The Washington times., 1912-05-25
ALL-HIGH TEAMS
BELOW STANDARD
Although Tech Wins Interschoasc Baseball Champion
ship Western and Central Have Best Individual Per-
formers-West End ers Get Bad Break.

For the annual selection OF the all
high school baseball team, The Times
awards Western three players, Central
three, Tech two, and Business one.
The work Of the players of the five
games alone has been taken into con-
sideration with an effort to select the
men according to their relative merits.
Tech was the winner of the annual
interhigh school championship. and won
from Western in the deciding game on
Tuesday. Without attempting to dis
parage the victory, Tech won over
better coached and less lucky aggrega-
series displayed a better knowledge Of
baseball in every department Of the
game.
In the entire series, Tech got the
breaks, and should have lost the first
game against Central Admittedly
better than Eastern and Business.
Tech was fortunate even in the decid-
ing game. Centrars players were
shifted too much during the season to
lost opportunities through being forced
to place and replace its players during
the five weeks OF competition
Played Listlessly.
Business played listlessly In the latter
part of the series, and had more ginger
been injected the team would have had
better fate. Eastern was last in the
race, her players suffering in compari-
son with the others, with the possible
exception of Johnson and Cohill.
But one or arr,M two players RS. showed Move to
SERIES the boys as a whole playing a
miserable fielding game-and showing in
many instances a woeful inability to
bat. Perhaps the fact that the series
for the most part was played On a poor
work. Fielding was atrocious, errors
cropping out many times where smooth
fielding would have saved many other
errors which followed.
The players who stood out promi-
entity In the games played this year
were Austin, OF Tech, and Loomis and
Howard, of Western. There were
respective schools for some particular
ability in practice games. but the three
players mentioned showed to advantage.
Merit Counts.
In the selection which follows no at
tempts have been made to theorize upon
an all-high school team, in which the
greatest strength could be obtained by
shifting the players. The different posi-
tions as played have been looked over
for the boys who are selected on merit
shown. Those standing out above
others in their position, n;s,nS have eS;es
and all-around value of baseball ability
and knowledge displayed in the series
The crop Of catchers this year was
poor. Mess, of Central, however. u
| awarded the backstopping position oYei
! I. lehman, of Western, who caugh,
| Loomis, the Western pitcher. Mess
proved to be the best hitting catcher II
the schools, we'll built for the 1oo ane iS
pitchers who showed a little ability a.
| times. but were unable to get their bes'
efforts directed toward results:
| - rAn a ~ nv
nitched the Manual Trainers to the higf
school championship, is deserving OF al
the commendable things that have beer
said about him. He stuck to MS KNIT
his temper and nerve when his team
went TO pieces behind him. and showinl
rare Judgment at all times. Austin doe,
not stand alone in the pitching honSrS ,,S
Ioomis, the WESTERN pitcher a..
| The strike-out record Is held oy tn'