[edit] INTEREST IN HIGH SCHOOL RACE PICKS UP IN HOME STRETCH

Abilene Leads-Scholastic League Ready To Finance Title Game

The entire state is getting excited over high school football this year, according to reports to Roy Henderson of the University Interscholastic League Bureau. Not until this year has it been possible to show the relative strength of the teams and it is disappointing in some sections to see elevens dodging games with the evident purpose of making a big showing with large scores and no defeats. The percentage method is the most satisfactory way to decide the strongest teams but unless a school plays a truly representative schedule in their section they will not be considered in the final reckoning by the bureau.

There is much talk and cry for a championship tournament. The league can see only one way in which this could be done. For the remainder of the season all teams should play games in their section only. The teams that are showing strength should be matched against each other and a real attempt should be made to determine the sectional champions.

Then it would be an easy matter to arrange games between the northeast and northwest champions and the southeast and southwest winners. If this is done the league will guarantee to finance the final game.

Few accidents occurred last week but Nelson De Mange of Pharr-San Juan died of complications arising from injuries received in the McAllen game. Witts of Henrietta had a leg broken, Turner of Cisco received a broken nose and a Wills Point player suffered a fractured collar bone.

L.M. Fertsch, superintendent at Hereford, sustained a broken leg while standing on the side line watching his team play Farwell. One of the Hereford players missed his tackle, striking Fertsch violently.

Seventy-one games were officially reported this week. The standing of the teams still in the running:

Won six, lost zero: Abilene

Won five, lost zero: Bryan, Corpus Christi, Eagle Lake, Yorktown, Greenville, Marshall

Won four, lost zero: Amarillo, Childress, Cleburne, Clarksville, Electra, Haskell, Miami, Stephenville, Sherman, Brackenridge of San Antonio

Won three, lost zero: Beaumont, Comanche, DeLeon, Dallas (Bryan Hi), Mercedes

Won two, lost zero: Forney, Belton, Galveston, Plainview, Wichita Falls, Winnsboro

Won one, lost zero: Brownsville, Decatur, El Paso, Orange

Won seven, lost one: Hearne

Won five, lost one: Hillsboro, Waxahachie

Won four, lost one: Denison, Gatesville, McKinney

Won three, lost one: Waco, Weatherford, Uvalde, Tyler, Sabinal, Sinton, Smithville, LaGrange, Hubbard, Honey Grove, Georgetown, Edna, Corsicana, Floresville

Won four, lost two: Gilmer, La Porte, Polytechnic (of Fort Worth), Main High (of San Antonio)

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