The Washington herald., 1914-05-03

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School Ball Tossers
Most of Teams Strengthened by Addition of Veteran
Talent-Tech-East at c. U. Is Plan
Other Sport Gossip.

ern team lost one man and failed to get
two that Coach Hatch was counting on.
At Business two men. regulars, are on
the doubtful list. while Flaherty. a cork
ing good third sacker. was made eligible.
Western remains intact. while Tech gains
two men. Central gets Chaplin. a fast
and hard hitter, and another infelder.
Efforts are being made to stage the
Tech Eastern game Tuesday at Catholic
University, as the Georgetown Field Ia
not available for that date. owing to the
Georgetown varsity club hooking up with
the Villanova club. But as Athletic Di-
rector Cox. of Georgetown. has rendered
the field to the scholastic teams Wednes-
day, 1t Is thought that the game viz be
played then.
The fielding Of Hartshorne in the Cen
tral-Western game was Of a high order,
the o Streeters' short fielder making sew
eral great stops and throws. Hartshorne
handled eight chances in real big league
style, his stop and peg OF Stearns' hard
hit liner In the second inning being one
of the features OF the game.
II some of the boys now participating
In the annual high school series could
realize the good they could do by putting
the baseball in their hip pocket once in
a while the games would be much closer.
II is a safe bet 10 say that the old pill
was thrown around needlessly ten times
in the Business-Technical game last week.
and on about eight occasions costly errors
resulted.
Business High Schools catcher. Dom.
in the game his team played last week,
made the prettiest catch OF foul fly
that any catcher has ever been able to
pull OF in the American League Park,
and this includes big leaguers as well as
high school wind-paddists. In the fifth
frame Showers lifted a high one, which
dropped near the corner OF the WASH
ington teams bench. Raw Wise and Dom
nearly collided going after it, but the
star backstop. undaunted by the closeness
OF the stands, never slackened his speed
until he was in A position TO make the
catch.
In Walter Cox, Central has a pitcher
who uses his head better than any other
hurler in the school series. Cox is
finished pitcher for a high school boy,
and his work in the two games played
has been Of high order. In the Busi-
ness game he went along in great shape
until he used all his strength, and then
the StenograDhers pounded aim hard. COX
was not right to 90 nine innings, and
after the sixth frame he was. all in.
Cox uses a good curve ball. has fair
speed. and is a good fielding hurler. one
OF the biggest assets in scholastic base
hall.
Earl Roger, of Western. Is playing good
ball at the keystone sack, and has been
hitting well Roger is one OF the coolest
lads in the series, and his work around
second base has been of a high standard.
Tech has the gamest ball tosser in the
series in Bullet Steed. the ''peppery"
baskstOp Steed has more real nerve
than any three schooIboy athletes. and IL
is a pleasure to see him work behind the
bat.
\ lot has been said about the timely
hitting in the series. but all have over
looked RAY Wise. the Stenographers' first
sacker. In the Tech game Ray singled
in the second inning. scoring two runs.
and in the sixth frame he doubled. send
ing two more runners over the pan. In
the Central battle Wise bingled in the
sixth round. scoring a man. and again in
the eighth stanZa he smalled out a base
hit with a man or. That's pretty good.