Evening star., 1941-11-13
Tie bYVikings Would
Suffice, but Raiders
Must Gain Victory
St. Albuns Has Chance
For Conference Crown
In Playing St. james
BY GEORGE HUBER.

II N.
This is pretty much the windup
week end for high school football
holding over until Thanksgiving next
Thursday.
Among those finishing their sched-
ules tomorrow or Saturday, how
ever, are Eastern and ST. Johns
meeting tomorrow, Roosevelt and
Wilson, also meeting tomorrow:
Dewitt, which goes to Fairfax to-
morrow; Tech, taking trip to York,
Pa, on Saturday, and st. Adams, en-
tertaining St James of Hagerstown
Saturday in a game which, If won
by the locals, will give them the
Interstate Academic Conference
title
Holding over until next Thursday,
however. is the annual George
Washington-Wash meet
Ing, to be played this year at Alex
andrla, and the high school cham
pionship playoff
1t is this plavof that concerns
Central and Western tomorrow
when they meet at Central Sta
dium. starting time 3:15 pm. Both
are striving for the championship
spot opposite Anacostia, with Cen
tral given slight edge in that it
needs only to tie in order to reach
the title round. Records to date are
two wins and a tie for Western in
series competition while the Vik-
lngs have three victories and a tie.
Western supporters might ques-
ZION the justice of putting Central
In the playoffs if it gets no better
than a tie tomorrow, but that's the
way 1t works out. Last year Central
happened to defeat Western, TO, yet
the latter reached the playoffs and
won the title.
Both teams are in good trim for
the battle. especially Western which
didn't play last week and has had a
full two weeks since the Eastern
game to prepare for Centrals Notre
Dame system. There is not an in
jury on the team, even Bill MarloWe.
who has been handicapped most of
the year with a cut over his eye, is
in excellent shape.
This big plunging back was slow
starter both last year and this, but
late in the 1910 season he gave every
indication of being Jake Hilleary's
successor and it easily may be the
case that he will play his best in
his teams last several games.
Even if Western doesn't reach the
playoff' s it still goes to Atlantic City
later this month There is one hole
that Coach Fred Mulvey must fill
with Dave Morris, regular guard, in
eligible
Kurz Finally Is Okay.
Central had a tough battle last
week against Roosevelt and several
PLAYERS still sport bruises and hurt
muscle here and there. but no one
seriously is handicapped. jim Kurz,
one of the citv's best halfbacks when
in shape. at last has recovered from
a fractured shoulder and demon
strated his ability by playing a good
bit against the Riders last week. He
may be given a starting position to-
morrow, and if so. his kicking is ex-
pected to be one of the high spots in
the game.
Wilbur Rock. all-high tackle last
wear, has been handicapped. by a
cold which he couldn't shake of,
but at least he is working with the
team again and probably will start
as usual tomorrow Stan Valanos,
who does most Of the Viking pass
ing, played very little last week be-
cause of a hurt leg and until yester-
dav didn't have on a uniform this
week. but he also probably Will be
in the starting lineup.
Coach Jan JankoWski is planning
one change and may start Bob Hill
at left end instead OF Bernie Gros-
bean. Hill, who is especially adept
at catching passes, was a regular
until injured in one of the early
games. If Rock doesn't start at
tackle the job goes to Sam Rich
wine.