The Washington times., 1904-11-12
FOOTBALL RACE
IS WAXING WARMER
Experts Pick Technical
School as Champions.
BUSINESS BOYS IN CELLAR
Season So Far Proves Most Successful.
An Amusing Straw Vote and
a Dance.

AS the weather wakes colder the race
Tor the scholastic football championship
grows warmer.
The season is Well advanced ana
those who take am active interest in
The athletics of the high schools have
seen enough Of the different teams 10
De able 90 form a fair estimate as
10 the positions Tho teams viii occupy
at the close of the present season.
The majority OF the critics pick Tech
Ior the winner. but opinions vary
who VIII occupy second ana third places
All agree that Business has the cellar
Championship cinched.
Technical opened her social season
by giving a dance that was success
Iul both as financial and "a social
venture. The dance was attended by
nearly all the pupils OF Tech as well
as the pupils of other schools. In every
Way the dance may be counted as "a
great success. II is said by the stu
dents and faculty that dancing will be
a feature Of the socials.
Successful Season.
Tech has had a successful football
season this year, defeating all the
teams in the High School League with
the exception Of Central, in which game
Tie was the result
II Is being earnestly urged by the
students and faculty of Tech as well
as Central that a date DE arranged on
Which this Tie may be played or, but
as Yet nothing definite has been ar
ranged. The societies are all in fun
sway, but they either don't do much
or else don't say much about what they
do
At the first OF the year there was some
trouble about the students getting to
their respective classes as they We're all
spread out, being ln several different
buildings. AS the scholars were new To
the existing conditions they did not
know where 10 find their classes, and
so caused q great deal of confusion
But all this has been eliminated, and
the classes go and return in the different
buildings with as much regularity as if
they dld not have TO set foot outside
The classes IN the shops are so large
that the boys in several of them have
10 stay after school for as much as two
or three hours.
Actively Engaged.
The Students and faculty of Eastern
are in the midst of a great deal Of ac-
tivity
1t seems as if the students from Capt.
tol Hin are more active in all the de-
partments OF school life than any OF
the other high schools.
Last week they held a successful
musicale recital in their assembly hall,
OF an the classes Mr. Hoover, the new
director of music. assisted By Miss
Bentley and Mrs Byram. rendered a
nne program.
An Amusing Vote.
Election dag The boys OF the third
and fourth year classes held d straw
vote, and much fun was derived from
II The voting was done ia a regu-
lar manner, and resulted in Roosevelt
being elected by a majority of four
Much fun was had when one OF the
boys from each party started In TO make
an election speech. a few voted for
swallow and De5s. but the majority
seemed 10 prefer 20 let the water wagon
take its course.
on the Saturday following the game
with Western, Eastern played and beat
the preps Dy % o. Weller. of Eastern
making The only touchdown.
Girls Basketball
The Girls basketball team has not
been letting the grass grow under its
feet. a fine team has been organized
and Miss Margaret Craig elected cap
tain.
SO many sood players are coming out
70 trv Tor The team that it is very hard
10 choose the exact players for the
championship games. ana SO "a great
many OF them are playing on the second
team. which an the present time is al
most as good as the first
a great many UEeFaratiCns are beiua
made for the Company + dance. which
viii be on December J. The girls as WEI.
as the boys are Interested in this dance
and look forward 10 90 with "a good deal
OF Joyous anticipation
The pupils uf Western High School az.
in high giee over their defeat of Central
and their grand pIosueCts Of al least
playing Tech to a sJaudstiI IL they do
not beat them The team this year is