The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1907-03-10

In enc of the most exciting relay races
ever witnessed in this city. Georgetown
triumphed over Virginia last night at
Convention Han in the final event of the
ninth annual indoor meet Of the George
town Athletic Association.
Seldom have two teams been more
evenly matched than the eight men who
carried the Blue and Gray and Orange and
Blue in the first indoor track race III
which the great rival universities have
ever met Each man ran 900 yards, and
al no time during the struggle was there
a margin Of ten yards Cohen, George
towns first runner, beat Marbury of, and
was never headed, although his rival
fought it out to the last, and was only
four yards away when Devine took up the
running against Rector, of Virginia.
At the second corner Rector missed his
step on the band, slipped, and broke his
stride. and before he could entirely re-
cover Devine had opened up 10 yards.
Capt Montgomery, for Georgetown, on
the third relay. went against Reid. Reid
proved slightly the better man. and
passed the west-end man. Montgomery
hung on tenaciously. and Reid had an
advantage of only about a yard and a
half
Although Bosher. of Virginia, received
the tough in advance of O'Boyle, the big
Georgetown freshman was of like a fash,
and beat his opponent to the first turn.
BY keeping close to the pole at the second
corner, O'BoyIe took the lead.
Victory for Georgetown.
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II OUT through Ihe "Hole Instance ana
when they Strengthened out IN the maj
stretch there was practically no adj
vantage. O'BoyIe seemed 10 weaken IN
the last twenty wards. but he pulled him
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"iiil's. 'F ''e"eS' WINE ''g Si's1''1'o'S
iusHed from iheI seats ana gave tAe
VICTORIOUS athletes one or the finest re-
cepuons ever afforded a winning team at
an Indoor game i'm Washington.
The Pennsylvania two-miIa race
which practically carried with it the in
door championship, which was carded as
the next attraction after the Georgetown
Virginia affair, proved an easy victor for
the Pennsylvaniaus by nearly sixty
yards. Cornell went 20 the front az the
start hll ln the second relief Penn led,
'''- ,.ii l'le D-l' isi'S ''ii'S ''SlIS o'.' 81,
go. IL - -. - -
5fsouajitfa5 ar 2icrr9ard o. f.,,, -
ago. but who ran last night as fine race
was O. closed one, showed remarkable
sprntug ability at the end of his journey
ana when he unished- MasofTin, OF Cor
mel. was al the thlrd corner.
Wesley toer OF the Boston Athletic As
s"riailon, gave an exhibition with the T.
pound shot. and succeeded IN hurting the
missile 30 feet. When he accomplished
this feat IL was announced that il was a
new worlds record. but this is untrue. as
The official records of The Amateur Ath-
letlc Union show that in 1882. At TTdVeTs
Island. g. r. Gray put shot of the same
weight s. feet = inches Although Coe
missed his mark by two inches his work
was truly remarkable and was we'll re-
ceived by the crowd which filled the spa
clous auditorium.
&. ". l. Defeated.
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ioi ''s i-ll 'iis'i'es' had
SueS''"sa il IliiSIllns "ltalh q yard OF
A!s man. the New Workers gradually in
creased their lead until they won by about
twenty yards While the large number of
George Washington supporters We're dis
appointed ut The loss of the varsity race
, they had an opportunity to cheer them
when their freshman team beat the
Georgetown 1910 aggregation. IL was the
second time that the Buff and Blue first
year team has defeated its west-end
rivals but this year it was even more
..l'ysL ,..-'' ,aS' WINTER rs lhey ied
~ tbs ,-r,rfr,,, If E-iai5 tr.7 - -,
The ST. Johns COLLEGE Of ANNAPOLIS de-
feated the Catholic University about ff-
teen yards, while the District National
Guardsmen outc-assed Carroll Institute
ana ~, y" on as tllsy HNeu.
t'.g'' 80 7',-o " '' rep 7ti'o % iotr
S--'lgAe" l..e lll'elscIoAisllc championship
l ny "-4 ->''s ispS
80 W., 'N-s "dS army
-.'u -,als os''s"' D", 'lle team was inc
,,..-' .'i-'o 'i''''e "a tue e.e''il, io.i"5
HN'N '7-eI So" OF lle MAJOR OF police,
''' ',N V'-. ''l %" li.e lilld corner zen
AeiN if. ni7i'edtns MS shoulder lie
VOC "l'.,i'' 70 continue. ana the race was
.le Nas s.'OSl. ,lleu ana
- va i1''l @'ii-''i- id-ih was
eI. 49, ,-- ~ L'e sum. co-lleI W liel
-i.-,,5 is -l,I ms injury Fasin
Si'pI'-" ana 'eH- ana peiore ne could re-
1893" i''S1 ABOUT ten yards.
champions Beaten.
Iu the spirits neither Seitz. the ma
tional champion. nor Carmel the inter
coI1af-iata fif1s holder r.,, .t,7. 90 40,
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o." ""S" Dolh 9eilA
--.,'''7 l'''s7 ,"I's' OUT ihe
o'Aer men in The race refused 10 avail
- '- o'''" P'i'HeSeS iA 'he way