Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-17
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Dyson, former western High runner
and now a member of the Central High
track squad, is rapidly reaching his stride
in the mile run. He was without peer
at this distance last season and easily
copied first honors in this event in all
the inter-high matches last winter. The
boys across the creek also lost Robson,
a promising distance runner, through
graduation. last June.
Why does not Central line up with Gen.
trail High of Philadelphia in track par
ticipation? The Quakers have admins
tered some singing defeats on the grid
iron to the local school. and many of the
o street hackers are confident the Blue
and White track team could turn the ia
bles on their Philadelphia namesakes on
the track. This would prove a good move.
as the local school is not afforded worthy
competition on the track from the other
high schools in the city. and Central ap-
pears to be the only school which gives
this branch of athletics its proper atten-
ton. Then. again, it would create much
interest among the members Of both track
squads and undoubtedly benefit each to a
great extent.
Business has a couple of promising run
ners in Engel and Allison. who will don
the running togs as novices this winter.
game naturally, and many OF the Bust
ness track men predict they will hold
their own with the other Junior runners
in the high schools. If the Stenographers
can succeed in bringing out few good
novice runners each year the squad would
be composed of some classy caliber in a
few years Business has won the drill.
landed a base ball championship and won
laurels on the basket ball floor. and 1t is
now up to the Rhode Island avenue school
n fOn h0nnrS
iron. The sooner the better.
Western plays the Friends Select School
basket ball game Friday. and good
game is predicted. The Georgetown boys
have been taking on few games during
the last couple Of weeks. but that does
not intimate that the quint has not been
getting in some hard practice. Wait till
Western meets Business and see the fur
ny.
The class of 1908 recently donated to the
Central High School a much desired tro-
ply case, and it is now up to the Cen
trail athletes to fill II with trophies won
on the athletic field. In bygone days the
Centralites could boast of all kinds of
championships. but il the Blue and White
athletes keep up their present gait in the
high school competitions no more trophy
cases will be in demand.
Monday afternoon at the close of
school Leon Shore was elected captain of
the Business high track team for this
season. Rathbone was also nominated,
but declined the nomination. owing to the
fact that he was too busy with other
school affairs. He is in the cadets and is
a member of the executive committee of
the school, and so could not receive the
nomination. John Bridget was elected
manager Of the team. Both Shore and
Bridget are runners of ability and should
prove capable leaders at the running
game. Shore intends running the 40 this
season and also intends to try for the
relay team. He ran the dasheS last win
ter.
Track work commenced at Business
Monday. but owing to the fact a good
work did not start in earnest until Tues
day. fairly large squad was on hand
and preparations and plans for the COM
ing season were discussed The team has
not selected coach to date. but the
veterans of the running game at the
schools will act in this capacity.
1t will soon be time for the high schools
to arrange dates for inter-high competi-
ton on the track. 1t would be a good
ideA~if a regular schedule could be
ranged and carried out. If this was done
interest could be aroused and a chance of
arranging spring meet with entries
from each school would be much brighter
III IL d
question of time before the spring meet
will be an incident of the past unless all
the high schools wake up and support
this event annually with more spirit.
Business plays University School at the
tossing game Friday The Stenograp pliers
nave been handicapped of late owing to
the absence of Davis, who was absent
during the past week. Business will line
up In the following order: Scott, center;
McGann and Davis. backs. and Dodge and
Perry forwards. The quint will line up
in this order for the rest of the season
and when 1t reaches its true stride the
school expects the team to cop a string
of victories.
The base ball championship next spring
promises to be one of the most evenly
balanced series since the history of the
high schools Each school will put i'm
strong bid for the championship and each
school will have competent coach, and
as plenty of material will be on hand il
would not be surprising to see the cham
pionship go to the school which is fortu-
nate enough to get the break in luck
Coaching, however, will have a lot to do
with the manner In which the teams play
this spring.
Central has a classy bunch of sprinters
enrolled this season, and Coach Foley
has no cause to worry about entries in
the dash events this season. With Dewey.
Cullen, Reuter-. Hamilton and Fisher
forming the nucleus of the sprinters the
school is well fortified in the dash events
Coach Foley is willing to match Dewey.
the diminutive sprinter. with any boy his
age and size around these parts Dewey
Is well acquainted with the running art,
having been a member of several high
school squads.
Central will start hard training right
after the holidays. and send a large num-
Der of entries to the local indoor meets
1t Is not known whether the other high
schools to run one another relay races in
not but IL experience is what is needed
in these meets is the best place to gain
it, A good idea would be for the high
schools to run each other relay races in
these meets, for each school can at least
develop four good runners. The high
school relay races in the local indoor
meets attracted lots of attention a few
years ago, but even these matches are
dying out of late.