The Washington times., 1913-11-13

Tech plays Western tomorrow. The
biggest of all the high school cham
pionship battles is to be staged and
will serve as preliminary to the con-
test on the Hilltop Saturday, when
Georgetown and Virginia meet. The
two schools standing at the top of the
scholastic series with clean records are
expected to bring the largest crowd OF
the series to Vigilant Park.
The Manual Trainers will greatly
outweigh the boys from across the
creek, and. while Western is conced-
ing pounds to the man, the Red and
White is hoping to outgeneral, outrun,
and outgame the heavier Tech eleven.
Western has everything to gain and
nothing to lose. Tech is in the same
box, and a win for either school will
give II fine chance to win the cham
pionship.
Techs eleven will be the same as
that which faced Central more than a
week ago and earned a S-te-o win when
"Jakey" Roberts toed one through the
goal posts in the last minute of play.
Western will have'the same team
which defeated Eastern a week ago
when Brewer almost single-handed de-
feated the Light Blue and White.
The Western line is inferior to that
representing Tech. while the Western
backfield is better than that of the
Manual Trainers, and a tight engage
ment Is looked for from the very start
of the battle Tech has been putting
In its time faithfully in preparation, as
has Western.
They are still talking OF the defeat
of the Central team by Business on
Tuesday. That Business was able to
defeat Central seems to prove the con-
tention that the Blue and White was
topheavy last season. Possessed OF
such stars as King. Fowler. Reeves,
Babcock. Jones. McDonough. Oberlin.
and Bowman, the team was badly pre-
pared when the season started as far
as veterans was concerned.
Little preparation was made last sea-
son for the campaign this year with the
result that the team was handicapped
at the start with number OF green men
Next year Central should have many
good men as the experience gained this
season is one well worth while, even
though the title won last year could not
properly be supported.
Business retained many Of the men
who made history last season by defeat
ing Western which was in the same pre-
dicament that Central finds itself this
year Business had a heavy team, and
with the Wise boys, Harris, King, Self
man. and one or two others defeated
Western in the opening engagement.
The Orange and Blue team was able
to turn the trick again this season. 1t
has never beaten Tech yet, and hopes
10 accomplish this next season. Eastern
Western, and Central have now been
defeated by Business in the past three
years. and shows the development OF the
Business teams as a whole in that time
Business tried several plays against
Eastern that failed simply because the
Eastern ends were alive TO the fact that
the Business ends were out after the
forward pass. The linemen hurried the
passer TO such an extent that there was
little accuracy in getting the pass away.
Centrals secondary defense failed TO
show up the Business end with the re-
suit that two plays were enough to make
the score good for a win.
excellent chance TO win from Tech. Cen
trail is not expected TO prove n diff
Guilty I'm the way of an Eastern win-
Should Eastern defeat Tech and Tech
WIN from Eastern there would be 4
three cornered tie such as existed in
1907 when Western retained the cham
pionship won the year before.
Brewer. Westerns halfbsck. received
slight injuries in the game with Eastern
End was forced to layoff for a coupe of
days sh:s week. He is expected 70 show
mp the Tech players as he is faster than
any of the Manual Trainers on his feet.
On defense he is counted upon to 90
the bulk CT the work in breaking up
the Tech end runs as is Roger on the
other side.
For all around consistent work few
rave anything on Pope, the Esstern
captain. Wis ability has been dcn2n-
strated tine and again and &c I'D
Williams, the other Eastern tackle,
make an excellent pair.