The Washington herald., 1916-01-16
Coach Clancy's Team Is Ex-
pected to Upset Leaders in
Coming Battles at Arcade.
OTHER SCHOOLBOY NEWS
By ARTHUR wRENN.

After three weeks of actual playing in
the Interscholsstfc League. Western leads
the field. winning its three games with
ease, while Business and Central are
trailing along tied for the second place.
For the fourth and nth places. Army and
Navy Props are leading the st. Adams
tOssers merry chase, though both have
won one game and lost two. Eastern,
the weak sister Of the circuit, is in last
place without a win to their credit and
carrying at the same time three black
marks for defeats, going down in every
game played thus far.
All in all the Western team is at pres
ent leading the league as none of their
opponents have been able to set them
back, the nearest approach coming on
Friday. when the Army and Navy Props
went down to defeat in one Of the hardest
fought games Of the leagues schedule
played to date. In the future through the
Preps' wonderful showing against the
leaders, the rival manager and coaches
are worrying to no small extent as il
was demonstrated that this is the team
which must be watched.
When Business played the Western
team, they were completely outclassed,
but when the future admIrsls Of the navy
and geserals Of the army played West
ern they took defeat, but more than one
person who saw the game are sympath-
izing with them for their loss as II ap-
pears that they were a bit sighted
through the absence Of the other official
Shorty Hughes. II is impossible for one
man to watch the play Of two teams on
the floor with justice to both and in the
future 1t viii not be at all surprising to
hear OF the coaches insisting on two Of
ficials- Rice gave the decisions and fouls
as he saw them and the defeat checked
to the credit Of the Preps is not I'D to
him but up to the league officials who
failed to provide two men to oficiate
The nearest upset in dope handed
followers Of the interschoIastic came
about on Friday. when Army and NAVY
Preps and Western were battling in the
initial game Of the double attraction
OF the Interscholastic League. The up
set, which might baye happened came
on the Western team In the second half
with the score standing q to Is in favor
of Coach MOrse's team, but after the
half started, the Preps started out with
vengeance and soon had but four points
as the barrier between them and their
rivals
Here the most unlucky thing that has
happened to date in the league through
the Illness of shorty Hughes, as with
only one official working It was impossible
for him to see everything committed on
the floor. Time and again Western
would commit fouls evident TO every
one present, even their own following,
and but for the luck in having but one
or1cial Western is congratulating them
selves on a victory whereas under
ordinary circumstances they would be
mourning a defeat.
The fact that Rice did not see all the
fouss which are alleged to have been
corrmitted Is not saying that he is not
square, but 1t is impossible for any one
man 70 watch two teams battle on the
BASKETBALL court with Justification to both
teams. Rice Is one of the most COM
petent orcials In this section and gives
decisions as he sees them, but at the
same time, the fact that he didn't see
everything that was going on cost the
Props well-earned victory.
Words has been received in the Capital
tnst Samuel Miller. former student
and prominent athlete of Technical High
School here and now a scholar at Tome
School at Port Deposit, leads the bas-
ket-oal tossers Of that place in caging
points this year. Miller Is the regular
center OF the Port Deposit Institution
and the teams which have staked against
the Tome quint ind that he Is one of
the best scholastic centers in this sec
ton.