The Washington times., 1913-05-28
NEXT GAME.
Eastern vs.. Western, tomorrow, st
Catholic University Field.
TEAM STANDINGS.
YESTERDAY'S RESULTS.
Central 1; Business, o.
By KIRK c. MILLER.

w ule IOuOWeI8 OI LdSlcih AAASA
Schools baseball team are doing much
gnawing and gnashing Of teeth today
as a result OF Westerns having refused
Ito play ball after both teams had re-
ported at American League Park yes
terday, the henchmen of the nine from
beyond Rock Greek feel that the Capt.
tai Hill athletes have beea fully repaid
for backing out of the game that was
scheduled between them at George
town field last Saturday.
On the former occasion. Eastern
claimed. by going to oGeorgetown field to
meet Western, that II. Eastern, would
be playing on partisan ground; claim
ing that Georgetown students and the
college as a whole is closely affiliated
with Western High School. and that
game played on the Hilltop would De
distinctly unfair to the Light Blue and
white diamond aggregation. Thus. the
game was postponed until yesterday
and when leaking clouds hovered over
American League park = Western
. reached out eagerly for the opportunity
TO throw" the game, registering
complaint Of wet grounds.
AS a result Of the above related oit
OF schoolboy tactics. the High scnooi
c;ded. The game which has seemed to
be doomed Il scheduled for tomorrow,
at Catholic University. and II no ex-
cuse for deferring play can be found.
the school championship should pc oe-
termined by sun-down on the morrow
Spectators Leave.
: Some five hundred school boys and
xirls trotted out to the Florida avenue
enclosure yesterday to see the double
header. which resolved itself into
sinri. game as a result OF the Eastern
western postponement- Four hundred
and nifty Of these left when that game
was called on.
Central and Business, however, were
unafraid Of the storm-cloIds that
threatened at any moment to deiuse the
park, and they went into battle immedi-
ately after the Eas.ern-Wes.ern squao-
BILE had been settled. Central won oy
! to o, thereby eliminating Business
from any possibility of winning the
school championship.
No same of the 1913 school series has
BROUGHT out the baseball that was seen
when the o Streeters and Stenoerapners
got together yesterday. While Business
outplayed Central in fielding. the former
was unable to cope with the stellar
work Of Lefty Tageert. his box work
being Of the very firmest at all times.
A glance at the box score shows two
hits, q pass, and eleven strike-outs en-
tered on the ledger against his delivery
"A pace that has not been eQualled In
any Of the other scholastic champion
ship games Taggert certainly looked
his best. and the only wonder Is that
ne hasn't been able to get going prop
erIv ". any Of his other championship
Iamss.
r,us.ness' outfielders had no duties.
except TO come up in their batting
order. as the result Of the leakless work
Of Taggert. Wise's fluke hit did not get
beyond the scraped ground. while Der
rfck's single was captured by Harts-
horn. just inside the grassy plot.
Kelley Also Clever.
slightly less prominent was the
mound performance of Kelley. pitcher
extraordinary. for Business High School
i've safeties were harvested from his
delivery. and the plucky twirler en-
ticed twelve of centrars batsmen to
h1fe on his shoots. and. in turn. retire
20 the dugout Two of the hits allowed
by him were doubtful. but must go
down in the archives as bingles. Four
compIimentary admissions to the base
lines were issued. but none OF the fav-
ored ones succeeded in making a COM
plete circuit as q result of drawing free
Centrars one tally appeared in the
sixth session when everything pointed
to nine full reels without a marred
film. Oberiin lined TO left field and
Boernstein was not equal to the task
~ catching the ball The runner got
two bases on the hit and Boernstein,
sttil somewhat unnerved by his failure
to get Oberlin's offering, misjudscd
Tagzert's fly. and he got two bases
when Oberiin scored. After that air.
tight work was fhe rule. and the game
ended with Central getting lone tally.
score by innings: r. H. Z.
Central ...... 0oo001ocxI S 81
Husiness .......... 5000 5000 . .
Ratteries-Taggart,. Belcher. and
Fleming; Kelley and Wood.