Evening star., 1941-10-30
Loser Must Give Up
Hope Of |nterhigh
Section Honors
RumbIers' Couch Feels
His UnIucky Squad Is
Overdue for Break
By GEORGE HUBER.

Eastern and Western both have
to win tomorrow or give up all hope
of capturing their division titles in
the interhigh football race, all Of
which promises some hot action
when they clash at Eastern Stadium
in the only series clash of the day.
This weeks other series game is the
annual Tech-Central meeting Sat-
urday afternoon at Central Stadium.
Coach Mike Kelley of Easterns
Ramblers still believes he has one
of the city's best teams, despite four
defeats In five games, and has hopes
of taking Western over the hurdles
tomorrow. Something always seems
to have gone wrong in previous
games-injuries to key players, a
bad break or an unlucky paSs-and
Mike believes it high time the breaks
were swinging to Eastern.
Last week when the Ramblers lost
to Anacostia, Eastern's pass defense
was asleep for a short stretch and
the Indians scored the winning
touchdown. Kelley has had his boys
drilling to stop aerials this week and
believes he has plugged that hole
anyway.
Injuries Ominous for Eastern.
"A couple of injuries, however,
threaten to hurt the Rambler cause.
Neil Craig may be out and Neil has
been doing lot of the tough plung-
ing and kicking. The plunging spot
Is hard TO fill, but the kicking may
be given to Herbie Adams. He
hasn't developed into quite the
kicker Mike expected him to be, but
he still is fair. Herbie's real forte
is speed, and he is regarded as prob
ably the fastest back in the series.
If in today's practice his kicks aren't
getting the proper distance, Kelley
plans to have Guard Raymond
Duck David drop out of the line
to do the booting
Also on the repair list is Center
Charley Kent, who hasn't been eff
fective since being injured in the
Gonzaga game. Eddie Moore has
been moved from his regular tackle
spot to fill in at center, but he still
isn't too familiar with that position.
Roosevelt also is having a tough
time with what Coach Artie Boyd
thought at the beginning of the
season was pretty good eleven.
Only trouble was that when the
Riders came up with a good team
they also drew the city's toughest
schedule and haven't won a game
so far. In addition to five hard
interhigh clashes given him, Boyd
scheduled John Marshall, Woodberry
Forest and st. Johns as his out
side competition, which almost is
going out Of his way looking for
trouble. se
Part OF that trouble comes up to-
morrow, when the Riders meet st.
Johns. q team whose coach, Gene
Augusterfer, freely predicts will win
the rest of its games.
MiIIer's Return Helps.
Strengthening Roosevelt for to-
morrow'S test is the return of Ber-
ME Miller, husky center whose smart
playing on defense promises to break
up many play directed through the
line. Bernie has been out since the
first game with an injured left
shoulder. He wanted to play last
week against Tech, and as early
as Wednesday week ago was wav-
ing his arm around in circles try
ing 10 convince Boyd he was in
good shape. Boyd elected to take
no chances and waited until the
shoulder completely healed before
giving Bernie the go sign. He could
have used Miller in several spots
last week.
Dewitt still is smarting over the
20-6 sinner GonZaga hung on it
last week and has every intention
Of bouncing back when it plays at
Parkersburg (W. VaD High on Sat-
urday. With three victories and one
tie in six games the Gray Ghosts
still are sporting one of their best
seasons in many years and hope
to continue. Gallopin' George Nc
Gowan has been carrying much of
the load and hasn't failed to get
away for at least one long gain in
every game. He has one jaunt of
70 yards and three of over so
yards to his credit. Along with
MCGOWAN, Bobby Kaufman and
Curt Cordell have been bright fig
ures in Devitt's good season. Bob
by is a sawed-off halfback who gets
the most out of his scanty pound
age, and Curt is a rangy end, adept
at snagging passes.
If Dewitt continues to display the
same form shown in most early
games it will be reminiscent of the
days when Lee Fones, link Zinka-
vich and Paul Tangora wore the
Black and Gray.