The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-02-16
JUBILANT OVER
RELAY VICTORY
Georgetown Encouraged by
Recent Race at Boston.
HAS A CHANCE WITH YALE
Team Should Be Several Seconds Fas-
ter With Captain Reilly
Run ming.

Georgetown men are elated over the
victory won by the varsity relay team
over the Massachusetts Institute OF
Technology at the indoor games of the
Boston Athletic Association on Satur-
day evening While it was generally
believed that with Joe Reilly running
the team would win. still it was beyond
the hopes of the most sanguine Of the
students on the Heights that with the
captain out of the race. because Of sick
ness. the Blue and Gray would land in
first place. Reilly holds the world 8
record for a quarter OF a mile. indoors.
which ne established at St. Louis, and
had he been able to compete Saturday
the team would have undoubtedly been
several seconds faster.
Georgetown led from the start. Sulli-
van, the first runner. finished about
three yards in front of the Tech man,
while Etchison. at the end OF his relay.
led his opponent by five yards. McCar-
thy, running third. opened the inter-
vening distance five yards. so when
Mulligan, the last Blue and Gray man.
took the touch he was ten yards to the
good. Williams, the Bostonians best
man. tried hard to close up the gap. but
was unable TO catch the speedy George
tOwner. who finished a winner by twelve
yards.
Etchison is the only member OF the
team who ran FOR Georgetown previous
TO Saturday. Sullivan, first man. is a
former Holy Cross College runner. but
he did not compete last year. Besides
being a good quarter-miler, be j. fast
short distance sprinter. and is entered
in the 5O-yard dash at Georgetown's an
rrarH F,-r1. H.
EtchisOn. who is a WashingtOnian. is in
his third year at the university. As a
freshman he ran second 10 Holland. in
tercoIlegiate quarter-mile champion. at
the Georgetown games two years ago.
ard last year was chosen for the var
sity four. Mccarthy halls from the
Boston High School. where he was "A
member Of the football and track squads.
He entered Georgetown last fan and
made end on the varsity eleven At the
trials held last week he ran his distance
III 0:53, which was the best time made.
Mulligan was third man on the Brown
Preparatory School team last year,
which made a new record for the five
man One-mile relay. He is brother OF
the captain of the Blue and Gray track
team OF 1899. which defeated Harvard
at the Boston A a. races and set a new
mark for the 1560-yard relays.
on next Saturday. at Georgetown
sixth annual indoor athletic carnival, az
Convention Hall. the Blue and Gray VIII
be pitted against Yale in one-miie
race. This year Old Eli has an keep
tional four in Clapp, Long, Johnson,
ana Parsons Clapp is intercollegiate
champion hurdler and viii CONT etc IN
the 5C-yard hurdles as well as in the re-
lay. Long and Johnson are both good
men, while Parsons. as half-mlier, is
without a peer. At the Boston meet
Yale scored q decisive victory over Har-
yard and will come to Washington de-
ternined TO continue her winning streak
The varsity which defeated M !. T
day or Wednesday the final trials, 10
determine who viii run against yale
will be held on the indoor track on the
Heights BY that time IL Is believed
that Captain Reilly will have sufficiently
recovered to resume training. Preston
EdmonstOn. who has been MEMBER OF
the varsity for two years, did not par
ticipate in the trials Tor the T. a a
games. but he is now in good condition
and will give the other men a naru
tussIe for one OF the positions. AT -the
trials. Yoder. the former WHINING ION
High School runner. who got second
Mace in the 600-yard event at the re-
cent Philadelphia A. A. Y. meet, Will
also be a prominent candidate Tor the
In addition to the varsity, two other
Georgetown relay teams Will compete
at next Saturday 5 tourney. A Law
school quartet will be classed with
the Jefferson Medical School Of Phila-
deIphia. while the Props will meet the
Brown Prep School Of the same city
Neither Of the local teams has been deli
uitely picked. but viii be by the middle
OF the week Although the former =
NJ G. A. man. Staples, who was MEM
Der Of the Notre Dame University team
two years ago, Abbaticchio. substitute
for the Blue and Gray varsity last sea-
son. Yoder. G Seitz, EdmCnston- and
Etchison are all eligible for she Law
Vers' team.
There is plenty Of material for the
Prem four. Newton Farara. McCahin.
Grumpy. Van Lyusey, Moran, and Mudd
are among the candidates who are
training for the team.