Evening star., 1941-12-05
Lund Builds Squad
With ) Letfermen
As Mainsprings
George Washington High
Reeonstruetine With
Gridmen os Leaders
By GEORGE HUBER.

Anacoetia demonstrated its COM
Ing OF age. sthleticauy speaking,
during the recent football season by
reaching the championship playoff
ss representative of the Eastern Di-.
vision. Coach ROLAND Lund and
his boys hope to continue the pace
with a good showing in the basket
ball series beginning early next
month. but the task is tough one.
There are too many other good
teams in the race to rate AnacoStia
highly as a title contender, but in
the past the Indians have demon
strated ability to confound advance
dope and won't be counted out this
early.
Lund. football and baseball coach
for Anacostia. is adding basket ball
TO his duties. Zip Lehr. cage mentor
last year. has been transferred to
another school. If Anacostia has a
track team next spring. Lund will
coach that. too, making him about
the busiest man in town.
Three Letter Men Returning.
To build his 1912 cage squad, Lund
has three letter men returning.
They are Elmer Leukhardt, who
earned all-high recognition AS
football end and who also Is some
shucks as first baseman; Johnny
Penn. another sll-high footballer.
and Dick Faircloth. another football
PLAYER. In fact. these Anacostia boys
do everything. When the basket ball
season is over they'll go right into
baseball
To go with these letter men. Lund
has four experienced players from
last year. Paul Benner, James Flah-
erty. James Hagedorn and Ed
Spudis. Newcomers who appear
likely 10 stick with the first squad
are Bob Nolte, Paul Blaine, Robert
Nelson. Britt Lewis. Jim Henry, Bob
Dietrich and one or two others.
With Leukhardt. 6-foot-4. and
Faircloth. go. the Indians will have
= tall outfit. In practice. indications
are that Lund will take advantage
Of the new ruling permitting bucket
plays outside the foul line. with
Leukhardt working the pivot. The
Indians are far from polished out
fit yet, but they will have fighting
SQUAD as usual. In fact, one of
Lund's chief worries may be TO keep
his boys from fouling themselves out
George Washington Situation.
Down at George Washington High
In Alexandria, Coach Rasty Doran
also is drawing heavily on his foot
ball squad for basket ball material
The Presidents are in the midst OF
rebuilding campaign. Two sea-
sons ago they barely missed taking
the State championship. but last
season they dropped down below
the 500 mark with wins and Is
setbacks. Now they are on the up
grade. although Coach Doran hardly
believes they can make another real
bid for the State title right away.
Several BOYS on whom he was
counting won't be back. Marty
Foltz was all set for another top
season of basket ball but broke his
leg in the last football game against
Washington-Lee That was on
75-yard touchdown run early in the
game. Had Foltz not been injured
the Presidents might have won. and
as it was they tied favored General
eleven. 1919, in what was the best
high school football game around
here this season.
Shelton Is Missing.
Also missing after being counted
on for big work is Johnny Shelton.
Johnny is to be graduated in Feb
ruary, and until Christmas he is
working in the Post ONCE. He may
play one or two games next month,
but because he is leaving SO soon
Doran is not banking on him too
much. That leaves Leon ChiSolm
he is plenty good as an all-around
floor PLAYER and shooter. Two
others are coming up from the sec
ond team to go with Chisolm. Carlin
Allen and James Higgins. Allen il
6-foot-3 center and Doran also
will take advantage of the new
bucket play ruling with Allen work
ing the pivot. Chisolm and Higgins
are forwards. leaving Rasty with the
task of digging up a couple OF
guards from his new material.
Among other candidates for the
team he has five football players
Calvin Bailey, Chiffon Raiford. Pau
OBrien. Marshall Funkhouser and
Charles Campbell.