Evening star., 1948-11-18
CY0 Juniors 10 Decide
Champ on Bill With
Gonzaga- -Johnnies

st. Johns and Gonzaga will meet
November % at Griffith Stadium
for prep school football leadership
and the right to oppose the public
high champion at the same place
December 4. Also on the November
% program will be a clash between
st. Anthony's and Blessed Sacra-
ment with the CYO Junior Football
League title in the balance.
The junior league championship
game, a preliminary to the Gonzaga-
Johnnies engagement, will get under
way at 1890 pm. Those with
tickets to the main event might
find it worth their while to eat an
early lunch. The Junior game has
all the markings of "bigtime.'
The center of CYO League activi-
ties is the third floor of the old
red brick Knights of Columbus hall
at Tenth and K streets NV, from
where Director of Athletics Pete
Haley keeps eagle-eyed supervision
over the activities of some 81 foot
ball teams.
League Carefully Supervised.
I'VE have iron-clad regulations
and each team must abide by them"
explains Haley, who has been active
In Washington sports circles many
years. I'VE use paid officials at
every game. The boys playing in
the Junior league must not have
graduated from the eighth grade
and cannot be IS years of age or
weigh 130 pounds prior to Septem-
ber l. A boy can gain weight
through the season, however. We
don't want to discourage these boys
from eating. For the bigger and
older boys, we have the interme-
diate league.
Now and then. of course" con-
tinues Haley, IAN ineligible boy
will slip by. Last year there was
an undecurrent of talk about a
boy on one of the teams I asked
him where he went to school and
he told me he was in the eighth
grade at one of the junior high
schools. I checked and found out
he was in the ninth grade at an
other school.
L consulted the parish priest in
charge of that particular team and
he called the boys parents. They
insisted he was in the eighth grade.
The parents joined us in a check
at the two schools. Believe it Or
not. even they didn't know he hac
transferred and had been pro-
noted"
The teams are we'll coached. says
Haley. and will give the fans an
eyeful of what youngsters can do
with football
Coaches Praise Teams.
Coaching st. Anthony's, undeteat-
ed, united and unscored on, is jack
Bohne, former ST. Anthony's High
basket ball and baseball standout
He has his own touchdown twins
in Donnie McGlynn and Donnie
Thompson, brother of Bugs Thomp-
son, all-high star at Tech last year
"McGlynn," says Bohne, lis fast,
break-away runner while Thomp-
son takes after his brother Give
him an open field and he is gone
And when We need that first down
we have Larry O'Cleary, our full
back. He is a hard charger, always
good for a few yards. Bernie Div
vers is our quarterback and works
the T-formation like a master"
Frank Gilmore, coach of Blessed
Sacrament and former Gonzaga
athlete, is sold on Chuch Walthor,
vino kicks, passes and runs with
the best of them. Blessed Sacrament
uses single wing.
I'VE have good, all-around
team," says Gilmore. We're deep.
have four guards, all good, and the
biggest weighing only los pounds.
Keep your eye on Duke Crowley. If
he gets the right kind of blocking
he'll go all the way. He knows how
to follow his interference
Haley is sold on both teams. He
promises the fans plenty of fire
works. And with st. Johns and
Gonzaga following up in their ira
ditional clash, an interesting after
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