Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1918-10-02
A[L-H|GH men out
FOR STATEE[EVEN
Former Washington High
School Stars to Wear Mary
land CoIers in Foot Ball.
BY n. c. BYRD.


high school foot ball team will be
eleven this fall. At preliminary
meeting of the State squad yesterday
many men who won places on the all
star combination selected at the end
| of the 1917 season reported. Besides,
two men who were picked on the all
high eleven in 1916 were out, making
seven former members of the mythical
elevens who will wear the Maryland
colors.
| One Central man, two Western men
and two Technical men constituted
/ the quota from the 1917 all-high COM
| binatioh and one Central and one
Tech player from the 1916 team.
Molster, who held down right tackle
| at Central year ago. and was one
| of the two best linemen in the series
| of games for the District scholastic
| title. was present Myers and Groves,
al1-hlgh center and end. respectively,
are former Western men out for the
| team; while Gurevich and Bosley of
Technical, guard and halfback. re-
spectively. were on hand. Bailey, who
starred in base ball and foot ball for
Central in 1916, and Snyder, Techs
fullback in the same year. were ready
! to get into suits. Several other Wash
| earn positions on the all-high eleven
also will be out for the team.
Western High School is scheduled
! to play it's first game of foot ball
next Saturday, being listed for set
to with ST. Adams. The Red and
White combination is coming along
well for so early in the year, and the
team, with the exception of some
possible weakness in the backfield.
| bids fair to measure up to a higher
standard than usual.
| Eastern High has determined not
i to have a foot ball team. LightneSs
of the available material is the rea-
son for a temporary discontinuance
of the sport at the Capitol Hill school.
! 1t is intended to carry out the pro-
gram in basket ball, foot ball and
| track sports as usual.
! 1t is possible that the recommeHda
| ton of the War Department that no
| foot ball games be played in October
| that involve taking teams away tor
! overnight trips viii! cause a cancella-
| tion of the contest booked October
rs between Virginia Polytechnic Instl-
tute and Maryland State. v: P. l.
will have to leave BlacksburS Friday
!; evening if it is to arrive in Wash
ington for a game Saturday. The
/, lacksburg collegians already have
wired for a contest for November 2,
effected for shift in States schedule,
that date may be arranged for.
Foot ball will be just as popular
in local Army camps this fall as base
ball was last summer Camp Meigs,
Camp Leach, Camp Humphreys and
| the marine camp at Quantico plan for
teams. Other smaller camps are likely
to be represented also. Marines are
said to have prospects for develop
ment of splendid eleven, with COM
paratively. just as good material as
T! that which wore the colors Of the
camp in base ball.
| Despite the action of the draft in
| taking out of the high schools a great
many youngsters who otherwise
would have returned to high school
seem to be larger than usual. Tech
and Central have more men than
usual, while Business and Western
also have exceeded the ordinary size
of their squads of previous seasons.
! If Catholic University makes good
| the report that it will have team
again this fall there is not likely to
be lack of games in the vicinity of
Washington. After dropping out Of
the sport it is not probable the uni
versity will attempt to arrange any
extended schedule, but in all likeli-
hood will play contests with other
elevens i'll the immediate vicinity.
| A telegram from West Point was
received at Maryland State yesterday
asking the AIarylaaders to come to
West Point for a foot ball game on
any one of three dates. States sched-
ule now is in such shape that it could
not Accept the offer. Probably if it
! had the open dates it would not have
! accepted either. as the team has not
yet started practice.
| Lieut.. Samuel J. Reid. mentioned in
! the casualty lists a short time ago,
was one of the smallest yet one Of
| the best catchers Princeton ever had.
A Princeton alumnus in speaking
| of Reid says:
"Sam Reid was almost an enigma
behind the bat. He hardly looked big
/ enough to stop a base ball. without
thinking of him catching it. But he
was one of the best men we have
ever had on our base ball teams, and
some mighty good ones have worn
Princeton's colors. He hardly weighed
100 pounds, yet handled the deliver
| les of men who topped 100 and pos
| sessed all kinds of speed. He was a
peppery.- fighting player and I'll
! of himself in France, even if he was
! much smaller than the average fell
| low"