The Washington times., 1915-01-29
Suggest Dual Meet!
With Western. High
Coach Earl Fuller Wants His Y. M. C. A. Athletes to
Hook In Indoor Events at "Y" Gymnasium.
Fairmonts Hand Defeat to George
town Preps By 21 to IL.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

losing a SO to 20 battle. Gonzaga is one
Of the few teams which have handed
Western defeat.
St Albans after losing to Eastern and
western In the last two starts will
the Y: M. C.. A. today. st. Albans IL ex-
pected to win, although the prep team
has corile forward rapidly in its last few
daya work. Eastern defeated the preps
Western is meeting q team composed
of former Y. NJ. c. A. boys department
PLAYERS at the Armory today. and is ex-
pecting to put number OF new PLAYERS
team will be augmented by Smith. Gull
bertsCn. Adams. Henry. and Sergeant,
who have been working out all season.
Cathedral second recently lost a game
Several Of the Cathedral second players
are due to come to the front shortly.
Worth Daniels and Marcel Loker. the
forwards, play a splendid game while
Crawl Carter. the miller Of the track
team. is developing into a first class
guard and center.
Many OF the youngsters coming Up
from the eighth grade will be given the
once oser during the week. The high
efforts of the Playground Association in
devc .oping track and basketball players
Many of the hiAI, school sprinters at
present made their marks in the play
Doc Davidson. who plays center for
the Eastern team. Is also a candidate
for the baseball nine. Eastern has few
athletes. but all OF them are versatile
ana take part in three branches of ath-
letiCs.
Palmer Stearns. captain OF the West
ern baseball team, Is having trouble
with h right wrist. hurt in football
in prime condition by baseball season,
and makes no bones OF saying that
Western will have a lot Of veterans re-
turning for team which is sure to cut
IA swath In the championship race.
The faculty advisers will get together
some time soon to figure on a base
ball schedule for the high schools.
There are many supporters OF the twen-
ty-game schedule. and # one or two
obstacles In the way at present can be
removed there Is little doubt that the
idea will be carried out.
One or two Of the coaches OF high
school and prep basketball teams are
strongly opposed to the idea Of playing
intercollegiate rules in basketball here
next season. The games are too loose
ly played as It is." said one mentor.
''Offic ais are hard to get and many Of
the games are refereed by coaches who
do not hold down to the letter OF the
rules. allowing the players too much
leeway. II we have the intercolleg giate
rules the game Will become too rough.
and there will be many injuries" All
OF which is good dope and to be taken
under consideration
Many of the high school boys are to
be found at the Armory rife range on
Wednesday afternoons. There are a
few high school girls taking a peep
at the sights. and. from reports. have
made as good records as the boys at
the sport. Each high school has a rife
team. besides the regular company and
battalion teams.
Washington school boys have lament
ed the fact that there are so few bas-
Ketball courts here. Philadelphia raises
the wall that all the available floor
spaces have been taken over for dane
Ing and that when basketball Is tried
en- these floors the players slips and slide
so that they are unable tomake any
thing like a good performance.