Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-14
By n. 6. BYRD.

The series between the high schools for
the scholastic championship will start
Friday. The first game will be played
between Eastern and Western, and from
present indications will be played at the
Union League Park.
The series of games between the high
schools which opens this week In many
respects promises to be one of the best
that has been played in years. Judging
solely by the records of the teams made
in the preliminary games. there are four
which have q chance to win the cham
pionship. Eastern, Western. Technical
and Central are the schools which may
be considered as logical contenders for
first position. Business, while 1t may
defeat one or more of the teams men,
toned, hardly stands as good chance
to win out as does any of the others.
So far in the games that have been
played, Eastern, Technical and Central
have showed the best form. Western has
not come anywhere near doing the work
in the practice that have the three men
though, may be figured as having q
chance against the other teams be-
cause it will show much more strength
when the series really starts than 1t has
so far. Western has been developed a
little differently from what the other
mines have, and is likely to figure a little
more prominently than is generally ex-
pected.
There is one factor. though. which has
seemed decidedly lacking. and that IS
good pitching. II that counts for as
much as is generally considered in the
high schools. 1t is almost surety that
Technical will get away with the first
place. as it did last year: Tech has the
only team that has had pitchers who
have done consistent work in the box In
the practice contests. Central has no
man on whom 1t can depend as it could
on Boteler, nor has Western another
Holden to bear the brunt Of its defense.
Eastern seems to possess a man who Is
men who did the twirling last spring.
It is hard to tell just what Business has
in the way Of pitching material. as its
work in tie early games has been very
Manual Trainers have the only nine that
has given evidence Of consistent pitching
ability.
All the school teams have shown EVIL
dences Of hitting ability In the prelimi-
nary games. and this in itself should tend
to make the coming race an especially
hard one on those mines which have not
good pitchers to brace their defense.
Whether the teams will hit as well In the
series as they have been doing IN the ;e
is the general thing that the schoolboys
do not do as well in the championship
contests In any department as they are
really capable Of accomplishing.
While 1t does not appear that the
coming series will be as we'll played In
point Of real ability 1t is fairly certain
that it will be much more closely con-
tested with none Of the teams having the
Odds on the others, as was the case In 19l1.
That game between the Maryland
Aggies and the Catholic University yes
terday did not show any big league tai
ent in q pitching line. Neither or the
four men used accomplished much In the
way of ineritorious work on the mound
The N. A. c. batters found Lynch Tor ten
safeties, while the BroOklanders got 60
the two twirlers used by the Aggies for
q total Of thirteen hits.
While from the stun shown by Lynch
he did not deserve to get away with the
game both Hoffecker and Smith Of M.
A. C. are better pitchers than their work
would seem to indicate. Hoffecker Is not
In shape to do his best and will not be
until he has had more preparation In real
games than he has 30 far this season,
Smith could not do az well as he might
have because he appeared against the
william and Mary nine day before yes
terflay and this time OF the season 1t Il
mot conducive to good work for q
pitcher to work twice In three days.
CLANCY showed some stun during the one
inninE that he occupied the mound fof
the university. but he was very wild.
Az was predicted. the Tome School won
| the games at the University Of Virgins
yesterday bv q wide margin. There wal
no other scholastic outfit In the sectioG
which compared to the Port Deposit az