The Washington times., 1916-01-22
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Technical and Western will open
the championship baseball series this
spring, according to the announce
ment Of the schedule adopted by the
high school faculty advisers. The
dates for the contests have not been
selected as yet nor have the grounds
been obtained. The order of games,
however, has been named and in the
event that the schedule runs through
twenty games the schedule will be
duplicated.
Business and Central follow in
the second contest of the title series,
and Eastern and Tech come back
for the third battle. The warm
weather of yesterday started lot
of baseball talk among high school
athletes. All of the schools are
anxiously awaiting the publishing Of
the schedule of dates and the an
nouncement as to whether the title
contests will run into a twenty-game
series.
This will be learned later when the
American League dates are made
known. The faculty advisers adopted
the order of title games as follows:
Western We. Technical.
Business We. Central.
Eastern w. Technical.
Western vs. Business.
Eastern VS.. Central.
Technical VS.. Business,
western VS.. Central
Business VS.. Eastern.
Central VS.. Technical.
Western EnQerm
Central won the title last season
after four cornered tie existed be-
tween Central Tech, Business and
Western. A longer series was talked of
last year and not long ago the facI:lty
advisers went on record as favoring n
;wenty-game series for this season. lG
grounds can be obtained the series Will
be heightened; four games a week being
run of according to the oboYe list OF
engagements.
The Interscholastic Basketball League
may suspend operations during the week
OF January 81 on account of the fact
that the Arcade Auditorium is being
sought for an exhibit during that week.
play February l while st. Adams and
Eastern and Army and Navy Prep and
Central are booked February 4.
1t is expected that the games will be
PLAYED at the Arcade during the next
week or that Wednesdays will be given
over to the league contests during Feb
ruary in order to play the three games
i may be that Tuesday and Wednes-
dOY. February and Q. will find the teams
playing double headers In order to catch
up on the schedule.
All arrangements are completed, IL Is
understood. to turn over the Arcade to
the exhibit and IT remained for the
league to sanction the affair by arrang-
ing its schedule.
Georgetown VS.. Navy today at An
q I,oV a
battle. Catholic University is in Char
lottesville, Va, tackling the University
Of Virginia quint. Gallaudet will meet
Loyola here today at Kendall Green,
while George Washington will remain
idle, as Washington College could not
get here for its scheduled contest.
There are several other contests. The
hrst and second teams Of the Army y.
NJ. c. A. from Fort Myer will tackle
the two teams of the Terminal Railroad
Y. NJ. c. A. At the Union Station Gym
tonight. Carroll Institute will battle the
Rolands at the Carroll Institute gym.
The Boys Y. NJ. c, A. team will meet
the ANNAPOLIS Boy Scouts in the even
ing. while Westerns Seconds and the
at Western In the late afternoon.
Western got the long end of ~ to So
score on Friends in the Quaker gym
yesterday in hard fought contest The
players of both teams were handicapped
by the small gym, and neither team was
able to do itself justice, Western was
without the services of Sergeant. who
is out with a hard cold, and a shift
was necessary in the team which worked
to a disadvantage. Peine kept up his
good work shooting eleven baskets from
the floor.
Company r. of Business. defeated the
Tech Reserves by u to 10 yesterday.
Friends MidEets won over Westerns
youngsters by 26 to 16.