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Show LEOPARDESSES CAN SURE "HIT 'EM WHERE THEY AIN'T" : JC' -x-jyL,-- tgsi , , I . . . , . . ! East High Indoor Girls Play Ball Like Experts i THE East High school indoor baseball base-ball girls aro in the midst of their class series, and indications I point to a fight for the title be tween the juniors and freshmen. The 'freshmen have won two games and the juniors one. The sophs have lost two j and the seniors one. ' The game scheduled for Friday was ' that between tho seniors and sophomores, sopho-mores, but inability to get enough senior players caused postponement of that game until Wednesday, and the i reshmau-sophomore game scheduled for Wednesday was played Friday. Tomorrow tho juniors and freshmen .neet. A win for the freshmen will .dve them the championship, The jun-iors jun-iors will play tho seniors Friday, and a junior victory tomorrow will prac-.ir'ally prac-.ir'ally cinch the title, because the seniors sen-iors are not regarded as the strongest . contenders. A stronjjor bunch of hitters than the : freshmen has never been seen iu the high schools. Thus far they have succeeded" suc-ceeded" in getting eighty-nme runs in two games, which is some record. The sophomores in two games have made thirty four tallies, w-hile in ono game each" tho juniors made twenty-two runs and the seniors seven. ' The fielding this year has been fairly 'good, with the exception of that, in the I senior-freshmen game, when there was I much wild throwing. The infielders j have made several double plays, and the outfielders ar showing well on fly balls. The best pitching thus far has been done bv tho freshie pitchers. Dorothy Jensen, Frances Collier and Comorah Davis. They have held their opponents to twenty-four runs in two games. The sophomore hurlers are Captain Brila McDonald nnd Margaret Anderson. Fil'tv-nine thus have been chased over tho 'plate off the sophs ' hurlers. lies-tor lies-tor Beebe and Captain Hazel Brooks held the sophs to seventeen runs in one game, while Captain Anne Newman vns scored on liftv-lwo limes by the freshies, but. poor fielding was the principal cause of the run-getting. Yclma Drage and Brita McDonald of tho sophs. Captain Melba Homer, Dru-cilla Dru-cilla Clark and Frances Collier of the freshies, Hester Beebe, Lillie FrumKin and Sarah Shapiro of tho juniors, and Captain Anne Newman and liughena dordou have done some heavy cannou-adtng. cannou-adtng. The rule preventing tho malingers from plnving has robbed the freshies of a star hitter as well as pitcher in Or-theila Or-theila Clark, who ranked as the leading lead-ing pitcher last year, and who was also the star homo rut hitter iu 19M. Sends Hlra6elf Down. ' Can a. plavcr Rend himself back to the minors? Jt was dAne recently in the meriea.n league. Mu-ti;ii.'rr Kohl of tho Clcv'eland club lias a. hnsbei- by the name of I'lsebe.n out on the road. When the I'lrvcJul"! cluh reaelti-d V'n sliln! on, Ksi iu-n uskcl K"M it In- 'TulM 'O home. Kub) tliuuplit hsclicti meant bis borne in Brooklyn, but Ks-elu-n ine.int Cleveland. Kuhl l:hvc liiin permission. When Ksr!u-n reaclicrl Cleveland. Inktnir it for granted lliat Folil bad no use tor him, ho went to work with the American association team After Kschen bad made the chanse Fold decided to lot him stay. Key to Illustration. 1 Seniors, top row, left to right Lois Waiter, ceiuerneld; Elva Wilkinson, Wil-kinson, second base; Marion Jones, fust base; Inane ritts, suostitute; Kosa Baer, lett held; iitnel Watains, manager. Front row Anne Nev-t-man, captain and pitcher; Helen Spalding, right field; Maxjie lvlax-son, lvlax-son, catcher; Hughena liordou, third base; Gertrude G-albraith, right short-Slop; short-Slop; Ellen Mccarty, left shortstop. 2 Anne Newman, senior captain and pitcher. 3 Ethel Watltins, senior manager. 4 Sophomores, top I row, left to right Mary Bateman, left field; Mary Jensen, left held and center field; Irene Lewis, second base; Helen Anedrson, center fieid; Hasseltine Sims, mascot and trainer; Margaxet Anderson, left shortstop; Gladys Arbuckle, third base; Ruby Kmcaid, first base. Front row Catherine Ekman, center field; Hor- i fence West, manager; Myrtle Curtain, right shortstop; Brita McDonald, captain and pitcher; Nellie Hyland, first base; Velnia Drage, catcher; Lillian Carey, right field. C Juniors, Jun-iors, top row, left to right Mildred Hurd, right field; Doris McClain, catcher; Florence Easmussen, left field; Dolores Maim, left shortstop. Front row Alta Mae Mitchell, center cen-ter field; Sarah Shapiro, second base; Hazel Brooks, captain and pitcher; Elva Clays, third base; Dorothy Davis, Da-vis, manager. Lillie Fnmikin and Hester Beebe are absent. l Hor- ! fence West, sophomore manager. 7 j Brita McDonald, sophomore captain j and pitcher. 8 Velnia Drage, soph- I omore star catcher and hitter. 9 Freshmen, top row, left to right Leila Lynn, right field; Comorah Davis, Da-vis, pitcher and third base: Frances Collier, pitcher and right shortstop; Lelia Warner, second base: Lestie Kent, center field. Front row Euth ' Lynn, left field; Drucilla Clark, first i base; Melba Homer, catcher and cayj- ! tain; Orthella Clark, manager; Dor- j othy Jensen, third base and pitcher; ! Melba Doyle, right field; Grace I Mooney, left shortstop. Tinker for Brosnahan. If the Chicago Feds take over the Chios Chi-os o Cubs, which Is said to be in the cauls under the alleRoil peace negotiations negotia-tions y.'bieh are sunpoyeii to be under way. .Joe Tinker will suc ee.l lh-esn;ihan as manager. Tinker is nimbly popular around Chicago, more so than' "Raja h." From the Cubs and Wbules, Tinker would be able to select a crack team. Players like Tinker, Zrlder. Mann. Zvvil-Ung:, Zvvil-Ung:, Doolan, Flack, McCotrnell and f'ren-clerttast f'ren-clerttast added to the Cubs ouidit to moke a winner. Moran Must Cut Down. Manager F'at Moran of the Phillies bus taken on several players in :i 1 1. i 1 1 i 1 1 1 1 to his twenty-three who urrr eli-ihlc for the woriii's series ;ind now hu-es the problem of riittiim ! leM!v-one to i-l within the league limit n.-t Mai. He is top heavy fui pilehi is .us! ma offer several sev-eral for tradi-. Outside thr shift, he expects ex-pects to make lew eiiauyi's in his team, if any. |
