The Washington times., 1915-10-25
Unknown a Year Ago, But Pro-
duces Enough to Gain Cap.
taincy for This Season.
EASTERN WESTERN MEET
Third Battle Of Nigh School
Championship Series Is to
Be Played Tomorrow.
By BRYAN MORSE.


A year ago "Buck" Ochstadt
had never been heard Of except in a
casual sort of way at Central High
School. 1t required about forty min
utes Of play In the first champion
ship football game in which the
dark blue appeared to convince fol-
lowers Of the game that Ochstadt
was to be ranked with the best
players in the schools. His work
in succeeding games not only boost.
ed his stock, but gave him the call
for the captaincy, and this year he
is rapidly coming into his own as
. real leader.
ochstadt Is one Of tho smallest half
backs that ever wore a Central uni
form He m stoshy enough to s,atsI. Ss s'rs TO-
some Of tho big fellows like King. Van
Dyne. Hamilton. Masoffin. Tindali.
Reuter- and others who have made MS
tory for Central What Ochstadt "a iaSKs c,,s
around ability. and ne has succeeded in
getting the necessary pep In the Cen-
trail eleven to make 1t serious con-
tender for first honors.
1t was noticeable in the game last last
Tuesday that when Ochstadt went Into
the game the Central team took q de-
cided brace. Ochstadts strength. how
ever, was not sufficient to gain a
touchdown as his team was we'll spent
and could not produce the punch in
'ns As 'Hsn runnimS % mates Schstadt has Sell
don and Long and when the trio once
5uries. Central is going to have a
Formidable combination. In Justice to
the eleven It might be said that the
showing against Eastern was not
true measure OF tho strength OF the
team. The lire work was commendable
hut the backfeld had been shifted
about 30 much that concerted action
was not expected.
The third game of the high school
Championship series will find Eastern
and western battling for honors on
Georgetown Field tomorrow. Tho Capt.
tol Hili lads have been through tho
and will go into tomorrow's game con-
fdent OF being an improved eleven over
that which gave Central such q hard
fight last Tuesday.
Western will outweigh Eastern in al
most every position. and can be ex-
pected to win by close margin. The
Westerners have a much better defense
than ofYense. and have held opposing
season. The Red and White may lose
the services Of John Whelchell. its quar-
terback, whoh as been out Of tho game
for some time with bad ankle.
Eastern has n light. scrappy eleven.
capable of carrying the fight to tho
opposition at all times. Graves. Mailer.
iIarr. Knapp, Lanahan, and Small pro-
vide ample strength on defense. Both
elevens will be weak on oTense. II their
games played this season are to be
taken a. estimates OF their true scoring
ability.
A perusal Of football results OF the
year reveals the fact that the Army
from win to win. The team coached
s. Frank Newberry has won four
games and lost none. The real test
will come saturdsy when ths team
can he expected. as the Manual Train
crs are prepared and will have their
cripples ready for the fray.
Saturday Central and Business pro-
vide the SCRAP In the high school cham
pionship battle, and Business can be
expected to show more than 1t did in
the Tech game last Friday.
Western and the aeorgetonw Prepss
Georgetown Field. which reflected
credit upon neither team. There was
entirely too much rough work on both
teams. but those who saw the contest
were of the opinion that the Props
started the trouble. As was the case In
most games of the kind the officials
failed to use drastic measures early
enough to check the roughness.
In contrast to that battle has been the
performance in the high school games
during the last two years All Of the
teams have come through with clean
records which have reflected credit
upon coaches and followers.