Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-07
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

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Business and Eastern play Tuesday. and
I a battle royal is predicted. It is expected
/ the game will be hard fought. the
| team that loses will be forced to occupy
last place in the present series. The
| Stenographers have made a better show
| ing than Eastern this fall. but as many
of their players are being ruled out for
| one reason or another the Capitol Hill
| team stands a coed show of coming out
on the long end OF the score.
| The action recently taken by Principal
Meyers certainly indicates that he is
firm believer in having an athlete up in
his studies throughout the whole yelr be-
| fore he is eligible to compete I'm the ath-
| letic games. After this stand he can
never be accused OF being lenient with
! the participants when il comes to get
| ting them eligible.
| Simpson. the substitute end of Business.
was in the Central game but two minutes.
/ bat he accomplished more in that period
OF time than good many Business
elevens pave succeeded in doing for the
J last several years by scoring on Central.
: 1t is true il was largely an element of
/ luck. but such a play often wins game.
! Central can boast of very fast back
a
would have been farther up in the race.
! The men playing these backheid positions
for the Blue and White team are all track,
men OF good ability. and with little
more weight would have made more head
/ way than they did against Technical.
! Henry, another one of Centrals track
representatives. certainly played a bril-
| liant game for his school against Bust
Stenographers' formations by his clean
tacilling.
/ All the next few games in the series
! are bound TO be interesting from the spec
| tators' point of view. for the teams VIII
be evenly matched. OF Course the contest
| between Technical and Business Is bound
| to be one sided. but the elevens near hrst
place I'm the series are striving hard to
| make a game finish.
| The more Hughes. who is playing quar-
ter for Business. works on the receV-
ing end the more one is impressed that
! he will prove a good man fer the Stenog-
raphers next season. He has gone into
the games this season as novice and
has played well as a substitute Tor capt.
Davis Business will have classy bunch
of backs to pick from next year. and VI
is now UP to the players to establish
| themselves i'm the eligibility class
To see' Farmer of Technical playing
one would never suspect he is nursing
| a lame shoulder This injury has kept
| him out OF a number of games. but the
times he has played this season the other
side was very much aware of his pres
ence His long end runs have aided
ITechnical materially in running up large
scores this season. and the Machinists
cert ainly will he strong i'm the quarter
hack position for few more years. as
Farmer is but a sophomore. He and Nor
ris the center Of the Tech eleven. work
together Ike clockwork and few fumbles
result with these two boys handling the
oval.
! Buliough. now acting captain OF the
| Machnists. Is d player who in every way
is the man for the job. He has been
! member Of the Tech eleven for the past
few years. and has aided the team ma
| terially toward anneXing several cham
pionships. Bullough is one Of the most
powerful players in the high schools and
is seldom downed on the first tackle. In
spite of the fact that Tech was crippled
by the loss of several of its stars, many
claim that the team is almost as strong
with Bullough and Farmer in the back
field. Technical would have been at sea
this fall following Principal Meyers action
If the second team had not been strong
enough to fortify the first eleven with
suitable material
/ IF Business does not develop a credit
able basket ball five this winter it will
not be the fault of the school Almost
every section in the school has repre-
! serta tive quint, and the intersection games
are bound to produce players of unusual
ability. All the schools suffer the loss OF
some promising athlete who does not
know his own ability owing to the failure
to test it. and by this method the Stenog-
| raphers are certain of obtaining the best
available material in the school.
| Capt. Davis of the Business foot ball
| team, had better hurry up and get that
funk marked off his name or the base
ence loss similar to the foot ball eleven
/ this fall He plays shortstop and his
\ fielding in this position for his teammates
I last spring was the life of the nine. Very
few hits got through his territory.
i Coach HecOXs idea of permitting Tech
/ meal to play picked eleven Of the high
| schools is a welcome piece OF news and
would certainly prove popular move
! The Machinists certainly have a clever
combination and 1t would be very inter-
esting to see what they could do against
a selection from all the high schools
This would be an excellent opportunity to
get a line on the players capable or max
ing the all-high eleven. As this contest
would undoubtedly contain the stars OF
! the present series. il would easily and
plainly show what players were the most
entitled for the positions on this eleven
| The injuries and the funk rule which
have ruled many of the stars Of the vari-
Gus high schools out or the game tnlS ran
| have weakened the teams and have made
the games in the series somewhat lacking.
but these many unfortunate occurrences
have also benefited the elevens of the high
| schools to certain extent. One OF the
hal dest problems a coach confronts in
| taking a team in charge is developing the
green material, but this fall the coaches
| have been compelled to employ the in
experienced players. and the result will
be that these players will be OF varsity
| caliber next year. as one years expert
ence usually teaches the player the rudi-
ments of the game. OF course 1t would
have been better for the game this TALL,
especially from the specta tors point of
view, with the stars in the game: but
| now that the season is over the high
! schools which have felt these losses very
greatly this season can console them
selves with the fact that the elevens will
all derive benefits. Fewer players will
have to he developed for the new posi-
tions next year than ordinarily would
have been the case.
| .Burly'' Hamilton, the ex-Central High
| sridiron star and a former member of
the George Washington eleven. has quit
the Hatchetites owing to the lack of
time to attend the university. He was
speedy halfback and his return to the
game about two weeks ago was well
come piece of news to the George
| Washington followers. He had only
worked with the team two or three times
this fall before he decided to put away
his foot ball togs.