The Washington times., 1916-11-20
IS AHEAD IN
SCORING FOR SERIES
Dark Blues Total Larger Than
Any Other, While Defense
Has STAYED of Points.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Central and Eastern are meeting tc-
morrow in the ninth game Of the pres
ent high school championship bat
ties at American League PARK, and un-
less the dope goes awry the Central
eleven will not only be returned q
winner by o good margin. but will
land the title.
Coach Metxier's lads ,ead the five
schools In scoring in the games play
cd to date. There are those who con-
slider the Business eleven on a par
with Central at present, but figures
show the Dark Blue team to be better
on both offense and defense than the
Central has scored forty points in
three games. Western, Business and
Technical have gained twelve points
ssainst the Central tea team & In the three three
played has amassed twenty-siN points
Tech has played four gamer. The
mnu sn pont. %s. asys ss sS5sS ns has
been. able to make thirtytwo.. West
ern In three games has totaled eight
cen points to twenty-six for the op-
its credit against twenty.six for op-
Goal Kiekers Poor.
In the eight games to date the goal
kickers have been way off. In six
] touchdowns scored Central has been
4 successful four out OF six times on
| goals after scores. Business has blown
| two OF its four chances, Western all or
Its three chances and Eastern Its only
| chance where goal kicked wouio
have meant tie score.
| This has been the first season for
| some time that no goals from placement
| or dropkicks have been registered. or
L "a. NNnNA Ad h n
| efforts OF Buck Wise, Of Business. who
seems to be the only consistent kicker In
Fumbiing has been an outstanding
thought that there bsve been more fum-
| bles this year than In any season passed.
1 The memory OF at least ten campaigns
fails to record so much loose handling
| Of the ball.
| Business Improves.
After the Central game Coach Paul
White. OF Business, remarked that his
team would show vast improvement be-
fore the end Of the year. There are those
who are Of the opinion that Business is
better than Central right now.
In Buck Wise. Ready. Macdonald and
either King or Gerard. Business pos.
sesses a backfield as strong as that OF
Central The Business ends. however
cannot be compared with those OF Cen
who 10 a halfback on defense.
Man for man in the line Business ap.
pears every bit as good as Central. Nc
attempt Is being made to discredit the
work OF the Central team in the serie,
TO date. Central was wise enough to get
going early. The benefits derived have
been demonstrated In the wins to date.
Tech showing Poor.
Despite the fact that Tech was said
to have the heaviest and best materia
at the start OF the season the showinI
made this year was the worst In the his
tory OF the school, Time has not record
ed Tech team defeated three out o
, four high school title games.
Injuries and the loss Of Dsv.
way all season. In the Business .gam'
. recently Tech was outweighed, II any
thing, but the Manual Trainers faileS
, TO show their usual fghting In
Western and Business scored win
and Eastern outplayed the Tecl
, team. II was the fret win In histor!
. for business, and the second 70
Western over the Tech football team
since 1900.
Light Teams Scrap.
Eastern and Western, the lightes
clevens in the series, produced plent.
OF scrap all through the games
Neither team gave In until the fna
: whistle called a halt on proceedings
!. Both elevens served as thorns in IN
l sides OF the heavier teams they or
; posed.
) In playing Central tomorrow Fast
, ern will put up a fight from start (
! finish. The Capitol Hill lads will b
. greatly outweighed, and will be NOR
liable TO injuries on account OF tn
. fact that they have been up agains
9 heavy teams all year.
4 Western is calculating to put u
J. another stiff argument against Bus
:, ness on Friday. The Red and Whit
n will be outweighed fifteen or NOR
! pounds to the man, but can be e,
= pected to make Business go the fu
! route for win.