Evening star., 1939-05-24
Pessimism Of Tech,
Central, Roosevelt
Under Suspicion
Coaches May Be Yelling
Wolf; Games q Prelude
To Evening Star Event

WaShingtons annual interhigh
track and field championships get
under way tomorrow afternoon with
the running of heats at Central Sta
dium, and hasty poll OF coaches in
dicates that the games will be the
closest in recent years with Eastern
slight favorite to outdistance the
pack
The meet also will be somewhat in
the nature of dress rehearsal for
The Evening Stars games for metro
politan interscholastic and District
A. A. U. championships next week
at College Park, which will feature
the greatest miller in history, Glenn
Cunningham, supported by an all.
star cast. High school competition
In the meet promises to surpass any,
thing yet attempted along this line
in this area
On paper Eastern should win the
crown Friday, when finals will be
run, according to Hardy Pearce of
Central; Artie Boyd, Roosevelt, and
Rusty Thompson, Tech. But the evi-
dent willingness of these gentlemen
to concede victory to Mike Kelley's
charges gives rise to suspicion that
they are yelling wolf, with the idea
of stepping in at the 18th hour and
making off with the bacon. 1t is en-
tirely possible that one of the three
will send the winning team out for
the finals.
NapOli Threat to Legg.
At Roosevelt, Boyd has a flashy
youngster in Lou Napoli-the lad
expected to give the rampagine
Wally Legg of Washington-Lee trou-
BILE in the Star games; Hyman Lali-
caster, Warren Fulton and Kent FL
lis as possible f1rst-place victors.
They look good on form, but first
places alone will not be sufficient to
take the title, for it is down in the
fourth and fifth notches where this
years championship will be decided.
Napoli lost to Legg by a toenail in
the century, after getting away to a
slow start. He looks to be the inter-
high champion, judging by the form
he showed in the &C" Club games,
and possibly Leggs conqueror in
The Star games. Ellis is a quarter
miller and broad jumper; Lancaster
does S feet II inches in the high
jump and Fulton tosses the shot.
Centrals most dangerous threats
are Jim Zuppa, 220-yard ace, and
AL Hayden, whom it is confidently
predicted, will shatter the existing
quarter-mile mark. Pearce also has
a l-mile relay team of John Brod-
benner, Jim Porter, Bill Edgerton
and Hayden to capture its event.
He lost his best discus man, Don
Murphy, brother of Maryland's Joe
Murphy, but has crack pole-vault-
er in Dave Baxter, and another in
Johnny Dawes. Pearce doesn't know
what the rank and file of his squad
actually is capable of, but If the bows
come through with a few third.
fourth and fifth places, Central will
be tough to top.
Hopes Lie in Lesser Lights.
Eastern is banking on Sid Hooe,
sprint and hurdle star; Les Cooksey,
broad-jumper; Bill Walker and Nee
Hallama, distance man, and a fast
mile relay team. Here again the
schools hopes lie with its lesser
lights, and Kelley, while looking for
the best, frankly doesn't know what
to expect.
Tech will have one of the largest
squads in the meet and is certain to
dominate the field events, as it did
in the &C" Club games. Rusty
Thompson hopes to spring an upset
in the running events. and if he can
slip in few points here, Tech will
be the new champion. Some of the
Maroon's entries are Don Gilmore
and Eddie Brahan, high jump;
Homer Wedding sprints and broad
jump; Whitley Hall, quarter-m
Dick Hollander, half-mile: Jessie
Bortel and Larry Barnes, mile; Dick
O'Brien, Norman Davis and Bill
Pleaners, hurdles; Fred Bach,
pole-vaulter; Neal Edwards, Harold
Berry, Angelo Catucci, Bill Dye.
Ralph Fliny and Ryan Souther,
weights