Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-03-01
WESTERN LOOKING
FOR BETTER TEAM
Eas@A Vhreo-TIme Champ,
SOON to start Battery
WSrk 10 Earnest.

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v v preparations for the base
BAH seasoa are getting
under way IN ths Washington
schoolboy group. Within o couple
Of weeks most al the squads vtll
have begun preliminary work.
Schedules rapidly are being
completed, but most Of Sho
schools will not Be ready % an
nounce them for week or %.
Western has nearly completed itS
schedule, having closed for nine of soan@
dozen games 1t will play. Battery can
didates at the GEORGETOWN school yin
begin tossing EN- around IN the school
gymnasium March 8. following compile.
ton Of the interclass basket ban c0@-
petition to be held this week.
Indications are that Western, which
won its first game in the public high
series last year, but then dropped 10
next three, will do better on the dine
mond the coming season. ~ least tlaB
more experienced than that which re-
ported . year ago, as It will include q
block Of players from the 1929 club.
Among the members Of last eeasoaa
team again at hand are: Poore, Martin
and Buscher, pitchers: Vowel. catcher;
FOX, nrst baseman: Oliver, gecond base
man and outfielder: Clark, third bass
man, and Talber and Turner, outfielc.
ers. Quincy Owens, first basennan:
Freeman. shortstop, and FLETCHER asad
Albert, outfelders. are players VINO
have been lost % Western BY graduatioa.
WESTERN q carded 20 open In
w schedule against Alexandra High
1t Alexandria April l. Its first
opponent in the public high school
Championship series viii be Central, to
pending with Maryland Freshmen,
Georgetown Prep and Swavely.
Westerns athletic stadium Is not vet
reality, and the squad will have to
work OUT on the bunpy field In the
woods not far from the school, where
the Georgetowners' base ball and foot
ball squads have practiced the past few
years, ana VIII have to meet its op-
ponents on their fields or on neutral
grounds.
Here's the western schedule as IT
now stands:
April 1-Alexandria High at Alex
andria,
April 15-Episcopal at Alexandria.
April 21-Maryland Freshmen at Col.
lege Park (pendtng).
April 24-Central.
April 2s-washington-Lee High at
May Cuisines.
May 12-Eastern.
May 15-Gon2aga.
May 19-Tsca.
May 27-Gonzags.
Coach Dan Ahern says he win have
Spring gridiron practice at Western
soon y Ia can get anybody out"
a sPIRANTs for Techs base ban
"A team win get together for the first
| time the early part of this week and
battery candidates probably will start
work the latter part of the week.
Tech has lost valuable players IN
Spigel, pitcher; Wellens, inhelder, and
Price, pitcher and outhalder, but Coach
MAI Edwards will have O bunch of
capable boys on the job, including Bat
son and Russell, pitchers; English, Levy
and Benner, inflelders, and wills,
Chumbris and Thomas. outf1elders.
Tech will have its own diamond this
year, something the Mckinley nine has
not had heretofore, and Coach Edwards
believes that many more candidates viii
report for the team now that the gang
viii not have to journey al the way
down to the Monument grounds or some
other diamond long way from the
school to practice.
TENTRAL'S would-be pitchers and
~ catchers will begin oiling up the old
soupbones tomorrow in the school GYM
nasium under the eye of Coach Ty
Rauber. Central has hopes of really
getting somewhere In the coming series.
Manager Dugan is arranging an attrac-
tive schedule for the Blue.
Eastern, which has won the publAc
high diamond title for the last three
seasons, and by many Is given o good
chance 10 triumph once more, already
has held its first meeting and soon win
have its battery aspirants down %
earnest work.
Business viii not get started on base
ball for q time as Coach Lynn Wood.
worth flrst will get out Of the way intra-
mural basket ball competition nov A
progress at the school.
Diamond activity among the yeeD
schools also will get under way shortly.
Most OF the schools win have mines,
though st. Johns viii not be repre-
sented and Dewitt likely will not. a
least, In serious way.