Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-02-13
GEORGETOWN MEET.
Crack College Athletes to Compete at
Convention Hall Next Saturday Night

While all the arrangements for George
towns sixth annual indoor athletic carni-
val, to be held at Convention Hall Febru-
airy 90 have not yet been completed, the
promoters of the affair are sanguine that
it will be a most successful gathering of
athletes.
Every effort is being made by Manager
Miller and his corps of assistants to give
WaShingtonianS q good meet in every
way. During the six years that these
games have been conducted under the aus
pieces of the Georgetown Athletic Associa-
ton the special individual events have de-
veloped satisfactorily, and it is now the
intention to make the relay races equally
important
While all the organizations have not yet
sent in their lists, the management of the
races have already arranged several Oh
these popular relays between the colleges
and clubs where the greatest rivalry eX-
lists. The indoor track at Georgetown,
where the Blue and Gray varsity men are
practicing is one of the busiest places
about the university. Capt. Joe Reilly. in
door quarter-mile record holder: Etchison
and EdmonSton are the three members OF
last years team who are available this
season. Sullivan a former Holy Cross
College runner, who did not compete In in
tercollegiate athletics in l903 Mulllgan'
who entered Georgetown last fan from
the Brown Prep School or Phlladelpnla;
eleven, and Yoder, who came to the uni
versity from Wilmington High School, are
among the most prominent OF the new can
didates for positions on the relay team.
At the Boston Athletic Association games
tonight tentative varsity team. COM
posed Of Mccarthy, Mulligan, Sullivan ana
Etchison or Reilly, will represent the Blue
and Gray, but before the local meet ,nere
will be another set of trials, and the var
sitv which will race Yale will be nnaliy
chosen.
Columbia and Cornell have been matched
in a special one-mile race. Inc gorge
town management proposed to make TINS
three-cornered affair and have faie OF
some other college in it, but the New Iork-
ers asked that they be left to themselves
to fight 1t out. Manager Miller acceded 10
their wishes and the race Shoulu NC olie VI
the prettiest of the tourney.
Columbian and Gallaudet, the two local
rivals have been claSsed together. rms
will be the first appearance OF either Oh
tbesa institutions on the indoor track Tor
several years and their followers Will at
tend in large numbers to cheer their iaSor-
ties. I'll, WIN
their annual relay race at the Georgetown
meet for the first time in two years. AN
letic Director Foley has a long stilns VI
proteges in training for the event, anu ne
believes that this season 8 race Will NC 'i'
closest for several years. o,
The Washington Y. M. c. A, as usuai.
will be pitted against the west b1a ,a
~ M. c. A. team OF Baltimore; MS
teams generally meet three times during
the winter at the different indoor meets,
but on the 10Th it will be their fnal race o,
tn, indoor season, SO each team VIII hshl
hard to win the event.
A regimental relay race is an lnnOVatloh
for the Blue and Gray tourney but as there
has been a request for such contest Man
aeer Miller has succeeded in matching tne
9Th Regiment of Baltimore and the t,th
Regiment Of Brooklyn. AT the various IN
hald n New YORK during Ine
winter regimental races are featured. anu
because of the rivalry between the soio1ers
of the different regiments are usually IN
teresting ,..
thing new to Washingtonians. Until lately
the men who handle the sweeps In summer
had no pastirne during the season Wneh
the rivers and lakes are frozen over, put as
there are in nearly every aquatic CLUB men
who in their college days had predilec-
ton for track athletics, relay teams nave
| been formed in several OF the representa-
| tive clubs and Georgetown has succeeded
| in matching three of these in special
three-cornered contest to be known as tine
oarsmen's e.'-This will bring together
| the Potomacs of this city and the ArundeiS
| and the Ariels of Baltimore. These rowing
associations have often met on the water,
| but as this is their first attempt at relays
! the race will be watched with much IN
terest by local followers of aquatic sports
The Georgetown interclass race, that
event which IS looked forward to from
wear to year by the members of the several
classes of the university, promises to be
faster than since it's inauguration several
years ago The Blue and Gray athletic
authorities are making special EFFORT 10
stimulate interclass competitions TINS year,
and have already been successful in con-
Quoting an interclass regatta and an inter-
class foot ball series. The principal vaue
of these contests is that they bring out
many men of mediocre ability who with
proper training will develop into varsity
PLAYERS, runners and oarsmen. Last years
class relay was won by 1905.