Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-05-06

overcome the handicap.
I The pitching of Phillips was mainly
responsible for the victory secured hS
club in the Northwest sunday school
circuit yesterday Phillips struck out ten
of his opponents and allowed them oniS
two hits. His work was gilt-edged an
the time Schickler of the W hitneN
team led both clubs in hitting and did
, better work than any other player IN
any Of the leagues. He got TOUR hlts
| out of as many attempts. Maddox OF
Whitney got three hits out OF four times
up.
| Arthur Duffy has been appointed to
| coach the Tufts College track team. THIS
| is not the first experience OF the former
/ sprint champion in coaching. as ne has
| had marked success in handling the run
ners of one of the high schools in Boston
| Duffy is taking up the coaching in con-
| junction with a column run by him in a
| Boston paper.
| The game between Waverly and the
| Spartan Club yesterday in the Central
| League resulted in to ; tie. The play
! ing Of both teams was good NaNeriN not
! having an error charged against IL. ana
! only one being marked up for the spar
| tans.
The pitchers of both clubs did good
| work Stanton of Waverly allowed three
| hits and struck out six, while Cantweii.
| opposing him. let four hits be made on
| his delivery and struck out nine. stan
| ton was the poorer of the two in the mat
| ter of control, as he gave four bases Oh
| balls against Cantwells one.
This lad Stanton is an exceptionally
good pitc' .er. all things considered. lie
seems t. be altogether too small, and yet
/ he ge.s a lot of stuff on the ball lie has
4 a good curve and pretty fair speed, and.
/ a al he
stick the ball ever the plate. n hit or
two made off his delivery does not dis
| concert him in the least. He is doing his
best all the time, no matter what the
| circumstances.
The Eastern club had it rather easy in
| its game against the q. II. |. nine III the
/ Potomac League yesterday. winning by
| IA to 3; The losers were outht and out
| tielded from the start. The third was the
! inning in which the winners scored an
I their runs. eleven being chased across
the plate in that period.
Inst as was expected athletics VIII
be retained as a part of the curriculum
at George Washington University. Inc
final decision was reached YESTERDAY a.
a meeting of the board of trustees IN
the Office Of President Stockton. II
has been known and was printed IN
these columns some time ago that
President Stockton was very much IN
favor of athletics and would agree to
their continuance at the moment when
the outstanding debt should be liqui-
dated. This was done last Monday;
and now it has been definitely decided
that two branches of sports will be
recognized next winter-bas ket ball and
track II these are carried through
successfully it is certain that the uni
versty will be represented by foot
ball team in the fall of 1915.
With the advent of George WdShlng-
ton in the athletic field again upon
such a basis that the sports will be
recognized by the university, the re-
sumption of one of what used to be the
most important games of the year in
foot ball will be marked-the one with
Georgetown
Seven years ago the Hilltoppers and
the Hatchetites played their last contest.
The score was 0 to 0. Because of GER
tain conditions which existed prior to
and following the game relations were
broken by Georgetown An entirely new
regime is in charge Of matters on the
the statement that Georgetown and
George Washington will meet again in
1915.
Central High is scheduled to play a
practice game against the Maryland Ag-
gies' nine today.
The contest in the high school track
and field meet between Goodman and
Speidell of Central and Tyler and Rose
of Western is going to be unusually close
All these are above the average in that
form Of competition. and when they are
fighting for every point there is going
to be some performances way above the
average 1t would not be surprising to
see the high school record in that event
broken. 1t is said that the mark in the
pole vault is ten feet eight inches. held
by Thra1l, who graduated at Tech in
1908, and Speidell OF Central has bet
tered that in practice. Tyler. Rose and
Goodman are not poor performers. either.
all being capable OF doing more than ten
feet. and there is no telling what one of
them may accomplish with the stimulus
of the interschool competition to buoy.