Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-06
CENTRAL AND WESTERN MEET
TOMORROW IN DECISIVE GAME
Blue and White, Unless It Wins, Will Lose
All Chance for Championship.
Other Athletic Gossip.

failed to put up even a fairly capable
contest. 1t may happen that Central VIII
tighten up and appear at it's best against
the Red and White crew; if so. Western
will be up against It. Otherwise, the
| chances are about even.
There is no question about Central
having better offensive team than
Western. In all the games that have
been played this year by the Blue and
White it has never failed to score runs
enough to win ordinarily any ball game
Loose work, though, on the defense has
caused the team to drop several games
that should have been won.
| Central is especially strong in the
| catching department. its receiver hav-
| ing proved himself to be In a class alone
as far as handling the ball and using
the bat effectively is concerned. That
will mean great deal in CentraTs favor.
/ On the other hand Western will not be
| easy to beat under any conditions. The
| Red and White has team that may al
ways be considered in the running until
the last man is out Its players generally
are not as old nor experienced as those
who make up the Central nine. but, at
that, they are pretty hard bunch to
beat, as will be seen.
| It is rumored that Mess, who was hurt
1 in a collision with King in the game
which Central played with the Alexandria
ball club Saturday, may not be able to
play in the game tomorrow against
| Western. If such is the case 1t will be a
decided loss to the Blue and White school.
Mess is probably the most valuable man
on the team and would be missed more
| than any other player. He Is rated as
| one of the best catchers holding down
| jobs on any of the teams, and his playing
has seemed to Justify that. 1t would be
| impossible to replace him If he is out for
| a few days.
1t is unfortunate that the accident oc-
CURED when 1t did. Unless Central wins
tomorrow's game with Western, it will
have lost its last chance for the cham
pfOnship, and it Is much to be regretted
be able to take part in the contest, if the
| report that he will not is true.
Taggare and I.oomis are the two men
who will probably be sent to the mound
to work for the two scholastic teams to-
morrow. These two men have pitched
| the other two games played by Central
and Western.
| The accident to young Hiett, the Sunday
School League ball player who met his
death Saturday by being hit on the head
with pitched ball. is extremely unfortu-
nate and is regretted by every man asso-
Gated with the game. Hiett was fine
fellow and well liked by all with whom
| he came in contact.
There was mistake in the published
accounts of the accident, though. The
ball that struck Hiett did not knock him
unconscious Immediately. After being hit
he desired to continue in the game, but
was not allowed. He sat the bench
and watched the game until 1t ended and
did not become unconscious until he was
taking off his suit in the dressing room
| some time later.
| There will be no games played tomor-
| row in the amateur leagues. all having
| been Cancelled because Of the deplorable
| accident to one of the Sunday School
League players. The amateur commits
eli OF al IL,
creed that there would be no contests
played
| mistake was made, though, in the an
| nouncement that there would be no more
| games in the Sunday School League this
week. All games have been called off
for the first three days, but the schedule
| will be resumed Thursday with a game
between Lincoln Avenue and Ingram.
| The Gish who has been doing some good
| pitching for the Ingram Church is the
| same Gish who had charge Of the George
town University track team and who did
some running himself last winter.
While there is a whole lot of talk going
| on and a lot of stuff in the newspapers
about John Paul Jones not being a men,
Der of the Olympic team, such reports
need occasion but little worry to those
| who have at heart the track interests Of
| this country at the next Olympic games.
The great Cornell distance runner is just
| as sure to be member of the team
that sails from New York in June as is
any of the other great athletes. Jones is
1 too sensible man to miss the oppor-
tunfties afforded by such a trip, simply in
order that he might make couple Of
hundred dollars taking charge of bunch
of boys in a summer camp. That could
be done any or every year, but the
/ Olympics come off but once every four
years. and 1t might be the only oppor-
tunity for the Cornell man to ever annex
a worlds championship which he seems
reasonably sure of doing.
/ Yale has a man on the Olympic team
and 1t is now up to Harvard to get a
| representative in the trials who will
| show championship form. The Crimson
will hardly want to be outdone by it's
| greatest collegiate rival.