Evening star., 1933-01-24
FINE SPIRIT RULES
IN SCHOOL SERIES
Sportsmanship Much Better
Than in PaSt-ToSSerS
Keeping Busy.
BY E. A. FULLER, JR.

~ the current public high school
n basket ball championship series
is the good sportsmanship being
shown both among the players and the
coaches. It has not always been thus.
It was not so many years ago, 1t was
recalled today by one who knows what
he Is talking about, when the players
Of the rival public high teams loathed
each other and made no pretense Of
hiding their feelings. OF course, there
is little display Of affection among the
boys in the heat Of battle now, but at
least the players, as . general PROPOSE
ton, keep themselves well under control.
GENERAL times in this series players
- have been involved in rough scrim-
images In which something more
than their feelings must have been hurt.
But instead Of making for their oppo-
nents they have managed to grin and
pass 1t by. Whether this is because
the boys, held down by the tight rules
Of the game as now played, believe
such conduct to be the part Of the wis
dom. as Of course 1t is, and control their
feelings only because Of this. may be
true. It is the general belief, though,
that the players now are much better
sports.
There was a time. too, when coaches
were won't to publicly shake their fists
in one another's face. Perhaps, they
desire most fervently to commit may
hem on their brother tutors physiog-
nomy now. but they manage to control
their feelings and their hsts. All OF
which Is very fine.
The sum Of the situation is that basket
ball as played among the District Of
Columbia school boys today Is cleaner
without having lost one whit Of its flame
and fire. Most Of the rough stun that
does crop out arises among the spec
tatorS.
WAsHiNGotroN,LEE g High ke basketers
Ballston at 7:45 o'clock.
boxing exhibition will precede the
contest.
Perhaps the brightest games on tomor-
rows court cards are those slated be-
tween Emerson and Roosevelt at Roose-
welt and Georgetown Prep and Episcopal
at Alexandria.
other matches are the Georgetown
freshmen Tech tilt at Tech, the Alex
andria-E Eastern encounter at Eastern,
the Landon- Bethesda Chevy Chase game
at Leland, the Kendall School Friends
tiff at Friends and the Washington
Lee-Takoma- Silver Spring contest at
Silver Spring.
Main interest in the public high series
today centered in the second game OF
the double header at Tech, bringing to-
gether Central and Eastern. Roosevelt
and Western face in the opener at $3.50
o'clock to start second-round play in
the series.
DASKET ball as it is being played
ID this season in the public high
schools has it all over the game as
it is being played among the prep
schools in the District area, If the
handy 31-17 win scored yesterday by
Central, figured the best public high
Quint, over Georgetown Prep, rated at
about the top OF the prep school whirl,
is a real indication.
Those Blue Streaks swept through
the Garrett Parkers with consummate
case. For the first half the Little
Hoyas managed to make something Of
q fight Of 1t, the period ending with
Central leading, 1910, but in the second
half the Blue turned ON the heat and
bombarded the hoop.
Carroll Shore and Buddy Nau were
the leading figures in the Streaks' at
tack, the former with IT points and
the latter with 10. Tom Keating and
Maury Nee did virtually all the losers
counting.
Summary: