The Washington times., 1915-12-22
Attractive Meets Offered, Here
and in Baltimore for Winter
Season Indoors.
WESTERN WINS CONTEST
Business DecisiveIy Defeated by
Last Years Champions in
League Battle.
By BRYAN MORSE.

With the exception Of two basket
ball games, one today between the
midget teams of Friends and West
ern, and the Friends A lumni con-
test at Friends tomorrow, schoolDoy
athletic activities will mark time
until January a, when Business and
Eastern take the floor at the Ar
cade in the Interscholastic League
battles.
Preparations are under way dur
ties. Track practice will be resumed
at Tech and Central after the re-
cess. Western will have it's track
candidates out in full force. st.
Adams will put it's galaxy of stars
in training, and the Arm! and Navy
Props, Eastern and Georgetown
Preps will begin hard work for the
winter campaign in the indoor meets.
Three indoor meets are offered for the
schooboys this winter. Johns Hopkins
has announced the joint games with the
Fifth Regiment in Baltimore for Feb
luary Il. the George Washington indoor
meet will be held mere March 4, and on
February ~ Georgetown will hold its
annual meet.
All of the high schools. with the pos
Sibie exception of Business. will have
track teams in action this winter. The
athletes will take up the work inn
mediately after the holidays, and from
present indications there will be plenty
of competition i'll all branches of the
sport.
Westerns midSets. hyweight com
hination. will engage similar team
at Friends Select School today. To-
morrow the Friends team will meet the
Alumni five, which will be composed OF
many of the former stars at Friends.
This contest is n yearly feature. and Is
one of the attractions a Friends. BOYD
Brown will PROBABLY resume his place
on the Friends team, Is he has been out
with injuries for the past three weeks.
Western easily defeated Business in
their first meeting OF the year in the in
terscholastiC circuit at the Arcade yester-
day, taking the long end of a 45-to-ii
score, and equaling the record made in
point scoring set in title contest
last year against the Army and Navy
Prep Quint.
The Red and white played a defensive
game throughout the first half and held
Business to eight points. The hardest
kind of luck prevented the Westerners
from making many more baskets in the
first. half, the ball seeming intent on
keeping out of the basket although
many shots ringed the basket. The
first half ended at 10 to S in Westerns
favor.
Shifting quickly to an offensive. which
Business was unable to stop and pre-
Sentng stonewall defense which
business failed to penetrate Peine and
peck, aided by Smith, rolled up thirty
Two points in the second half. swept
Business off it's feet and completely
swamped the Stenographers.
To Welchel and Sergeant, of Western
must be given the bulk of the credit
for protecting the Red and White bas-
kets. Culligan and Wise were unable
20 shoot. so closely we're thev guarded
Welchel took care Of Wise while Sar-
Eeant allowed Culligan two ba skets dur
ing the forty minutes of play, both shots
Icing OF the luck variety.
Milort was outplayed throughout the
contest by Peine who shot ten bas-
Eets. Feine's floor play WAS u reveia-
lion, as he was equally good on defense.
During the entire forty minutes of pIa =,
Western infringed on the rules but four
times. Three personal fouls were ca lled
and one technical foul. which is a true
measure of the ability OF the team.
!:"siness on the other hand. fouIed sin
ieen times. no less than seven being
personal fouls.