Evening star., 1941-11-10
Yanks Angle for Best
Varsity Football
Prospect Here
Sparkling Back Figures
In All Scoring Over
Eagles Old RivoIs
By GEORGE HUBER.

1t hardly is news now that Con-
zaga High Schools football team
is sparked by one of the best COL
lege gridiron prospects produced in
Washington in many years. Young
Elmer Baba has the football ply
sique and triple-threat ability to
make just about any college IL in
the country. Add to this the fact
that he is an honor Sunderland
an honor student at Gonzaga real
ly must be good at his books-and
1t is obvious he can just about take
his choice when he graduates in
l943.
Whether he will go on to college,
however, is problematical. Joe Nc
Carthy, manager of the New York
Yankees, has made what Elmer's
father considers a pretty good Of
fer if the youngster will play pro-
fessional baseball. An education
is a great thing" Mr.. Baba said
yesterday before the Gonzaga-St.
Johns game at Griffith Stadium
In which Elmer was outstanding
In helping his team win, 1913,
land We want him to finish high
school anyway. But the money he
can get from baseball will give him
a good start He still has another
year at Gonzaga and after that's
over we'll talk about the future"
Raba Figures in All Scoring.
Elmer has played well enough
before to make him one of the most
famous schoolboy backs in the East,
but yesterday was the best game
in his career as he had a big part
in every Eagle point. He passed
for two touchdowns-goo long,
accurate passes they were, too
scored one himself and passed for
an extra point. He had plenty of
help from his teammates. though,
especially Bernie Nolan and Rom
ME Waldron.
ST. Johns. too. had its moments,
especially early in the game. with
Buddy Speiss as its outstanding
player. In the first period the John
nies jumped into a lead with 10
yard march. Tom Chisari. Harold
Krug and Speiss alternated in
pounding from their 80 to the Con-
zaga 80 and from a spread play
Speiss tossed pass to George
Hughes for a touchdown.
The Eagles bounced right back to
tie the score. with Raba running a
punt back to the Johnny 35 and on
successive plays pushing through
with Waldron to inside the 5. Raba
climaxed this drive with 3-yard
plunge through center.
In the second period. however, the
Johnnies drove again from their Is
to midfeld, from which point Speiss
heaved a 30-yard pass to Al Lucas
and Al carried the remaining 20
yards. Hughes placement was good,
giving st. Johns a 1912 edge at
the half.
Gonzaga also had scored again in
the second period. This Eagle come
back was highlighted by 56-yard
dash by Waldron to place the ball
yard from a score and Raba car
ried over.
In the second half it was all
Gonzaga. as the Johnnies were linn
tied to two first downs. Not until
the closing minutes of the game,
however, were the Eagles able to
score. although twice previously they
had passed the 5O-yard stripe only
to be thrust back, once by a tumble
and again by a stalwart st. Johns
line.
With only minutes and Is Sec
onds remaining. Raba pulled the
game out of the fire by passing from
the St. Johns 80 to Nolan on the 10
and Bernie slipped over the line with
Speiss draped across his back, Raba
passed to End Bernie Mckay for
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