Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1916-02-21
BY h. c. BYRD.

The Wellesley High School team of
of three basket ball games with the
leading quints of the Interscholastic
League. The first will be played to-
night against the Army and Navy
Props; the second opponent for the
northerners is to be met tomorrow,
when Western High lines up against
them. and Business High will show
what it can do against the visitors
Wednesday. All three of the contests
are to begin at o'clock.
If the Wellesley High five is as
strong as the average preparatory or
high school quint in the north the local
teams will not be able to accomplish
q great deal against it. Western is the
team, though, on which local followers
of the scholastic side of the sport pin
their faith. Western is by far the
strongest of the teams representing
local institutions. Whether Western
ought to win from the visitors will be
known tonight after the game in which
the Army and Navy Props play against
them. The strength shown by the
y. and N. youngsters will give fairly
good idea of what Western may ac-
series tomorrow night.
Several big college athletes have fallen
by the wayside in the midyear exami-
nations and will not be eligible to repre-
sent their institutions in track or base
ball The most prominent of those that
nave failed to measure up to the scho-
lastic requirements of their universities
is Charley Barrett. Cornell halfback.
Barrett was credited with being the best
ground gamer on any Sridlron last fall,
and he was depended upon somewhat to
pitch base ball this spring. Eddie Ma
han, the Harvard foot ball and base ball
star, has been placed on probation. be-
cause he did not keep abreast of the
faculty. Pie Way, Yale's center. and
mainstay of the pitching staff, cannot
represent the Dark Blue any more this
the University of Michigan. is through
for the same reason. Harte, Harvard's
catcher and right end, is rumored to be
on the blacklist, too. Two or three good
track men at the University Of Pennsyl-
vania have been placed under the same
ban. and Lake. Scott and Lowe, former
Exeter athletes who played brilliant
foot ball at Lafayette last fall. have
fallen by the wayside. Right here in
local schools several athletes have felt
the penalty for their failure to observe
scholastic regulations. Eddie Stebbins,
star of Georgetown's track squad. and
Caffrey, Gallivan and Cartwright, the
major part of Catholic Eniversity's bas-
ket ball team, have been dropped.
Jack Hegarty probably will coach the
George Washington University foot ball
team next fall. Negotiations have been
carried on between George Washington
and Hegarty for several days con-
corning year-round position. 1t is
probable that Hegarty will be given a
contract covering his services during
the entire year. Hegarty desires to re-
main in Washington, if possible, and
there seems to remain only the for
mality of signing a contract.
OF course, this is provisional upon
the general resumption of athletics at
George Washington, which seemed GER
tain last week. Just what effect the
resignation of Prof. l.. c. McNemar. if
it is accepted. may have on the future
of sports is unknown. 1t is no secret
that Prof. McNemar has fought almost
single handed for the restoration of
foot ball, and his departure from the
institution would certainly exert a
certain depression on the activities along
this line For the good of athletics at
George Washington, and for the sake of
the new era promised within the last
few weeks, it is to be hoped that Prof.
McNemar will be persuaded to with
draw his resignation and continue as