Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-18
SCHOOL GAMES
TO START TODAY
Interhigh Contests Will Be
Opened Between Business
and Eastern Teams.
DAVIS PLAYING WELL
FOR GEORGETOWN NINE
His Work Big Factor in Game
With Harvard-C. u. Loses
in First Meeting.
BY II. c. BYRD.

| The high school series will start today.
! The interhigh season will be opened with
a game between Eastern and Business!
! The contest will be played at American
League Park and will start at $3.50.
| II is impossible to predict the result of
| high school base ball game with any
| degree of accuracy, but it is generally
expected that Business will get away
with the long end of the score. The
! Stenographers have proved themselves
! the more dependable team during the
practice season. and they themselves
! feel confident that they will WIN Eastern
has not shown as we'll as has Business
| in any department of play, although that
| is not saying it viii certainly lose.
The main asset of the Business team is
! in it's pitcher. Kelly has done some very
creditabe work this spring, having
shown himself capable of holding the
best of scholastic aggregations and also
| some stronger amateur clubs.
He ought not to experience much
trouble in preventing the Eastern nine
| from hitting, and, if he gets the right
! kind of support, stands an excellent
| chance to win Just what Johnson; who
| will pitch tor Eastern. will be able to
| accomplish is questionable. He is more
| or less of an unknown quantity, and it
| is not probable that he will do as well
as Kelly
One factor that will mean much in
favor Of Business is that it will have
an experienced man back of the bat.
Wood has been playing at Business for
some time, and he is much older in the
game than is the lad who will do the
receiving for Eastern. Eastern lost it's
best backstop when Cohll was declared
ineligible.
Business will be watched today especi-
ally because it is figured it will stand
the best chance to beat out Western,
which is considered the best nine in the
series for the championship. If the
Stenographers show real form today they
will be considered as having a chance
for the title.
The showing of Central against Gal
laudet yesterday would indicate that 1t
will have to be reckoned with to great
er extent than was generally thought.
The Blue and White has never been fig
ured as serious contender, but on the
performance of yesterday, when it held
the college nine to a 2-to-1 score, it will
likely be a very dangerous factor-a team
that is liable to come through when least
expected.
The best part of the showing of the
Central team is evidenced in the work of
Buck. the pitcher. For the first seven
innings of the game he held Gallaudet
without a score. and during the entire
contest the Kendall Greeners were able
to get but six hits.
Georgetown played a brilliant game of
ball against Harvard yesterday, despite
the fact that it was unable to win. The
Blue and Gray did better and cleaner
work than it has shown in any contest
this season with one possible exception.
There was never moment when the
players were not in the game. From
start to finish they kept at their work.
and the crimson. with the best pitcher
1t has in the box, was unable to defeat
them.
Mccarthy did the pitching for George
town, and against him was FELTON,. the
Harvard star Although Harvard got
more hits than Georgetown. and FELTON,
struck out more than did Mccarthy the
work of the Blue and Gray lad was not
much behind that of his opponent. When
it is considered that Mccarthy has been
playing the outfield regularly and has
been used as pitcher only at such times
| when it was absolutely necessary. the
performance of the local boy is all the
more commendable.
1t was the prettiest game of. ball that
| has taken place on the Hilltop this year.
The Blue and Gray and the Crimson mines
| performed well in the field and on the
base lines, so we'll. in fact that their
work was commented on by all who
watched the contest.
The game was watched by the largest
crowd that has been on the Hilltop this
season. 1t is estimated that more than
500 persons saw the pla-.
Catholic University received it's first
defeat of the season yesterday at the
, hands of a college team under very
extraordinary circumstances. 1t got
twice many hits as did the Vill~nova
nine. it outfielded the northern aggre-
CATION and looked like generally
stronger ball club. Catholic University
landed on the ball safely twelve times.
while the Villanova nine could con-
meet with it only six. The BroOkland-
ers made only two errors. while their
opponents committed three.