Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-25
FIVE TEAMS EVEN,
FOUR T|LTS ON TAP
Exteen Other Battles Set
! ior This Week, Several
Pitting All Foes.
BY EDWARD A. FULLER, JR.


District public high school
basket ball championship
headline the court program this
week for schoolboy teams here
about. With all five teams tied in
the public high race each with
two wins and two defeats at the
end of the first series, every game
from now is exceptionally i'm
portant. Another loss for any of
the teams will just about kill their
pennant hopes.
Business and Western and
Eastern and Tech will come to
grips Tuesday and Central and
Tech, traditional adversarieS, and
Eastern and western Friday in
title encounters.
In their first meetings this season
Western defeated Business, % to %;
Eastern conquered Tech, 81 to %; Tech
overcame Central, 26 to Is, and Eastern
was q 1929 victor over Western.
Aside from the public high matches,
is contests are carded during the week,
several of them of exceptional interest,
bringing together, as they viii, hot
rivals.
Business and Western viii take the
Tech High floor Tuesday in the first
game of the double header, starting at
$3.50 o'clock. The StenogS, who have
electrified series followers by upsetting
both Eastern and Tech in their last two
games, viii make desperate stand 70
atone for their recent defeat at the
hands of Western. Should little Bobbie
Lucas continue to show the sensational
form he displayed against Eastern and
Tech, Business should come nightly
close to upsetting the West Enders, too,
though the latter, with Anthony Latona
and Everett Buscher as their mainstays,
are likely TO wage rousing night.
Tech viii put out everything it has
against Eastern In an effort to even
scores with the Light Blue. Eastern ng-
ureS that Bill Noonan, its big sharp
shooting center, viii have Just about
attack of grippe, which has plainly af-
fected his work in the past two games.
NTo contests are listed tomorrow. but
IN n bang-up attraction is carded
Tuesday between st. Johns and
Georgetown Prep at Garrett Park. Both
the Kaydets and Garrett Parkers have
shown Improvement In recent games. A
frst-rate battle is expected.
Emerson win engage Bethesda Chevy
Chase High at Bethesda, and Friends
and Woodward win have it out at the
Central Y. NJ. G. A. in other encounters
Tuesday.
Featuring Wednesdays program win
be games between Western and Newport
News High In the Western gymnasium,
and Tech and Episcopal on the Tech
door. Little Is known as to the New
port News team, but this school gen.
orally has q fast quint and Is expected
10 offer the GeorgetownerS brisk bat
ting. Tech downed Episcopal, an old
rival, SO to 20, q couple Of weeks ago,
and win be out to repeat.
Hyattsville High viii come TO town
to meet Business in the Stenog strong
hold and st. Adams and Takoma-Sn-
yer Spring High viii mix at Silver
Spring In other matches wednesday.
0ouzaea and st. Johns viii renew
Ehatf ancient rivalry Thursday In the
KaYdetis gymnasium Gonzaga would
regard . victory as balm LOT the lo-O
Emerson and Eastern are listed 10
meet Thursday, on the Eastern floor.
a SIDE from the Central-Tech and
IA Eastern-western title contests Fri
day, Business and Gonzaga VIII
fght it out at GonZaga at 8 pm. and
Dewitt and Georgetown Prep win face
"a an afternoon match at Garrett Park.
Headlining Saturdays card will be an
encounter between Tech and Hage~-
town High in the Tech gymnasium at
B pm. Should the game draw well 1t
probably win be followed by other Sat-
Iraay nARInt matches on the Mckinley
door, IN which Tech VIII meet strong
oDonents.
n Hagerstown the Gray win meet
Vartma1ly the same team that gained
TIE final last Winter in the Penn tour
neg, and was beaten by Overlook High
OF Philadelphia, In the championship
match. Hagerstown downed Tech In
close battling last season. Artie Boyd,
Tech coach, was court mentor at the
Hagerstown school several years ago.
A preliminary may be arranged TO
the Hagerstown-Tech match.
Four schools of the District group
have out-of-town engagements Satur-
day. Western Is to meet Navy Plebes
at Annapolis, Gonzaga Is to face Swavely
at Manassas, Central and Bethlehem
High viii clash at Bethlehem, Pa, and
Georgetown Prep win go TO Baltimore