The Washington herald., 1914-11-08
NJ BUCk HOWARD.


n See % It that yea throw HIN
toward his oVSn seal.
~ BUCK HOWARD.
with clean slats Of three wins to
its credit the-Tech eleven is generally
conceded as the favorite for the scholas-
tic honcra. The Manuel Trainers have
hut enc more contest to play and that
is With Business. Although Tech is the
choice for the title. It Is not underes-
tirnating the strength OF the Business
eleven and is aware Of the fact that II
must exert every possible effort to land
q win over the Stenographers. Business
games with Western and Central. and
for this reason is picked 70 win over
Eastern week from Tuesday. = However.
the Tech Business contest 10 the last Of
the series, and viii tend to keep the In
terest up as the outcome Of this battle
has quite q bearing on the champion.
shin. II the Business eleven should win
over Tech IN this game q triple tie would
result Business has won from western
and lost to Central and VIII probably
win from Eastern. Central has won
frcm Business and lost TO Tech, but
win over Western and Eastern IL gen.
erally looked for. When with victory
for Business over Tech. q triple de
would result between Tech. Central and
Business. With the above the logical
ss5rnes for the outcome Of the series.
Teen Il working hard for q victory over
Business In the last game 50 as not 70
complicate the honors and be forced 10
share them with Central and Business
II 8 expected. however. that Tech VIII
be able to score a win IN the final game,
provided it plays ,eHywhere near It's
standard.
The Tech eleven was getting away
With a lot Of holding u its game with
Western last Friday. It Is questionable
as 10 whether Il was holding by means
Of grasping the opposing tackler, but II
could plainly be seen that the Tech for
ward6 were using theif hands on the
ofense at times without L costing
penalty However. the player carrying
the bah may alone ward on opponents
with his hands and arms, but no other
r.'aver OF the side in possession Of the
ball is allowed the same privilege 70
obstruct an opponent. except that the
a-r,s. ff closed 70 the body, may be used.
This one violation characterizes nearly
every scholastic football game. and few
players are seen picking on men IN the
approved fashion. that Of sdfving and
fo-cinE the opposing tackler to the
ground.
The. two contests scheduled for this
week include Business and Eastern on
IueF0dN
Friday. Business and Central are ex-
rected to win over their opponents, but
Interesting games should result in each
meeting.
I.anahan, who played such consistent
game for the Eastern eleven last fan.
will be seen in the line-up Tuesday
against Business. Lanahan has been out
Of the series 10 date owing to ''iunks. "
but Is now available and win lend a
helping hand to the Capitol Killers in
their remaining games.
Les Myers. q second string half back
at Tech. got into the lineup last Fri
day IN the place Of ochsenreiter after
the game had been tucked away and gave.
a good account of himself. Myers man.
aEed to gain enough to show the max
ings Of a good back, and aside from
this kicked q goal from field which
raves further assurance that he VIII
Be Of value 70 Tech in years to come.
Myers Is an outhelder OF considerable
ability and gave a good account of him
self In the scholastic series last spring
In Myers Tech seems to have coming
athlete who can be depended upon In the
two big branches Of sport
Matthews, Of Western. gives promise
Of Developing into capable lineman for
the Red and White Matthew'S first ap-I
pearance in scholastic circles came last
year when he participated in part Of .
football game Last Friday Matthews
played TIE entire game against Tech
mere experience It is predicted that he
VIII prove star Of the first water for
the Red and White.
This year there are more good quar-
ter backs in the series than at any one
time IN its history.
Ar of the school elevens are In pos
session Of capable quarter backs this sea-
son. CuIligan, Of Business: Steed OF
Tech; Roberts. OF Central; Baldwin. OF
Eastern. and Whelchell. OF Western. are
al good field generals and have shown
one for this position on the all-high
eleven Is more dihhcult than has been
the case for many years.
GIblin. OF Western. who was consider
ed one OF the leading centers in the
scholastic ranks iast year, had trouble
with bis passing IN his first game OF
the season against Tech. The western
captain seemed to Be unable to gauge the
distances OF the receiver and failed to
impress to the same degree as last year,
but on the defense he was virtually a
stone wall
Since being placed on end from a tackle.
position. Stern. Of business, has been
doing clever work IN that position In
the Central game be was spaearin= PLAYS
right and left and II he continues to DO
the same win be given a serious con-
sideration for an sIl-high Job.
Although Western has failed 70 come
up 70 expectations this fan. SUCCESS
ful next year ls being looked for b.
the followers Of the Red and White,
Most Of the material on hand st
Western now Is green ana young and q
forznidable eleven cannet be expected.
reason Western e At quite disadvan-
tare each year However. with HAT
fheWs 1Eackau. Whelchell, Grayson,
chin. Peyton, Peck. Sergeant. and Har-
mon an Of this years squad on hand
~ ferrnd re I7ed ana sTvbifs II ~