Evening star., 1941-09-25
All Eager TO Size Up
Strong Teams They
Must Meet Later
Hompered by Ailments,
Western Welcomes
Its Tordy Stort
By GEORGE HUBER.


Tomorrow nights game at Alex
andria between George Washington
High and St. Johns is certain to
attract a sizable crowd if the only
customers are coaches interested IN
seeing for themselves the reported
strength of both teams.
The Presidents already have dis
played scoring power from their L
formation offensive in SWamplng
James Monroe last week, 31-0, but
that was on an out-of-toWn af1alr.
The Johnnies are more of ques-
tion mark, but every one fears the
worst with glowing reports coming
from st. Johns practice field about
a veteran crew of big backs and at
least one good line constructed by
Coach Gene AuguSterfer without a
single letter man.
1t is in the backfield that the
Johnnies expect to shine this year
with all five of the returning letter
men performing there-Steve Burns,
Harold Krug, Buddy Speiss, Tom
Chisari and Billy Brogan. All are
hefties and in practice have been
tearing off chunks of yardage
against the second team and other
high school teams the Johnnies have
been scrimmaging.
Line of Uncertain Ability.
The line was. and still is to some
extent, of questionable strength, but
from watching its work in tough
two-hour drill this week one gathered
that the starting crew at least is
formidable Coach Augusterfer has
at least one good man for each of
the seven positions.
Pat Mccarthy, an end last year,
has shifted to center and apparently
plugged a hole there. That still
leaves Augusterfer with a fair num-
ber of ends in George Hughes, Al
Lucas and Jim Collins, Albert Will
son seems the best of the guard
candidates, with the other starting
position lying among Jack Petit,
Emmett ODea and Joe Veneziani.
Tackles still are the main problem,
with Leo and Dan ODonnell and
Bob Johansen appearing the most
capable.
Practice drills reveal that the
scoring punch developed by the
backeld promises to give the john
nies a much better record than the
two wins. three defeats and two ties
registered last year. AS always,
Coach Augusterfer has equipped his
boys with a full series of both power
and deception plays.
Western Welcomes Delay.
Western is one of the few high
school teams not opening the sea-
son this week, and it so happens the
Red Raiders, for two years cham
pions of the schoolboy circuit, can
use the extra time. Practically every
one Of Coach Fred MulVey's back
field men have minor ailments that
would slow them were they playing
this week. ..-f ~
Clarence KuIden has wrenche3
shoulder, Bill Goodman cut undE.
an eye, Duke O'Conpell and Alex
Papanicolas slightly sprained ankles
and Bill NARROW a severe cold.
NARROW. who last year was tagged
as a possibility for high honors this
season at Western, particularly is
slow to develop When he reported
he had hay fever that stopped him
for week and now the cold dogs
him
Don Hilleary. sophomore backfleld
candidate at Western, probably is
finding out that being the younger
brother of several outstanding for
mer athletic stars has its draw
backs. Brothers Huck, Leo and Jake
all were sports heroes at Western
and Don is not being allowed to for
get it.
Were he any other than Hilleary
he would be put in with the rest of
the soph pack and forgotten until
his natural ability showed itself,
but Don was marked man from the
day he reported. Newspaper pho
tographers shot pictures of him
while ignoring the other first-year
men and the sports writer's took Spe-
cial notes of his appearance and
how he handled himself.
Teammates Are Resentful.
Some of his teammates, as might
be natural with youngsters resented
this, and such remarks as Heck,
he isn't going to get by on his
brothers reputation here were
heard. to be balanced by such words
as "Oh, let's give the kid chance;
he ought to be pretty good"
1t all seems to have given Don a
slight inferiority complex, and he
hasn't been as forward as most of
the other boys in grabbing the ball,
kicking, running and passing-as
though he didn't want to draw un-
due attention to himself. Coach
Fred Mulvey has had to push him to
get him to show what he can do.
Like all other Hillearys Don has
natural athletic ability and while
a bit short in stature he still is
growing and in another year will be
as husky a football player as any
of them. In fact, Coach Mulvey is
thinking of using him in the line
when he orOUS a hit more