Evening star., 1939-02-03
Once Fine Quarters,
Wafer Logged, Cold,
Are Hazardous
Track Filled With Mud
HoIes-Repoirs Are
Held inexpensive

HoIes-Repoirs Are
Held inexpensive
BY GEORGE HUBER.
Central's indoor track and jump
ing pit beneath the stadium seats,
once the finest Of any high school in
the country, have deteriorated to
point where the track and field
candidates must practice in cold
and dampness.
Scores of cracks and holes In the
concrete stands permit rain and
melting snow to pour through to
the track beneath. The 170-yard
straightaway is a succession Of mud
holes, making winter workouts I'M
satisfactory and extremely haz-
ardous.
Central is one of few high schools
in the country with an indoor cinder
path, but this advantage is nulli-
fled by the tracks condition. Until
two years ago it was heated by
gas radiators which aided in the
drying-out process following rain
and snow. These were removed,
however, following that disasterous
school explosion in Texas. Now it
takes a week or more for the track
to dry.
The dressing room beneath the
track likewise is watersoaked and
chill, with more puddles than dry
concrete. What probably would
remedy the situation would be a
coating of asphalt over the entire
promenade atop the stands, a not
too expensive operation compared to
the value of the facilities 1t would
be preserving and making really
usable.
Central Five Regains Farr.
Dick Farr has passed his studies
and now is eligible to play center
on Centra's basket ball team. This
comes at just the right time for
Coach Jack Ray, as Dudley, his
regular pivot man since Lewis Nc
Kinney and Bill Edgerton were in
jured, graduates today.
Hardy Pearce, coach of Central's
championship football team, was
presented a cup by the players at
school assembly. 1t is a bronze
trophy nearly 2 feet tall on which
the names Of all the players are
engraved.
Headed for Coaching Jobs.
In line for jobs with high school
physical education departments
from which the large majority of
schoolboy coaches are drawn-are
Phil Fox and John Jankowski, two
OF the most able and popular men
connected with boys sports in Wash
ington. In the recent examinations
for positions they finished first and
second, respectively, and will flll the
next vacancies.
Fox is a graduate of Central High
and Wilson Teachers College, and
received his masters degree from
Columbia in New York. He played
basket ball here and since returning
from New York has been connected
with boys sports in that and other
lines. Until this week he temporarily
was with Centrals physical educa-
ton department. There he coached
the Blue and Whites lightweight
football team and successfully con-
Quoted the schools first intramural
basket ball tournament.
He also is connected with the
Community Center Department,
running basket ball and other sports
three nights week at the Powell
Columbia Recreation Center and two
nights week at the Mcfarland
Center. He also is popular referee
of scholastic basket ball games out
side the interhigh series.
During the football season he do
mated his services to several sandlot
elevens, coaching the Powell B. c.
100-pound and 1l5-pound teams and
the Murray Realtors.
Jankowski Popular Leader.
Jankowski is another popular
leader among Washington boys, and
currently Is director of the Central
Branch Boys Club OF Washington
He is one Of the best football officials
In the city, and, like Fox, also
coaches sandlot elevens. For two
years his Regal Clothiers were 160-
pound champions Of the District,
and just last month he donated his
experience and ability as coach Of
the Washington All-Stars, who
played in the charity game at Cath
olic University against the War
wick A. c.
Basket ball, baseball, golf and ice
hockey are few of the other sports
in which he Is interested. He played
basket ball and football at Catholic
University, captaining the 1888 foot
ball team. He organized the first
golf team there and in 1893 he
went to the final of the Maryland
State amateur tournament. In
1881 he was amateur champion of
Worcester County, his home in
Massachusetts,.
For the last two years he has
played baseball with Herndon In
the fast Tri-City League in nearby
Virginia and for four years he was
on his high school ice hockey team
in Massachusetts,. He has made
Washington his permanent home
since graduating from Catholic
University and taking his MASTER q
degree at George Washington.
Indians to Keen AveriIl