Evening star., 1935-11-17
PLAYSPETERSbURG
IN WARM-UP GAME
Title Decided, but Final Tits
of City Series Pack
Interest.
BY BURT HAWKINS.

~ championship tucked neat
wv ly away, Central has for
cotton the past and turned
to the immediate task of preparing for
the invasion of the Mexico City all
star scholastic eleven. to be faced at
Griffith Stadium on the afternoon of
November %.
In addition to daily practice ses-
sions, Coach Hardy Pearce will pack
his title team on bus and journey
to Petersburg, Va, Friday to tangle
with Petersburg High School. Pearce
will save his leading pigskin pushers
for the Latin Americans. using the
Petersburg tilt to get a line on next
years returning gridders.
Roosevelt will square off with West
ern Tuesday at Roosevelt, in battle
which will decide the cellar position:
Tech and Eastern renew their rivalry
at Central on Friday in a scrap for
second place in the high school series,
while Washington and Lees strong
outfit will invade Western Stadium on
the same day to meet the Red Raiders.
With eyes focused on the interna-
tional classic, however, scholastic fol-
lowers are wondering just how Gen.
trails powerful team will stack up
against the pick of Mexico City.
Central Is Confident.
WHILE little is known of the capa-
l' bilities of the boys from the
neighboring nation. except for the fact
that Ernesto Villareal and Enrique
Cortez form a dangerous ball-carrying
and passing duet, the Districts
champs are confident and ready for
the visitors.
Billy Richardson. Billy Vermillion.
Johnny Jones and Joe Moran form as
dangerous quartet as has been seen
performing behind a scholastic for
ward vail in recent years. Possessing
clever field general In Vermillion,
Central also boasts of the colorful 150-
pound Richardson, who can crack a
lire and toss passes with the best of
them; Moran. who has stamped him.
self as the foremost local schoolboy
kicker of the season, and the bruiSing
Jones' whose return Of puntS in seri-
GUS competition played a prominent
part in the march to the title.
Paul Whedon, Ross Chaimson,
Charley Jones and Vincent Meenehan
are four reasons why the rock-ribbed
Central line yielded but a single
touchdown in the final quarter of its
last series game.
Central has exhibited an almost i'm
pregnable pass defense. Villarreal and
Cortez, who have scored IA touchdowns
between them in practice games with
club teams in Mexico City, promise
to test that defense to the limit.
Eastern-Tech Battle Hot.
IN THE meantime scholastic fans
will quench their thirst for gridiron
action with the Roosevelt Western and
Tech-Eastern battles.
While Western Is favored to slap
the Rough Riders down the cellar
steps. Roosevelt is banking on Francis
Beamer and Spiro Kolius to come
through with a victory Although
neither team can claim a win in a
series play, the individual perform
ances of Ed Lloyd, one of the standout
tackles in local ranks and the injured
Johnny Hatch, one of the best backs
in the series until he was laid low
with a gashed knee. have gained the
admiration Of schoolboy followers Pa
panicolas, Lewis. Beamer and Kolius
have been outstanding for Roosevelt.
Eastern, which gave Central a bril-
liant battle before succumbing to a
1875 score, and Tech. which came
back after a 1870 drubbing by Central
to paste 900 sinner on Western,
promise to stage one of the hardest
fought games of the campaign
Tech will look to Quarterback Stan
Wells and Francis Crimmins. while
Eastern students will expect great
things of Jack Shugrue and Roy
Michaels.