Evening star., 1942-10-29
Four Biggest Players
In Line Are Among
Those Ai|ing
Eastern and Anocostiu
To Bottle With Loser
Dropping Title Hopes
BY GEORGE HUBER.

Coach Artie Boyd has his hands
full this week doing some plain and
fancy juggling with his Roosevelt
team trying to get starting lineup
together for tomorrow's game at
Wilson. His injured list for the last
two weeks has read like the Who's
Who of the Rough Riders with prac-
tically everybody who is anybody
sporting some sort of break or sprain.
There's a possibility that all the
injured players will be able to start,
or at least play part time, In which
case the Riders will be all right be-
cause they have a pretty fair first
team. The four biggest men in the
line, Charley Howard, end; Porky
King and Sheldon Greenland. tackles,
and Ralph Floyd, guard, and Quar-
terback Bill Garner and Halfback
Irv Kolker, are the ailing boys.
Howard, whose leg injury wasn't as
serious as at first supposed, although
it kept him idle against St. Johns
last week, and King, who will cover
his broken nose with a mask, are
listed at starters now, with the
others still doubtful.
Roosevelt has to win this one to
retain its mathematical chance at
the title, and so does Wilson for that
matter, but the Riders are given
better chance than the Tigers be-
cause they have five series games on
the schedule to four for Wilson.
The Riders also have won one game
against Western, although it appears
they may have called 1t a season
after that because they haven't even
scored in the last three games.
Play With Backs to Wall.
Attracting the most interest In
tomorrow's series double bill Is the
Eastern at Anacostia tilt. This is
another win or else" game, with
the loser waving good-by to any
chance of landing in the playof1s.
No injuries will hamper either team
and it promises to be a bang-up
fray with no holds barred. Eastern
Anacostia is a young rivalry but its
growing into one of the traditional
tilts. 1t. ROLAND Lund OF the Army
Air Force, former Anacostia coach
who had lot to do with making
this game the heated affair it is, was
IN town this week and spoke at
school assembly on Tuesday. He
reused the whole school to high
pitch of excitement and the Indians
are promising to scalp the Ramblers.
Heading the list of non-series tilts
tomorrow is st. Johns at Western
The Johnnies lost their opener to
Central, but since then have won
two games without being scored
upon and have totaled 64 points
themselves, all of which means that
a good Western team will have some
trouble.
Mulvey May Bench Bishop.
Coach Fred Mulvey of Western Is
contemplating one shift in the line
up. This would bench Ranny
Bishop, tackle, and put John Minor
or John Baxter in his spot. Bishop
potentially is one of the best
tackles in town. He's big and fast
and has lots of talent. but he's not
playing as we'll as he should. Hes
not mean enough" says Mulvey.
Maybe he's afraid of hurting some
one"
HE doesn't have that certain
CLINT in his eye" adds Assistant
Coach Billy Richardson, and they
agree that perhaps week on the
bench will make Bishop mad
enough to do the kind of playing of
which he's capable.
George Washington High in Alex
sndria is enjoying it's first open date
sitter six straight weeks of playing,
and it needs all the rest 1t can get
for next Fridays big engagement
at Alexandria with John Marshall
of Richmond as the visiting team.
All John Marshall has done is win
% straight games over the last three
years
The Presidents will have prac-
tice game against University of
Maryland's Commands tomorrow,
but End Charles Campbell will not
play. He dislocated his elbow toward
the end of last weeks game, but
before that he played practically
every minute of every game both
this season and last and rightly is
regarded as one of the teams key
players. His shift from tackle to
end was one of the changes Coach
Rssty Doran made earlier this sea-
son that made over the Presidents