The Washington herald., 1911-02-01

Eastern High School will not De rep
resented in the spring meet this sea son.
Last year they had one representative,
and he landed third place in the mile.
De Witt and Upman are entered in
the dashes for the Western High School.
in the Hatchetites' meet. ''Curley' Byrd
counts on these boys to do something.
Central battery men have been working
regularly for the past two weeks Some
Of them are ready to pitch by now, and
will be in midseasOn form when the bat
ting practice starts.
Eastern High Schools basketball quint
plays the Business High quint in the
Eastern gymnasium on February 3. This
game promises to be one of the hottest
of the high school series.
Manager Shore. of the Business base
ball team. will have the candidates re-
port for training on the track This will
do the Stenographers a deal of good, as
speed Is always necessary quality.
The Western track team is coming
along at fast rate. All of the men
are showing good form, ana you can
count on the Georgetown lads to show up
to advantage in the George Washington
mSst-
The Business basketball team will
! have Dodge back in the game against
Eastern Friday. Dodge puts life into the
StenoSraphers' play and the Capitol
Hill boys will have to go the limit TO
win.
Zappone. who made a name for himself
in football at the Rhode Island avenue
school. has been transferred to Central
He will be a candidate for the track
team. and is expected to make a good
man in the field events.
Tech baseball candidates for the pitch
er and catcher positions reported for the
first time yesterday afternoon, and went
through light workout. The veterans
will not report until some of the candi-
dates have been thinned out.
Babe" Adams. of Central will be back
in the folds Wednesday. He has been
working in the post-office the first part
of this season and is in the best of con-
dition. He should make a good man for
the y streeterS in the outheld.
Capt. Myers. Of the Western baseball
nine. will have the battery candidates out
Wednesday for the first time. They will
practice in the gymnasium. 'Curley"
Byrd will be there to look them over, and
will take charge after the track season.
The battery candidates for the Business
nine will report next week. Burley. who
will be the mainstay Of the Rhode Island
avenue team. will not report with the
first squad. but will be on hand two
weeks later. when the new candidates
have been tried out.
Sohlke, of the Cathedral School, will
not be seen in action any more. He went
to Racine. Mich. for the holidays. and
did not return. The Cathedral School lost
a good man in Sohike, as he was a crack
basket tosser. football player, and one of
the best baseball players at school.
The Western High School basketball
team will have a number of their old
players back in the lineup when they
play their next interhigh school contest.
'Curley" Byrd, who Is coaching the
track team at the Georgetown school,
and the wearers of the Red and White eX-
The Central High School track team
will not be represented in the high
school relay race in the George Wash
ington meet this year. The event will be
three-cornered affair between the
Western, Technical. and Business, and
promises to be one of the best on The
George Washington card.
Coach Bill Foley, of the Central High
track team, expresses no fears for the
expected good standing of the o Street.
ers in the George Washington gams
Saturday night. With Reuter- and Hamil-
ton in the sprints and middle distances,
Hunt in the hurdles, Kelly and Van
Dyne, the big freshman. in the weight
events, these blue-shirted C's should fir
ish well among the foremost. as has
been their time -honored custom.