Evening star., 1939-10-24
Tilts Mark HALLWAY
Stage in Play fof ;
School Crown
Other Series Contenders
Have Hard, Contests
On Foreign Fields ..
BY ROBERT HENRY.

BY ROBERT HENRY.
The halfway mark in the, inter-
high school title series will arrive
Friday, and the high light is the
Tech Roosevelt game at Tech Sta
dium. The Western Woodrow Will
son game at Wilson the same day
should not prove too tough for the
former. one of the favored teams in
the Western division. 4 &
Three other high schools Genital.
Eastern and Anacostia, travel to
various Southern points for games
that figure to offer plenty of compe-
tition. Central plays George Wash
ington at Alexandria in a night
game, Anacosta meets Washingtons
Lee at Ballston, and Eastern. goes
to Richmond to oppose John Mar
shall. -,
The main prep school tilt will
send strong Georgetown Prep team
against Landon at the latter's field
in Bethesda, while St. Adams waits
until Saturday. when it will play
the Church Farm School on It's
home field. st. Johns and Gonzaga
will idle. 10
Both Have Improved.
Although both Tech and Roose-
welt have had rough Shedding this
fall, each has improved considerably
during the last two weeks, and the
game should be no set-up for the
favored Tech team. Using st. Johns
as basis for comparison, Tech Is
three touchdowns better than the
Rough Riders. The Cadets beat
them, IA to 0, early in the season,
and last week Tech beat St. Johns,
6 to o. 5
While Roosevelt has failed to score
in four games. it made commendable
showings against both Western and
Central, which are considered the
cream of the Western section.
Roosevelt, in fact, outplayed West
ern during the, last half of their
game two weeks ago, and given
break or two, Artie Boyd's team
might have scored a couple of times.
Following dismal start that saw
them lose three straight, the Manual
Trainers now are being taken seri-
ously after beating st. Johns. With
that victory under their belts, Artie
Wondrack's huskies may start win
ming streak their size and speed
indicated they were capable of
starting earlier. Both Tech and
Roosevelt are big and strong, but
Tech has the edge in speed.
Wilson Has Threatened.
The closest Wilson has come to
victory is when it held Landon to
scoreless tie three weeks ago, and
after the Western game its likely
that Carl Heintels crew will be. no
closer to a triumph. While the win
and lost column is disheartening, the
truth is that Wilson has done we'll
with only one letter man on the
team-Herman Byer, and end. The
Presidents threatened Landon's goal
several times and also came. within
yard or two of scoring against
Georgetown, fumbles proving costly.
In three games to date, Western
has won two and lost to Washing
ton-Lee by one point, when Jake
Hilleary's attempted conversion went
wide. Its no disgrace, though, to
lose to the Virginians, for they also
took the measures of Central, again
by only one point. Usually Western
is noted for its lines, but this sea-
son 1t is the backfield that is gain
ing attention. Hilleary, George
Barnes, Roddy Snow and Eddie
Eglaslas form a troublesome quar-
tet. However. Roosevelt gave the
Red Raiders a fit in the. second half
two weeks back and Wilson might
do the same. .. ,-
Anacostia an Upsetter.
Should Anacostia lick Washing
ton-Lee it will accomplish some
thing three other local teams were
unable to do. Central, Western and
Gonzaga all bowed to Johnny
Bakers team. The Indians, great
est claim to fame this year is its
defeat of Tech, but since then st.
Johns and Eastern have taken its
measures. Coach ROLAND Lund has
a scrappy bunch, though, and it
would be typical for his team to
score an upset.
Hardy Pearce, Central coach, who
inaugurated night football for local
high schools. will take his team to
Alexandria to play a night game
with George Washington, a team
supposedly greatly improved since
losing to Western last month. II
Central plays the kind of game II
played in its first effort under
lights-against st. John's-Pearce
will have, little cause for concern
for that time his charges scored
four times.
Happily situated at the top Of
the eastern division, Eastern runs
into something of a mystery team
in John Marshall at Richmond
The Virginia team had two Of its
scouts here for the Eastern-Ana-
costa game last Friday and they
were taking notes on everything but
Coach Mike Kelley's blood pressure,
which, incidently, is back, TO normal
now that his team Is Setting the