The Washington herald., 1906-12-16
HIGH SCHOOL MEET
Carnival of Track and Field
Sports Oh February %.
COLLEGE TEAMS MAY COME
Pennsylvania and Princeton Likely
20 Send Some Good Runners.
George Washington and Virginia
Again to Meet In ReIny-Lmrge
Entry List Is Expected.

College, club. and schoolboy athletes of
Washington, New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore. and several cities in Virginia
will meet in their fourth annual carnival
Of trace and field sports in Convention
Hall on the evening Of Saturday. Febru-
airy %. 1907. Already Manager Foley has
assurances Of entries from local and out
of-town athletes in numbers sufficient to
warrant the assertion that the games this
year will have much larger entry list
than last year, when there was a total of
2g6 Individual entries
In order to give these games a greater
distinction among athletes and the gen.
eral public, Manager Foley determined to
give the carnival permanent name. and
II viii hereafter be known as The Fed
eral Indoor Interscholastic and 1ntercol-
leBiate Track and Field Games .
Athletes from the big colleges will com
pete in greater numbers this year than
previously For the first time since the
games began the University Of Pennsyl-
vania VIII send down some runners.
Manager Foley had a long talk several
weeks ago with Mike Murphy the Quak-
ers' famous veteran trainer, during which
the track coach promised TO send half
dozen OF his best men to the Federal
games. II is likely that CartmeI. the
intercollegiate champion sprinteT; Has
kins. the intercollegiate champion mile
runner. and Jones, the intercollegiate
cross-country champion, will be three OF
the Red and Blue team. II Moffat. the
former champion high Jumper, and Cap
tain Whitam,- runner-up In the intercol-
legiate sprints are in good shape. they
will also be sent down. Manager Foley
Is also making an effort 10 secure the at
tendance OF a Pennsylvania relay team
This will probably be a one-miIe quartet.
with another OF the big colleges as a COM
petitor.
Expect Princeton Team.
In addition to the Quakers, it is likely
that there may be some athletes at the
Federal games from Princeton. Manager
Foley has been in communication with
the Tiger track management several
weeks. and expects that Trainer Flood
VIII send two or three men 10 represent
the Orange and Black.
A strong delegation Of spiked-shoe ath-
lctes from the University Of Virginia is
expected again this year The two-mile
Southern intercollegiate championship re-
lay race between the Virginians and the
George Washington team was the star
event Of last years carnival. and ar
rangements are being made for another
relay race between the two universities
this year. II is likely that Virginia will
again elect 10 try conclusions with the
Hatchet runners IL two miles The dis
tance was new % the Charlottesville run
neTs in 1895. but il is said that their men
have been doing a great deal of cross
country work this fail. so that they may
be stronger and speedier for the half
nile. Eoih the Charlottesville and local
universities will have number OF men
In the open events.
Many schools Invited.
Manager Foley has also sent invitations
to Johns Hopkins. the Western Maryland
University. Mount St Mary's College. St.
Johns College, Of Annapolis, and Wash
ington and Lee University. and it is
thought all these institutions will have
some representatives, in the various
events
All the local high schools-the Friends
Select School the Army and Navy Prep
Georgetown Prep, the Washington School
for Boys, and several other local schools
Will enter relay teams and boys in the
open scholastic events to measure strides
with the best athletes OF the Baltimore
schools and the preparatory institutions
OF Virginia
Ia anticipation Of a very long pro-
gramme and a record number. of entries.
Manager Foley has secured DR.. George
w. Orton, the University Of Pennsylva-
Mas old lOng-distance champion and
manager of the Quaker relay races, as
referee. Dr.. Orton has had a long expe-
rience as referee. and has a reputation
for the speed and snap he injeCts into the
conducting Of big games.