Evening star., 1939-12-19
Two Nocturnal Games
Scheduled, Central
To Play in Both
Will Foce Eastern, Tech;
Innovation Follows
Boost in Interest
BY BURTON HAWKINS.

Encouraged by intensified interest
in local scholastic football during the
last season and not peeved exactly
by a Is per cent upward surge in
gate receipts, public high officials
have given their blessing to brace
of interhigh series night games at
Griffith Stadium, 1t was learned
today.
The most progressive scholastic
sports step in recent seasons, both
night games will involve the colorful
Central eleven, with Eastern and
Tech named as its opponents. Coach
Hardy Pearce of Central instituted
the plan of playing schoolboy games
at night and received the support
OF Birch E. Bayh, public school
athletic director, in having the plan
passed by the High School Athletic
Council and the Board of principals.
Will Play on Holiday.
In addition to games under the
arcs, the interhigh series schedule
also will feature pair of holiday
games, with Central and Western
clashing at Central Stadium on
Armistice Day and the champion
ship playoff game slated for Central
Stadium on Thanksgiving Day.
Eastern and Central will scrap in
the first interhigh series tiff ever
played at night, meeting on October
IL, while the Central-Tech feud, 38th
in a series of hectic engagements,
will be played on October 18. The
former game may entice some $4,000
fans, while the Central-Tech argu-
ment, hottest schoolboy rivalry in
this sector, may hit 10000.
Central performed in two night
games during the last season, whip
ping st. Johns, 27-7, before 10000
fans at Griffith Stadium, and being
held to TT tie by George WASH
ington High before 1000 spectators
at Alexandria. Bad weather and
mediocre G. w. High record served
to check attendance at the latter
game. Central otherwise won six
games and lost to Western, 27-2l,
and Washington-Lee, 14-13.
Western, public high champion in
1889 for the first time in "a years,
and Central both will play five
series games, while the remaining
schools each will play four, exclusive,
OF course, of the title playoff.
Eastern Western Game Out.
Eliminated through adoption of a
schedule which was approved tenta-
lively last year for a three-year
period, with the exception of the
night and holiday games, is the
Eastern-Western tilt. Players of
both clubs exchanged blows when
they met for the first time last sea-
son, but no untoward incident
marked their playof game for the
title two weeks later.
The series will be launched Octo-
ber and will be completed on
November 81. Following is the
schedule:
October 4, Roosevelt VS.. Eastern at
Eastern, Anacostia VS.. Wilson at
Anacostia; II, Western VS.. Roosevelt
at Roosevelt, Central VS.. Eastern
at Griffith Stadium (nighD; 18,
Anacostia VS.. Western at Western,
Central VS.. Tech at Griffith Stadium
(night); Is, Western VS.. Wilson at
Western. Central VS.. Roosevelt at
Roosevelt.
November /, Anacostia VS.. Eastern
at Anacostia, Tech VS.. Western at
Tech; 8, Tech VS.. Eastern at Tech,
Wilson VS.. Roosevelt at Roosevelt;
II, Central VS.. Western at Central;
IS, Tech VS.. Anacostia at Tech, Cen
trail VS.. Wilson at Wilson; 81, cham
pionship playoff game at Central.