Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-05-10
SCHOOL MINES MEET
TO DETERMINE TITLE
Central and Business Play Tomor.
row at American League Park.
Canoe Regatta.
BY H. c. BYRD.

Central and Business play tomorrow
ne game is the crucial one of the high
school base ball series and on its re-
suit depends the championship. Cen
trail has defeated Western Tech and
Eastern. and Business won from Vest
ern and Tech. A victory tomorrow for
Central will give il undsputed right to
the title. while win for business win
leave only Eastern standing in its way
The game will take place at American
League Park. Play is scheduled to start
at $50 o'clock The largest crowd
that has watched contest here this
spring is expected to attend. Both
schools have big followings. and there
should be considerable interest shown
by outsiders.
| Tech and Eastern had a fine time run
| ning around the bases in the game
played by them yesterday. The former
scored 10 runs and the latter s. the
total for the contest being u. Such a
count savors more of foot ball than
base ball Technical did not wait long
to get started. seven of its players
crossing the plate in the opening pc
Rod. The Manual Trainers connected
/ FOR fifteen hits and generally ran wild
all during the exhibition. Eastern did
| some batting, but was not able to con-
meet with Pfeiffer's shoots to any ex-
| tent. Pfeiffer struck out thirteen men
/ Snyder played well at first for Tech
| and got three hits out of six trips to
| the plate. Dawson led the Eastern bat
ters with home run and a single.
1 Thomas fielding at short for Eastern
| was one of the features.
| The Army and Navy Props journeyed
4 to Alexandria yesterday and took the
| long end of 6-to-5 score in a game
| mines played good ball. and there was
really little to choose between their
| efforts. Hodgson did some splendid
pitching for Episcopal, allowing six
| nits and tanning eleven.
The annual intercIub canoe regatta
is to be held May 80 at Sycamore Is
land. The following events will be
run off: Senior singles double blade.
junior singles, tail-end race. inter-
mediate single, Junior double, associa-
ton championship single. intermediate
| double. mixed doubles, association
| championship double. intermediate
fours. club tours, upset race and tits.
/ 1t has been determined to reclassify
the canoeists. Each event will be
I treated as a separate class, and IN each
event there are to be junior, inter
mediate and senior competitions In
4 this way man may be a senior in one
event and a junior in another. Only
one entry is to be accepted from each
club in the club tours. this being done
to make the event a distinctly inter
| club affair
1 At a recent meeting of the organiza-
ton officers were elected as follows:
Adrian Sizer. commodore; Reginald
| Rutherford, vice commodore: A. +.
Hastings, rear commodore; j. F. Med
bury, treasurer: D. A. De Lashmutt.
secretary: Alfred B. Dent. librarian
| Irving Zirpel. purser; D. Eolland. J. w.
Burch. E. B. Finch and w. C. Greenley,
members of the board of governors.
a member of the faculty board of adj
visers of athletics in the high schools
yesterday made the statement that the
| track meet this week probably would
| be one of the best in the whole history
| of high school competition. 1t was
his opinion that Central and Tech
would have a close fight for honors
with Western a good third. Here is
what he says:
1 The meet has more entries registered
| than at any time in several years and
| think there is no doubt that il will be
! the best we have held in long time
I think. too, that it will be the closest