The Washington times., 1916-01-03
CENTRAL MAY SIGN
MENEFEE TO COACH
BASEBALL PLAYERS
Last Years Mentor Is Expected
to Remain After Winning
Title Last Year.
BUSINESS WIN IS LIKELY
Eastern Basketball Team
Should Be SWamped by
More Experienced Five.
BUSINESS WIN IS LIKELY
Bv BRYAN MORSE.


Gould Menefee, coach of the Cen
trail High School baseball team last
spring, will probably be retained by
the o street school this year. Meme
fee is a former Central player, hav-
ing caught for two years. In his
first year as a high school coach he
won the baseball championship.
It will be remembered that Cen
trail won three titles in one week last
June, when the baseball team came
through with a decisive win over
Tech, the track team cleaned up for
the other schools, and the company
won the competitive drill. Central's
win of the title was more or less
lucky one as the series ended in
deadlock.
The dark blue team lost but one game
in the series and as Tech and Central
stood at q tie the final battle fought
out on Georgetown Field was glorious
victory for Central. Menefee started
with a green team last season and came
through with creditable victories. Il is
expected that Central will hook up with
Menefee shortly.
Molly Roberts is captain of the Can
trail team for the coming year. and is
eenter field. Jake Macdonald, Ross
White, Lee Hart. Harold Selden, Bat
Ihambless, Sam Gottlieb. and one or
two others from last years nine are
back for the team this season.
Business is expecting TO iun up big
total on the green Eastepers in 10
morrow's league game at the Arcade
. StpNnCTa
out during the holidays, and can be eN-
pectcd TO come back strong after their
defeat before the holidays. The real
test will come from the Business team
on Friday when it meets tne Army and
Navy Preps Central held the. Props 10
20 to 26 score in one of the best play
ed games of the series.
The advent of the Tech team will be
watched with considerable interest.
jake Roberts is coaching the team. and
While he is eligible 20 play until Febru-
ary. declares he will give way to some
one who can remain on the team during
The whole season. Roberts will have
pfeffer. t,iseman, Myers, De Alley. and
he La NerGne. with one or two others
of kHown calber Tech should be aoie
to Uut out a strong combination from
the start
Tom Pey;ou, captain OF the Western
High School baseball team, will lead his
players out for track work this week.
Western Is expecting to have a good
baseball season. and Peyton wants to
have plenty Of speed on the paths.
Unless Friends School arranges for
games this week a lay-cff will be taken
until next Monday, when Business is
met in the Business gym. Friends
played Business TO, "a score of g. to 81 in
bv Business was the largest total ever
made by schoolboys in the city. and Is
thought to be scholastic record.
Considera BILE space is being devoted in
a New York paper to sportsmanship
in scholastic athletics During the past
three Years of competition here there
has been little or no question about the
hne spirit manifested in engagements
in every branch of athletics. Compe-
tent officials have been selected for
practically all schoolboy sports here
and this more than anything else has
tended toward the Ceanest sort OF COM
petition.
The absence of the alibi is also noted
Ieams have taken the field in evory
branch of sport and have done their
best. Offering nothing in the way Of
excuses for defeats and la ying no blame
on any OF the officials. Witness the
football season. The same failed to
win n game in the series but made
every team that faced it go the limit
to l.,.o,,nn win outWeighed by teams OF
faced the music. stood the gan. and
mad no excuses to offer for defeats.
Time was when with officials who
were either careless or incompetent the
games of all sorts suffered TO a great
extent. Those in control of athiet;cs
nave found the sure cure for biCHurtnE
on the field. and the athletes ana
schools are now reaping handsome
reward for their tar-sishtedness.
6onZaea will open up in few DAYS
Tor us regular basketball season
buslness handed the GonZaga lads q
."No-29 defeat in their first gamC. which
TOOK the starch out of the North Capt
lol street lads. There is a promise that
before the season Is well under way
GonHaGa will come back strong.
Tom McGuire will pilot his GEORGE
town Props out toward the last OF tho
week. Th" Prcps had a few workouts
IN the early part of last month but
dlC not sCrImmage
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