Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-04-24
By II. c. BYRD.

The victory secured by Technical High
over Central yesterday gives that team
q distinct advantage In the race for the
championship. Tech to lose the cham
pionship now must be defeated by one of
the other teams. which team must In
turn win all It's other contests. 1t il
Questionable II there is a nine in the
schools which looms up strong enough
now to accomplish that.
Techs victory has not only given II the
advantage as Tar as a real percentage Is
concerned, but the team itself will be
much stronger after the advisory marks
80 in. Two or three men flunked In
their last marks who are expected to be
eligible next week. and they will add
strength to the team when they get
back in the lineup.
The schedule also decidedly favors Tech
from now on. 1t has gone through its
hardest game first successfully, and be-
tween now and when 1t meets Western
has to meet the two teams which should
not cause 1t much worry. Tech should be
able to win from both Business and East
ern. as neither Of the mentioned teams
looms up as strong as do the Manual
Trainers, and that would seem to indicate
that the only factor that can beat Tech
nical out Of the championship is Western.
Western has team good enough to
play on even terms with any Of the other
school mines II its pitchers come up to
the standard, and II 1t gets by with the
Business game Friday 1t will have to be
conceded chance. At least as matters
appear at present II would seem that 1t is
the only school which has q chance to
stop the Manual Trainers in their march
Before the high school series started II
was predicted In these columns that the
one lack of all the teams would be good
pitching. and so Tar that has been borne
out. None of the mines have shown that
1t has men who can be depended on
to deliver very high-class article Of box
work. Even Austin, who has been count
ed on as being the best the schools AFFORD,
Central and was touched up for fifteen
hits.
The men used by Central against the
Manual Trainers yesterday did not look
exceptionally good. either. In the first
and Western neither johnson nor Loomis
the two twirlers who worked for their
respective teams, showed anything much,
and both appeared below the standard OF
the men who held down the same jobs
last spring.
II any school develops pitcher good
enough to hold the opposing teams safe
1t is the one that will win the champion
ship.
The results OF college games played
yesterday are as follows:
University Of Texas, 8; University OF
Georgia, 8.
Bates, 3; Harvard, 2.
New Haven, 10: Yale. 8.
Princeton, 8: North Carolina, 4.
Tuscuium College, 8: King College, 4.
Trinity, g.: Wake Forest, /.
Agricultural and Mechanical Of North
Carolina, Z; Washington and Lee, 8.
The hitting In the Teech-Central game
yesterday was the heaviest that has been
seen in any school series In a long time
1t Is mighty seldom that any scholastic
team gets fifteen hits, ana yet both the
mines that played yesterday secured just
that many.
The heavy clouting on the part of the
Central and Technical mines does not
seem to augur very we'll for the easiness
of the task that c0nfronts the pitchers
on the Eastern. Western and Business
teams, who will face them. II yesterday 8
hitting is g. sample of what may be ex-
pected in all the games In which Central
and Technical take part, It will be hey
day with some OF the other games.
A northern athletic critic has the fol-
lowing to say regarding sprinters and
as to why he thinks Alva Meyer. who
made such an excellent record in the
dashes In the indoor meets last winter,
will win in the eastern Olympic trials:
at Is the quick thinker that wins In