The Washington times., 1922-04-13

a. Aho iteu ana mite laus play
nassanutten Academy at Wood
stock on Tuesday and then jump
over to Ashland. Va. for game
with the Randolph Macon Acad-
emy lads thel next day.
Tech, playing three games, meets
Woodberry Forest Academy, at
Orange, Va, next Wednesday, then
plays the Staunton Military Acad-
emy nine at Staunton, Va, and then
the Shenandoah Valley Academy at
winchester, and finally the Ran
Va.
Central is booked to play the Shen-
sndoah Valley Academy on Wednes-
day and the Randlopn-Maco team
the following afternoon. Nine games
In all will be played by the Wash
ington schoolboys who are resum-
Ing the, vacation trips after
four-year lapse.
The animal high school struggle
which starts ON April 25 with the
Business : Eastern engagement
promises TO be first class fight
this year. Central looks strung
but not as formidable as last year.
Tech In its initial engagement
trounced the team that defeated
Central. Business, Western and
Eastern are coming along rapidly
IL has long been maintained that
the ten-game baseball series, espe-
cfally when played in the Central
stadium with the short right field,
Is too short and not a fair test
with evenly matched teams.
IN rtA k.,,&
with luck playing a most important
part in the engagements a twenty
game series would be more inter-
esting and at the same time would
be productive OF better competition.
The schools are handicapped for
playing space for the game and
appear to be looking to the com
mercial side of the proposition with
considerably more interest than to
the athletic side. A suggestion was
made last winter TO place less pre-
MUM upon the results of the games
and the championship involved and
TO give more competition under less
strain by playing a twenty game
series. Conditions were not right
for the idea which was abandoned.
At present Central has the only
Held available for games, the others
praotioing away from their schools
at long distances. In time Tech,
Business and Eastern will be pro-
yided with playing spaces, Western
being fairly well off in practice
contests at present.
In the meantime the schools are
making great progress and the title
race appears to be another one of
those closely contested affairs.
Central High looks up TO be by
all odss the strength OF the schools
In trsck this spring and IL Is n
foregone conclusion that Bill Fo-
ley's lads viii make a clean up in
the annual championship meet.
McFadden, Kern, Duffy, Wilton,
Johnson, Shipley and one or two
others viii be able to flash through
IN fine style IL they are anywhere
near their standard.
Central will probably send two
relay teams to Philadelphia this
spring and will enter full strength
in the Legion games and their own
Wilson memorial games.
Indoors Central lads displayed first
class form and appear to be improv-
ing toward an unusually well balanc-
ed team Kern can be depended to
take care Of the sprints with John
son and Shipley for the distances
and McFadden, Wilton and Duffy in
the field events.
Tech and Western have little more
than green performers who will do
their best, but will fail to measure
up to the general average of the
Central boys. Both schools lost a
majority of their star runners in the
past two years while Central added
several good youngsters from the
grades who are coming through.