The Washington times., 1915-05-19
By BRYAN MORSE.

Three high school teams stand at
a tie for the baseball championship
today, leaving the series in as much
doubt as to the probable winner as
there was at the start Of the cam
paign. The defeat of Business by
Tech in a to 0 contest yesterday
brought the Manual Trainers on
even terms with Business and Cen
tral, and allowed Capt. Jakey Rob-
erts and company another crack at
the title.
1t is not unlikely that by the end
Of the week quadruple tie will exist
for the title honor as Eastern HAS
failed to defeat any of the other
schools, and Western will go into
the contest a decided favorite. This
will mean that the title will be
fought out in the nature of an elm
ination tournament, and is by no
means a good method Of selecting
the best team among the five COM
peting schools.
As il for an argument for a longer
series the teams have taken matters
in their own hands until the stand
ing of the clubs today reveals no ink
ling of the probable winner of the
championship. After Fridays game
Central will meet Business, and
Western will play Tech. In any
event the games must be continued
after the regular schedule if the
1915 winner is to be selected.
Tech must defeat Western in its re-
naming game in order to be In the fight
for the title. Business and Central must
win in order to be nominated for the
final game, while Western must defeat
Eastern, and Tech for g chance to play
of In the last game for the banner.
Denbv Hird, Techs pitcher, and Capt.
Jakey Roberts are the heroes Of yes
terday's Business-Tech contest. The
Manual Trainers won the game through
Hird's excellent box work. and Roberts
great outfield play and ability to hit
The game was won in the first inning
when, with Flood gone. Roberts got
Blundon in hole, forcing him to groov,
the ball. with two balls and no strikes
Roberts found one to his liking. ano
chased Culligan to the fence with q
triple to right. Rooney attempted a
squeeze play, laid the ball along the
first base line, and on Buck Wise's
overthrow to first Roberts came home
Ochsenreiter sacrificed Rooney to sec
ond. and Eisman crashed one through
Buck wise. sending Rooney home. Ir
the third inning Flood singled, stole
second and went to third on an infield
out scoring moment later when Roo
ney drove long fly to Dowrick.
DENLY Hird proved to be too good To-
the Business hitters. AS the game pro
gressed Hird got better. But two hit
of, his delivery. H!rd started off by hit
ting Captain Dowrick In the back ant
later made a Wild throw to first ant
tSI droppsd waI crippled pop n.y. It. Aside from
steamed them up all through the game
breaking up Business attempts TO worl
the squeeze on two occasions by wei
could not hit. Hird has pitched eighteen
innings of championship ball. has al
lowed one run and but six hits.
Jakey Roberts started the scoring will
a nice triple and helped out on the de
Tense by grabbing six hard chances
The exhibition was the best bit of out
field work seen in the series this season
Business failed to get the break
in Yesterdays game or a differen
story might be written today. o.
two occasions the squeeze play wa
fairly started with one down an,
PLAYERS roosting on second and third
Ralph Wise popped to Ochsenreiter
who went in to third to cover Whei
Flood. started for the plate and tn
Tech player turned the threat into
double play.
Central called of its-game with 81
Alhens yesterday and went to see tn
Business Tech contest. A large Grove
vas ON hand at Satterlee Field (,
watch the teams perform.
Western and Georgetown PRE-
managers got mixed up over thei
dates YESTERDAY and the game wa
called eff until next week. Th
GEORGETOWN Props want a crack a
the prep school title and will pla.
the Army and Navy Prep team whcl
arrangements arc completed thi
week.
Brewer and Carter probably will g
to Princeton on Saturday to take
crack at the flyers in the Princeton in
terscholastic games. Some of the hes
talent in the East will be on hand Sat