Evening star., 1909-04-25
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

J. The rainy weather during the last week
! has greatly checked the progress of high
school athletics. The rack teams at all
| the high schools were exceedingly anxious
to get in some outdoor training for the
Georgetown Prep meet. which is to be
held the 1st of May. The date for the
Central Business game. which was TO be
played Friday, has not as yet been ar
ranged but will in all probability be
pulled off, if convenient. on the 9TH of
May, as it IS an open date in the high
school schedule. 1t is hard to tell just
how the athletic advisers will arrange
about the postponed games, but they will
most probably get them in by playing
double-headers on dates that are the most
convenient.
| Bouschee is certainly putting up a
classy fielding game at second base for
the Central team and has greatly inn
proved since the early part of the season.
AS he is also heavy hitter, he makes a
capa BILE substitute for Capt. Smith of last
years team, who graduated in the 1903
class. Now that Capt. Thomas is eligible
the infield is intact and could hardly be
improved upon. az all are good players in
both hitting and fielding. The team that
will represent Central on the diamond
this season is the strongest known since
u IL
Cunningham. and with an even break in
luck should have easy sailing for the
championship.
That Technical is not going to lose any
opportunity to make d strong bid TO land
first honors in the spring meet this sea-
son was emphasized by the fact that
the Machinists held a special meeting OF
all the athletes at Tech one day last
week and aroused much interest by ur-
| gent speeches by the athletic promoters
at this institution. An appeal was made
for all the boys interested IN any way
with base ball or track to come out and
try for the teams. Technical realizes
that this is the year it stands the best
show of making Central go some to defeat
| them and Coach Walkers capable coach-
| ing expects to be in the running from the
start.
| Chick" Thomas. former star on a,
championship nine at Central High School
and brother of this years captain. has
promised the athletic adviser at Central
High School, Mr.. Maurer, that he will
coach the base ball tea mthe rest Of
the season This is a very sensible
move, as the team, although pretty strong
| in every position, lacks efficient coach
| ing, and with Thomas handling the reins
| of the nine it should be at its best
| Thomas also represented the University
| OF Pennsylvania OIL the ball diamond, and
\ undoubtedly knows quite a little about
! the inside points of the game. He will
| also direct and advise the o street boys
| from the bench in the high school series
| Capt. Keane Of the Stenographers base
ball team is having his banner year in
| base ball this season. and expects to
| rank among the topnotchers who repre-.
| sent their schools in the high school COM
| petitions. Keane will undoubtedly land q
| place on the all-higll nine provided he
| keeps up his present gait. In several
games taken on by the Rhode Island
school team this season Capt. keane has
starred in the field and at the bat.
| Now that the inter-high base ball series
| Is OH and will soon be over 1t Is a question
| whether the best players In the high
| school series will be able to represent
the high schools of this city in match
! base ball game with either the Prince
| ton or Pennsylvania freshmen. Both
these colleges permit this trip to be taken
| by the high school boys at their own
expense In order to get a line on the
calber of some of the ball players in the
| high schools. AS both these colleges are
mostly academic. a movement is said to
be on foot 10 keep representatives from
both Technical and Business from being
members of the team that takes this trip
as both these schools take different
courses than the one which will prepare
them for either of these universities.
| The Central High School team received
| Isl IiTSt SelDdth VI the season when IL was
announced that Pitcher Bullock would be
unable to represent his school in the ini-
| tial game owing To illness. The post
! ponement of this scrimmage was an adj
vantage TO the O Street team. as Bullock
Is expected 10 be out in the near future
and may he booked to twirl the opening
| game for the Centraltes. Although Cen
/ tral has great confidence I'm Boetler, the
other pitcher of the nine, nevertheless
| the team feels safer to have both its
| slab artists on hand in case OF an emer-
| gency.
| In case Rawlings. the main twirler OF
| the Stenographers. is unable 10 compete
| In the high school championship series
! Coach Peet will most likely use either
BROOKS or Gregory TO serve them over
| for Business. In case Gregory performs
box duties Schrani. who is playing great
/ ball for Business in the outfield, will be
brought in TO cover first the position
/ played by Gregory when he is not pitch
| ing. There is much doubt at this writing
! whether Rawlings will be able to repre-
/ sent his school. but if he does local high
/ school dopesters figure II will greatly in
/ crease the Stenographers' chances Of
\ landing the rag.
| The only high school game scheduled
/ for this week will take place Friday.
! April 10, and will I've Eastern VS.. Western.
/
John Murphy. jr.. thirty years old, son
! Of Coi. John Murphy. proprietor of Muir
phys Hotel. died at Richmond. Va, after
/ n brief Hines He was married 10 Miss
| Nellie Black, who survives him with one