Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-06
GOSSIP OF LOCAL
AMATEUR ATHLETES

Now that the George Washington meet
is a thing of the past, local athletes are
turning their attention to the joint games
to be held by Johns Hopkins University
and the 9TH Regiment Athletic Associa-
ton in Baltimore Saturday night Each
of the local institutions will have its
quota in competition and it is expected
that from the showing made by some of
them in the George Washington Uni
versity meet they will do credita BILE work
against the northern teams. Western and
Central have already sent in about
twelve entries each. and beside the indi-
vidual entries Western will be represented
by two relay tours.
One OF the most surprising features of
the George Washington meet was the
performance of Sterret in the pole vault
The ex-Hatchetite had not had a pole In
his hand since he competed in the cham
pfonships down in New Orleans last fall.
and yet he went into the event and
cleared the bar at eleven feet six inches,
half a foot higher than any of his COM
petttors went. He won only third place,
though. as the handicaps given out to
his opponents We're too much for him to
overcome.
1t was hard lines for Richmond Col
lege that after coming up to run it's re-
lay against the Maryland Aggies it was
disqualified because it had failed to OBJ
tain Its registration numbers from the
A. A. L.
That Baltimore branch Y. NJ. c. A. bas-
ket ball five seems to have something on
the local quints. It swamped the Ingram
Memorial team Saturday night.
Capt. Thrall ran an exceptionally good
race for the Technical High four against
Western Saturday night He started
his part of the relay fully thirty yards
made up over third Of the distance,
and he wasn't against any SLOUGH of
man either. 1t was very unfortunate
that Business was left out of the race
Some men who are prominent in ath-
letics in Baltimore contemplate holding
a set of games in Baltimore, May IL, to
embody nothing but scholastic compe-
tition and to be for the interscholast
championship Of the south. The aband-
Deposit by the Tome Institute led to the
conception OF the idea, and it is intended
that the proposed meet will take the
place of the one abandoned. A Mr. Nc
Callister was present at the George
Wa shington meet and spoke to several of
the high and prep school coaches in re-
gard to the matter and received much
encouragement Each school practically
promised to send several men.
Greenburg, a product Of the New York
high schools. won second place in the
5O-yard open handicap for the institution
saturday night.
Hamilton Of Central High had the limit
in the open quarter, and, taking the lead
on the start, was never headed.
For some reason or other there We
not enough medals to go around in IL.
Hatchetites' meet Several of the winners
had to go shy, with the promise that
they would get the prizes later.
Metzsker. who played such a good game
at left end on the George Washington
foot ball team that won the champion
ship of the South Atlantic division in
1908, is in town. He is at present a
special agent for the land office and
has just come down from Alaska. He
intends spending only a few days in the
city before returning to the west.
Howard. who ran last for the Baltimore
~ NJ c.. A. in the two-mile relay race
against the Baltimore Cross-country
Club Saturday night. halls from Canada
where he has quite a reputation as a
distance runner. That he is bound to
make his mark In this section at any and
all distances over the quarter is shown
by the fact that he trimmed Elphinstono
by twenty yards In the last relay. Elph-
nstone has been at the head of the dis
tance men in the 8. a. A. A. IT, for a
long time. but it looks as though he will
be supplanted by the Canadian product.
Elphinstone said that Howard was a
better man than he at any event up to
twenty miles.
The Western High relay four is to
he matched against the Boys Latin and
the Baltimore Country schools in the
meet in Baltimore next Saturday.
Joe bennett. a member of the Ingram
Memorial basket ball team In the District
League. was married last Wednesday, 1t
was a runaway match. the cons,)mmation
OF a boy and girl love affair The
groom is eighteen and the brida seven
teen. The bride was a first ysar stu
dent in Technical High School