Evening star., 1951-10-06
Wilson and Roosevelt
Threatening 10 Block
Eastern's Title Bid
By Brion Bell, Jr.

after getting past Western, 14-0,
yesterday. but the RamblerS
should view with alarm the results
of two Division II games.
Wilson routed Bell, ESQ, and
Roosevelt scored its second straight
interhigh victory, 80, over Cool
idge. One of these teams almost
surely will be the Division II
champion and Eastern will have
to play much better ball than it
did against Western to win its
.Acand straight championship.
The Ramblers were a sluggish,
fumbling bunch yesterday. A
hard-fighting Western outfit was
even with Eastern in the statistics
department and lost on two bad
breakS-a 60-yard run with an
intercepted pass and a 26-yard
pass that hit two Raider halfbacks
before bouncing back to the re-
ceiver.
Eastern fumbled eight times
and had six recovered by West
ern. 1t gained only "a yards rush.
ing, almost none of it through
the middle Of the stubborn Raider
line.
Eastern's Play Ragged.
Tommy McHan, injured T
quarterback, expects to be back in
action next Friday and this should
help the Eastern attack. Many of
the Rambler fumbles seemed to
be caused by poor handoffs from
the inexperienced quarterbacks
and McHan's return should i'm
prove the timing and play execu-
ton.
The easy schedule facing East
ern chamberlain. Anacostia and
Tech) may not work to the Ram
blers' advantage. Dick Mentzer.
Eastern coach. gave full credit to
Westerns excellent defense. but
thought his teams 46-0 victory
over Bell last week was partly re-
sponsible for its poor performance
yesterday.
When you win by a large
score and every play you try
works fairly well whether it's we'll
executed or not. it doesn't do the
team much good in preparing for
touch one the next week, "
Mentzer commented after the
game.
Eastern got its first touchdown
In the second quarter when End
Bill Hunter. backing up the line,
intercepted a paSs-hiS first of
three-and ran 60 yards. Hunter
made a nice run, grabbing the
ball on his own 40, going up the
right sidelines and cutting back
to the left behind good blocking
to go the distance.
Poor Pass Hurts Western.
In the final quarter, Eastern
capitalized on bad fourth down
pass to Wayne August, Western
punter. and scored again. The
snap from center was high and
August had no chance to kick
before he was Smothered by the
Rambler line on the Raiders 80.
A few plays later, with the ball
on the 26. Jerry Smith passed to
End Dick Torbett at the IS. The
ball went through Torbett's fin
gers, bounced back from the hands
of two Western halfbacks and
into the tall ends fingers. He ran
unmolested across goal and Auto
matte" Dave Keys added his Sec
ond extra. point.
-Four Western fumbles kept the
Raiders from sustaining an Of
fense. but their defensive line, led
by Tackle Jim Bakhtiar and
Guards Henry Brown and Phil
Leder, was rugged.
Eastern's Ralph Sta. although
stymied on the offense. played his
usual excellent game at the de-
fensive halfback spot and Center
Spence Lampiris made tackles oil
over the field.
Roosevelt Pounds Coolidge.
At Roosevelt. the Riders were
continuing their drive toward a
division title. Roosevelt scored
two points early in the second
quarter when Buddy Panneton,
Coolidge halfback, standing in his
own end zone, was swamped by
host of Riders after he furnbled
a poor pass from center.
The Riders could not get an
other score until the final period
and this came after End Duke
Pantos recovered a Coolidge FUN
BILE on the Colts II. Two plays
later Fullback Bill Smith drove
over for the touchdown and
Tackle Alva Griffin kicked the
point.
Wilson entertained" Bell, but
1t was hardly pleasant afternoon
for the VocatS. The Tigers, using
the entire squad. scored 10 touch
downs with Lon Herzbrum making
two and Mike Sommer, Chris
King. Mike Cauffman, Abe Rud-
der, Fritz Sandoz, Ray Berho
Pete Anerson and Jack Hauser
with an 80-yard run accounting
for one apiece.
Anacostia finally broke into
the win column by beating Cham.
berlain, 1870, in the other inter-
high game yesterday. A jim
Gamer to Roger James pass, gooc
for 43 yards; 4-yard line plunge
by Pip Frazier, and an extra point
by Gamer accounted for the In.
dians' scoring.