The Washington herald., 1913-01-23
Dave White TO
COACH WESTERN
Georgetown's Star Hurler Is
Slated for Berth at the
High School.
Il
OTHER LOCAL GOSSIP
Tutor Has Not Been Selected for Busi.
ness High School Baseball
Team.
OTHER LOCAL GOSSIP
By c. ". SWAN.

Dave White, one of Georgetown
star pitcher. will be selected to coach
the Western High School baseball team
this spring. Capt Buck" Howard, of
the West End aggregation. is strong
for Big Dave. and stated last night
that the matter now rests with the
faculty.
White has pitched two years at
Georgetown. but will not be a candi-
date for the nine this year. When he
is right, Dave is as good a finger as
could be found. and should turn out a
corking good team, with just a little
material TO work with.
Capt Howard will call out the bat
terry candidates as soon as a coach is
selected. The only other candidate for
the coaching position is Church, the
former Eastern High and Yale receiv-
er. 1t is understood that meeting
of the faculty will be held early next
week. when Capt. Howard's selection
will be ratified.
The coaching situation at Business is
still hanging fire, according to one well
versed in the doings at the Pen Pushers'
institution. II has been reported that
Tommy Cantwell would be engaged to
handle the nine, but that has not been
settled upon by any means. II Is a safe
bet that Prof. White will handle the ball
nine, also the track team and football
eleven next year should he return TO
teach.
Prof White has had considerable sue
cess out West coaching high school
teams, and is himself an athlete of no
mean ability. It has been stated at Busi-
ness that Prof. White is just the sort of
a coach the school has been looking for
one who could control the boys on and
of the playing field.
1t is expected that arrangements will
be completed some time this week, and
an announcement will be made Sunday
as to just who will coach the Business
High School baseball team.
James E. Sullivan. secretary of the
Amateur Athletic Union. wants hammer
throwing retained in its present form.
but Is in favor of some provision being
made to guard the spectators better
than hitherto from accident and injury.
The Intercollegiate A. A. A. A. will
recommend at the annual meeting OF the
collegiate sports governing body next
month the suggestion of Coach Billy
Quinn. of Harvard, to increase the ham
mer in weight from sixteen pounds to
twenty-one pounds, and to reduce the
length of the handle from four feet to
three feet.
W neil was dpDIlSed Oh
these facts, he declared in no uncertain
terms that there is no need of changing
the rules. Several others, prominent
among whom is James Sarsfieid Mitchell,
the veteran hammer thrower. also disap-
proved of the l. c. A A. A. AS plan
to interfere with the hammer.
Mr.. Sullivan said:
From a careful study of hammer
throwing in all its angles. can see
no reason why the weight of the mis-
sile or the length of the handle
should be changed. l recognize that
changes in the rules should be made
for the purpose of better safeguarding
the spectators, but that purpose can
be accomplished in a less drastic way
than is proposed by the executive COM
mittee.
The present style of American ham
mer throwing now is in vogue nearly
all over the world. 1t was ten years
before the English accepted the Amer
lean idea
Now, as far as safeguarding the spec
tators is concerned, it can just as well
be accomplished in the following way as
II can by the radical changes advocated
by Billy Quinn: I would propose that In
all hammer-throSing competitions the
hammer should be thrown from a circle
surrounded by a stout wire, netting or
cage open at one end, through which the
missile must be thrown. This system
has been tried at Travers Island and
other places with success.
As a further precaution rule should
be made that the hammer must be
thrown inside a certain arc. and that
any throw outside Of such arc should be
considered foul.
Ninety per cent of the accidents
through hammer throwing have resulted
from the carelessness or foolhsrdiness of
those who were hit by the missile. If
rules establishing a hammer-throwing
cage and the laying down of foul lines
are put through, 1t will do away with all
the accidents"