Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-01
TWO AMATEUR LEAGUES PLAY
THEIR FIRST CONTESTS TODAY
Congress Heights and Southern Railway
Circuits Open Their Schedules-Mary-
land Aggies Defeat Dickinson.

Columbia Athletic Club with two hits Al
baugh caused eighteen men 10 fan on
strikes. and he Won his game by a shut
out The Strayer's team made nineteen
hits, every man in the lineup obtaining
at least one. and some three. 1t is note
worthy to mention that besides his splen-
did pitching. Albaugh connected safely
three times out of four trips to the plate.
Business High won from the George
town Freshmen on the Hilltop diamond
yesterday by a score Of IA to TO- Both
teams hit the ball hard, the Stenographers
driving it into safe territory fourteen
times and the Blue and Gray players
ten.
The Marines won from Library in the
Government League yesterday by 1s to
8. The soldiers did better work generally
than their opponents. their batting being
particularly good: seventeen hits were
MADE by them, Strain at second leading
with three.
Local scholastic institutions have
many boys entered in the meet at the
Maryland Agricultural College today
that ought to prove point winners
carter OF the st. Adams School looks
TO nave splendid chance for victory
in the mile, while Brewer Of the same
institution ought to figure prominently
IN the dashes. Brewer. though. will
have harder row to hoe than Garter
as both events show fields that are re-
markably fast. Western High has
Griffith and Maxam, both great sprint
ers. Central is represented by all four
OF It's championship relay team and
their capabilities were proved in the
race last Saturday at Pennsylvania, in
winch they defeated some of the best
schoolboy talent in the country 1t
looks like Washington has the class I'm
the dashes of all the sixteen or seven
teen schools which Will take part in the
open interscholastics, with the excep-
ton OF Hornsby and Ashton of Tome
institute. Supplee of Technical is GER
tam to place in the shot-put Barring
one man, Devereux of Tome, Supplee
seems to have a better chance than
any of the other men entered Central
mas a better bunch of quarter milers
than any other school. while Sheehan
or technical probably is as good a
haif-miler as will be seen. Friends
School is represented for the first time.
and the capabilities of its men are not
very well known
None of the men is likely to have
an easy time winning There is not an
event in which there are not big fields
and practically the entire schola site
strength of Maryland and Washington
is entered to the best advantage OF
each team. Chapman, the Baltimore
polytechnic Institute man. who won
the sso last year. was declared in
eligible by his school and was not al
lowed to enter.
The fight for the team trophy is sure
to be close. Judging from the char
acter OF the entries, it appears that the
real test should be between four
schools-Tome Institute, Central High.
Technical High and st. Adams, with
Western High and the Baltimore Poly
technlc Institute having fair chances
The battle between these institutions
with ten or twelve others cutting in
for division of the points, proba blv
VIII be almost as close as last spring.
when only three points separated the
first and sixth teams