Evening star., 1938-03-25
SPARKLING SQUAD
CAPABLE ON SLAB
Coach Guyon Anticipates
Better Team Than His
Victor Last Year.
By BURTON HAWKINS,

BY BURTON HAWKINS.
Gaily garbed in everything from
tattered overalls to tri-colored football
jerseys Eastern High Schools base
ball team currently resembles the
aftermath of rummage sale.
Out of that semi-comical collection
of Bal Bohemish youngsters Coach
Chief Charley Guyon, now in the
midst of his eighteenth year of man
ufacturing creditable clubs for the Lin
coin Parkers, is molding an outfit that
will be favored to capture its tenth
outright interhigh championship in
IA years.
A crushing contradiction of the
axiom that says something about
clothes making the man, EaSterns
squad seems to sparkle despite its
camouflaged shredded surroundings.
For at shortstop, draped in track
sweat suit, is Al Kidwell, veteran
campaigner in two interhigh series
and a steady, trusted performer. The
ruddy-faced KidWell, all-high in 1886,
slipped somewhat in the hitting de-
partment last season but is confident
of regaining his stride at the plate
this season.
Jacobs Likely Outfielder.
Over at third base the stumpy figure
of Marshall Jacobs, an all-high prod
uct last year, is planted for the pres
ent, but Guyon is contemplating shit
ing him to the outfield to make room
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in his prowess with the wand, and Ey
moving the smooth fielding Lusby to
the so-called hot corner Guyon feels
he will strengthen the team defens-
lively.
Lusby, all-high second sacker will
leave the keystone job wide-open
proposition. with Ed Giovanatti and
Jimmy Bannell now leading candidates
for the position. Lusby will not re-
port for practice until Eastern'S basket
ball team returns from the Eastern
States scholastic tourney at GlenS
Falls. N. Y, next week. Bill Lewis
is capable understudy.
Likewise laboring with the basket
ball team is Les Cooksey court re-
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an outfleld post. Chester Tawney and
Bob York also fit nicely into the
Chiefs gardening plans, with one or
both playing regularly, depending, of
course, on the infleld shifts.
Kober Clever at First.
Drafted from the football team, be-
spectacled Paul kober. left-hander,
has snatched the first-base assign
ment and has impressed in workouts
on the windswept Eastern diamond.
Kober is no butcher around that bag
and rounds out an infleld which,
doubtless, will be difficult to pierce.
The defending champions are minus
a catcher. with Paul Cohill, Norman
Treadway and Paul Kojok virtually on
equal terms in the scrap for the re-
ceiving post vacated by Yves Taylor,
but the pitching situation assumes a
rosy glow.
Walter Gefty) Stockwell and Rip
Carver, a stocky right-hander, hurled
the Lincoln Parkers to the champion
ship last season, and both are back to
pick up where they left off, Carver
already has reached peak form. as
evidenced by the fact he held the reg
ulars scoreless in game recently.
Guyon Expects Good Team.
1--WE should be better than last
year" offers Guyon, but we'll need
a lot OF batting practice before the
series opens. We're still weak with
the stick" The chief has been serv-
ing as batting practice pitcher, CIV
ing each batter an imaginary problem
In strategy as he steps to the plate.
If the kid comes to bat in a situa-
ton that calls for bunt during the
series, he'll lay one down subcon-
sciously, because the chief insists on
smart baseball, even in drills.
The uniform situation will be rem
edied when painters on strike at
Eastern's gym return to work. Dia-
monders can't utilize the new athletic
plant until that is settled, and in the
meantime they appear ragged, but
only from the standpoint of equip
ment. In overalls or neat uniforms,
Eastern will be the team to beat in the
championship series.
Games outside the series realm will
be played with Episcopal, Washington
Lee High, Navy Plebes and Fredericks-
burg.