Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1920-06-20
BATTERS
ON ALL-H|GH nine
Players Picked for This
Years Team Would Be
Formidable Aggregation.
BY H. C, BYRD.

ers not selected for places on the ALL
high school base ball team 1t should
be said that in two instances the de-
ctsions which put men on 1t were
made on a hair" In fact, It Wa
practically impossible to say with
absolute certainty which Of the men
playing two positions were the bet
ter. Having got rid in the begin
ming of this, the Job OF picking what
the writer considers the most rea-
sonable all-star.nine will be under
taken. 1t would be one Of the hard
est hitting school mines on record.
Most important of course. Is the
pitchers position. It seems that
that Walker and Krupp Of Central
are the two hurlers who deserve to
land the slab berth. Opinion seems
to be very general that they are the
two most capable men the cham
pionship series developed. but even
future stars and no matter how much
'stuff'' they had during the schedule
which closed with Westerns defeat of
Central last Friday, it seems that. In
ar fairness, Hair of Western should
be the choice. Hair came through IN
the decisive game and pitched his
team to a victory and the champion
shin in a contest in which his rivals
fell down: and Hair did that despite
disbursement in the way of poor
fielding support which would have
completely upset less solid young"
ster Besides pitching his team 70
the championship. Hair batted .5Ss
and a pitcher who can hit that wen
is q real asset to his team.
Russell Given CateAfng Jsb.
Back of the bat is placed Penrose
Russell. The only thing that can
be said against Russelrs work was
weakness in throwing at times. but.
at that, he got away with about -
few stolen bases or him ~ ANYBODY.
Meld Of Business was the next Oess
man. RusselI's batting marx for tho
season was over 400.
Lemon Of Central. Petersen OF Bust-
ness and Burke Of Western were the
best first basemen. Lemons brilliant
fielding and harder and more con-
sfstent batting Civ him the prof.
erence MeekS Of Eastern did some
stellar work around the initial stack.
but did not play. in rs many games
the ball hard In the two games In
which he took part.
Between Dawson Of Western and
Harron Of Business there was Itetae
or no difference. In this selection
Dawson IL given the Job mainly BE-
cause he wAs = member of TIE enam-
fielded 1000 and Harron had slightly
the better Of the batting comaasieon.
Dawson, 1t Ia claimed. was JUST = MT
tie more capable On the booea See-
ond' base is one OF the positions which
Is practically q toss.up.
One position in which this seiec.
tion differs materially from all others
is shortstop. This 10 given to Nord-
linger Of Western. rather thsn 70 Da.
Wis Of Central. Admitting all the
good work done by Davis. any player
who can deliver fiye hits out Of etx
times 1t bat and drive IN ssx r nH's
without an error in the decisive game
for the championship 10 deserving OF
all the honors the oertes can anord-
NordlinEer 10 choice for s0ortstop.
with Davis next
Jenress Rest Third SseksF.
For third base there Is only one
Of Western. That
youngster ielded only . fair game.
but hit for . grand mark OF :sse:
Probably Summerville Of Business was
the next best man.
Outfeld positions are awarded to
Donaldson Of Western, Buckley Of
Central and Sauber Of Business.
Anybody could put up 2 good arIu..
Of Central should be given one Of the
outfield berths, particularly In the
case Of Wood. who hit. sixty points
moro than either of the three men
picked. Notwithstanding this batting
superiority. IL 10 believed that the trio
Of outnelders selected would make the
best possible comAination.a
There were other and good players
in the series besides those mentioned.
and 1t il impossible to give all the
credit that is due them. With e6ec-
tive pitching. with every man except
the pitcher batting over 500. with
fair fielding. which the team here
picked should produce. Il would be
exceedingly dimcult "a. get together
q better combination.