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The Washington times., 1917-03-07
CENTRAL HAS MANY
GOOD BALL GAMES
Plays Baltimore Teams and
Episcopal As Well As Local
School Mines.

CentraTs baseball schedule Is
about completed. The team will have
engagements with the Baltimore
Polys, Episcopal, Army and Navy
Preps, Baltimore City College and
Briarly Hall, in addition to the regu'
larly scheduled championship games
here.
An Easter trip is being planned by
Manager David Adams and Coach c.
A. Metzler, which will include games
with Harrisburg High, Staunton Mill
tary Academy, Woodstock, and Win
chester Academy. II present plans go
through the Central players will have
about twenty games on their list.
Veterans Are Back.
There are a good many veterans on
the Central team this season. OF last
years team to start the season there
are Capt Jake Macdonald, Bailey,
Strohecker, Cook, Dawson, Shafer'
and Gottlieb, besides DAILY.
The Central team will practice In
the stadium, IL arrangements can be
made to put a screen in right Held,
according to Coach Metzler.
Dates Attractive.
Tho Central dates are unusually at
tractive. Following the policy OF
opening up engagements with the
Baltimore schools and Episcopal High
School. two games have been ar
ranged with each school.
The list of games is as follows:
March 2s-Central at Georgetown
Props.
March 3O-Central at Gonzaga.
March 31-Central at Baltimore
Poly.
April 3-CentraI at A. N. Props.
April 4-Episcopal High at Central.
April 6-Georgetown Prep at Cen
tral.
April Is-CentraI at Episcopal High.
April 20-Baltimore Poly at Cen
tral.
April 24-Central VS.. Tech.
April 27-Central VS.. Eastern.
April 2S-Central at Baltimore City.
May 2-Central VS.. Western.
May 4-Central at Tome School.
MAY S-Central VS.. Business.
May 11-Central Va. Baltimore City.
May 15-Central VS.. A. n. Props.
April lS-Central at Briarly Hall.
Battery candidates have been work
ing out at Central for the past week.
In the event that Central is unable to
use it's new field arrangements will
be made to have the team practice on
one of the fields in the northwest sec
tion of the city as close to the school
as possible.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
MAY COACH DARTMOUTH
Jesse HawIey, Former Iowa Mentor,
Recommended fer Job.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March Jesse
Hawley, former football coach at
Iowa, has been recommended for the
position of gridiron coach at Dart
mouth, his alma mater, by the Middle
West Alumni Association of Hanover
College, it is learned here today.
Hawley was a star in the game in
which, Dartmouth defeated Yale in
1908, and later coached at Andover
He resigned at Iowa last year to de-
vote his time to his Chicago bank
interests. The place at Dartmouth
is vacant through the resignation of
Frank Cavanaugh.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
ADVISERS DISCUSS
CHANGE IN SCORING
Matter of Adopting Collegiate
System Talked Over At
Meeting.

A new system Of point scoring may
be instituted at this years champion
ship high school field and track
games. At a meeting OF the faculty
advisers, held at the Mckinley Manual
Training School yesterday, It was de-
cided to put before the members for
consideration the adoption OF the
system used in college meets.
The present system is that which
scores five points for first place, three
for second place, and one for third
place. Five points additional are
scored for winners Of the relay race.
Representatives Agree.
Representatives Z from Technical,
Western. and Eastern talked over
the matter, and it was decided to
bring the question up for decision
at a later meeting. Tech was repre-
sented by Leroy Birch, who held the
proxy Of r. c. Maurer, Of Central.
Western was represented by Bryan
Morse, and Eastern by c. J. Schwartz
The faculty advisers decided to ask
Principal Emery c. Wilson, OF Cen
trail High School, for the use of the
new stadium and track az Central, for
the annual field and track games.
Is Excellent Place.
The Central track and stadium are
by all odds the finest in this section
and the best south of franklin Field.
There is a quarter mile track and a
hundred yard straightaway. The track
is eighteen feet wide all around and
there are jumping pits for the broad
and high Jumps and the pole vault
1t was said at the meeting that the
adoption of the collegiate system OF
point scoring would tend to increase
interest in track work in the high
schools and would bring out more
boys to the annual games.
Meets Three Cornered.
Past years have found the meets
we'll patronized by Central, Western,
and Tech with a scattering from
Eastern and Business. With i've
places to be gained in points scored
with 5, 4, 3, 2, and 1 more boys would
probably come out for the e-ents-
According to the advisers It would
be possible to stage races with six
in the finals after the heats were run
OF. In past years the meets have
been held at Georgetown, Maryland
State. and at the old Van Ness Park,
the site OF the present Pan-American
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
Gritfnlen Slowly Slipping,
Writes Hughey Fullerton
Saws Griffith Must Obtain New Players To Make
Success of Club-Thinks Crane
Will Help Inheld.

fellows who used to go 154 games at
top speed either have to cut down the
number of starts or the speed as
sort of concession to Father Time.
George has refused to weaken for
the old fellow with the scythe, but
the time has come. He still is the
great leader, and, of course, viii be
Griffith's right-hand man, but they
need a new man TO educate into
shortstop. That candidate would be
lucky to have Mcbride as a teacher.
The reason I change the tense Is that
1 have an idea Griffith has discovered
just the fellow he needs.
Thinks Well OF Crane.
There are some pail players, rare
gems, who do not need much major
league schooling to go the route
and there was a man at Baltimore
named Crane, a shortstop, who looks
to be just such a ball player. Al
least the scouts and managers have
him tabled as one of the coming
greats or near-greats, and three or
four clubs were angling and figuring
to get him when Griffith stepped In
and made a trade which landed him.
The grabbing of Crane loosens up
that Washington tnfield situation
wonderfully. for it makes possible {
switch in either direction. Mcbride
might do year or two more OF
active duty as a third baseman, and
surely will be a tremendous help
anywhere il Crane is as good as tn ~
say.
Griffith Knows Pitchers.
Griffith is a master at handling
pitchers and developing them, but we
cannot figure as yet, what his total
pitching strength will be. johnson
will, of course, carry the biggest bur.
den, but he has reached stage
where he is better in thirty games
race than in forty. With another
strong man to give him resting time
johnson would be nearly, IL not quite,
as good as ever.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
MASHED POTATOES
DOOMED BY GRIFFS
"Ham And" Comes Into Its Own
In Augusta, Succeeding
Past FaVorite.

AUGUSTA, Ga, March THE death
knell has been sounded for mashed
potatoes in the camp of the Grif
men.
In its stead has come old kid Ham
And"
For five years the Griffmen train
ing at Charlottesville were filled
with mashed potatoes, morning, noon
and night. They lived with King
Mashed Potatoes" day in and day
dut. They went to bed with him
They dreamed OF him, knowing that
they would meet him in the morning
But now has come old Ham And.
Appears In The Morning.
As soon as the athletes take their
places at the breakfast table. the
walters come around, decorate the
various places with one square inch
Of butter, a glass filled with ice
sprinkled with water, and a napkin
and then almost whisper the follow,
ing:
Ham an eggs this mornin', sub.
How'll you have yo' eggs?"
And the night is on.
Some Strenuous Work.
1t takes strenuous work to down
old kid Ham And" every morning
but thus far the boys have been sue
cessful. Jim Shaw and Ed Flaherty
are especially noticeable in the daily
contest with Ham And" They
throttle him. They shake him. They
swallow him and yell for more.
Perhaps because OF his experience
Mashed Potatoes" defeated the ath
letes at Charlottesville. They quit
before his thrice-repeated daily at
tacks.
But Ham And" is still youthful
He hasn't been on the job long
enough to acquire the necessary eX
perience to bring victory.
There are rumOrs, though. ~"Dave
Fultz" Henry is weakening. So Is
Ed Charity.
Ham And" may yet triumph be
fore the boys leave Augusta.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
THREE NAMES NOW
UP FOR UMPS' JOB
Handiboe, Hughes, and Fall
coner Want to Handle the
School Series.

Applications to umpire the high
school baseball series which starts
April 20, have been received from
and James Y. Hughes.
Handiboe was one OF the ufnpirss
who worked the series so satisfac-
torily last year. Falconer is a for
mer Tech boy who has had a lot OF
experience in the game, and as UNI
pire.' He formerly worked in base
ball games in the South.
Hughes IL Busy.
Jimmy Hughes, well known in this
section as an umpire in both basket
ball and baseball, may be unable to
take a position in the series. Hughes
is just now on the fence as to his
usual Naval Academy job in the
spring.
The Navy authorities have desig-
mated Hughes to umpire the Navy
games again this season, but the
press of work here may find Hughes
unable to take either the job at the
Academy or the one sought here.
Goes After Pnrk.
c. ]. Schwartz, of the faculty ad-
visers, Is negotiating with w. r.
Love, of Columbia 101 Printers base
ball team, for the use of Union
League Park, where the High School
League games may be played this
year.
The Printers have the use of the
Park this season II is understood,
and Manager Love is said to be will
ing TO have the schools use the park
when 1t is available.
Only One Needed.
Only one will probably be used by
the schools this season. The series
is brought back to ten games this
year instead OF the twenty-game
series played last season. The single
umpire system proved satisfactory
during 1916. Handiboe. Woodward,
and McGrath got away in fine style.
This season three names have been
handed in so far. There will prob
ably be more applications within the
next two weeks, at which time the
selection of an umpire for the title
games will be made.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07

Washington, writes Hugh S. Full
lerton, is going to be one of the in
terrogation marks OF baseball in 1917
and, frankly, 1 am puzzled over the
team and the Washington situation
Griffith is facing one OF the hard
problems that every manager must
meet sooner or later, and the puzzle
is how he will handle It.
The team looks as IL II would make
about the hardest doping OF any in
the American circuit when we get
down to figures, for this old fox, Grit
fifth, has made some puzzling moves
and is so much under cover that 1t is
hard to figure what he plans.
Best Players Slipping.
Perhaps the figures on the players
when the team is finally assembled in
the spring training camp will show
much better what the Senators will
amount to.
Washington is one of those slowly
slipping teams-a club on which the
greatest players are gradually going
back-not quite enough for them tC
drop out together, but enough to back
them down from the pennant race.
Griffith cannot win a championship
in the present American League with
an aggregation such as he piloted
last year. 1t is imperative that he
strengthen II in several positions. He
needs another hitting outfielder
badly-he needs a third baseman, he
needs a second catcher, and he coulc
use a strong substitute infielder.
Mcbride Nearly Through.
II this had been written a short
time ago would have said he also
was in need of a shortstop-for that
great veteran, George Mcbride, one
of the best that ever stepped or
spikes and a fine field leader is not
what he was. He still a good
player, but the years do pass. and the
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
GET MILITARY FEVER
Two Hundred Columbia Athletes
Turn Out for Drill.

NEW YORK. March columbia
took on a military spirit yesterday. Can
didates for the various athletic teams
responded with a will TO the call Of pre-
paredness.
Following the lead OF the baseball
men. those registered with the crew and
the water polo team. together with fifty
or sixty others who have reported for
track and field athletics or some other
sport, turned out to begin military
training
Altogether. close to 200 men in groups
OF thirty were instructed in the first
principles Of drill in the auxiliary gym
nasium in University Hall.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
YANKS BEGIN DRILLING
Captain Huston Takes Part In Open.
Inu Military Exercises.

MACON, Ga, March Prepared
ness. so far as the baseball players
Of the New York American League
club can contribute to It, began yes
terday. Captain Illusions pet scheme
Of military training for ball players
was set in motion and the captain
himself was one of those who de-
ployed, about faced, in a few elemen-
tai maneuvers which constituted the
first days drill.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
COLGATE SELECTS COACH.

HAMILTON, n. Y, March 7.-E. c.
Huntington, Jr-. Colgate, IA, who in
the fall OF 1915 was chosen alI-Ameri-
can quarterback, has been named TO
succeed Larry Bankhart as head
coach OF the Colgate football team.
w. T. Englehorn, a Dartmouth grad
uate, who, in 1909. was selected by
Walter Camp for all-American tackle.
will be line coach
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
FINAL SQUAD OFF
FOR CAMP TONIGHT
Leaue At 7 O'clock and Ex-
pect to ArriDe At I
p, M. Tomorrow.

Manager Clark C. Griffith and his
regulars will leave this city tonight
at Z o'clock over the Atlantic Coast
Line for Augusta, Ca, to join the
rockies.
Charles NJ. King, manager of Spald-
ing's store here, will accompany the
team in order to measure the play
ers for their new uniforms.
Among those who will take the
trip are Elmer Smith, Joe Judge,
Mike Moran, Sam Crane, Ray Morgan,
Eddie Foster, Howard Shanks and
Mike Menoskey. The party is ex-
pected to arrive in Augusta at l
o'clock tomorrow.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
Ze Gr Retogress
BOB THAYER'S GOSSIP
ON SPORTING MATTERS

Coach Hartzell, OF the North Caro-
lima A. and NJ. teams, dropped in the
other day on his visit to the inaugural
ceremonies. Hartzell, II will be re-
membered. stepped into the breach at
Raleigh when Brit Patterson quit the
job and took charge of the football
team. As graduate coach he will re-
main for a year and says he will have
a fairly good baseball team in tow.
The Carolina Aggies have been doing
some work in baseball already and
expect to get the jump on the North
ern teams.
Indications point to one of the
greatest OF outdoor springs and sum.
mers ever known in the history of
sports in the section OF the country.
Sporting houses all over the country,
but particularly here, point to an un-
precedented demand for baseball, golf,
and tennis goods even at this early
date. Tennis had a big round last
summer and is due to eclipse its rec
ord. II you want to know how many
persons play tennis ask the sporting
goods man?
Washington tennis followers are
watching with interest the perform
ance OF Connie Doyle in the East-west
matches In Los Angeles today. Doyle
was picked to play with Throckmor-
ton, Church, Pell, Alexander, and Prem
tice. He will play at No. 3 singles
and is paired with Alexander, a vet
eran by the way, in the doubles.
Washington is surely pulling for Doyle
as he Is as popular here as he Is sue
cessful, and that is saying a great
deal.
New York would not let Jack
Dillon box Les Darcy. Now the
Hoosier middleweight says "he is
through with New York" Maybe,
after all, both can get along without
each other.
Now that the New York State Box
ing Commission has disposed of the
Les Darcy case they should turn their
attention to Tim O'Sullivan, who aid
ed and abetted the Australian to
leave his country and who is largely
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
HAS FEW VETS
Dave PfeIffer Looks for Players for
technical Team.

Dave Pfeiffer is looking for Tech
veterans The captain OF the Man.
uaI Trainers has any number OF
green youngsters, but seems unable
to find the veterans. And the reason
is a good one.
Pfeiffer and Gurevich, who played
in right field for a single game last
year. are the only ones left from
Techs regular bunch.
Mccarthy, Hird, Elseman, She
walter, Strawn, Myers, and Berens
are no longer with the Manual Train
ers. Myers is in school, but it is said
il is doubtful IL he will be out for
the team.
With such a bunch Of veterans gone
Pfeiffer and Coach Fury realize they
have an awful task on their hands.
Candidates are working every chance
they can get. Fifteen players report
ed for light work yesterday.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
BASKETERS MEET.

Catholic University, Maryland STATE,
George Washington and Gallaudet
have been asked to meet tonight at
the Y. VI. c. A. at p. m. for the pur-
pose OF taking steps to form an inter
collegiate basketball league. Prof
c. +. Beckett Is in charge of the
meeting.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
GOES TO STAUNToN,

Jim Shields, former Eastern High
School pitcher. has decided to go to
Staunton Military Academy. Shields
was a mainstay in the box at Eastern
two years ago. He played in the out
field for Eastern's championship team
last year.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
WILL MEET BoWsER.

Paul Bowser. OF Newark, Ohio, who
recently challenged Joe Turner to a
finish match. will get his chance to-
morrow night at the Lyceum. Bowser
threw Turner in their last meeting.
and expressed his willingness to meet
the local mat artist at the recent
Yokel-Turner match.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
FoLWELL OPERATED ON.

PHILADELPHIA, March Bob
Folwell, coach of the Pennsylvania
football team, underwent an opera
tIon yesterday in the University Hos
pital, having a growth in his cheek
removed. The operation was not dan
gerous, but II permitted to remain
the growth might have resulted seri-
ously.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
BIlLIARDISTS HERE
Hoppe and Partners Arrive for Ex-
hibItIons.

Willie Hoppe, Chick Wright, Jake
Schaefer, and Charles Peterson, bill
lizard players extraordinary, arrived
today from Baltimore and will be seen
in action at 3 o'clock this afternoon
and 8 tonight at the Royal. Two ex-
hibitions. morning and night, will be
given tomorrow.
Hoppe performed brilliantly in Bal
timore. Last night he ran $50 points
in a match while his opponent,
Wright, gathered ..
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
MAxAM IN TOWN.

Bob Maxam, former Western High
track captain and last year a mem
ber of st. Adams championship re
lay, was in town yesterday. Maxam
is working out with Lawson Robert
sons Penn freshman track team, AMI
Is entered in the quarter Saturday
night in the Meadowbrook games.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
ARRIVE AT CAMP.

HOT SPRINGS, Ark, March T.
Ernie Shore, who pulled into the Red
Sox camp last night, will make his
initial appearance at Majestic Park
field today. Forest Cady is another
newcomer.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
BROWN With 1lNKER.

Mordecai Brown, the three-fingered
twirler. has cast his lot with the
Columbus American Association club.
He will assist Joe Tinker in condf-
tioning the Columbus pitchers,
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
WILL MEET NAVY
BrookIanders VIII Tackle Mlddles
In Dual Meet Today.

In Dual Meet Today.
Catholic University runners Will
meet the Navy athletes today in .
dual meet at Annapolis. The affair is
slated TO start at 3:45 p. m.
The Brooklanders, accompanied by
Coach Mulligan, will compete in ten
events. The fifty-ysrd dash. two
twenty, quarter. half and mile have
been agreed upon. There probably
will be a relay, shotput and high
jump, in addition to the events al
ready selected.
Captain Driscoll, Mulcahy, r.
Mulcahy. Rooney, AIlehOff, Ryan,
Keane, Glasscott. Kendrick, Eichol-
son and Manager Norris will take the
trip today.
Catholic University probably will
run Holy Cross at the Meadowbrook
games on Saturday night.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
KIDS FORM LEAGUE.

Junior baseball players and man.
ayers will be met by Harry Z. Late
at 1411 New York avenue northwest
tonight at 8 p. m. to talk over the
formation OF an amateur baseball
league.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
ROYALS
BEAT FIGHT LAW REPEAL.

ST. PAUL, Mimi, March T.-Senator
Sagen's bill, which would have re-
pealed the law permitting boxing in
Minnesota, was defeated in the State
senate yesterday after a brief debate.
by a vote OF nays IS to 81 ayes.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
COLD KNOCKS OUT DARCY.

GOSHEN, N. Y, March Les
Darcy, the Australian middelweight.
is confined to his bed at Brownleigh
Park here with a heavy cold. His
condition 10 not considered serious
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
PRIZE FOR DRILLERS
Ban johnson to Put Up $500 for
Military Winner.

CHICAGO, ILL.,, March 7.-Baseball
clubs OF the American League, now
receiving military instruction in their
training camps, are to compete for
drilling honors, Capt Franklin r.
Kenney, U. S. A, in command OF re-
cruiting In the Central Department of
the army, announced last night. Cap
tain Kenney said that Il. B. johnson,
president of the American League,
originator Of the military training
scheme for ball players, has offered
a five hundred dollar prize to the best
drilled team in the league and a prize
Of 500 In gold to the drill sergeant
who instructs the winning players.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07

responsible for the "rnuddle" in which
his protege has fallen. OSullivan ue-
serves the same punishment as Darcy.
Lovin' has received somewhat Of a
knockout blow at the hands of Joseph
Littlefield, of New York, varsity crew
manager and coach at the Massa-
chusetts Institute Of Technology.
kissing and hugging for crew men at
Tech one week before any OF the sea-
sons races Is forbidden the candidates
In q set of rules posted recently.
The oarsmen made q kick about the
edict, but in vain. Their sweethearts
are also talking mutiny. but Manager
Littlefield is adamant in his position,
though he admits the rule does not af-
feet himself.
Probably one OF the strongest tales
Of difficulties surmounted comes from
Ellensburg, in the far-off State of
Washington. The Normal School bas-
ketbaIl team In that town has q CEN
ter who is minus his right leg, which
is cut off above the knee. He plays
without artificial aid, Is a deadly goal
shooter, both from the. field and from
the foul line, and is always in the
tn1Ck Oh tne Tray. All VI winch - W
way OF saying that q man who does
not allow the loss Of leg to hold
him back from active participation in
his favorite sport Is more than likely
to make q success Of his life.
Your real sportsman never Is a
Stacker" The present war is a case
in point, and among the first names
IN annaar on the Roll of Honor" of
England and to offer UP their lives
on the altar Of France are those OF
the world of sport. Perhaps that Is the
world Of sport. Perhaps that Is one
reason why America finds II 50 hard
to countenance Les Darcy.
Making your favorite sport serve
you in after life is a contamination
deYoutly to be desired. Frank l..
Kramer, worlds champion bicyclist,
has Joined the "riot squad" in East
Orange, N. J., an auxiliary arm OF the
local police force, mounted on bicycles
and armed with rifles.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
PLAYER QUITS BASEBALL.

ST. PAUL, March John Wilson,
the outfelder traded to st. Paul by
the st. Louis National League Club
for Walter Cruise, has decided to
quit the game, and will not report to
the local club.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
AMATEURS 10 MEET.

A meeting OF the Capital City Anna
teur Baseball League will be held
at 424 Ninth street tonight at
o'clock. 1t will be the final oppor-
tunity for teams to obtain franchises.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
BACK TO MINORS.

ST. JOSEPH, Mo, March 7.-CharIes
B. Babe) Adams, formerly pitching
star for the Pittsburgh National
League team, has signed a contract
with the st. Joseph Western League
team.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07
MoHAWKs TO MEET.

Mohawk Athletic Club will hold an
important meeting at the clubhouse
tonight. All members are requested
by Secretary Murphy to attend.
The Washington times., 1917-03-07

responsible for the "muddle" in which
his protege has fallen. OSullivan ue-
/ serves the same punishment as Darcy