Evening star., 1939-01-16
Gonzaga Five Primed
For Catholic Prep
Crown Drive
Little Hoyos to Be Net
Wednesday; Public High
Set Opens Tomorrow
BY GEORGE HUBER.


gage outside competition for another
week, Georgetown Prep and Con-
zaga open the unofficial Catholic
prep basket ball series this week with
meeting Wednesday afternoon on
the Gonzaga floor.
Orrel Mitchell's Gonzaga team,
winner of all but one of its four
regular games thus far, is expected
to take the small and inexperienced
Little Hoyas, and the real fireworks
of the six-game series probably will
not be felt until next week, when
St. Johns enters the fight against
Gonzaga.
On the record St. Johns looks
to repeat last years victories
against its two traditional rivals, but
past games usually can be disre-
garded when any of these three
teams meet in any sport. Gonzaga
especially is prepared to challenge
the Johnny court supremacy with
another typically fast Purple quint,
led by Buddy O'Brien and Fred
Rice from last years team. George
town Prep also has issued a chal-
lenge, but the Garrett Park five is
handicapped by lack of really good
playing material.
Wednesdays game should give a
good line on the Prep team. Its
game last week, when it was
swamped by Western, hardly can be
counted, as the Little Hoyas had
not played since before Christmas
and their practice sessions had not
prepared them for the tight man
to-man defense Western employs.
Both Gonzaga and St. Johns use a
zone defense, and it is against this
in particular that the Little Hoyas
are drilled.
Map School Race Plans.
Final preparations for the high
school championship race opening
tomorrow will be made tonight at
the meeting of coaches and officials
at the Y. NJ c. A. Any little diff
ference about how the rules will be
enforced will be ironed out in a
round-table discussion, and plans
will be made to keep the series and
the games running smoothly. Vet
eran officials who will handle the
referee and umpire jobs are Joe
Mitchell, Dave Keppel and Maurice
Enright. Newcomers to the ap-
proved board are Dallas Shirley and
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Bruce Kessler of Tech reports his
squad ready for action against
Eastern at Eastern tomorrow after
noon in the opener. A light work.
out today is on the program as the
last preparation for the Manual
Trainers start against last years
champions.
The other game in the scheduled
double-header opener has been
shifted, with Central meeting Ana
costa at Anacostia.
Another change in the inter-
/ high schedule shifted the double
header on February 3 from Tech to
Eastern. After the schedule had
been drawn dates for the winter
commencement were fixed and
Techs commencement happened to
come on that particular Friday
night. Thus the change.
Wilson Swimmers Feared.
Westerns swimming date with
Massanutten Military on Saturday
had to be called of at the last
moment because of the weather. The
boys had planned to drive to Wood
stock. Va, in their own cars, but
Coach Paul Wilson, recalling that
some of those mountain roads al
most are impossible in the snow,
wouldn't let them 60. A new date
probably will be fixed later in the
season.
Although Central surprisingly de.
feated Woodrow Wilson last week
in the first of six meets to decide
the school champions, Perry Doing,
manager of Westerns tankmen, still
counts Wilson as the toughest oppo-
sition facing them in their attempt
to regain the crown they held in
1887.
After February Western will be
without Wayne Palmer, one of the
best divers in the city, on whom it
had counted to win at least one
event in every meet. His family is
going to Florida and Wayne is leav-
ing with them. Only diver to beat
him so far this season was Johnny
Marshall in the meet against the
Y. M. C. A. varsity, and Marshall is
a former District champion.
The return to the team of Ray
Martyr is expected to make up in
part for Palmers absence, however.
Martyr, a member of the champion
ship 1887 team, was out last season,
due to bout with sinus. Back with
the squad now, he has demonstrated
return to form in the short dashes.
He came from behind as anchor
man in the free-style relay to win
that event in the meet against
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