The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1901-04-22
THE BIG RELAY CARNIVAL
Team From Georgetown University
Somewhat Handicapped.
Reilly, One of the Fastest OF the Lo-
cal Sprinters, Laid Up With
Sprained Back-His place &PP"r
emily Hard to FiIi-Chunses Likely

Reilly One OF the BeSSPSt os ibS 10
cal SprinterS, Laid Up With
Sprained Back-His Place ApPnr-
emily Hard to FiIi-ChHnSeS Likely
4 "hoodoo~ seems to have cast its baue-
full shadow over the Georgetown Tniver-
sfty relay team which was looked to by
the followers of the Blue and Gray TO
cover Itself and the institution it repre-
sents with glory during the relay caTni-
val of the University of Pennsylvania on
Saturday
Reilly one of the fastest members of
the local uuartette of sprinters. is laid up
with a severely strained back and has not
been on the track for over a week He
viii probably be able to be out IL short
time, but it is hardly likely that he will
regain his old form this season Reilly,
with Barry and DeVIin, at half and full
back. respectively, last fall, made up the
strongest backffeld ever produced by
Georgetown football team. His present
condition is due to an injury received in
a game
At the indoor meet in Convention Hall
in March the Georgetown relay team ran
a magnificent race and defeated the team
from the University of Pennsylvania
Lynch who is on the team for the first
IAAAAt liliS Ell IHAlS TIE IISt ISiSN Wv
ems. who takes the second relay, is a fair
" good sprinter His main qualification
is his good heart He runs much better
race with man in front of him than he
does when he has the lead and is yards
10 the good This popularity was aptly
illustrated in the race at Convention Hall
with the Pennsylvania. Lynch. the first
runner for Georgetown, slipped and fell
just as he rounded one of the turns.
The Pennsylvania Splinter was immedi-
ateiy given great advantage by the mis-
fortune. Lynch regained his feet, but was
unable TO make up the distance. Owens
started after the second PENNSYLVANIA re-
lay man and did such hard sprinting that
he regained a good part Of the lost dis
lance Then, amid the shouts of a hun
dred of Georgetown ''rooters'' Reilly took
up the third relay, and before he had fin
ished running the Georgetown coIors were
abreast the Red and Blue Holland then
had the race well in hand when the last
Pennsylvania runner fell.
The Georgetown team is entered at
Philadelphia in the relay carnival with
teams from Yale, Harvard, Columbia.
Cornell, and the University of PeEnsyI-
vania, and the contest promises TO be the
greatest Of its kind ever witnessed in
America Georgetown's chances for win
ming We're Of the brightest until Reilly
met with the unfortunate accident. Sew
eral other runners at Georgetown are be
Ing tried out for the vacancy occasioned
by Reilly's enforced retirement but no
one has yet been selected by Coach Fo-
ley.
One of the best alI-around athletes in
the university is COnnors, the big centre
fielder on the baseball team. who is a stu
dent in the medical school. He made an
enviable record as Splinter when he at
tended Holy Cross College. and could
prObs bly, admirably fill the vacancy on
the relay team He is credited with even
time in the hundred-yard dash and is
there Is little chance that he will leave
the baseball team. and 1t IS practically
Impossible to do both. Consequently Fo-
ley VIII in all likelihood have to cast
around among the other aspirants for a
man TO fill the position
Duffy and AJinnahan, who viii uphold
the honor OF Georgetown, in the dashes
at meets during the coming season, are in
splendid trim Minnahan gives promise
of being one of the fastest sprfnters ever
turned out at Georgetown, which is noted
for the number of fast runners who have
represented the Blue and Grey on the Gin
der path His wonderful showing abroad
last year brought him into prominence,
and indications are that his performances
tins year Will equal those Gt last
Duffy, the veteran sprinter and holder
OF the world's record for the hundred-yard
CASH mas entirely recovered from the
strained hgament which brought him de-
feat IN the games at the Paris Exposition
last year. Holland, who is without ques-
ton the fastest quarter-rnile man in the
country with the exception Of Long Of
Columbia, Is iT good shape. His showing
in practice with the relay teams gives the
Georgetown supporters good grounds for
believing the blue and grey %iu be practi-
ca!ly invincibIe in the hundTed-yard dash
AMI in the Ouarter-miie run
The performance Of the Lafayette Stock
Company last week for the Georgetown
crew was a distinct success, and a neat
sum accrued 10 the treasury of the crew
The crew will now be enabled TO go to
Poughkeepsie in proper style. Coach Zap
POM Is well pleased with the progress the
Oarsmen are making under his tutelage
The Accommodations afforded by the Column
bia Athletic Club bOathOuse. which WIS re-
Gently purchased by Georgetown Univer-
sity- are of the best, and with the shells
and skifFs now hand it seems that row
ing VIII soon be firmly established as a
popular sport at the institution