Evening star., 1909-05-12
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Too bad the rain had TO call halt on
the Business-Technical game last Friday,
when the first two innings of play be-
tween the two teams gave promise of an
interesting game. Both these teams rea-
ized what a victory would mean and
were out for blood. 1t certainly looked
like Technicars day, however. as Capt.
Dolly" Gray was displaying his true
FORM which looked very much like a
victory for the Machinists. He also gave
promise OF establishing a strike-out rec
ord in this scrimmage. having six strike
outs In two innings. IL Gray had a man
behind the bat who could hold his sharp
curves Technical surely would have an
excellent show of annexing another base
ball championship. for, barring none of
the local high school twirlers Dolly
tops them all. The Central High School
nine is pulling for Technical to win. as
1t would give the o street school another
chance for first honors, provided its team
beat Technical. II such q thing should
happen 1t would cause triple tie which.
according to several Of the athletic advis-
ers OF the high schools, would be played
off. The postponed game between Tech
nical and Business will be played later on
in the series on date which has not at
this writing been decided upon. Tech
nical plays Eastern today, while Business
and Western will clash in the fifth game
Of the series Friday afternoon.
The batting and fielding averages will
be published in The Star at the close of
the interhigh school series. and an all
high-school nine will also be picked.
O'Relly has the honor OF making the
longest hit of this seasons series. but as
hard luck will have it the bingle does not
count, as the game was called before
five innings were played. He soaked one
Of Rawlings benders in the Tech-Busi-
ness game to the center field fence-the
longest hit yet made by any Of the high
school players this year. He is hefty
lad and is backed by his many Tech
followers to swing his bat to advantage
in the decisive games Technical takes on
in the near future.
Offutt. who is filling Morris shoes be-
hind the bat for the Machinists. is quite
small in stature and surely has his hands
full in holding Gray's delivery. This fact
should in no way detract from Ofutts
ability as ball player. as he can fill
any position on the team creditably, hav-
ing played several different positions on
the nine this season. He has always
given good account Of himself by his
consistent playing. This is the sort OF
player that is valuable to a team. and
as Offutt seems to improve with prac-
tice he will undoubtedly prove a capable
substitute for Morris, who is out of the
game at present with bad wrist.
What promises to be an interesting dual
track meet will be the annual competi-
ton between Central High and Episcopal
High Of Alexandria. Each year these
two schools seem to be evenly matched
on the track and always afford the track
followers of the high schools some inter-
esting races and field competitions. Epis-
copal High will depend mostly on its
crack runner, Pendleton who has always
been a large factor in past competitions
Central has a large quantity of promis-
ing track material on hand this season
but will depend largely on the following
men fro q victory: Zeh and Bryant in
and hurdle events Spransy. likely and
Menefee. in the weight events; Dewey in
the sprints. Several of the men who
have been showing class for the ilrst
time this season are also training faith
fully for this annual affair.
Mike Macdonald. the first sacker Of
the Blue and White nine, is certainly
playing gilt edge ball for the 0 street
team. and his fielding makes several of
who covered first base for Central a few
years ago. Mike is weaker with the
stick. however, and lacks the art OF
slamming out extra base hits, which won
reputation Tor MS DrOtner. Mike Is au
all-arOund athlete and enters all the
branches of athletics at Central when
the funk rule does not interfere.
BulIoch. one Of the box artists OF the
Central High School nine, who was
taken out of the box in the Central-Busi-
ness game owing to his inability to locate
the plate. is still apt 10 cause several
of the opposing high school teams trouble
in solving his delivery, as he was far
from being in form in the contest with
the Stenographers. He will be given an
other opportunity to distinguish himself
in some of the high school competitions
and according to the statements made by
several Of his teammates he will deliver
the goods.