Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-01-28
TO DECIDE AMATEUR
ATHLETIC HONORS
South Atlantic Championships
to Be Settled at In
door Meets.

In line with the prediction in The Star
not long ago, the championship commit
tee of the South Atlantic branch of the
A. A. L. has decided to follow the Gus
tom which has prevailed i'll New York
and Boston for the last few years and
instead of having q regular indoor cham
pionship meet, as was first decided upon,
10 divide the events up among the diff
ferent athletic meets which will be held
in the association during the coming
season.
This arrangement should meet with
instant approval among local followers
'of the running game. as it gives them a
chance to see some of these events right
here in their home town instead of max
ing them. journey to Baltimore. where
the meet was to have been pulled off.
This will be the first time the indoor
South Atlantic championships will have
been appt,rtioned among the various sets
of games. but 1t is believed the expert
ment will be successful in creating
greater interest in the championships and
securing a larger number of entries than
If all of the events We're on one program.
Needless to say. meet managers are very
enthusiastic over the scheme. with
out any additional expenses their games
Will get two stellar attractions which
The events will be scratch, of course.
and will be run independently of the
meet itself. The entries are to be made
on specially prepared blanks and the
regular A. A. L.. championship medals
will be put up for competition.
The events which have been set aside
for the different meets are follows:
George Washington meet. February D.
two-mfle run and pole vault; federal
games. February 10. 440-yard dash and
sixteen-pound shot-put; Georgetown
games. March ), one-mile run and run
ming high jump, and 9TH Regiment-Johns
Hopkins meet, March l.. 10o-yard dash.
1m-yard dash hurdles. SS0-yard run and
hop-step-andj jump.
No partially was shown in assigning
; these events, the assignments having
been made by the championship commit
tee whose decision is final. The commit
tee spent good deal of thought in the
matter and the events are divided up as
iudiciously as possible, the size of the
hall and all other conditions having been
carefully considered. AS it is the ambi-
ton of all athletic promoters to have
the fastest times possible made In their
games, both the 1OO-yard dash and the
1N-yard hurdles were given to Baltimore,
as Washington has no track which will
permit Of. this distance on a straight
away. -.a
The delay in announcing this decision
was due to the serious illness of the
chairman of the committee, who has been
confined to one of the Baltimore hos
pitfalls for some time and has just suf-
ficfently recovered to call the meeting
and complete the plans as outlined above.
As the regular entries have already closed
for the George Washington games. diff
ferent arrangements must necessarily be
made. However, il the mana cement de-
cides to accept the events assigned this
meet entries will probably be received
up to the day of the meet. This matter
will be definitely decided in a few days,
~ inf ton ry-i1 l.c
announced in The Star. None but MEM
hers of the South Atlantic Association
will be eligible to compete in the cham
pionship events.