Evening star., 1908-01-19
RELAY RACES WILL
NUMBER FIFTEEN
Nearly 800 Athletes viii Take
Part in the G. w. u. Indoor
Sports Next Saturday
Night.

When the entries closed last night for
the George Washington University indoor
games to be held in Convention Hall next
Saturday night. the indications were that
il would be one of the most successful
early season affairs of its kind ever con-
Quoted in the south. In twenty-six events
on the program there will be nearly three
hundred individual competitors, includ-
ing entries from Johns Hopkins. the Uni
versity of Virginia. the Catholic Univer-
sty, George Washington, the Maryland
Agricultural College. all the local high
and prep schools. practically all the
schools in Baltimore. and the leading ath-
letic scholastic institutions in Virginia,
besides the Gurley Athletic Club the y.
NJ. &. A. and half a dozen other athletic
clubs of this city. the Mount Washington
Athletic Club. the Baltimore Athletic.
Maryland Athletic Club, the Mccullough
Club. Maryland Swimming Club. Cross
Country Club and several other younger
organizations of the Oriole city.
Although the twelve individual scholas-
tic and open events all well filled with
sterling performers. the interest of the
public and the various schools will be cen
tered in the fifteen relay races on the pro-
gram. Never before in indoor games
south of New York has such an elaborate
program of this class of events been at
tempted. From the tWo-mile event for the
college championship of the south to the
race for Y. NJ. G. A. midgets all classes Of
runners will be seen in the various races.
The Relay Races.
The following is the list of relay races
as made up by Manager Fleming last
night: Two-mile college championship of
the south. with Johns Hopkins. George
Washington and the University of Vir-
ginia; one-mile relay with the Catholic
University, Richmond College and the
Maryland Agricultural College; one-mile
relay between George Washington and the
University of Virginia; one-mile relay
with the George Washington freshmen.
the Woodberry Forest School and Gurley
Athletic Club: one-mile relay between the
Baltimore City College and the Episcopal
High School Of Alexandria: one-mile relay
race for the championship Of George
Washington University, with teams from
the law school. medical school. college and
pharmacy school; onemile relay with the
Richmond HowitZerS. Company G.. District
National Guard, and Fort Myer Cavalry:
onemile relay between the Washington
School for Boys and the Country School
for Boys of Baltimore: one-mile relay be-
tween the Western and Business High
Schools 1.2,O-yard relay with the Western
High School Juniors and the second teams
of the Washington School for Boys and
the Baltimore Country School for Boys;
6}0yard relay with four teams of midsets
| from the boys department of the local
Y. NJ. c. "A: 1,2U-yard relay with the
Gurley A. &. second team the Baltic Ath-
letic Club the Bloomingdale A. G.. and the
Baltimore City College second team: 200
yard relay with the Olympia A. G., the
| National Guard second team. the Potomac
A. &. and the Warwick \. c.. 100 va rd
! relay with the y NJ. G. A. juniors. Ire
mont A. c.. Blair School and the Balti-
more City College.
In these fifteen relay races there are
forty-four teams. with 116 actual compet-
itors in this class of events alone.
The Individual Events.
In the individual events the greatest in
| terest Will center around the pole vault
the scholastic sprint and mile run. Ster-
rett. the George Washington star. and the
champion of the south. will be on scratch.
Ward Of the Baltimore Y. NJ. c. A. and
| half dozen other good men with fair
handicaps will give the Buff and Blue
vaulter all he can do to land in front
He is in the best condition of his career
| just now. however. and is said to be able
| to clear eleven feet if pushed to the limit
| The one-mile handicap will have some OF
! the best men in the South Atlantic Asso-
| ciation including Capt. Brenton and
Breyer and Griffith OF Hopkins and Wen
! deroth and Schnlitt of George Washing
| ton. the latter the old high school cham
pon. Breyer and Brenton were the men
who finished first and second in the New
| Year day cross-country run. and Griffith.
who returned to HOPKINS this fall after a
years absence. is equally as fast as the
other two. Schmitt has been working
every day with the other George Wash
ington men. and is in good condition.
The fight for honors in the scholastic
sprints promises To be one Of the features
or the games with such boys as Simpson
Of the baltimore Country School. Lloyd
Of Business High. Crampton of Western
! High. Hamilton Of Central High Pendle-
ton or Episcopal High and Il dozen other
fast ones 10 toe the marx.
.rh,. tickets for the George Wa shingtnn