The Washington times., 1913-06-04
Eastern, Tech, and Central Re-
tain Majority Of This Years
Team for 1914 Title.
BUSINESS HIGH LOSES MANY
Stenographers, With Western,
Suffer From Graduation and
Have to Replace Several.
By BRYAN MORSE.

By BRYAN MORSE.
OF the five high school baseball
teams whose ranks will be depleted in
q few days by graduation. Eastern.
championship winner during the past
season. Is least affected. Tech and
Central will suffer the loss Of two play
ers each, while Western and Business
win have several members Of the team
go out Of school.
With a title already In its possession,
Eastern Immediately sets about making
preparations for long stay in the title
class. The Capitol Hill athletes point
with pride TO the newly acquired flag.
and say that prospects for another win
ner next year look unusually bright.
Paul Cohill, considered one Of the
best athletes ever developed at Eastern.
goes out and will be unable to play next
year; with him Is Shinn. who acceptahly
two players are veterans. but Eastern
adherents say that two games We're
won during the past season without Co
hill. and maintain that 1t can be done
again.
johnson; Dyer, who Is mentioned as the
likely captain for next year; Greer;
Gornett, one of the best third basemen
the schools; Lawson. Horne, and
tsice. OF the championship nine only
cohiu and Shinn will be lost
csstral Loses Two.
with Lefty" Taggart already at the
. helm, Central is making plans to recoup
the losses in baseball this season. and
win 60 after the title with q vim next
season. 1t is quite a long time since
the o street nine managed to take a
baseball championship. and this year
saw the worst Of several mediocre
teams.
graduation, but a wealth OF mater,a
VIII; be held over to see what can be
done toward building up a rather shah
by baseball reputation: Taggart is all
trail while Fleming. the catcher. viii
be on hand. Heffn. Mcdonald. Rush.
Milton. Boyd. Wilkinson, Chaplin. Bel
cher and q few others who were tried
ing to bring The title to Central next
Tech II maintaining that the extreme
youth Of the team this season was
the reason why the title was not re-
ta:ned. After keeping the champion
slip for two years. Tech now wants
II back again, and maintains that with
the holdovers from the team this year.
and the fact that but Eckendorf and
Perry are lost, the team will stand an
excellent chance to again come to the
front
Steed May Lead Team.
gteed. who acted as captain in Perry's
place the latter part Of the season,
viii be the probable choice for the cap
tsincy this next year. Steed caught all
:, the Rares. and will again have Defan-
Gcrf snd Dudley in the box next year.
OF the others Showers, at first, Simp-
son At second. Ochsenreiter at short.
and Hanlein at third will remain. The
whole infield will be again On the job
when the call goes out next year. OF
the other Tech players Roberts, Nc
Carthy, and Rooney in the outfield will
be at the Seventh street institution so
that the Manual Trainers have reason
!. for looking forward to good base
western will not fare as well as was
expocted Besides Howard and Lehman
W. S;l 20 out with the graduating
-. adams. who pitched the last
GnO1e against Eastern and Jonny
Bethel, will not be on hand when the
baseball season wakens things up at
, Western next year.
! Adams and Bethel may come back
in the fall, but will graduate with the
February class next year. or the
others, Bron Howard. first sacker ex-
traordinary: Roger, who is expected 70
develop lot over this years sterling
DefI0f1nduCeSs CtcdIhss L>ShcNoAA, NoSsA'
and Peyton will all be on the line.
Brewer May Be Out.
western may lose the services Of
Brewer whose work this year has been
nothing short of sensational. The
younester entered in the fall and would
have made the football team with ease
had he been eligible. AS soon as he
could get into sports he started at
TRACK and later developed into West
ern's best bet with Jones for the track
title. His boxwork in the first games
Of the series was good he may SO
away to school next year.
The Business team gets the worst OF
this graduation deal. Hunt, wilson
Derrick. Kelley, Widmayer, ana WOOD
all good ball players and the backbone
OF the Orange and Blue team are lost
for next year Wood and Kelley, re-
ceiytng the two-year certificate, may
come back for two more years. VI tne
other Bornet Wise, Boernstein and
Harris viii remain for the starter ior
the 1914 nine.
On paper at the present time, Central.
Eastern, and Technical look 70 pe IN
fine shape for next season. The MAN
ual Trainers are due for considerable
Improvement, the talent appears TO De
there. while Eastern Will have but 10
develop a couple of players. Central
Will be In fair condition for the next
baseball season, while Business and
Western will have lot to DO to ger
primed.