Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1957-11-20
By BOB HANSON

Wilson will be after its
first .Interhigh League football
championship under Coach
Pete Labukas when it plays
Anacostia Saturday and the
feeling among quite a few is
the Tigers will take it,
The last time these two
teams met for the title was
in 1854 and Anacostia did a job
OH the Tigers. 1876.
AIlacostia missed the play
offs the following year, but
came, back last year to take
the league championship in a
playoff with Cardozo.
Wilson hasn't been in it since
that 1854 rout. but this year
the Tigers came with a rush
In the last month of play and
beat. out Coolidge in a playoff
for the West Division title.
Anacostia backed" into the
East Division championship
when Spingarn lost to Eastern,
the latter considered by many
as the strongest team in that
division.
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This isn't one of Anacostia's
better clubs. The first to ac-
knowledge it is Zu Stewart
coach of the Indians.
Pm surprised we got as far
as we did" Stewart was saying
the other day. This isn't as
strong team, extensively par
ticularly, as last years."
Before the season got under
way Stewart was lamenting the
loss of Max Disharoon, his ALL
Metropolitan tailback-fullback
DiSharoon, a hard runner ano
better-than-average passer, Is
still in school, but has used ur
MS, el1glDlllIy.
The load this year has beer
carried by Ronnie Droze. whose
brother Dan, now at North Car
DINA, was an All-Metropolitar
selection in 1854. The younger
Droze has good drive and will
come I'D with the yardage wher
needed, but he can't pass.
Jack Burke has been doing
most of the throwing, but the
results have been something
less than satisfactory thus far
It's the lack of varied attack
that may hurt the Indians
Saturday.
Eabukas doesn't think his
present team is quite up to the
division winner of three years
ago.
This isn't necessarily the
best team I've had here" Labu-
kas said, but it's the best
BUNCH of scrappers.
Incidentally, bukas, Of
Lithuanian descent and fin
ishing up four years as heac
football COACH at Wilson, anc
Stewart aren't exactly strangers
Both are products Of George
Washington University, where
Stewart. a guard in his playing
days, coached Labukas in 1874
when the latter was a blocking
back on the froSh team.
AS for the scrappiness OF
the Tigers, Labukas might have
hit it on the head. The Tigers
after losing their first three
rebounded to win six straight
including the playoff for the
division title against Coolidge
and in three of the wins came
from behind to do it.
All of this is not to infer that
Wilson is going to run Ana
costa out of Coolidge Stadium
Saturday. 1t will be no rout
such as the last time they met
Perhaps the best analysis
would be that given by Joe
Gallagher. caught observing the
Wilson Coolidge playoff last
week. Gallagher, whose st
Johns team defeated Anacos-
tia 10 Gays ago. had this to say:
"Anacostia, being a defend
ing champion in its league. has
experience that Wilson may
lack. but in Drummond Tail
back Dick Drummond). Wilson
has a big individual threat that
Anacostia can't match. With
six straight wins, Wilson has
caught fire and it will be hard
to put out"
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The rating list, with each
passing week. gets more con-
fusing anG harder to pick than