The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1910-02-21
0RgET0NN MEET
next Bis EVENT
Mil Include Practically All Big
Colleges and Schools in East
and South.
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EUECIDE CHAMPIONSHIPS
Virginia Georgetown Will Race
for Southern Intercollegiate
Championship.
CHAMPIONSHIPS

Especial to The Richmond virginian.)
" WASHINGTON, ID. G., Feb. al
with the Federal indoor games out
Az the way. local athletic followers
ere turning their eyes toward the
twelfth annual Georgetown meet
which win be held In Convention Hall
z.en the evening of March 8. AS usual.
The Blue and Gray affair will par
kAke of a more intercollegiate flavor
I than either @. the ether two indoor
sscnts which have been held here
this winter, and since there viii also
v be large gathering OF athletic club
and military organization runners.
lAere is no doubt but that the COM
ing indoor contests Will be up to- the
high standard which has been set by
The Georgetown games for years past.
The Blue and Gray this year has
&etermined that the meet viii be
more than rendezvous Tor the ath~
lEtes of the big universities OF the
East and South, and hence for the
rTsf tfTfe sifIlG 1905 the local insti-
tx4lon xiii he represented in the diff
Ierent contests by a large number OF
pced artists, Coach fBiii' Foley, the
veteran trainer who has come Into
Ms own again at Georgetown, has
had q squad of some twenty-five
speedy men practicing daily under
4 him since the holidays. and there Is
exery reason TO expect that these
I youngsters will cat big hgure in the
inherent events of the evening,
Virginia for Championship.
@ -Four of them will. of course, he
Fesersed TO ran against Virginia in
4 th4 headline race of the evening. in
which will be settled the indoor relay
Il championship of the Southern inter
ccliegiate world The orange and
4 Blue has already displayed that it's
team is rs fast as the one al last win
Ter. and hence the task before
+ K&EDrgetofsn Ia a heavy one. However,
Coach Foley expresses great conf
dence over the outcome of the race,
Il md on his word many of the stu
dsnts OF the Hilltop school viii rely.
The Georgetown four will probahl.
4 - sassae ap of Captain Martin, Bren-
nan. Byrd and Mulligan of these
Martin Is ts1E oniy one who ran last
year, He is small lad but has al
-ss.zkssN aike.s sstt Srrut-sf5ststi HI the.
quarter. at which distance he seems
I Best Byrd rs ut present under X. A.
HI. suspension. and may not be ab1e
10 compete Should this prove tn bu
the case, II will prove a severe blow
n tH hts teammates. as he is without
doubt as speedy a man as can he
found Brennan is an old George
Town prep star. who has been show
Ing np exceilentiy ia pIaG e. while
Mnlligan is ono uf last years re-
leryea vfxnnen. ID sM-LAndidaie- far
binder path 51onors, although well
Known ON the gridiron. is slated for
4 shE FIRST substitute position,
In the hurdles the Blue and Cray
4 viii again he well represented. Tom
4 HHaith and fIavin both having been
Y Gnfered in that event. Smith. In his
H prep Eeh.ei days, held tfle iutcrsC hol-
Mstis title in the South and East and
u ttHUc entering college he has many
L times shown great form. II is beiicv-
IA thai he liz ifs better cunditipn this
year than ever before, and ne Is
counted On as sure point winner.
The other cyents viii bc mostly In
the hands az new men, although
tnAny ef the entrants will he benefit
"a hs past prep school experience
i EVERY event on the program will have
Il Georgetown man in the lists, cx-
eNpting the relays and pole vault, Al
II Virginia. Princeton Pennsylvania
villa Nova, Johns Hopkins and
i number cf smaller schools are also t.
be well represented in the individual
events, the rate fur the point troph.
L promises to be warmer than ever be
fore.
Besides the GeorgetownYi Virgins
relay rate there viii also be one
mile battle between Columbia an'
Johns Hopkins. and two-miIe race
between Cornell and Pennsylvania an'
Il Yale and Princeton. These last ta.
rpntests will decide the two mile in
door intercollegiate championship o
\ the East. Pennsylvania having al
I resldv defeated Yale. Thus If tin
Qnakers should triumph over Cornell
md the Ellis over Princeton, Penn
xylsRnia would have the undispute,
lain to the title. This would ais
nFoxe true OF Cornell II the Red ant
White should win out.
Not only win the intercollegiate
q titles of both South and East lie set
Y tied. but the interschoIastie champion
Tnfp OF washington VIII also De DC
u t6rmined The Georgetown prepi
Central High School and Westei1
d Itteh School at present have well
4 founded claims for that honor, IA
Al steps are being taken 10 match the
y ~ q three-C orncred race. This vi
n ~ one of the oiassiest schoolboY race
xter seen In Washington, and wl
serve at the same time to draw
treat deal moro local interest TO tn
sstet.
Manager Me&pliy reports thu
ss blanks have begun to pour in frol
great many athletic clubs an
SMALLER schools. and he conhdentl
eapertz that as many as five hundre
gnfsiss wifi be pr grammed bef9i
Il the end of this week. These Will Z
E elude representa- ayes from practtca
n spery important college in the Ea
kxcept Harvard. every big universal
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cream OF the ataiegtc club stars
Kew York. Philadelphia, Washin'
n ton. Baltimore. Richmond and No