The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1915-03-14
assv 0unt Is Selected for Herads Astar Scholastic Team
Western and Business Are Only Schools Represented Heralds
Aar Team of the Scholastic League for the Season of 1915
Red and White Players De.
serve Credit for Spirit
Displayed.
DUTCH PECK IN CENTER

has made. 1t has been defeated only five
times and has won over twenty games.
1t may be interesting to add that his
tossers have scored nearly 900 points
Special mention is made of this in this
instance because II is felt that too much
credit cannot be given the Red and White
boys for the spirit they have displayed.
Western has not won a basketball
championship since 1905. And, by the
way, that was the last title registered by
that school. the last baseball champion
ship coming the previous spring, 1907.
George Polhemus. captained the cham
pion basketball five, and i'll bringing his
team through winner lost only one con-
test and that to the Georgetown Preps
when the team was crippled. 1t defeated
the same team for the championship that
year at the Y. NJ. c. A, the same scene
for scholastic games at the present
A trio of young men-Capt. Ray Wise.
his brother Buck. and Karl Glessner-are
today receiving most of the credit for a
remarkable finish against Western Fri
day by the Business High School basket
ball team.
The driving power Of the leader. indi-
vidual brilliancy of Buck Wise in shoot
ing baskets. and the great defensive work
Of GleSsner. combined late in the game
to give Business victory when matters
were greatly against il. At the end of
the first half Western had an advantage
Of three points. and the team as a whole
looked Auch better than its rival but
the StenOrraphers never gave up hope
Under the direction of a captain who did
not know the meaning OF the word de
feat" it fought. and fought hard, with
the result that in the last ten minutes OF
play il forged ahead and gradually in
creased the count as the game came to
close and left the floor real heroes in the
estimation of their supporters.
To charge Western with stopping has
no justification in fact. The Red and
Whit" lads tried in the same manner as
Western teams have always tried. West
ern yielded nothing to her vanquishers
in the spirit of her efforts. II lost the
contest simply because its players Were
exhausted 1t Is an open question wheth-
er Westerns long and successful season
has not caused il to slow up somewhat.
For time the Red and Whit five was
averaging three games a week and in
the game with Eastern. just one week
before the Business contest showed un-
showed unmistakable signs of going stale.
In some respects II was the best game
of the series. The teams were evenly
matched and played an individual game
with the DeSt men OF one team pltted
against those of the other. Neither team
played a real good passing game for the
reason that they were too evenly
matched in guarding. and when man
had half chance for basket he die
not hesitate to shoot. Most of the goals
resulted from clever work on the part Of
a single man rather than any assistance
he received from his teammates
This was especially true in the first
half but in the second chapter Western
was simply caught in the vortex of an
offensive movement that could not be
denied. Business was fighting mad and
inspired by shouts of ENCOURAGEMENT
from its captain and the roaring of one
player to another.
Hut all the honors did not belong TO
Business. Western had its heroes. prin-
cipal among whom were Pcine. Giblin
and Fuller. The first two named played
Clevcrly on the defense, and until they
tired badly in the closing moments
stopped the good Business forwards,
while Pene Was the man who did most
of the scoring.