The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-02-18

spair at the outlook for the coming base
ball season, which a the present time
looks none too bright. The reason Of
this marked change is that Linthieum
has been forced to resign the captaincy
| The reason assigned for this is that ne
fiunked the last quarter and the faculty
announced that in order to make up for
lost time and attain the set standard in
the one study in which he hunked he
would have TO give up baseball ana all
other athletics for this year. This &C
ton by the faculty is pretty hard blow
TO the Eastern baseball team, which
UP to the present has been in the best
| of shape. All the students of the school.
students of the other high schools and
many outsiders think this action of the
| faculty of Eastern High School in bar
ring their best athlete from all athletic
| sports for the rest OF the year is pretty
| severe action to take, and the punish
ment melted out is pronounced by all to
be much too great for the small offense
| Of one funk
Troubles in Bunch.
| The woes of the Eastern seem to come
| in punches. A week ago they had a
good captain, and a good hall to prac-
tice in: then to make their cup of hap
piness run over Oyster, very enthusi-
astic baseball player, and the prospec-
| tive captain, secured Phil Geier. an ex-
star of the Boston Nationals as q coach.
With all of these things with them it
| is no wonder they had great hopes or
| landing the championship. But that
lip was demonstrated by the events
that followed each other. in rapid
succession. First Holy Name Hall,
tice in was condemned or something
| done TO it, and they were fired inglori-
ously out into the street with no place
| to practice, the next catastrophe came
| in the shape of Captain Linthicunl' s
| resignation
Dr.. Wiley Lectures.
A very interesting event happened at
the school last Monday, when DR.. Wiley.
| the food expert for the Government. de-
| livered lecture on the adulteration Of
foods. He started off to tell them what
they ate for breakfast each morning.
First of all ne anaiyzed the butter which
all of the students use for breakfast
after telling them of the divers different
kinds of bugs and germs in this product,
| he went on to tell of the impurities in
! the coffee and other foods used by moss
of them every morning for breakfast. BY
the time he had reached the end of his
discourse every scholar in the room was
| In such a state that one and all had 10
/ be excused for a few minutes. This hap
| pened just before luncheon time and
when the scholars got out for lunch they
| had a decided distaste for food in any
shape or form.
The next day the proprfetors of the
numerous little shops In the vicinity
! where most of the pupils go TO get their
luncheon. had il explained to them why
| they had not beer able to sell gffiytflfng
! to the students the day before.
Debate in Prospect.
The fourth year class viii hold de-
bate some time next week if their pres
| ent plans don't fall through.
The students have recently decided on
| the kind of class pins they win have
| this year and have made a contract to
/ have them at an early date
The Senior Club met recently at the
home of Miss Fanny Brown and a very
pleasant evening was spent by all pres
! ent.
Company F will give it's next dance
! or February o. Arrangements have
been made that it may be great sue
Major Kemper recently gave a gold
medal to the Eastern -Ganapa nyt4 10 be
awarded TO the best private IN the
! RAJ ks.
Doings at Tech.
! Affairs at Tech are proceeding very
! slowly with the possible execution OF
study. The Hand and Mind, the official
organ of the school, has not been issued
for some time. but whether that is from
| lack CT news or from other causes is
not known.
The cadets are drilling as hard as
they can for such weather but IL is
! Impossible to do much work when the
thermometer registers only a few de-
gress above zero and the snow and ice
lie many inches thick on the streets The
reason the boys take SO nlucn interest
IL the drills is because OF the proximity
of the inaugural parade. and each boy is
striving TO make his the best company
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very agreeable to the officers and les
sens their work a great deal.
The cadets of Company ID will give
their next dance on Friday evening,
March 10. at the Cairo. Preparations
are being made to make the dance the
most successful high school ball that
| has been given this year The commit
tee in charge is composed of Capt Z, W.
Fulton. First Lieut.. B. B. Ramey, Sec
ond Lieut.. W. &. Bra1y, and First Sergt.
Y. /. Richards The Tech dances have
always been feature OF the school life
and have always been highly successful
Students at Central
AS the students Of Central have moth
Ing to do for the present but study. they
| have turned their attention to running
They have secured a good track at the
school and the boys wishing and hoping
for running honors are 10 be seen daily
running around and around the new
track. Central has at last gotten run =
ming track. and at the present time
stands as the only one OF the high
schools with a good running track of its
own Western has small track. but 1t
is not to be considered with Centrars
The track was only secured after many
and repeated efforts on the part of Capt
Sydney Kent, of the track team The
track is built of wood and IS laid over
the brick floor in the main corridor of
the basement. The track is about eighty
e. I,,.. -,
teen feet wide. II is we'll balanced and
while not q long is might he wished it
serves pretty well for the young sprint
ers, Judging from the number who make
use of il after school hours The sprint
ers of Central have made an exception
ally good showing this year and they