Evening star., 1919-02-19
FRESHMAN TEAMS
|NACLOSE RACE
Central and Western Tied for
Top Berth in Basket
Ball Series.
By H. C.. BYRD.

While Business has made more. or
less Of a runaway of the regular high
school basket ball series, the race in
the high school freshman series is
producing the closest kind of fight
for the championship. The. first year
men have been battling in close
games, and now Western and Central
are tied for first place, each with
four victories and one defeat charged
against it Western went into the
freshman game yesterday with Gen.
trail with a clean slate, but the Blue
and White evened up matters and won
by II to G.
While not much prominence has been
given the freshman series, the young
first year classes have fought through
their games with a will and deter
mination and general spirit that would
have done credit to much older boys,
Central and Western have won all
their games with other teams, and
have split even in two games with
each other, but the contests have been
mighty creditable to all the. indiridu-
ais who have taken part in them
Yesterday Business and Western, as
was expected, won the games sched-
uled in the high school series. The
Stenographers played a game against
Eastern in which the latter put up
some fine defensive basket ball, but
could not ston the champions. Central
captured its contest from Western by
IS to IL, going out in front at the start
and staying there. Centrafs quint put
UP some fine team work and stellar
rlo . hE
mon, who threw ten baskets from
the floor. Newly and Cullen did some
good guarding.
Central has had its pitchers and
catchers working out for base ball
for the last few days. The Blue and
White looks to have much better ma
terial than is usual for high school
nine A splendid battery should rep
resent the school this spring, Schafer
back of the bat. Schafer is far too
good for high school base ball, and
Russell is an excellent catcher. The
two boys worked well together last
year. and should show even better
form this spring. Krupp is another
pitcher of promise, and Ballinger looks
TO be the better than the average back
of the bat.
Ballinger, besides being good ball
player is so far above the average
&
is not much comparison. He took six
subjects last semester and landed six
'Es." and besides that won a gold
medal for the best essay in com
petition open to all the schools
Bryan Morse, physical director over
at Western High School, left yesterday
for Philadelphia for brief visit
Maryland State got a track squad
together yesterday for the first time
in two years. "Jinx" Brown, captain,
is the only member of the 1917 squad
now in college. He is a broad jumper
and and javelin s .e,. throweI; s.l The entire
in six years
Ralph Gilroy, a brother of the IA
nous johnnie, is at Georgetown. He
and one OF the best in the New Eng
land prep schools, according to re-
port
Eastman, star sho.tstop at Catholic
University for the last two seasons,
is out OF college. and viii be lost to
the base ball team this spring. It
viii be dfMcult for the Brooklanders
to develop = man to IN the position as
cxDabiy ~ did Cashman-
csne.al Hgh il due to end its bas-
ket ball ssAson next wednesday,.
Three more g1N3es arc scheduled.
Friday the team goes to s8hAnandoah
Valley Academy for contest. Tues
day 10 meets Eastern in the high
school series, and Wednesday the Bal
timore City College appears, here in
the Central gymnasium.
Galiaudets basket ball team is due
to play University OF Virginia at
Charlottesville tonight. The Kendall
Greeners won from the Orange and
Blue at Gallaudet three weeks ago,
but realize they will have a mach
more dificult task this time to get
the big end OF the score.
DudAck has been elected to the cap
taincy Of the Georgetown basket ball
Quint He has starred at George
town in foot ban, base ball and bas-
kst ball and has done some track
work. He Is the best al1-round ath-
lete now wearing the Blue and Gray.
XAla haa schsdu1e6 . fop& bs1i Eanne
with BEnvkn for next tan despite a
ruNnoe 70 thA euD<x1zy. Co1GatA also
wA4 o6ered q dafA but could not ac-
fN m lnnnf HHll0 VlHII