Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-03-06
Athletic News and Notes.


chance at their favorite game April at
8 pm. when the Cross Country Club OF
Baltimore will hold it's second annual
six-mile open handicap cross-country run.
1t is the ambition Of Manager Henry C.
Elphinstone to make this event one of
the best that has ever been held in the
Monumental city. and with this idea in
view ten handsome prizes will be award
ed in addition to the handsome team
trophy which will be presented to the
team of four men scoring the least num-
Der Of points. The individual prizes will
be distributed as follows: A handsome
gold medal to the winner. two sterling
silver medals to the second and third
men. two combination silver and bronze
medals to the fourth and fifth men and
Ave bronze medals to the next five men
who break the tape. The course and
other particulars will be announced later.
Entry blanks may be obtained in few
days at any of the local sporting goods
stores. The entries will close March 26.
February's registration list of 4S7 names
was the largest of any single month in
the history OF the South Atlantic Associa-
ton.
AS was intimated in these columns.
"Curley" Byrd has been declared ineligi-
BILE to represent Georgetown by the Blue
and Gray governing body. This looks
kind Of bad for him, as Georgetown
would not have taken such drastic action
without reason. The A. A. U. has made
no decision in the case. however, and
where there's life there's hope" His
case will probably be taken up by this
body in a few days. but in the meantime
"Curley" Is on the anxious seat
Hats off to Manager McNulty Last
nights games were a bowling success.
Hugh Royce has evidently taken the
suggestion made In these columns recent
ly He has been seen among the spec.
tators for the last two meets. Good work,
Hugh. old boy. keep it up.
Entries for the Johns Hopkins-Fifth
Regiment meet closed Thursday and a
good bunch OF local talent put in entry
blanks. Washington Grove expects to
send its whole team over, and several
other local clubs and schools have made
individual entries and relays. This meet
will. in a way, be pocket edition" of
the South Atlantic championships. as it
will have more OF these events in 1t
than any other ,o set OF games ga me ,oo These
hurdles, SSO-yard run and the running
hop. step and Jump.
Dutch Hildebrand has scored seventeen
points in the last few meets.
The A. A. u. is receiving a great many
protests these days on account Of the
same men being entered on both the first
relay. etc. While some of these cases
are all right. on the whole this action
does not meet the approval OF either the
A. A. u. officials or athletic meet man
ayers. as 1t keeps them too busy seeing
that the men SO entered do not run on
both teams. This business will cause
some stringent rules to be made unless
1t is checked considerably. The A. A. u.
realizes that in most cases the substi-
tute on the first team is a member Of the
second, but some clubs have abused this
privilege and run the same man twice.
This will just be another case where all
will be punished for the actions Of few.
The Y M C. A. has uncovered q world
beaten In Gordon Law. who negotiated
the quarter mile on the association track
last week in 30 seconds fiat. This Is
very close to the association track record,
and as he is a youngster who is not yet
out of the novice class, with more ex-
perience he should certainly be able to
show US something.
You might keep your eye on Dutch"
Hildebrand for that 8SO-yard event for
the A. A. U. title
Now that the Georgetown meet is off
our minds. we will have a few weeks
rest Washington's concluding number
of this years indoor program viii be the
National Guard Athletic Associations
games which will be run off on the Doth
and 31st Of this month. After this there
will be a lull in athletics and the athletes
can put away their suits for a while
The results of last Wednesdays Y NJ.
c. A contests were as follows: One lap
around the track, won by Stratton, 10
seconds; Harndor, second, 10 1-5 seconds.
Standing high jump-Won by Stratton, 4
feet 3 inches; Lieb. second. feet =
inches. Rope climb-Won by Mansfield,
74-J seconds: Harndon, second, % sec
onds Mansfield's time for the rope
climbing event is new association
record
Business High School has a youngster
who has the markings of conner in
Grace. He has fine form, good stride
and good wind and has attracted the at
tention Of several of our local athletic
coaches and trainers. who predict a sue
cessful career for him on the cinder path
Capt. Edwards has cut out the running
high jump and the hurdle events In the
National Guard games. This means that
Bob White will not carry off any medals
this year.