Evening star., 1927-04-20
MUCH BASE BALL TALENT
AT LINCOLN PARK SCHOOL
Guyon Is Developing Sturdy Team for Public High
Series-Tech Track Squad to Engage Eps-
copal at Alexandria Tomorrow.

| ~OACH Charlie Guyon's East
ern nine, defending public
Il high school champion, can not
| ~ yet be counted out of the
| picture so far as the 1927
| title to be decided in the series open
| ing April 30 is concerned. Guyon, as
| is his wont, in training not only base
| ball but the foot ball and basket
| ball squads at the Linncoln Park
school, has been using many boys in
games to date. He manifestly has
not been chiefly concerned in win
ming these games. Victory in pre-
championship tilts always has been
! a secondary consideration with the
| popular mentor.
His principal objective, and he sell
| dom fails to attain it, is to have
| formidable combination ready 10
compete in the title tests. To do this
| he necessarily has to do much eXper-
| imenting. Realizing that the "Chief"
| will give everyone chance. large
| squads invariably turn out for the
| Guyon- coached teams. The former
| Carlisle star figures that in big
school like Eastern there are bound
to be many athletes with latent tall
ent. He does his best to bring such
| boys to the front and often succeeds.
Few coaches "know their stuff" bet
ter than Guyon and none perform
their duties more conscienttousIy. He
keeps his proteges on their toes, but
does not drive them. He is not salts
fed merely to sit on the bench and
bawl out orders, but is on the field
in uniform working as hard as any
of his charges and much harder than
most of them. Yesterday, for in
stance, prior to the Episcopal game
he toiled on the mound so long that
when he finally turned over the job
to one of the squad perspiration was
coursing down his cheeks. And yes
terday was not an exception Guyon
is always working hard
Though Eastern lost to the Old
Dominion boys by TO 5 the Light
Blue and White by no means looked
bad. There is a very considerable
quantity of real diamond talent in the
bunch. Make no mistake about that.
Guyon's big job is to evolve from the
lot the best combination. He is MAX
ing real progress toward that end
And it appears that it will not be the
weakest combination in the title
series.
Extremely heavy toll was taken of
the bang.up 1926 Eastern nine by
graduation. The entire outfield con-
sisting of Ray Talbert, Fer Cappelli
and Harold (Bootsl Scruggs, all clever
performers, was lost along with Fred
Waple, dependable first baseman and
Capt George Hogge, stellar third
sacker.
Outfielders who are showing i'm
pressively include Bill Matthews who
socked the apple with a will in yester
days game; Carton Eagle, Frank
Masino, Howard McDuff1e, Bill Ran
kin, crack catcher last season and
Joe Wood who can also catch.
Jimmy Munroe was at first yester-
day, Eddie Lisensky at second, Melvin
Knorr at shortstop and Ted Cappelli
at third. Charley (Beanie) McAllister
and Cy Hogarth. regular infelders
| last season, are again at hand. Me-
Allister, however was unable to play
yesterday because of Illness in his
family and .Hogarth has not yet start
ed practice, but is expected out within
| a few days. Matthews also can play
shortstop. All in all, the East Enders