The Washington herald., 1914-01-18
TWO STARS. FOR
WESTERN QUllyI
Jack !" Adams and LIeweIlyn
Nicolson to Play with
High School Five.
CENTRALsS TRACK TEAM
Blue and Whife Has Good Chance Of
Winning Title Ceddes, Of A
& N. Brilliant Forward.
CENTRALsS TRACK TEAM
by eBUCK. HOWARD.

ny SBUCk0 HOWARO.
The Western High School bas<et-bai
team has been considerably strengthened
with the return Of two veterans. "Jack'
Adams. of football fsme, and Hewellyr
Nicolson. both Of whom have been mem
bers of the Western team for the lasl
two years. Coach Morse allowed these
men to take little layon after their
strenuous work on the gridiron, but has
now decided to recall his only veterans
to whip his quint into shape for the re-
naming games OF the series.
Adams is a forward and has done some
mighty clever work for the Red and
White in previous years. while Nicolson
is a guard with considerable ability. With
these men in line once more the West
ern team will look lot more formidable
than 1t has so far this season and should
force Business to the limit Friday in
the third game of the interscholastic
series at the Y. NJ c.. A.
The game between Army and Navy and
Cathedral last Friday was a good ex-
hibition and better than is generally af-
forded by the local prep school teams
here, in that it was nip and tuck all the
way with the outcome practically i'm
possible to determine until the whistle
bhcn- 1HcIc was HOL Il supcI1fuOuc
amount of good basketball displayed.
but it furnished lot of excitement for
the score of loyal rooters who were on
hand to see their team come out of the
fray victorious.
The general impression before the game
started was that the A and NJ five would
have a comparatively easy time in
winning over its opponents, but before
the contest had progressed very far this
Green had uncorked much better team
of youngsters than was expected and
one which forced the prep school boys
TO the limit. Cathedral has a good colIec-
ton Of basketball tossers and will make
1t hot for some of the other quints in
the series.
The Central track squad is looking bet
ter every day and bids fair to win back
the laurels taken away from them last
year by Western, on the wonderful per-
forrnances of Jones and Brewer, who
have been lost to the Red and White
team of this year. Coach Foley certainly
has bunch of capable youngsters and
appears to be well fortified in every de-
artment-
With Capt. REDS Goodman, Agnew.
Acorn. Oyster. Speidel. Bowling, Milsted,
Galloway. Galloway. Hollinsworth. Hunt.
Buel, Marr, Taber. and Dommer, the
Blue and White are much stronger than
at this time last year and as the season
progresses things seem more and more
to be in their favor as the choice for the
honors.
On the other hand Western is consid-
erably weaker than last year, with only
one man from last years relay team now
on hand, and that in the person Of Rose.
Stearns. Another man of last years four
is in school but will not compete in
track as he is captain of baseball and
cannot find time for both sports.
It has been reported that Tech will
present creditable track team this year
and this is where the competition closes
as Business and Eastern will hardly take
up this branch of sport.
Central will have Walter Cox to do the
pitching this spring. and IL the o streeters
can build up any kind Of a team to work
behind this lad they certainly will be in
the race for the championship as Cox is
a very clever little twirler. Last year
he was not seen in the series as he was
not eligible. but two seasons ago he
worked in almost every game for Central
and il was due to his work that the o
streeters were the runners up in the Sc
ries.
Chase Donaldson, of Western. has been
presented with more honor that does
not generally come to a single high school
student. Donaldson was recently elected
captain of the track team and besides
this he is president of his class and also
captain Of Company II, one of the West
ern companies. Chase is a good fellow
and deserves every honor which has been
bestowed upon him and YOU can bet your
bottom dollar that he will be heard from
in every interest with which he is asso-
ciated.
The Business High five win play the
Washington City College quint Monday
on the Business court and there Is hardly
any doubt but that the Stenographers
will win This game. however, win keep
the Business team in shape for the
scholastic series.
Chor Hing ow, the young Chineseman,
who was on the Western baseball squad
last spring. win again be seen with the
Red and White this season. Chor says
with last years experience to his credit
he win give q good account of himself
this spring and viii make somebody
hustle for the catcher,s Job in the coming
campaign.
"Untz" Brewer played a mighty good
game for the Cathedral quint last FRI
day against Army and Navy Brewer
scored the majt rity of points for his
team and showed more speed than any
other man in the series is capable Of
doing.
Geddes, of Army and Nav. Is one of
the best forwards in the series and his
work against Cathedral was all that
scored a victory for his team This had
scored more than half of the points Sc
cured by his team. and 1t was he who 1
shot the basket in the last five seconds
OF play which defeated Cathedral
Eastern will elect football captain for
next fall some time next week with Greer
the most likely choice. Greer has been
the Jim" Thorpe over at the CapitnI |
Hill school for the past three years and
there seems 10 be little doubt but thatl
he win receive the honor.
sChet' Lockwood. captain Of the cathe- |
dral auint. Is one of the most aggressive |
little basketball players in the present |
series. "Cnet' Is always on the Job andi
il takes mighty good guard to check
the scoring ability af the dandy little
leader.
vfox sfgns Contract.
Pittsburgh. JAN i7.-second Basemsr
viox. of the Pirates, today sent n hisl