Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1919-01-20
TWO HARD GAMES
FOR SCHOOL F|VES
Western Meets Business and
Baltimore Poly Plays Gen.
trail Basketers Tomorrow.
BY II. C. BYRD.

; Two scholastic basket ball games
| of more than usual interest are 10 be
| fought out tomorrow. Baltimore Poly
! technic, after having visited here last
| week and humbled Technical High,
! comes over again to try to hand Cen
| trail the same kind of a jolt; and
| Western will go against Business in
| the high school series in an endeaVor
! to stop the onward march of the
| Stenographers toward the champion
| ship.
| CentraIs game is to take place IN
| the Central gymnasium, which gives
/ it somewhat better chance against
/ Baltimore Poly than Tech had The
/ Manual Trainers met the Baltimoreans
, at the Y. N. G. A. and they are not
! near so used to that floor as Central
| is to its own However, Poly evidently
I has five capable of giving any other
/ quint something of real struggle
and probably viii make Central put
| up about the best basket bail of the
t season to win,
| So far attempts of other high
school teams to stop Business have
| been futile, and Western particularly
would like to have the honor OF being
the first to beat the Stenographers.
However, the Red and White has
| some real work cut out for it to win,
as Business has been winning too
consistently by big margins not to
have mighty good team But. as
Bryan Morse, coach of Western, some
times takes occasion to remark. the
impossible can be accomplished.
onraley Moran, coach of base ball
at Catholic University and general
director of athletics, says that he ex-
poets to have fairly good material
for base ball &eam this spring with
the exception OF pitchers. Accord
/ ing to Moran. good hurlers are going
to be scarce as gold dust around the
Brookiand institution. Says Charley
a about base ball:
so far l have done practically moth
ing about arranging my schedule for
the coming spring. | suppose we shall
play about the same mines that we
have been meeting in the last few
years. As for material for this years
team. I hardly know much about it
myself. The squad probably will be
fairly good, but il now looks as If
good pitching talent is going to be
conspicuous by its absence. l do not
know of hurler who viii come any
where near up to the standard OF the
men who have represented us on the
mound in the last few years. While
the S. A. T. c. students were at Brook.
land we had several hurlers who were
reputed to be stars. but they left when
the training corps was demobilized
and did not return after the holi-
days"
Maryland States victory over Cal
laudet in one of the opening games of
the District Intercollegiate Basket
Ball League Saturday uight shows
just how uncertain athletic COM
petition may be. States players never
! Il I
until Saturday morning. and the
only practice they obtained consisted
of about forty minutes workout in the
Y NJ c. y. gymnasium Saturday after
noon. Against that Ga1laudet had been
working since before the holidays. had
played several games. and had been
victor several times by big margins.
On that comparison 1t did not seem
that there was more than one chance
in ten that State would win. However,
there is one mighty good attribute
about the youngsters who make up
States teams-they are never whipped
until after they are whipped, which
is q statement that close followers of
sports will understand, even If 1t does
appear too obvious That quality held
good against Gallaudet and was suffi-
cient to turn the tide in their favor,
especially in this particular instance,
when Gallaudet was entirely too con-
ident of what 1t intended to do.
AS usual with most of its teams
nowadays, State presented in its line
up former Washington High School
youngsters, who played important
roles Mike Raedy. who held down a
played center and Johnny Eiseman,
former Technical High man, was at
one of the forwards during the lat
ter part of the play. Raedys showing
in the second half of the game was
especially creditable when it is con-
sidered that he was very tired and
against probably the most capable
individual player in the city.
Downes, GalIaudet's pivot man, is
just about as good as any basket ball
center seen here in long while. He
very accurately and has about all the
attributes of court star. He will
make his presence felt in more than
one league game before the end of
the schedule.
University of Virginia is to make
its first appearance here in an ath-
letic contest in two years Saturday
night, when it faces Gallaudet in
basket ball in the Kendall Green
gymnasium.
Three collegiate basket ball con-
tests are listed Saturday night. That
between Virginia and Gallaudet is
one and Georgetown and George
Washington meet on the Hilltop and
Maryland State and Catholic Uni
versity at the Y. NJ c. A. in the other
two
George Washington has practically
the same players on the floor in bas
ket ball that represented it a year
ago, when it won the league cham
pionship. Witt, at forward; White,
at center. and I4anshe and Underwood
at guards. held down the correspond
ing positions last season. Saturday
night in the opening of the league
the Hatchetites did not seem to have
much in the way of teamwork and
evidently had not been working to-
gether more than two or three times
They also were lamentably weak in
shooting baskets from the floor.