Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-04-23
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| Central.
Extensive preparations are being made
by the students of Central High School for
| dances and picnics to be given during the
| Easter holiday. The most important of
! these is the Lambna Sigma Dance which Is
| t. be given at Mrs. Dyer's on Tuesday
| evening. Representatives of the other
| schools as well as Central will be present
to add to the enjoyment and to the number
of pretty girls which will attend.
The board of education has forbidden any
| class to organize until after the Easter hol-
| days. 1t was the wish of the fourth year
class to elect its officers in November, be-
| fore cliques are formed. After the holidays
! the four III year class will be held in sus-
pense until It's election is held. Already
| several names for the presidency have been
suggested and considerable discussion has
| al isen over the person best qualified to I'LL
4 the position.
The Central High School debating season
/ opened with a victory over the debating
/ team representing the Baltimore City Col
| lege in Baltimore on March Is. The hrse
debate Between the local schools was held
in the Western High School assembly hall.
| VIXEN the Western team defeated that or
| Eastern in cose contest. Last "Wednesday
| afternoon in the assembly hail Of Western
| the second annual debate between the Cen
| tTaA anu w eSteTn Teams was ueIo. NV
| team fl ON Central carried OF the honors.
| The question, whether or not an eight
hour working day should be adopted WITHIN
the United States by law for all clerks and
| all persons engaged in manual labor, was
| under discussion. The affirmative side was
! Upheld by Western. while Central assumed
| the negative. The speakers for Western
were I. Sidney McSween, Edward H. ROBBIE
! and George l.. Harrison; for Central, En-
| nest D. Shrieber, William 3. Richards and
| Henry w. Eigerton Commissioner Macfar-
| land, Justice Wendell p. Stafford OF the
| District Supreme Court and Mr.. g. r., Bow
elman, the librarian of the public library,
were the judges.
Next Saturday will lie a great day for
| the Central adherents. for 1t Is then that
| the great Pennsylvania meet comes of in
| Philadelphia in which Central High School
| will play an important part. In the race
| for the high school championship OF the
state, the Central High School of this city
| has entered a fast team to compete with
| the teams representing high schools in Chi
cago Brooklyn Boys High School, Erasmus
! Hall High School, Brooklyn; De Witt Gin
| ton New York City; Central Manual Train
ing School, Philadelphia, and the Philadel-
| phia Central High School, the latter now
| holding the championship.
| Central boys are handicapped In a meas
| ure, one of the rules of the local classes
prohibits any boy over twenty-one. or over
| four years in athletics in the high school,
| from competing In any event representing
| his school, Most Of the other high schools
| team which is to 80 has not yet been Sc
| Iected. but will be from the following can
! didates: Kemper. Wallace, Roberts, Sher-
man. Clagett and Kent, captain Of the
| track team. zf--.-,.. -.
The Central ball team Is now in fine con-
! dition. and has attained d snappy manner
| Of playing. This team is to play the Wes-
| ley freshmen in the near future. Last
| week the CentraLteam defeated the George
| town Reserves by a score of to 2. The
| features of the game were the fine playing
| of the Central battery. Cunningham and
| Woodward. The good batting of Thomas,
lipp, Mcdonald and Woodward deserve
| mentioning. The game was played on the
| Georgetown University campus.
Eastern.
| Company F Of Eastern is now working
hard on the drill program which was issued
| to the captains on the ODD Of March last.
| This program is different In good many
| respects from those of the preceding years.
| 1t is much shorter, the captains being re-
| quired to finish in thirty minutes, whereas
| 1t required three-quarters OF an hour to
| complete 1t last year The company, under
! the command of Capt. Linthicum. will be
| dangerous competitors for the red ribbons
| In the annual competitive drill in May.
| When Eastern had the honor four years
| ago OF having the colonel of the regiment,
the company, under the command of Capt.
| Fred Robinette, was successful in taking
! from the field the much-desred prize flag.
| Now that the commander Of the regiment,
| Col. Lybrand, is again a student of Eastern
High School. 1t Is hoped that Capt. Linthi-
| cum and his company will live up to the
| precedent established four years ago. At
| the company banquet last Friday evening
| Lieut. Huntington suggested that the girls
| of Eastern should come out after school
| TO encourage the boys. as it Is a known
| fact that In the presence of the popular sex
| the boys will work harder to show VIVA
| they can do. The girls have followed out
I CT m ND cho
numbers are DIS eager as the boys for East
| ern to win the drill.
| One of the lectures provided for in the
| course of free lectures to the people was
! given in the Assembly Hall, at Eastern. last
| Friday evening by DR.. Rosalie. Slaughter.
on the subject ''Ceylon and the Way They
| Do Things There" The lecture was Illus
trated by number of stereopteon slides
| which showed the peculiar customs of the
| inhabitants of the island. One of the pic
| lures shown the audience was Of the holy
| men. who, 1t Is said, in order to acquire
| merit have held their hands above their
| the manner in which people scare away
| sickness by singing and dancing; of BARRIERS
| who have no shops, but give shaves and
| haircuts the sidewalks or on public
| highways; where the tea grows that sells
| for $50 a pound. Instead of trolley cars
| the natives use the slow-gong OK carts, and
| instead of stoves two hot stones on the
| ground are used for cooking purposes The
| lecture was listened to with attention by
a very large audience. which filed the as
| sembly hall.
Athletics at Eastern are now on the boom.
| Great things are expected of the base ball
| team, which has been practicing for the
| past two months. The men were under an
| able coach In the person of Mr.. Phil Geier,
| formerly with the Boston Nationals and a
| Washington boy, until he had to join his
| team. Under his experienced coaching
! many valuable points were obtained by the
| boys. Bill Dineen of the Boston Americans
| had the battery. comprising Oyster, Lin
| thicum and Richardson, at American League
| PARK during the past four days and gave
| them instructions which will work for the
| good of the team Oyster. the captain, says
| that the showing of the team will exceed
| all expectations. His remarks were justi-
| fed in the games played this week with
| St. Johns College and the George WASH
| ington freshment, Eastern defeating both
| st. Johns went out in one, two, three
| order in the first, while Eastern scored two
| After two ST. Johns men had been retired
in the second, Ryon was passed to first
| The next ball was hit to Herring who
felded it clearly. but threw wild TO first,
| Ryon scoring. The next man struck out.
| Herring redeemed his error by placing a
| slashing two-bagger IN left field. scoring