The Washington herald., 1915-05-15
Stenosraphers Pull the Unexpected
and Upset Dope by Trimming Red
and White Club. 8 to 2-Central's
Cloutins Paves Way for Victory
Over Capitol Hill Team. 10 to 5.

] ohe Paul White. the coach of the
Rhode Island Avenue Stenographers.
/ VINO. in past scholastic athlete contests.
has shown that his sleeve was pack full!
, or tricks and plays for winning high
SCHOOL games. again yesterday pulled the
! unexpected. this being the daring at
! tempt of a triple steal and four success
sive squeeze plays. which completely
I tossed to the wind predictions. and
glimpse at the standing today shows the
: BUSINESS team camping undlsputedly or
the top runG of the ladder. due to their
, easy victory over the Western nine by
an to count.
McDonalds of Central High have all
made scholastic athletic history. while
playing under the coors of the Dark
Blue and White. but Ike MCDonald's
long drive to the jury box in yester-
days Central Eastern game will long be
remembered by the followers of the y
streeters. as this clout knotted the count
and gave Coach Menefee's nine another
look in al victory which they finally
landed after nine innings of ragged
baseball. in which the Central crew beat
the team from the Capitol Hill by a 10
to count
These are the real results in the double
headers staged in tine high school series
at American League Park yesterday.
Business. s: Western, 2.
In the opening game. Business defeat
ed Western in the interscholastic series.
to ..
Business had one big inning, the fifth.
when it worked the squeeze play success
fully four times and scored on each at
tempt. The Western left side of the
diamond seemed TO be asleep and failed
to make the play at the plate when 1t
had a chance to cut off the runner.
Business sprang a surprise on Western.
Peck's good pitching went for nauSht. as
his inficld failed at critical stages of the
game and runs splashod over the plate in
quick order. II was good deal of the
old order of things--give the infieldcrs
chance and they would throw the ball
away, and the Business runners would
keep right on going. never stopping Till
they reached the plate.
Western CIouts Ball.
Western was the first to score when It
worked run over the plate in the first
chapter on hits by Peine. Stearns and
Howard. which put Peine over the plate.
Business was held safe till the fifth.
when five hits and some poor throw
ing by the infield Business scored seven
runs. Again, in the sixth. on one hit and
a sacrifice. one more run. which was the
last for the Stenographers. Western |
scored its last run in the seventh on
base on balls to Stearns. his swipe Of
second. and scored on Towards second |
hit over second base. but was caught off
the bag by Gottlieb TO a. Mcdonald.
Hawks. in left field for Business. had !
q busy day. as he handled five chances |
and made two Of his teams hits and |
scored run Ray Wise. at first. was |
the star of the ,nield and scooped up |
several wide throws by the left side of |
the diamond.
Bronco Howard. the big first sacker Of !
Western. had busy time around the |
initial corner. as he was continually dig
sinG them out OF the dirt and reaching
for high throws. He had more than half
the put-outs for his side. Score: