Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1915-05-04
TEST FOR WESTERN
|NcONTEST TODAY
Defeat of Central Would Give
1t Excellent Chance for
High School Title.
C. U. FOOT BALL SQUAD
GETS SPRING PRACTICE
Good Pitching, for So Early, in Evil
dence in Amateur Base Ball
League Games.
BY n. c. BYRD.

BY n. C. BYRD.
| Western High will be seen in the
scholastic series today for the first
time. The Red and White is the only
one of the teams engaged in the cham
pionship battles that has not figured in
| a contest and the result of the meeting
with Central, which defeated Tech, will
be watched with much interest by the
followers Of school base ball.
| If Westerns pitchers accomplish any
thing it will give Central more of a battle
than the latter is looking for. Western
has stronger nine than it has generally
been given credit for and it is apt to make
more trouble for the others than is expect
ed. The players are exceptionally fast on
the bases and will make opposing catch
ers do their best work to stop them from
doing about as they please, once first base
is reached.
| If Western wins from Central it will
stand an excellent chance for the cham
pionship. On the other hand, Central will
as good as have the title in it's grasp if it
a.. is the victor Provided Central takes the
long end of the score the only real STUN
bling block it Is likely to encounter will
be Business. because the Eastern aggre-
cation is not in very good shape.
| The contest is to be played at Amer
lean League Park and will begin at
$3.50 o'clock.
! are scheduled to play games tomor
| row, the former being booked for a
! contest with Mount St. Josephs at Bal
timore and the latter for one at home
| with Washington and Lee. Neither
team is likely to get an easy
victory. Georgetown has a stronger
team than Mount St. Joseph's. but
playing on the latter's ground will
place the Hilltoppers at a disadvan-
tage. Washington and Lee has not been
as successful this season as in some
previous years. but it has shown
strength enough to give any team in
its class hard fight.
That Catholic University is going to
foot ball team next fall is certain from
the fact that 1t has decided to hold
spring practice. The work now prob
ably will be more to give the coach
work with next fall than for any real
| good 1t will do the players. The man
! in charge Of foot ball at c. L. now is
extremely thorough in every particular,
| and there will be no detail left I'M
noticed by him in the efforts to give
the Brooklanders real eleven.
Central Presbyterian defeated Bright
| wood In the Northwest Sunday School
League opening yesterday by to g.
Waltz. who pitched for Central, let
the contest was something of a pitch
ers battle, Brightwood getting but
one safety off Waltz and Central con-
Meeting but three times effectively
| with the delivery of Lynn and Stan
| ley.
Fairlawn. runner-up in the Potomac
| League last year, got good start yes
| teTdaS n hot rfr
| defeating st. Teresa by score of to /.
| Fairlawn did not core at all until the
| third inning, and then it drove three
more in the fifth and two in the sixth,
after which the contest was called
Brought pitched a splendid game for
Fairlawn. He allowed only four hits,
! struck out ten men and displayed very
good control for so early in the year.
| The opening of the Potomac circuit
| was marked by ceremonies. Mai. Pull
man. superintendent of police. threw
out the first ball and showed himself to
be something of real fan.
| Another league in which the opening
| was observed by having "A prominent
man on hand to toss out the first hal
was the Rosedale. Robert H. Young.
president of the Amateur Base Ball AS
soc1at1on. 1naugurated the season by
performing that ceremony
The game was not very we'll PLAYED |
| the players in the main showing a de-
cided lack of practice. Goodwin's work
at second base for the Gbraltars was
good. while Hayden performed credit
ably behind the bat for the Crescents !
Goodwin got one hit out Of two times
| at bat. and it was sound wallop that
went for homer.
One of the best games OF an openinp
in the Departmental League was PLAYED |
yesterday when War went down be-
lore treasury by score of 3 to . |
Mo
than was looked for, and the exhibition |
was exceptionally creditable
Two players in the game batted Well !
Mortimer. who held down third base |
Tor treasury. got three safeties out of |
as many attempts, and Sigourney. in |
center field for War. got three out of |
four. Only one of the six hits was for !
an extra base. Mortimer driving the !
ball out for two on one occa sion
Nops and Bell did much better pitch
ing for War and Treasury than might |
have been expected for SO early in the
spring. Nops allowed only five hits |
and caused thirteen men to fan, while |
Bell gave only four safeties and struck |
out eleven.
The game in the Interbureau League
of the War Department was rather |
loosely played, the result being Is to |
in favor of the Staff team against the |
nine representing the Adjutants office |
Nine errors were made, five by the
losers.
St. Agnes won the first contest in the
East Washington Sunday School |
League; 1t scored six runs against three
for Fifth Baptist. st. Agnes was out
hit by Fifth Baptist, but it played bet
ter ball defensively. Meade, while he
allowed the Baptists eight hits, struck |
out eleven men and pitched effectively |
all through the contest
F. K. Lane. Secretary of the Interior.
started the Home Club League on it's
way when he threw out the first ball |
of the game. won by Reclamation from
the Indian Service by to l. McCabe
pitched for the losers and Tomlin for |
the winners, both men did their work |
well. McCabe allowed six hits and fan
ned eleven, while Tomlin let his oppo- |
nents down with three bingles and |
caused nine to Whit in a vain endeavor |
to connect with the ball
Coach kimball of Eastern High is |
somewhat discouraged over his pros !
poets in the high school series. Fail |
ures in scholastic work have prevented |
him keeping a team intact and have |
forced him to change his players po-
sitions SO much that the team is far |
from being in shape right now. Says |
Kimball:
IT think we will get going yet, but
there is no denying that we have been
| working under very disadvantageous
circumstances all spring. If we can
keep the team we now have without
further alterations because of failure: |