Evening star., 1911-06-01
e Local |nerscho|asic Championship Will Be Decided Friday
TECH AND WESTERN WILL
DECIDE TITLE TOMORROW
What Promises to Be Great Scholastic Bat
tie to Be Played on Georgetown
Field-Other Amateur Gossip.

Tomorrow at 3 o'clock in the afternoon
1t is probable that one of the greatest
scholastic games ever played in the Dis
trict Of Columbia will begin. After los
ing the first game of the season to West
ern. Technical High has come to the
front, and owing to the loss sustained by
Western in the game against Eastern is
to get it's much coveted chance to play
again for the championship, and the two
mentioned teams will fight 1t out tomor-
row for the premiership of the scholastic
league.
To attempt to predict a winner would
be impossible, because there are SO many
things which govern the result of a scho-
lastic game that form is a very poor
criterion by which to judge it. Tech ad-
herents have claimed from the first that
if they got another chance at Western
they would show the Red and White that
the first victory won by that team was In
the nature of a f1uke. Whether the Man.
ual Trainers will be able to make good
their boast remains to be seen. Over at
Western they are saying nothing. but
there is not much time being lost In the
way of preparation. If Western had the
team which first appeared against Tech
it would have about an even chance. and
at that, even without Howard, 1t cannot
be seen where Tech has so much on the
Western nine as a team. 1t Is true that
Western did not hit Eastern, but there
is not one chance in hundred Of Garland
getting away as easily as did Lignon, not
withstanding the fact that he is con-
ceded to be q better pitcher.
On the other hand Tech has made
such an excellent showing in the games
it has played recently that 1t would seem
shut out Cathedral School, beat the
Preps and won from Eastern. to 1.
1t is almost sure that Garland will go
to the mound for the Tech nine. while
Holden will again be depended on to take
up the burden Of box duty for Western.
Garland got away to a poor start when
he faced Western in the first game OF
the season, and what he Will DO on MS
return trial against the same team Will
be interesting to note. In the first game
mercy, but the Tech crowd claimed that
it could hit him easily if given another
chance.
The grandstand play which Tech is
making now in regard to saying that 1t
wants Western to use Howard IS rather
ridiculous on the face OF 1t, ana seems
to be a sort of lame excuse for the stand
ard has been declared by the board OF
principals Of the high schools to be In
eligible to play in the high school series.
and with that knowledge to back II there
is no doubt that the Tech coach IS per
fectly safe in making the statement that
he would like Western to use Its regu-
lar shortstop.
Probably the game that McArdle put UP
around the short field in the game
against Eastern Influenced the declara-
ton It is certain that no other shortstop
could have done better, the Western CEN
ter fielder who was sent in to take the
place Of Howard getting everything that
came his way in good style.
II the Walford club is able to win Its
game tomorrow from the New Willard
team 1t will go into the lead in the Com
mercial League. and II 1t does 1t Will be
a hard matter for any Of the other clubs
in the circuit to displace 1t.
The St. Martins club In the Inde-
pendence League seems to be coming into
its own The Churchmen are making the
squirt which has been expected of them all
season, and 1t Is not going to be easy
for any team to stop them. once they are
fairly started.
1t seems that several Of the defeats
which were sustained by tho club dur
ing the first two weeks OF the season
were the result of the failure Of star
players to report for the games In which
they were depended on to play. Four
Catholic University men were on the nine
and It was only once in awhile that they
showed up, although they were depended
on by the ST. Martin management.
The controversy which arose recently in