Evening star., 1942-03-30
Hines, Ku|de|| Remain
From Last Season,
Surefire Stars
Teams Betting Power
Is Concentrated in
Its Inner Gordon
BY GEORGE HUBER.


If pitching Is half or more of the
battle in high school baseball, as
most of the coaches around town
seem to think, Western is pretty
well hxed.
The Red Raiders, with Coach Fred
Mulvey at the helm this season in
stead of Cliff Moore, can present a
pair of ace tossers left over from last
season. First Is Charley Hines, who
last year was named on the second
All-High team, then Clarence Kul-
dell, who was given honorable men,
tion. Both have improved since last
year and will bear the brunt of
Westerns mound duties. Mulvey
also has a couple Of promising sopho-
more pitchers, good for occasional
relief jobs, but whose main task will
be to prepare for next season.
The Western setup is a bit differ
ent from most of the public schools,
with the power demonstrated so far
being in the infield instead of the
garden. Except at first base where
the All-High Bob Leach Is missing,
Mulyey has an intact group from
1S4l. Bob Cockrill will hold down
second base, Jim Karas is on third
and Ray Love fills in at shortstop
All are good hitters and afleld pre-
sent q tight defensive combination.
To complete the infield, Mulvey will
select his first baseman from amcng
Don Cross, Brian Bell, Clyde Nc
Farland and Phil Purteu. The lead
Ing catching candidates, to fill in
for Gene Schoemaker who is not out
for the team this time, are Lewis
Beatty, Alex Papanicolas and Jack
Walker.
Malarkey Stands Alone.
Mulvey is searching for strong
hitters to place in the out1ield. All
he has left from the 1941 title-win-
ners is Jim Malarkey, a sub last
year.
The Raiders open their season
this week, playing at National
Training School on Wednesday, with
Dewitt coming over to Georgetown
on Thursday.
Another scholastic event this week
Is the intersection track meet at
Central on Wednesday. Track Coach
Jan Jankowski is developing some
thing big here and has about 200
entrants, with practically every boy
In the school who can run, jump
or throw the weights being entered.
Possibly Jan will find some good
track material among these en-
trants, but the principal reason for
the meet is to get as many students
as possible interested in athletics
or physical training.
Medals will be awarded to all first.
second and third-place winners,
with the section scoring the most
points on 5-4-3-2-1 basis receiv-
ing plaque.
Events are 100, 220, 40 yard
dashes; $50 and mile runs; mile
relay, broad Jump, high Jump, shot
put and discus.
Keep Tally on Players.
One Of the behind the scenes
activities in the high schools during
the recent basket ball season was
the detailed check each coach made
on his players. One of the most in
teresting of these was the chart
kept at Roosevelt by Don Wolfe. He
made q complicated record of the
number Of set shots and inside shots
each player had, how much of the
time Roosevelt had the ball in its
possession or was in control of the
game, and in what period it did
most of its scoring.
These charts we're given to Coach
Reds Auerbach after each game so
he could make corrections before the
next tilt. A summary of the season
shows that the Rough Riders were
best In the fourth periods, and that
during the interhigh series they
had control of the ball for 96 out of
a total of 1913 minutes, or almost
exactly half the time. Among indi-
vidual players, Charley Howard and
Frank Redinger were outstanding.
Redinger made II out of 40 set
shots, while Howard Gagged only of
80. Howard was best on inside
shots, scoring on II of 56, while Red
niger tailed on IA of Al. The team
on all shots made good e5 of 379,
which is a fair average for high
school basket ball