Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-11-29
GEORGETOWN TRACK MEET.
Blue and Gray to Hold Indoor
Games March 6.

The eleventh annual indoor games OF
the field and track department OF George
town University will be held in Conven-
ton Hall Saturday evening, March =.
The date has been approved by the
Amateur Athletic Union and has been ac-
cepted by Manager Corcoran of George
town, so that it may be taken as final.
1t is the intention of the Blue and Gray
management to make these games among
the best ever held in this city. To begin
WITH special inducements will be offered
to the star athletes OF America, which
will bring many of them here as COM
petitors. Flanagan, Shepard, Smithson,
Sheridan, McGraw and host Of others
that were on the Olympic team Will be
invited, and it is a foregone conclusion
that most OF them will be on hand on
account of the big doings in the city
around inauguration.
Then those who have closed their
amateur career will be brought as OFF,
Gals Bernie" Wefers. Walter Duffy,
Joe Riley and Mulligan, all eX-Georse-
town men, are sure to be on the ilst'
while great endeavors will be made to
get Johnnie Hayes of Marathon fame to
act as referee.
But as before the meet will primarily
be a collegiate one. Cornell and Penn
will, as for years past. run against each
always proved an interesting event to
the alumni of both colleges that reside
in this city.
Georgetown will also meet Virginia for
the relay championship of the south. In
the last two years there have been as
many races between the fours of these
fierce but friendly rivals, and hence this
time the contest will be for supremacy.
On account of the large following that
Georgetown has in Washington and the
1yp0 " citizens
give to the Orange and Blue university
the race between the two has always
been the headliner of the meet. BY dope
the two schools are going to have eX-
representative quartet, and hence should
be evenly matched. With all these cir
cumstances taken into consideration an
exciting race is to be looked for.
Another drawing card will be the APP
pearance of Yale. That institution has
usually sent many men to the Blue and
Gray games, but this season they are
expected TO be represented by d relay
team. If the plan works, Harvard will
be against them. These two great seats
OF learning are to be in the lime light
the week of inauguration on account of
the parts played by their two foremost
alumni. President Roosevelt and Presi-
dent-elect Taft. Already both associa-
tons of graduates have begun to arrange
to have large part of their member
the chief executive his oath of office, and
hence an athletic contest between teams
from their rival alma matters would in
deed prove d great attraction for them.
Besides the schools mentioned there will
be men entered from Princeton. Ford
ham. Wesleyan, Marquette and score
of other colleges. No word has been
received as yet from any of these, but
Manager Corcoran intends to begin CORE
spondence at once.
Next on the list is the arrangement by
which the local preparatory and high
school championships will be determined.
Special events will be held open to inter
scholastic men only and relay races viii!
also be programmed between rival insti-
tutiOnS of Washington. The best high
school four will be asked to run against
the best prep school four. and in this
way the relay title will be decided. AS
for the track championship that will be
awarded to the school scoring the most
points in all events. For this a separate
score sheet will be kept on which points
will be counted for the school boys sepa-
rate from the collegiate and athletic club
men, thus making it even between the
interSchOlastic teams.
By Christmas Manager Corcoran eX-
poets to be able to give out full list
of events, together with completed plans
for scoring. At present everything is In
the starting state, but even at this point
of the game the meet promises to be
one of the biggest ever held in Washing