The Washington times., 1936-06-03
Spirit Carries
Western 10 Top
In Series
BY GARRETT WATERS

we gave Lnem D@GCie @n
through the series and the same
sort Of battle won US the cham
piOnship."
Coach Cliff Moore said this
little speech yesterday shortly
after his Western High nine had
subdued a stubborn Central ma
chine, 5-4, on the Roosevelt dia-
mond for what was the inter.
high school baseball title.
His words more than rang true.
For the GeorgetownerS were a
battling collection of ball toSSerS
in the series. They were more
or less forced to be, because they
opened the path for each op-
ponent to make it battle in every
game Of the series.
BY this we mean, Coach Moore's
charges played very loosely most
Of the time. They made errors,
they threw the ball around wildly
and they conducted themselves
at times as cellar champs" rather
than title contenderS.
Old Battle There
But. the Foggy Bottom boys
had the old battle behind them
to offset these deficiencies. It
wasn't better demonstrated than
yesterday when Central was "out-
battled" in the ninth inning
when it appeared as if the. Mt.
Pleasanters were going to snatch
the game right out Of the fire.
Going into the frame, leading
5 to 3, the team began blowing"
as soon as the first batter stepped
to the plate. The usual reliable
Bill EdmonSton bobbled Eddie
McDonough'S grounder to start
it. Then Lee Kushman, silent
Western pitcher, pitched a scratch
single to Joe Feuz and walks ITO
Arnold Heft and Angelo Valenza,
One run came in on George
RowleS' long fly to Paul Borden,
in left, but Westerns battle"
made it's last fling when Kush-
man famed Bernie ASkin and
Dick Lynham lunged at Donald
Fones' hot grounder, near third,
and touched Heft out on the base
lines.
This championship is the first
Tor Western since 1920. It be-
comes a good thing for the series
and particularly since the boys
had such a tough time accom-
plishing the feat. They came
within one out of turning the
trick last week against Tech High
IN game at the Western Sta
dium. But the Techites put on a
Frank Merriwell rally at that
time and scored four runs to win.
7 to 6. The victorious Western
team will be honored at a school
assembly tomorrow at 9:10 a. M,
attended by Clark c. Griffith,
president of the Washington Base
ball Club and others.
It looked, as We said before. as
if Central was going to duplicate
this rally in that ninth yester-
day. But it didn't happen and
Westerns victory now becomes as
deserving as anything could.
Rafferty, Starts
The game was long and drawn
out, but full of interest. Coach
Moore crossed up the dope at the
start by sending Bob Rafferty,,
young righthander, to the mound
instead of Lee Kushman, who had
hurled all of the teams preced.
ing contests.
Rafferty, hurled creditably un-
TIL WlldnesS got him in trouble
in the eighth. At that point,
Moore quickly sent in Kushman,
who was his pre-arranged life
saver"
Kushman was his same silent,
unperturbed self as he Quieted
the Centralites as well as the
breaks would let him.
Arnold Heft, sensational left
handler, pitched throughout for
Central. He was not the alright
pitcher of his two previous ef-
forts when he defeated Eastern
and Roosevelt so handily. But
he pitched a game that he would
have won nine times out of ten.
The item that hurt Heft's
cause most was prodigious
double off the bat of Addie
Lawyer, Western ShortStopper, in
the first half of the ninth. Two
were out when this blow rocked
the Western portion of the
stands and it scored Oertel and
KuShman, who had gotten on
bases on hits.
WESTERN CrNyruar