The Washington times., 1903-03-20
LOCAL ATHLETES ENTER
JOHNS HOPKINS MEET
Indoor Carnival of Sports TO
Be Held March %
M. !. THOMPSON TO REFEREE
Georgetown University, Y. NJ c. A.,
Carroll Institute, and the Olympia
Athletic Club to Be Represented.

washington will be we'll represented
at the annual indoor meet Of Johns
Hopkins University, which is to be
held in the Fifth Regiment armory IN
Baltimore on Saturday, March IS.
Georgetown University. Y. NJ. c. A..
Carroll Institute. and the Olympia Ath-
letic Club viii each contribute several
contestants, and large number of root
ers Will Journey over TO the Monumental
City to see that their proteges carry
off the prizes.
NJ. J. Thompson, graduate manager OF
athletics of Georgetown University. will
oficiate as referee OF the meet
NJ. j. Herman. manager OF the
track and field teams OF the B.ue and
Gray institution. has been chosen as
one Of the assistants to the clerk Of
the course, and c. f. Beckett, OF the
local Y. NJ c. A.. Will act as a timer r.
F. LeMat, OF the Olympia Athletic Club.
will probably do the announcing
Crack Relay Team
Georgetown will send over her law
school relay team, which defeated the
fast Fifth Regiment team of Baltimore
at the Blue and Gray meet. As yet It
has not been decided who the lawyers
villa be pitted against. but the University
OF MARYLAND will probably be their op-
ponents. All OF the law school men
are practicing hard. and Captain Abbat-
tichio is sanguine of a victory. Etchison
and Yoder are both doing good fast work.
/ The Georgetown Preparatory School
I team will also go over. The boys viii
Z in nj -
be in excellent trim for the meet. They
will meet the fast Penn Charter School
4 team. which figured conspiciously in the
meet here two weeks ago. Curran. an
other law school man. is entered in the
shot put He has been tossing the six
/ teen pounds of lead a great deal lately,
and hopes 10 run in the money on Satur-
| day. Curran came third in this event two
weeks ago. Big Dick Sheldon won.
Boyd. of Pennsy. was second. and the
GEORGETOWN man Was next. All together
the students OF Georgetown will not DO
satisfied unless az least half a dozen
prizes are captured by their representa-
tives and messmates.
Y. M. c. A. Boys Active.
Mr.. Beckett. the physical instructor
/ OF the Y. NJ G. 4 is busy these days
fixing up his entries. and. although he
has made no announcement as yet IL is
understood that he will have his fast
relay team and a number of short dis
lance men in the meet Parker. one OF
the best II not the best pole yaulter in
Washington. will probably represent the
/ Y NJ. c. A in that event Parker has
been doing great deal OF practice re-
Gently and has been shining up the
medals which he has already captured
bv his vaulting and tits expected that
he will figure prominently in the Johns
| Hopkins games.
Prof joyce. OF Carroll Institute. vii
send over his relay team and enter q
few men in the sprint events. The
Olympia Athletic Club will send its
relay squad over also. Prof. Joyce
protested the race between Carroll In
stitute and the olympias two weeks age
al Georgetown's meet. and the Johns
Hopkins meet furnishes an excellent OBJ
portunity of determining the supremacy
Of the teams.