The Washington times., 1915-02-26
NATIONAL GROUNDS
MAY Be USED FOR|
SCHOOLBOY SER|ES'
Griffith Has Granted Permission
For Florida Avenue Park
When Team Is Away.
DATES TO Be RATIFIED
Technical and Central Are
= Asked to Open Season In
Tentative Schedule.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

BY BRYAN MORSE.
70 Clark Grifiith has signified his in
.tention Of giving the high schools
. the use Of National Park for their
championship baseball series Of ten
games on the dates when the club is
away and action is expected by the
faculty advisers in ratifying the
schedule given out today.
According to the dates selected
Technical and Central are asked to
open the series on April %, and tho
following day, Saturday, Business
. and Eastern will be requested to
take the field in the second contest
Of the series. A halt will be called
on the championship games until
May 4, at which time Central and
Western will 60 back for their an
nual baseball battle.
-. The next seven games completing
the schedule will be played Tuesdays
and Fridays at National Park,
weather permitting, so that the
series will be over May 20 in plenty
OF time to get the track meet out of
the way before the final week of
school.
The schedule. if adopted by tho fac.
uity advisers, will read as follows:
April 3--Tech VS.. Central
april 2%.-Business vs.. Eastern.
May 4-Central vs.. Western.
May 7-Technical VS.. Eastern
May ll-Business VS.. Western.
May H-Central vs.. Eastern.
May lS-Business vs.. Technical.
May 2l-Eastern Vs. Western.
May 4-Business vs.. Technical
May aS-Technical VS.. Western.
- II =, VIII Dc noted that oil games are
Business and Eastern consent to ap-
pear on the Saturday following the
opening date Of the schedule ali will 70
well with the series as arranged.
Chairman Matthews of Western ind
the other members. .Messrs. Wallis Of
Eastern. Smith OF Tech, Maurer of Cen
tral, and Crandall of Business, are ex-
pected to adopt the schedule at a meet
ager Griffith of the Nationals gave Mr..
Maurer. of Central, permission to use
the park. 1t Is Understood, and as things
now appear the series will be run OF
Ia one park for the first time In several
years.
With the dates for the series prac.
tically assured the high school mana
gers can get action with the MANAGERS
or other teams at once. Eastern, West
ern. Central. and Business will take
trips this spring. according to the dope,
Tech being the only school forbidden to
take out-of-town jaunts.
Last year both Business and Western
made trips into Virginia for several
days, duration. Both schools have plan
ned other itineraries this year. 1t Is un-
derstood. In less than four weeks
regularly scheduled baseball games will
he on tap. and the schoolboys are al
days are fair enough. '
Four more games remain to be played
IN the lnterseholastic Basketball League
has to meet st. Alban today, then West.
ern. and finally the Army and Navv
Prep team: which postponed the open
ns have stared Of JshasS shs series sypossd
row The schedule is a iensthv % vonOe- n0e
owing to the fact that the Y. NJ c. A.
except on Fridays.
There is quite a lot Of talk about the
Business defeat Of Wednesday.
Business handily hung It on the East.
erners In the league game the week be-
fore. and Eastern came back too strong
TOR the stenographers. Business main
Wanid ys,ns tsat Se defsatsd Ha larger floor Eastern
The baskets at Eastern are eighteen
inches lower than the regulation on ac-
count Of the low ceiling. Loop shots
are are rfacc,eaiIH FRA cs,a;n impossible. as the ball
ern Is well-nigh unbeatable, and it has
trimmed everything that has opposed il
on Capitol H!ii: Coach Kimble has got
ten together fast travelling bunch, who
keep everlastingly at 1t.
st. ,Alban has succeeded in scoring
fourteen points in the indoor meets this
winter. and Ia likely to lead all others
II its athletes are In any way successful
tomorrow night. Brewers win of the
Oren 100 In Baltimore earned five points.
Rose scored two second places, one i'm
the G. w. y. meet and one In the Hop.
kins games. while Crawford Carter an.
nexed second place to Bacon here two
'Nceks ago Brewer would undoubtedly
have won the scholastic 100 had he en-
without him. as he failed to respond
to the starters call. A bad fall In the
go when he had picked up the leaders
shut him out Of the final.
Weakness in the field events is ap-
parent in high school and prep school
track activities this winter. There have
been no pole vaulters or high jumpers
entered in any of the meets this winter
by any of the schools. and this branch
of activity seems to shave been neglect
ed. 1t is pointed out that facilities are
not OF the best for jumping and vault
ing.
f1d Tabor, of Central. seems to have
deVeiopeo into good distance runner.
ms work IN Baltimore In the half mile
Was exceptionally good, as he ran a
heady race and finished with plenty of
speed. He win be started In the open
m'l" tomorrow night, and should land
w near IN" front. provided the handi-
'apper gives him a chance.
Everyone seems To have overlooked
the fact that Louis Connor. captain Of