The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-05-20
CENTRAL IS PICKED.
ITO WIN BIG MEET
AT COLLEGE PARK
Dark Blue Athletes May Be
Given Good Competition by
Tech.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Central Is expected to make another
win Of the annual high school field and
track games scheduled for today at
College Park. The Dark Blue athletes
have a shade on all of the other schools
In the sprint events. and can he ex-
pected to land enough seconds and
thirds to total up more than Technical.
At the start of the meet Central is
awarded five points on account OF en-
tering the only relay team in the meet
In the century. Central is expected to
take two places with Mlstead and
Birthrisht. In the 22O hurdles Tibbott.
Techs captain; Is likely to give the
Central boys a score.
The furlong dash looks TO be Centrars
all the way through, as there arc no
other athletes capable of giving Birth
right and Milstead a battle. Tech looks
best In the $50 and mile with Carr and
Sheehan.
In the field events Tech and Central
VIII fight 1t out with Business and
Western. The shotput looks like a
Tech bet. although Flaherty. of East
ern. and Grayson. of Western. may up
set calculations.
The pole vault will be a toss up be-
tween Latta. of Central: Speiden, OF
Tech. and Brigham and Borden Of
Western. II Buck Wise Is in shape TO
perform. he will probably capture the
high jump again. leaving Tech and Cen
tral to s1uabble for the points. with
Milstead. Swain. and Hoover. OF Cen
tiaI; pitted against Moon. Tibbott. and
Central is expected to land the meet
by goodly margin. Coach KimbelI
of Eastern, may have n few surprises
In store for the athletes of the other
schools: Eastern has fourteen athletes
entered In the meet and may come
through as last year at unexpected
times,
Eastern threw down. Western by 4 to
In yesterdays title baseball game on
Ifirst In the opening inning. and Eastern
lgot away with four runs in its half the
battle. After that the game narrowed
down to a pitchers battle between Pec;;
and Tomlin, In which the Fastener
had much the better of the battle.
A base on balls after n hit in the
opener and home run by Tomlin got
Eastern three runs right off the reel
ITomlin smashed n groove ball over the
tree In left for the circuit Flaherty
followed immediately with another cir.
cult wallop In practically the same
place. After that Eastern failed tC
score, although Irlaherty was robbed OF
another homer when he failed to touch
Western dribbled in two more runs ir
the third and fourth on squeeze plays
failing to touch Tomln for hits. The
Fastener struck out twelve and al
lowed but two hits. Peck famed nlnt
and allowed five hits.
Catholic University is closing n mos
successful baseball season today at An
napolis playing the Navy team, Coacl
Charles Moran Is deserving OF dea
OF credit forsdeyelopinG one OF the bes
landers.
The Maryland AGgles will tackl
Georgetown University on their owl
ground today at College Park. TIL
game should he n win for Georgetown
IL Johnny Murray goes to the moun
for the IIilltoppers.
st. Adams Is sending five runner
10 Tome today. Hauser. Brewer, Max
am, Wallace, and Carter are carryin
the colors of the st. Adams team an
are expecting to make a creditabl
showing, Mercersburg will probably pu
Its full strength In the meet today. an
Jimmy Curran's athletes should com
through with a win. Mercersburg wi
probably be represented by TWENTY-FIVE
athletes.
Cooney pitched a fine game for tn
Georgetown Props, holding the. Arm
and Navy Prep nine to two hits an
town youngsters. The HilltopDeI
touched up Gilmartin for twelve hit
hut failed 10 make them count for NOR
than SIX tallles,
Ed Flaherty. brother of Leo Flahert,
Easterns catcher. Is making a gres
record at Dean Academy: and has a
tracted the attention of big leagu
scouts. Flaherty got a trial at Bosto
the other day with the Red Sox. an
will probably land berth with IL
New York State League. Flahert
stands well over six feet aud weighs 4
pounds. He has been pitching great ba
for Dean this season.