Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-31
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

| The alumni meeting at Central Tuesda V
| afternoon brought together the largest
| number of former Central students ever
| known to be present at the street in
| stitution at one time. A movement Is
| on foot to organize the alumni. Bust
| ness is the only local high school that
can boast of a thoroughly organized
| alumni. and the former Business pupils
| deserve plenty of credit for the excellent
dances, excursions and entertainments
given during the past few years under
| their auspices. 1t would be a good
| thing If all the high schools could estab-
| hsh alumni similar to the Stenogra-
piers.
| Eddie Rheem, the former Central out
| fielder, is back in town and reports he is
| thoroughly satisfied with his berth at
| Princeton University. Rheem made
quite an impression as a ball player In
| the early fall, and in appreciation OF his
all around work on the diamond he was
| elected captain of the Princeton fresh
man base ball nine for this coming spring.
| He will, in all probability. play the outer
garden, a position with which he is well
consistency as he batted in the high
| school series, he will easily earn a re-
sponsible place in the batting order
among the Princeton colts.
! Wonder if the opinions of the local
foot ball authorities will bring about the
desired changes in the rules. All these
| opinions are sensible and based on eX-
perience. as each man who suggested the
various changes has been connected with
the gridiron game ever since it embraced
the modern form of play.
After the holidays are over the Busi-
ness quint will certainly be in its best
form. if practice has anything to do to-
ward rounding team into shape. The
| stenographers are scheduled to report
coaching of Tanner should improve the
team play. The whole secret of the sue
! cess of former Business quints has been
Their team play. very little individual
will most likely meet right after sl'hool
takes in and some interesting games are
predicted to take place.
Cunningham. well known around these
parts as a base ball and foot ball player,
is within our midst again and appeais to
have taken on considerable weight. This
is his last year as an athlete at Princeton
University. for the rule prohibiting an
athlete playing more than four years in
the colleges will bar him from all the COL
lege paTticipations. Cunningham played
two years on athletic teams a. Wesleyan
University before he entered the New Jer-
sey college.
Western is still trying to land suitable
training quarters and thie is the only
thing that is keeping the boys across the
creek from training regularly the
track The track managers tried to get
the use Of the Y. NJ G., A. track certain
days in the week. and have since made
the Georgetown University track. but SO
far no permission has been granted. 1t
seems a pity suitable quarters cannot be
Enrolled but ha abe
look prospects for "a track team being
turned out are not Very bright. If the red
and white team does organize, 1t will be
compelled to train in the corridors Of the
school. and every one can easily realize
what a disadvantage this would be.
Business has landed worthy coach for
the basket ball team in Tanner. rmer
knows the game from start to finish. and
what is more important. knows how to
teach it. The jquint is improving steadily
under his system of coaching. and the
Stenographers are bound to make strong
bid for the preparatory school champi( II
ship of the District Friends Select and
the Georgetown Props appear to be the
only teams which will give the Business
quint trouble in winning this honor
Richardson. who played stellar game
on the diamond for the Centraltes few
seasons ago. is In town. He is now at
tending the University of Virginia. and
is very much satisfied with the southern
college. Richardson intended trying for
the track team this season. as he is
half-nhiler Of considerable ability, but an
injury to his hip prevented him from
training. He will enlist with the college
base ball candidates this spring. however.
and IT would not be surprising to see him
land berth on the Virginia nine.
Cullen, Dewey and Fischer. all OF Gen.
traa. form q fast trio Of sprin ers who
will compel any dash men their size
around these parts to go some to down
them at the shcrt distances. These boys
have been training faithfully under Coach
Jest sprinters in the Blue and White
Squad in spite Of their size All three will
most likely be enrolled in all the meets
fin which the o street school participates.
Rathbone, one of the best all-around
athletes, is doing much toward raising
the standard of athletics at the Rhode
Island avenue school. He is working
hard. together with few athletic off,
Gals Of the school. to establish a track
team at Business this winter which will
prove a credit to the school. He real
| ICES, like many others. that Business
| has the material enrolled if it was only
induced to come out and make an effort
to make the team. Rathbone will play
one of the positions on the basket ball
five this season. If he succeeds in MAX
| ing the base ball nine next spring he will
have the honor of playing on every ath-
letic team known to the high schools, as
| he has already been acknowledged as
one of the best foot bah warriors in the
school and is also known to be a clever
man in track athletics.
| George Washington will form a basket
ball Ave this winter, and two former
| high school athletes have an excellent
opportunity Of landing one OF the posi-
tions on the qunt These boys are Ell
lis and Johnston. both members of the
Hatchet'tes' foot ball eleven during the
past season. This is only another in
stance of high school boys making good
i'm college athletics. If interest in bas-
ket ball is as keen among the high
schools next season as it has been this
winter. why. 1t would not be surprising
to see high school boys on both the
Georgetown and George Washington
lquints within the next few years.
| High jumping and pole vaulting are be-
ginning to appear as past arts in high
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