The Washington times., 1914-05-27
Eastern's Eleven viii Open and
Close the Campaign for
Schoolboy Honors.
By BRYAN MORSE.

The football schedule Of the Washing
ton high schools for next fall is today
given out to the various managers by
the high school faculty advisers. While
the exact date of opening the season is
vet TO be chosen along with the grounds
the managers have a working basis to
90 on.
The date of starting the football sea-
son will fall either upon October % or
,. depending upon the choice of Tues
day or Friday in starting the annual
battles.
The schedule for the games follows
Eastern VS.. Technical.
Business VS.. Western.
Central We. Technical
Eastern VS.. Western.
Business VS.. Central.
Technical VS.. Western
Business vs Eastern.
Central vS Western.
Business VS.. Technical.
Central VS.. Eastern.
Eastern opens and closes the season
Tech appears in the first battle for the
first time in a number of years. Central
draws an apparent advantage of being
allowed to wait until the third game OF
the series, and after all the others have
shown.
l. or the 1rSt time IN the HlStoIN VI
high school competition I'm a-hleuCs, Ine
titles in toCr branches OF sport have
h,en Senly distributed. With Eastern
lt.tching safely TO the baseball honor,
Central regaininE the track champion
shin Business boasting the basketball
r-hampionship and Teen barking back
TO it's triumph on the football field last
faH, Western is the only school unable
to point TO a title.
Last year the titles were pretty even
arl hEE
jail, Central football. Western track.
ara the Army and Navy Preparatory
School basketball. The annual compe-
tuive drill, in one sense an athletic
contest. was taken by Tech, so that the
titles went in all directions
Eastern's baseball triumph was the
5, cond in succession for the school, and
Tie second time the Light Blue and
White has won the baseball title In
history. The work of the team was
consistent throughout and showed the
effects of clever manipulation of few
players Coach DOggetI, who has had
charge of the teams al the Capitol fill
school. has done unusually well this
year with but few candidates TO work
with.
The football team was A success. the
basketball team played consistently.
" hile the track team represented hy a
I.Iay team in the Georgetown meet
>cored a win for the first time in the
,chooTs history. Athletics at Eastern
are picking up with n Will. and the
CapitoI Hill lads seem TO be on the
road TO success.
Tech had an exceptionally good year.
Winning the title in football the team
looked to be able to score triumph in
baseball Two games were won in the
series Just closed, and the Manual Train
ers have cause TO think of their ath-
letes. In track the team gave Central
quite run for its money. and developed
HardeIl and Sheehan, known TO be the
hest middle distance runners yet seen
in the high schools
After a disheartening start in football
central came through with a fair base
ball team. and a track team which
proved TO be invincible. After a loss CT
he VI. A. c. track games to Western
he Blue runners walked on with the
Hopkins meet. and landed the annual
interhigh school championship event in
exceptional performances.
Western landed second in football. was
last i'm basketball, tied for third In base
ball. and won A third in the track
games, The Red and White, youngster
cleaned up In the indoor events this WIN
ter at Baltimore, and showed consist
cnt form in several outdoor perform
ances. Donaldson won the Junior 100 and
"90-yard titles at the Penn interscha-
aStiCS MaXam proved himself TO be the
hest lO0-yard man at Baltimore. and in
the high school meet, while the relay
team captured the title at the Penn
carnival.
Business showed a weIl-rounded foot
ball team which caused a genuine scare
last fall. Coming into the basketball
series with veteran team the Orange
and Blue presented as well coached and
consistent an aggregation as has ever
been developed in the high schools.
After Kelley blew in the baseball title
games the team went back.
Captains Of the various baseball teams
viii probably be elected in the next
week. Eastern is expecting TO celebrate
the title win some time before the close
Of school, while the other high schools
will honor their athletes with the pres
entation of school emblems won i'm the
various lines OF competition.
Those who have followed the games
for the past few years express them
selves as being convinced that compe-
iftinn Is keener than il has been in the
Tast. The fact that for two years the
various titles have been so well dis
tributed tends TO show that there is