Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-11
HIGH SCHOOL NOTES.

Basket ball will be formally ushered In
as high school sport next Tuesday aft
ernoon in the gymnasium at Business,
quintet from Eastern.
Neither team has perfected its play.
Business having played but single
practice game, and Eastern having yet to
figure in it's first. Consequently, follow
ers Of the teams are sanguine as to the
class Of play that will characterize the
game. The Business quint showed
flashes of the fast play that landed the
championship last season in the game
with Gallaudet last Wednesday, in which
it scored 81 points as against 40 for its
opponent. The game did not serve to
prove the real strength of either team
merely being arranged to provide much
needed practice
The Stenographers will line up IN
Tuesdays game as follows: Scott, left
forward; Dodge, right forward; Nash or
Faye, center; Bridget, left guard, and
team will probably be picked from the
following candidates: Parker. Weaver,
Defandorf. Chase. Evans, McCaffrey, Va
rela and Smith.
The schedule of track meets Of high
school interest booked for this season Is
as follows: Saturday. February 4,
George Washington University games at
Washington; Saturday, February ID,
Johns Hopkins University games at oth
Regiment Armory of Baltimore; oatur-
day, February IS, Federal indoor games
at Washington: Saturday, March 4.
Georgetown University games at Wash
ington: Saturday, March 10, Fifth Regl-
ment Athletic Association games at Bal
timore.
Besides the above mentioned, several
of the schools will arrange interclass and
interschool meets, to be held at Intervals
during the season. Business has already
arranged for a series OF 1nterclass games,
the first of which will be held SATURDAY
morning December II, at 10 O'Clock IN
the school gymnasium: others VIII nui-
low the last Saturday in each succeeding
month.
Two seasons ago interclass meets were
held at Central every Saturday morning,
hut these were discontinued last year. anu
the authorities have as yet taken a., ~ ~. &c
winter. At Technical and Western action
has been reserved by the respective man
agements until a later date, but II IS more
than likely that both will take dennte
steps toward arranging schedule a1'er
the holidays.
II IS hardly probable that Technical Will
be represented by a basket pail qulh'
this season, in view of the fact that ne
action has been taken SO far toward the
formation of quint to represent tine
school The Blacksmiths probably nave
more seasoned material than any other
high school in the District, and It, is re-
prettable that the nucleus for winning
combination should 60 to waste ste. ,s
foot ball eleven, Tech has one OF the
most formidable pair of goal tossers IN
the District, and any other team WOULD
welcome the addition of either player
This season promises to bring about a
revival of track athletics in the high
schools as is plainly evinced by the
activity in this branch OF sport evident
in each of the schools. Heretofore
Central has been the only school that has
given the sport more than secondary
Consideration, principally for this reason
the o street squad has almost invariably
carried off the honors in comparatively
easy fashion Never have the wearers
Of the Blue and White been forced to
exert themselves in order to win an In
terscholastic track meet held In the DIS
trict.
However, unless the activity plainly
evident in the other schools at pres en-.
is but q flash in the pan, as has been the
case in many instances previously. con-
ditions will prove different this year
Technical, Business and western alreaoy
have organized squads, Wnue EASTERN Hds
signified an intention of joining the other
schools
The principal handicap that has stood
in the way of the organization or teams
in past years has been an Inability on
the part of managers to secure suitable
training grounds. However. thus far nc
such complaints have been voiced, and
probabilities are that each team has been
provided for.
In q recent interview with Harry Dodd
former Eastern High School athlete
at present sporting editor of the Savan.
nah Morning News, Ted Coy. coach OF
the Yale squad Of 1910. paid Crane
tribute to the work of Beef Field, 9
former local high school boy. who played
consistent game in the backfield at New
Haven during the summer just past. The
Washington boy played a remarkabl,
consistent game. and his work in thu
Harvard game was largely responsible
for Yale's creditable showing. Had III
not been injured and forced to lay idle
during the early season games. he woul6
have easily earned a position on the ALL
American team" said the leader Of one
Of the greatest teams in the history OF
the sport in American colleges. Field I.
undoubtedly one Of the most aggressive
players ever developed at Yale. or, to my
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