Evening star., 1940-10-08
Clash Of October II
Sure 10 Have Great
Bearing on Title
Teens Seen as Leaders
Of Their Sections on
Showings to Date
By GEORGE HUBER.

The annual Tech-Central game,
generally the highlight of the schol-
astic football season in Washington,
promises to be even better than at
first anticipated. There will be big
doings on the night of october II
less than two weeks away-when
this ancient rivalry is renewed with
plenty hanging in the balance.
Both schools hardly have
scratched the surface of their sea-
sons but in doing so they have re-
vealed unexpected strength that
right now rates each at the top of
its respective division. This high
rating. incidently. is over the earnest
protestationS of both coaches
Hardy Pearce of Central and Artie
Wondrack of Tech-who rather
would be underdogs with some of
the pressure removed.
Claims They Are Lucky.
Both claim that they have been
extremely lucky so far, Central in
winning over Gonzaga and St.
Johns and Tech in taking a one
sided tilt with Episcopal They say
that they got the breaks, that the
opposition was none too strong and
that their boys played over their
heads. This might be true to some
extent but it can't all be luck and
there surely must be some real
ability in the squads.
Centrals line, for instance, has
been a real tower of strength both
on offense and defense. Coach
Pearce was able to use a five-man
line against st. Johns practically
the whole time and still stopped it
cold, leaving him six men in close
formation behind the line to stop
those short passes high school boys
like to throw.
Tech Strong in Aerials.
But no matter how good Centrals
defense may be, it will be tested by
Tech With Jack Walsh much i'm
proved over last year it has a potent
aerial attack that hasn't yet really
been unveiled Coach Wondrack
has another good passer who has
yet to see action because he hasn't
been needed He's Johnny Green.
pitcher on the baseball team. and
the report is that he is just as good
at throwing strikes with a pigskin
as he is with the horsehide.
Techs one weakness, surprisingly
enough, seems to be in the line.
Episcopal was able to slice through
it time and again for sizable gains.
Coach Wondrack. a former lineman
himself. believes that he can patch
things up in time for Central.
Tech has one advantage over Gen.
tral in that they will enter the big
game two weeks hence largely as
an unknown quantity as far as
Central is concerned. It's one game
before that will be played at York.
Pa, Friday night. giving Coach
Pearce of Central little chance for
scouting.
On the other hand, Central al
ready has played two local games.
Last weeks affair against st. Johns
particularly was tough for him as
Pearce had to unveil a little of the
stuff he was saving for the tight
spots, among them a tricky spread
formation.
This Thursday night at Griffith
Stadium the Vikings have another
tough game as they enter the cham
pionship race against Eastern and
it's probable that some more Central
secrets will be barred for Wondrack's
scouts to chart. So it's likely that
unless Pearce can think up some
more fancy ones the Tech gridders
will have a pretty fair working
knowledge of the Central repertoire.
while the Vikings, on the other
hand, will be pretty much in the
dark regarding Tech.