The Washington herald., 1912-10-25
By C. w. SWAN.

Central and Eastern hook up this aft.
ernoon In the second game Of the scho-
lastic series at Union League Park. the
battle starting at $3.50 o'clock, with Jack
Gass in charge of the field.
On form Central should run away with
the Light Blue and White aggregation,
but an Eastern team Is never beaten
until the final whistle blows. and an
upset may be handed the dopesters to-
day.
The Central line will bear watching.
From all reports. the Dark Blues for
wards will prove the best in the series.
as a former coach OF the Central team.
who has been watching the o Streeters
work out. stated last night that Gen.
trails line would stop the Eastern at
tack. and should this prove true, then
Central will win in a walk.
Smith L. Fast.
Smith and Armstrong are the chief
ground gamers of the Capitol Hill eleven.
Smith is one of the fastest lads In the
high schools. and II he breaks looss
to-day it will take some tall moving to
stop him. Armstrong is the opposite. He
is a line plunger, and II remains to be
seen II the Central forwards will be able
to stop him.
Eastern will be handicapped by thu
absence Of Capt. Cohill. who will adorr
the side lines. Cohill would like Il
play. but 1t Is thought best, over Al
Eastern. to keep him out Of the opening
game, as he IL not up to scratch in hii
studies.
Coach .dcCafYrey has worked hard with
the Eastern team. and deserves to win
but Central will prove to be a much
NJ too oh
Back Field Trio strong.
In Stokes, Reeves and King. Centra
has a trio Of backs who will be hard
to stop. Reeves. although the smalles,
member Of the trio. Is the hardest to
halt IN a broken field, as he Is the Harry
Costello type. able to squirm through
a small hole and keep on going. Stokes
and King hit the line hard. and are
only downed by sheer weight Of mum.
bere
Fowler. who Is playing quarter at the
present time. is a good man. and by US.
ing him in quarter Eddie McDonough
Is showed back to end position, his nat.
ural place. McDonough Is one Of the
best ends in the high schools; there Is
no denying the fact.
On the line the Blue and White will
have some big men. In Jones, Oberlin
- OWmdn, l.. BOWMAN, and baDCOCk,
Capt. ''Murph' King has five husky
chaps and men who are able to take
care of the rushes.
When everything Is taken into con-
sideration. the winner OF the second
game will have the call for the cham
pionship Of the District in the scholas-
tic circles.
Coach Farmer, Of the Business team.
is not allowing the boys to grow stale
after their7svictory over the Western
team. Yesterday the entire Business
SQUAD worked out on the gridiron at
Fifth Street and Florida Avenue North
east. and a long scrimmage was held.
Several shifts in the first team are
one which will put a man now
playing an end In the back field and
smother which will shift two forwards.
In the Western game, the center trio
weakened towards the end Of the battle,
and unless the forwards improve, another
set of linesmen will be seen against
Eastern next Friday.
Mike Martin. the Nationals great
trainer. will be with the Central team
this afternoon at Union League Park.
Mike has been working with several of
the o Streeters, and II Jones and Ober-
lin start the game this afternoon it will
only be because Mike has fixed them
up. Both have been suffering with badly
sprained ankles.