Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-02-19
CENTRAL, BUSINESS
WILL NOT COMPETE
Tech and Western Have Not
fredericksburg Face
Diamond Problem.

r. ASTERN HIGHS basket ball
- team, co-holder with Central Of
the public high school cham
pionship, will enter the annual
Washington and Lee University tourna-
ment at Lexington, March 5. and Z.
it was announced today by John Paul
Collins. assistant principal at the Lin
coin Park School.
Whether Tech or Western will enter
the tournament is not known, but 1t 10
certain that neither Central nor Busi-
ness will be represented. Business has
completed its court activities. and Gen.
trail, though it will play couple more
weeks of basket ball, will not enter the
Washington and Lee affair.
Outstanding On the schoolboy basket
ball program here tomorrow is the bat
tie between those old foes, GonZaga and
Western, carded for the GonZaga gym
naSium at 8 pm.
In other court encounters Stanton
Military Academy will open week end
stay here with a game against Emerson,
Eastern and Georgetown Prep will face
at Garrett Park and Episcopal Highs
B team will engage Landon At
Epiphany.
Central swimmers will open a week
end foray into Virginia, meeting Staun-
ton Military Academy's natators at
Staunton.
Techs basket ball team is drilling
theoretically for its tilt with Staun-
ton Military Academy Saturday night
on the Mckinley floor at o'clock.
There will be an attractive prelimi-
nary starting at o'clock.
Candidates for Eastern Highs base
ball team held their first get-together
yesterday. There was a large turn
out. With Dick Lanahan and Bob
Snyder crack pitcher and catcher of
last seasons team, at hand, along with
other good material, Eastern has high
hopes of retaining the diamond title,
despite the loss Of valuable material.
Joe Sherman, clever forward, has
been elected captain Of next Winters
Business High basket ball team.
Stenog players who have earned let
tiers in addition to Sherman, are Bob
bic Lucas and Bill Duryee, both Of
whom served as captains during the cam
paign just closed; Chat Chatlen, Dave
Nemerofsky, Leon Esentad, Jimmy
Booth and Vernon Johnson. Manager
Bob Cook also will get the insignia.
The letters will be awarded in the
Spring.
Lucas, Duryee, Nemerofsky, Booth
and johnson are players listed to be
lost by graduation.
Business will be up against the same
big problem in base ball the coming
season as last year, that OF getting
capable pitching. The Stenogs last
year had plenty of bang-up material.
but got weak hurting.
Jimmy Garner and Louis Silverman,
pitchers last year, have high hopes Of
showing to better advantage the COM
ing campaign and should they do so the
| StenoRs are bound to prove a hard
team to beat, as they have available
such stalwarts as Fratantuono and Bill
Duryee, outfielders, and Clayton Schnel-
| der, infielder, all-high selections last
Spring, and Milton Jacobson, shortstop,
who is expected to show Improvement
Frayden and Mastromarino Of last sea-
sons squad are available as catchers.
| Spencer Chase, all-high first base
| man, and Milton Singman, third base
man, are boys whose loss will be felt byh
! Business.
Manager Vernon johnson is rapidly
completing an attractive schedule for
| the Stenog nine. He thus far has
booked IL games. Contests are pending
with Maryland freshmen, Greenbriar
Military Academy and Stanton Mill
tary Academy.
Here's the card as it now stands:
April 8-GonZaga at Gonzaga.
April 14-Episcopal, at Alexandria.
April 15-Swavely.
April 17-Alexandria High, at Alex
! andria.
April 21-EaStern.
| April 29-Gonzaga.
May Western.
MAY 4 or 11-Swavely, at Manassas.
May 6-Alexandria High.
May 8-Tech
Nav 15-Central