Evening star., 1940-10-03
Central and ST. John !
To Share Spotlight
With Title Game
General improvement
Seen in RivuIs for
Public High Crown
BY GEORGE HUBER.

What gives rich promise Of being
the most interesting public high
school football championship series
In years opens tomorrow with Roose-
welt playing Eastern, champion OF
the east division, at Eastern Stadium
at $3.50. &
Sharing interest with the series
game is the night contest at Grit
fifth Stadium between Central
and st. Johns. The other series
game originally scheduled for to-
morrow, Woodrow Wilson at Ana
costa, has been reset for next
Friday, and both elevens will engage
outside competition over the week
! end.
For the second successive year the
championship series will be divided
into two divisions, with Western,
interhigh champion, Central, Roose-
welt and Wilson in the west sec
tion and Eastern, Anacostia and
Tech in the east Calvin Coolidge,
which this fall became the eighth
local public high in Washington,
will not engage in championship
competition until next season at the
earliest.
All Apparently Improved.
From showings last week, when
most schools played their first
games, practically all schoolboy
elevens are improved over last year,
and the race should be even tighter.
Interest and attendance promises to
increase as scholastic followers look
forward to eight weeks of close COM
petition, ending with the big cham
pionship game between the east and
west division winners on the Satur-
day following Thanksgiving.
Eastern won the east section
crown last year, when the split
series was inaugurated, and was
beaten by Western in the playoff
14-7. This years team largely is
green and somewhat lighter, but it
is much faster and apparently bet
ter. 1t proved that last Saturday,
when it opened its schedule by
breaking a four-year jinx and de-
feating Episcopal at Alexandria,
14-0.
Roosevelt will 60 into this game
as the underdog, largely because Of
It's loss last week in Richmond to
John Marshall, $50. Roosevelt's
true strength was not shown by
that score. though, because Coach
Artie Boyd deliberately picked a
toughie to open the season. The
Justices were bigger and older than
the Washington team but they still
we're unable to stop completely
Roosevelts passing attack led by
Hymie Perlo, erstwhile Rough Rider
basket ball star. Roosevelt picked
up five of its six first downs via the
air and gives promise Of having
one of the most potent passing at
tacks around town.
Look for Big Crowd.
The night game at Griffith Sta
dunn between st. Johns and Central
probably will attract at least 10000
spectators. There is keen rivalry
between these schools even though
the Johnnies are not in the public
high race. They also played last
season under the lights with the
Vikings winning, 27-7 Such mar
gin is not in prospect tomorrow
night, though. as the game appears
a toss-up. The Johnnies tied Ana
costa, TT, in their opener last
week while Central was winning
over Gonzaga, 300, but Central is
not as much stronger as compare
tive scores would indicate In fact
Central did not show the all-around
offensive strength usually in Vik-
ing outfits and won largely through
the breaks and Gonzaga's fumbling.
In other tits tomorrow. St. Adams
plays at Wilson, Baltimore Friends
visit Landon and Aldie goes to
Mount Vernon High. Western VS..
Washington-Lee, originally sched-
uled for tomorrow, has been shifted
to Saturday at o'clock at WASH
ington-Lee. In game today. Black
stone Military Academy was to open
its season playing Bulls School at
Silver Spring.
The Dewitt Gonzaga game yester-
day was Cancelled because of wet
grounds. 1t will not be played be-
cause neither team has an open
date on its schedule.