Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1940-11-23
Champ and Runnerup
Reach Top Places
With Few Stars
Central, Eastern Lead
With Three Positions
Euch on First Team
By GEORGE HUBER.

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Teamwork more than anything
else won the high school champion
ship for Western, teamwork plus
Jack Hilleary. And it was team
work almost alone that put Tech
in the runnerup spot as champion
in the East Division and loser only
to Western in the playoff game.
Both were well-balanced, CO.
ordinated elevens with few out
standing stars. Hilleary, of course,
was conspicuous, but Western, in
winning the title, and Tech in
finishing second, brought more dis
tinction to their coaches than to
individual players. This you gather
in naming an all-high eleven be-
cause these two teams placed only
two men each in the select lineup.
With so few standout stars, obvi-
ously'excellent coaching jobs carried
the Raiders and the Maroon to
their high positions.
Coach Dan Ahearn of Western
pulled the trick of the year in
fashioning a defense that stopped
Tech while Artie Wondrack of Tech
bows to none for putting his team
in the playoffs in his first full year
as head coach.
Both Had Many Dependables.
Down the line, though, Western
and Tech had dependables of above
average ability. This is shown by
the fact that on the second team
and in honorable mention, Western
placed 10 players and Tech nine.
The bulk of individual stars were
at Central and Eastern while back
ing for them was lacking. Central
had three individual standouts and
practically nothing else and landed
its three stars on the first team.
Almost the same was true at Eastern
which also has three first team men,
bers. The other first team member
comes from Anacostia, which ex-
perienced a disappointing season,
and finished last in its division.
The all-high backfield is composed
of Jackie Walsh of Tech, quarter
back; Harry Martin of Central and
Hilleary of Western, halfbacks, and
Eddie league of Eastern, fullback.
All richly deserved their honors,
Hilleary reached the heights Of his
school career Thursday when he
led Western to the championship
with his passing, kicking and run
ming. Martin of Central was another
of the same caliber, hard-driving
runner, er-than-average passer
and a player ever willing to block.
Tech Well Balanced.
Techs team was well balanced all
the way through and that especially
was true In the backfield where
the four starters had worked to-
gether for three years. Walsh still
was the standout, though, as the
teams best passer and the city
best kicker, especially on quick
kicks. Even Hilleary with his
superb work Thursday didn't out
distance Walsh's kicks. The fourth
member of the first team backfeld,
league of Eastern, also was a triple
threat and a marked standout at
the Lincoln Park school. His
plunging was the terror of oppos-
ing lines.
More than four places are needed.
however, to pick the best backs.
Buck Herrlein, blocking back OF
Western, easily might have won a
place on the honor eleven had his
duties been more varied. Moe
Schulman of Eastern, Bill Dellas-
tatious of Tech and Bob Nolte OF
Anacostia fall into the same clas-
sification.
The all-high line was not as dill
ficult to choose as ordinarily. The
selectees all were standouts. Ends
are George Absher of Anacostia
and Sam Di Blast of Anacostia.
Absher was a flankman who knew
his business. He was fast, alert,
aggressive and was all over the
place making tackles. He also
called Anacostia's signals. Di Blast
was another standout and contrib
uted a lot to what scoring punch
Central had. He was fast on end
around plays, an excellent pass re-
ceiver and dropped back to do most
of the teams long-distance kicking.
Other good ends we're George Grey
of Western, who might have earned
a first-team rating but for injuries;
Dick Goodman of Roosevelt ana
Vernon Dodge of Tech.
Rock Lives Up to NaUe.
For tackles we have Wilbur ROCK
of Central and Bob Pieri OF East
ern. Rock really was a rock IN
Centrals defense. He backed up
the center of the line and was at
the bottom of most tackles. He
tackled low and hard, bravely
spilled the interference and was
difficult to deceive. The same holds
for Eastern's big Pieri, who has
been on the all-high eleven or Sec
ond team since his sophomore year.
Clifford Hack of Wilson and Henry
Lawler of Central also deserve men
ton, even though their work was
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other players. Hack is lad whom
most other coaches would have been
happy to have.
Guards during the series almost
weresunpoticed by the average fan
because of their hidden work in the
line, but even playing a position
unproductive of popular stars there
were two lads who made their pres
ence known, meaning Paul Jennings
of Tech and Harry Bordow of East
ern. Both were big boys and hard
to get past. They piled up many
a play.
Jack Xanten of Western was
given the center position after a
close call from Techs Art Newsome
and then he had to wait for COM
parsons in the playoff. Both were
nynellant defensive centprS as we'll