
nasium. The first game begins
at $3.50 o'clock.
List of 20 Games
Twenty games embrace the
scholastic sports program for the
week, while the subject is at
hand. The high series clashes
feature the card as usual.
Friday, Central and Tech and
Eastern and western engage in
the series to complete those
games of the week.
The entire card begins to-
morrow. There are no con-
tests today. St. Johns plays
Georgetown Prep at Garrett
Park in one of two games to
morrow outside Of the high
clashes mentioned above. En-
erson engages Bethesda Chevy
Chase High at Bethesda in the
other.
Five trays are on tap Wednes.
day. Emerson goes to PORT
Deposit, Md, to battle Tome
Tech entertains Episcopal High
of Alexandria, at Tech. Business
engages Hyattsville High at Busl
ness, Western plays host to New
mort News High at Western, while
st. Albans meets Silver Spring
High at Silver Spring.
GONZAGA BUSY
Two games furnish the action
for Thursday. Gonzaga plays St
Johns in a night game at ST
Johns. Emerson meets Eastern
at Eastern, $3.50 o'clock.
GOnzaga plays Business at
GOnzaga in an 8 o'clock game
at GOnzaga, and Dewitt meets
Georgetown Prep at Garrett
Park, $3.50 o'clock, in games
outside of the series ones,
Friday.
Five brushes close the week
Saturday. Gonzaga meet Swavely
Prep at Manassas, Va. Central
meets Bethlehem High at Beth
lehem, Pa; Western takes on the
Navy Plebes at Annapolis, while
Georgetown Prep journeys to
Baltimore to play the Mt. ST.
Joseph's Prep tossers.
Tech meets HagerstoWn High
in the only local feature. This
game will be played at the Tech
gymnasium at 8 o'clock. 1t is
something new Coach Artie Boyd
is trying to start at the T-Street
site.