Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-10
BLUE HELD FACTOR
AFTER TECH UPSET
EaStern's Win Over Champ,
Narrow Western Victory,
Indicate Tight Race.
BY EDWARD A. FULLER, Jr.
VOW about Central?

TOW ABOUT Central?
r. Fans saw Eastern con-
i / quer Tech, 81 to %, and
Western overcome Bust
ness, % to %, yesterday in open
ing games in the public high
school basket ball championship
series on the Tech court. Now
they're keen to get look at Cen
trail, which will make it's debut
against its dearest foe, Tech, next
Tuesday.
Central has made a first-rate
record in pre-series games and
appears to have club capable of
causing plenty trouble in the
series:
That victory over Tech left the hearts
of Eastern supporters throbbing. What
a luscious triumph it was for the Light
Blue. Tech has harasSed Eastern ath-
letic teams unremittingly. Eastern may
not be lin" so far as the title is con-
cerneo, but try to tell that to any who
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hand, Tech adherents point out that
one loss in no way means the elimina-
ton of their ouint
Still See Tech Strong.
They rather believe, or hope. that
lbs good sign, recalling that last sea-
son Tech lost not only its first game
but two of its first three contests only
then to get its bearings and crash to
the title.
Eastern folk are convinced. however,
that yesterdays win, the first, incl
dentally, the Lincoln Parkers have
scored over Tech since 1928 on the
hardwood, emphatically marks the end
OF Tech supremacy over Eastern in
basket ball
Business put up a courageous fight
against Western, but it was simply a
question of Anthony Latona and Everett
Buscher, Westerns big two," holding
tne whip hand over Bobbie Lucas and
BIZ Duryee, Business standout pair.
Hesolute finishes swept both Eastern
ana western to triumph. Eastern was
trailing by lone point, 20 to 81. as
the third quarter ended, but with Big
Blll Noonan, center, leading the way,
Snot ahead as the fourth quarter got
under way to stay. Techs zone defense
Jailed to function smoothly for the most
part and Noonan, particularly, worked
nus way close enough to goal to score
time and again.
Western was forced to stave of a
desperate Business challenge in the
mai moments which saw the Stenogs
cut the Red teams lead to 25-23 he
lore Latona broke away to dribble down
the hardwood to sink one and Fox
tossed in shot from the foul line 10
assure Western victory.
Keen Contest All Way.
From the outset Eastern and Tech
put on great scrap. Eastern was cling
ing to G-5 edge at the end of the
f1rst quarter, but Tech was ahead, 70
to 10. at the half. Tech at one time
during the third quarter was leading by
eight points, 20 to IL, but was hanging
TO the lead by only one point, 20 to 10,
as the third quarter ended. Then East
ern, in that last period, proceeded in
workmanlike style to go out and win.
Business gave Western mighty tus-
sic Tor the first quarter which ended
TT, despite that the Stenogs used sec
ond-str1ngers most of the way. It seems
that Business might have done well to
have kept some of those reserves in
the game. At any rate, with the Stenog
hrst-str1ngers on the job. Western pro-
ceeded to get out in front by COM
Portable margin, which it maintained
right up to the time Business put on
that robust but futile rally in the clos
ing moments
Aside from Bill Nconan, who led
both teams in scoring in the Eastern
Tech battle with Is points, Dallas Shir-
ley, guard, played unusually well for the
Light Blue. He was in the game all the
way, his passing, defensive work and
generally steady exhibition aiding his
team nightly. Bernie Reichhardt. TIE
BOY who has gained place on
team he formerly was unable to MI .
because he was too little, did most "a
Techs scoring, chalking up 10 poin;;.
George Russell, the Gray's chief scor: mr.
ace, was held to lone floor goal eno .
foul toss.
LatOna High Scorer.
Latona with IL points was the b.
shot extensively in the Western Business
game. but Everett Buscher, Clarence Foxx
and Roy Vowel also showed well. Leon
ESenstad and Lucas did most of Bush
ness basket sniping, though the clever
little Lucas was kept fairly well in check.
The line-ups:
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