Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1929-04-07
BASE BALL, TENNIS
SERIES TO START
Track Squads Also to Swing
Into ACtion-15 Events
Are on Schedule.

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campaign getting under way,
the Spring scholastic athletic
campaign hereabout opens in earnest
this week. Fifteen contests in all are
listed, including IL base ball games, two
track meets and two tennis encounters.
Headlining the weeks card will be
the public high school base ball cham
pionShip clash between Eastern and
Western in the Eastern Stadium Friday
afternoon at 315 O'Clock. Teams of
these schools also will face Friday in
the first match of the public high tennis
title series, probably on the Sixteenth
Street Reservoir courts.
Several other highly attractive con-
tests are slated. Gonzaga and Western,
old rivals. are to meet Tuesday in
diamond game on the EllipSe, and Con-
zaga and Eastern mines, also traditional
rivals, are to face in the Eastern Sta
dunn Thursday.
Eastern and Tech are to open their
outdoor track seasons, the former being
down to entertain University of Mary
land Freshmen in the Eastern Stadium
Wednesday, and the latter being carded
for its annual encounter with Episcopal
at Alexandria Thursday.
Central's base ball team will go to
Princeton, N. j., Saturday to meet
Princeton Freshmen.
Unusual interest attaches to the East
ern-Western base ball game Friday.
Eastern. defending champion, is expect
ed to find the Georgetown scholastics
tough opponents.
Eastern has most of its last seasons
strong team at hand, the chief losses
being Andy Oehmann, clever pitcher;
Jim Munro, catcher. and Eddie Liser-
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in Bob Snyder, a capable catcher to re-
place Munro and has succeeded appar-
entity in rounding out capable infleld-
but whether in Gao Curtin, Bernie Eagle
and saveral other fingers he has ca
pable pitching staff is not so certain.
Western doubtless has a better team
than last year. Coach Dan Ahern has
back George Fletcher, pitcher and cap
tain, who did well last season and APP
pears much improved this season; Mike
Hunt, All High shortStop; Quincy
Owens and several other clever men,
bers of the 1923 nine. Western was
handicapped principally last Spring by
inexperienced material but most of
these boys have improved markedly.
Western generally has strong tennis
team and is figured to win over Eastern
in the net encounter.
Two ball games are scheduled tomor-
row. While Western and United Type
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Ellipse, Business will be engaging Uni
versity of Maryland freshmen at Col
lege Park. 1t will be the first tilt of
the campaign for the Old Line Year
lings and the second for Business which
downed Swavely 10 to 3, a few days ago
at Manassas, Va.
Dewitt will start its base ball cam
paign Tuesday. engaging Eastern IN the
Eastern Stadium. It will be the Con-
zaga-Western diamond match that day.
Aside from the Gonzaga Western ball
game Tuesday, Dewitt will open its
diamond campaign against Eastern in
the latter's stadium. The Gonzago-
Western tilt, which will be the seasons
opener for the Purple, is cure to be
briskly contested, as arc all athletic
meetings between teams representing
these schools.
Three base ball games are listed
Wednesday. in addition to the Eastern
Maryland Freshmen track meet Bush
ness and Swavely are to face on the
Monument Lot Eastern and Emerson
at Eastern, and Central and the Uni
versity of Maryland Freshmen at Col
4ckc EdIh. GIIlGISOLl Will De opening us
season and Swavely will be striving to
avenge its recent defeat at the hands of
Business
Both Maryland Freshmen and East
ern will be opening their Spring track
seasons. Eastern, which has a sturdy
squad, should defeat the Old Line year.
lings. who have not had a great deal
of preparation.
Gcnzaga and Eastern will meet in
the Lincoln Parkers' Stadium in the
only game Thursday for the District
schoolboyS. 1t probably will be an
interesting match, though, as there is
long and healthy rivalry between the
schools.
Tech does not anticipate victory over
Episcopal in their track meet, but. what
ever the outcome, Coach Hap Hardell
OF the Mckinley squad is sure his
proteges will gain valuable experience
for later engagements.
Friday will be given over altogether
to the public high school champion
ship base ball and tennis matches be-
tween Eastern and Western.
Two diamond contests and a tennis
match are booked Saturday for the
District boys, but all on foreign soil.
In addition to the CentraI-Princeton
Freshmen base ball game at Princeton,
st. Johns nine will engage Charlotte
Hall Academy nine at Charlotte Hall,
and Centrars tennis team will open its
season against Forest Park High netmen
at Baltimore.