The Indianapolis journal., 1903-03-29
HIGH SCHOOL ATHLETICS
GREAT ACTIVITY AMONG BASEBALL
AND TRACK TEAMS.
Both indianapolis Schools VIII Be
Well Represented This Year
Likely Field Candidates.

Baseball prospects at the Manual Train
ing High School are bright for a better
club than last year. Practice is held every
afternoon at Brookside Park and Captain
Louis Bohnstadt has cut down his list
to twenty candidates Following are the
boys from which the nine will be selected:
Jack Cullen, Bolin, catchers; Jess Gray
and Bohnstadt. pitchers; Will Diddel. first
base; Steve Dickson and Oscar Pletscher,
second; Jason Sanderson and Hirschman,
short stop; Frank Ayres and Pedlow, third;
Eugene Foley, Diddel. Jamie Dow, Joe
McCrea, Buddenbaum, James McPheeters,
Willard Boyle and Oscar Goldrick, outfield.
There will be twelve men carried through
the season and they will be chosen from
this list. The team will be selected a
week before the first match game which
Is scheduled Tor April ii, with the Indiana
University.
Most of the candidates who are trying for
the team have played on the first nine and
many were on the second team last year.
Gray, who pitched the Shortridge game
last year, cannot play until late in the
season and Captain Bohnstadt will be in
the box during the first part of the year.
He and Gray will alternate at first base ali
season. As yet no coach has been OBJ
tanned and Captain Bohnstadt is looking
after the. work. Jimmy Gilchrist. one OF
candidates.
The matter of training quarters for the
Shortridge High School athletes has been
settled and in short time a cinder track
with a stretch of 100 feet will be built In
the basement of the s. H. s. annex. 1t
is the intention of those at the head of
athletics in the North Side institution to
have the track finished early this week so
the men can train during spring vacation
This arrangement will not be entirely
satisfactory, but it is the best available
place to do the preliminary work prepara-
tory to the State field meet. 1t is very
probable that the big meet will be held at
Candidates for the track team that
will represent the blue and white
s1iso,,o this year are N.,, busy under the
of the squad. and Lynn B. McMullen, of the
faculty. Prospects for a good squad ap-
pear excellent and the managers hope to
have a stronger team than last year. 1t
has been decided to send teams TO two
meets prior to the State field meet in this
city. On April II fifteen Shortridge athletes
will go to Westfield for dual meet with
/ the high school of that place. The s. III. S.
will also send ten men to Bloomington on
May II at a meet of high schools from
| over the State. This meet is under the
! direction of Coach Horne, of Indiana.
| Although a little early for fair esti-
mate OF the chances of the Shortridge
School there are a number of promising
| candidates who give evidence of making a
| good showing. Among those who have
/ shown up well are the following: Russell
/ Joseph Ray Fox, Jess Cline and Blanchard
4 Mckee, in the sprints; Howard Shank, Nc
Kee. Frank Doudican, Bob Scott. Eli Lilly.
Walter Gipe. Bob Hackney, Joe Michael.
| and Haze Clark, for the runs; Scott,
/ Gipe, Aronson. Snyder. Stradling. Ketcham.
Pratt, Mckee. Churchill. Murat Dewess.
! Appel, Doudican and Joseph, field events;
| Lilly, Shank and Mckee, hurdles. Captain
| Gipe expects to have a number of dark
horses appear when active training be-
iect a team for the Westfield meet, two
! weeks before the meet
The athletic sky of the Manual Training
High School is not as clear as 1t has been
in previous years at this time and as yet
no training quarters have been secured.
This question is causing much worry
among those in charge at the NJ. T. III. s.
| Just now there is no definite plan under
adyisement, but Thad Shideler. captain of
the track team, hopes to find a place of
| some kind before long so that active work
| can begin Immediately after spring vaca-
| ton.
| SQUAD is concerned this does not trouble
the South Side managers as they have an
| abundance of excellent candidates from
which to pick this years team. Among
the best candidates who have been in train
| ing for indoor work and will try for the
team are the Wheeler brothers, Sanderson
| Spohr, Duggan, Fortune, Quinn, Raffens-
| merger Rhodenhammel, Muir, West and
| Zener The red and white will be weak
i'm the long runs, having lost their star
men. Jack Shideler and Ira McIntire. last
| term Berg King, George Wildhack and
Iohn King will try for these events.
AS soon. as training quarters can be Sc
cured, which will be soon, more active work
will begin.