Evening star., 1914-10-09
BY Il. c. BYRD.

Four of the five local high schools are
scheduled to play regular contests to-
morrow. Central will go to Alexandria
to meet the Episcopal eleven. Eastern
Is to play st. Alban's. Technical High
will be the opponent of the Georgetown
scrub team, while Western is to meet
the Woodberry Forest School at Orange,
Va. All the games should be difficult
for the school teams.
! A line on Western will be gotten for
the first time this season. Much has
been said of the Red and White, but
nothing definite is really known as to
it's probable chances in the inter-
lschoiastic series. If the team makes a
very creditable showing against Wood
berry Forest, a generally much heavier
/ combination, it may be taken for grant
ed that the other elevens will not have
fan easy time when they meet the Red
and White in the contests for the high
! school championship.
Just as little is known regarding the
strength of Eastern as Western. The
Capitol Hill lads have been working and
saying little 1t has been a case of
saw wood and keep quiet; as far as
much better team than has represented
and it is hardly to be expected that
| to get away with victory.
| Central and Episcopal always en-
gage in hard-fought contests. Seldom
Is 1t that these two institutions meet
| that a desperate schoolboy conflict is
! averted. There is almost as much RI
valry between them as between Gen.
| trail and Tech. The results of the meet
ings have almost always favored Epis-
copal. though Central has won more
| than one well earned victory.
Tech can look for little other than q
| defeat at the hands of the Blue and
Gray scrubs. The Georgetown outfit
will be more weighty. and will be COM
| will also have more experienced play
ers to pit against Wayne Hart's school
boys. even though the latter were
| champions of the scholastic league in
1913.
These will be the first real efforts in
which the Washington schools have
| engaged this season, though. and the
performance of each team will be
watched with great interest by the
others. All are generally anxious to
get line on one another before the
beginning of the championship con-
tests. and the preliminary or practice
games are the only ones by which they
can do that. 1t would not be surpris-
ing if some of the teams do not have
former. graduates watching the games
of the other elevens, in order to be.
come In measure acquainted with the
| style of play to be used.
Two of the colleges in this section
are scheduled for contests that will be
extremely difficult for them tomorrow.
Catholic University is going to have a
rough time of it against st. Johns.
and the Maryland Aggies are not go
ing to have easy sailing in their game
with Western Maryland in the first
conflict for the Maryland state cham
pionship.
Catholic University has an exception
ally good line, but its backfield Is not
as strong as 1T might be. In fact the
Brooklanders appear very weak behind
the line. Whether or not the team will
be much stronger than 1t was a week
ago is questionable, but the chances
are it will II it should happen that no
more powerful offense has been deNel-
oped than that shown against the
Maryland Aggies. the local team can
hardly hope to accomplish much, with
team like St. Johns opposed. 1t is
thought, though, that better showing
in every respect wifi be made.
The Maryland Aggies are booked to
appear against Western Maryland. and
the upstate contingent undoubtedly