The Washington times., 1916-01-03
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.
By 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 former Central player, hav-
ing caught for two years. In his
first year as 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 a more or less
lucky one as the series ended in a
deadlock.
The dark blue team lost but one same
in the series and as Tech and Central
stood at q tie the final battle fought
out on Georgetown Field was a glorious
victory for Central Menefee started
with 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 Gem
trail team for the coming year. and is
eenter field. Jake Macdonald. Ross
White, Lee Hart, Harold Selden, Bat
chambless, Sam Gottlieb and one or
two others from last years nine are
back for the team this season.
Business is expecting TO iun up q big
total on the green EasteUers in TO-
morrow's league game at the Arcade.
The Stenographers have been working
OUT during the holidays, and can be eN-
pected to come back strong after their
test will come from the business team
on Friday when ii meets. the Army and
Navy Props. Central held the. Props to
a 20 to 26 score in one Of tile best play
ed games Of the series. -sr
The advent of the Tech team will be
watched with considerable interest.
jake Roberts is coaching the team. and
white he is eligible TO 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
Pfeiffer. Eiseman Myers, De Alley. and
he La Vergne, with one or two others
Of Known cRliber. Tech should be able
to rot out strong combination from
the start.
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Tom Peytou, 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 lay-on will be taken
until next Monday, when Business is
met in the Business gym. Friends
played Business TO, a score of g. to 80 in
their last meeting NThe count rolled up
bY Business was the largest total ever
made by schoolboys in the city and Is
n tp ha nhrIo ct
Considerable 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 cleanest sort OF COM
petition.
The absence of the albi is also noted.
Teams have taken the field in evOry
branch of sport and have done their
best. Offering nothing in the way OF
excuses for defeats and laying no blame
game way in which Eastern took it's
football season. The same failed to
WIN a game in the series, but made
to win. outweighed by teams OF
greater experience, the Fasteners
faced the music. stood the gan. and
had no excuses to ofter 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 athletics
have found the sure cure for pickering
on the field, and the athletes ana
schools are now reaping a handsome
reward for their far-sightedness.
SonZaga will open up in a few DAYS
Tor ITS regular basketball season.
BUSINESS handed the GonZaga lads a
I2-to-2s defeat in their first game, which
TOOK the starch out of the North Capt
tol street lads. There is a promise that
before the season is well under way
Gonzaga will come back strong
Tom Mcclure will pilot his George
town Props out toward the last OF the
week. The PreDs had a few workouts
IN the early part OF last month, but
did not scrmmage