The Washington times., 1915-04-17
Illness of One Member of Team
Will Keep Him Out of Al
Athletics.
STUDIES HOLD UP ANOTHER
Georgetown Prep Baseball
Team Is WhiteWashed by
Tech. Score 8 to O.
BY BRYAN MORSE.


Western will be unable to send a
relay team to the Penn games next
Friday, according to an announce
ment made by Capt. Robert Maxam
today. The Westerners nave suffer-
c1 the loss of Dorsey Griffith, who
has been out of school for a week
with chicken poX. Longstreet Whel-
chell another member of the quartet
is out of the running on account Of
technicality in scholarship mark
ing.
This leaves but Maxam as the 9TH
er runners are untried at the 440-
yard distance. A decision was reach
ed today to hold the team out of the
Penn games in consideration OF the
fact that half of the team would
have to be replaced by runners who
had never gone the distance.
Griffith made good during the past
winter, and was the mainstay of the
track team when MdXam vert badly
for two weeks His work IN the sl,rints
landed Western the George Washington
and Georgetown meets. and he captured
the quarter from HardelI the Tech
crack in fine style.
Whelchelrs work on the relay team
and in the quarter a year ago stamped
him as one of the best of the sChoolbC y
runners here. He will be ineligible 10
compete until after May l.
Tech had no difficulty in winning from
the Georgetown Props yesterday, TAX
ing the long end of an to score The
Props failed to connect with either Hird
Showers.
honors for the Tech team.
Today Tech is meeting Episcopal High
School at Alexandria,. Tech has been
going along in fine style lately, and eX-
poets to land today's contest With the
Virginians. Central and Western have
beaten Episcopal, while Business l., st
by Il to score.
Dunham's Latin School. of Baltimore
is in town today playing st. Adams at
Satterlee Field. Holmes will do the
slabbing for the st. Albans team.
Western failed TO make the trip to
Poolesvlle. Md, today, as train con-
nee tons were unfavorable. The West
erners got enough of early trains and
long waits all day before games in Nir-
Ginia recently.
Eastern is off to Charlotte Hall. Md,
today, playing the military school in
that town. The Fasteners lost Il hald
game to the Georgetown Freshmen re-
Gently. but expect to come back today.
Business played a practice game with
the Maryland Aggies yesterday and got
in an afternoon of good work. The
Business players are coming along
steadily and Coach White can be eX-
pected to present a team which will
scrap all along the route for the title
this season.
While no times We're given out in the
Central relays, it is understood that
Birthrights work was exceptionally
good. Many Of the Centraltes are pull
ing for him to displace one of the reeu-
lars.
The high school series starts next Fri
day with Central and Tech taking the
field at American League Park. Central
has good hitting team, and Is being
picked by the wise ones to land the
flag. The Central players are being
buoyed up by the knowledge that in
their last win of the title they had
exactly the same schedule in the high
school games as tbs year. In addition
a Macdonald captained the team. which
Is true of this years aggregation.
Next Saturday Business and Eastern
are due for their hrst engagement at
American League Park, in the second of
the high school series. The games then
go over until May 4. when Western
and Central hook up.