Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-03-09
GOSSIP OF LOCAL
AMATEUR ATHLETES

The basket ball game between the Y.
NJ. c. A. and Georgetown last night was
about the best ever from a standpoint Of
the enthusiasm displayed by the onlookers
and the aggressiveness shown by each
team.
The play of the two quints was so even
that there was not a chance to tell the
probable victor at any period Of the con-
; test About the only thing in which the
winning five had it on the association
was in aggressiveness. It's superior weight
had lots to do with the result. The
guarding by both teams was not what
1t would seem to have been, judging by
the score. 1t was the inability to toss
goals accurately that held the points
down for each side rather than the ex-
cellence Of the defensive work.
The two-mle race which is carded for
the National Guard games tomorrow
night promises to be something of a nov
city. 1t Is something that has never been
held in any meet in the South Atlantic
association. Several Of the best runners
in the city are paired for the event.
1t seems that the ma jority OF runners
have an idea that men who have been
most used to doing distances will have
the best show to win. The same impress
Siou SeeiuS 10 prevail among lHoSe VIII
are supposed to keep in touch with ath-
letic affairs in the District. Whether this
is the true conception of the race remains
to be seen. The chances are, though,
that such is not the case, and that the
two fastest men to enter will be the WIN
ners. Two good quarter-milers should be
able to walk away with first hOnors,
therefore Smithson and King will more
than likely have about the best show to
cop the medal for first place. 1t would
q m COO
forty yards or more.
From present indications there will not
be much cessation to the base ball prac-
tice just started by most of the teams
in the city. Fair weather seems to be
the forecast for while.
Hoppe Of the Y NJ. c. A. put up an
excellent exhibition at guard on the Y.
NJ. c. A. basket ball team last night.
The big fellow showed himself to be the
goods in that position. He looks Just
about as good as any man who has been
seen on local floor this season. Thorn
ton, also Of the Y. NJ c. A, was on the
job every minute of the play.
The faculty board of advisers of the
high schools is keeping the managers of
the different teams OH pin points in re-
gard to the schedule, as not one OF them
has any idea as to what open dates he
will be allowed while the interhigh series
is being played.
Neither of the Georgetown Props star
pitchers of last year will be out for the
team this spring. One has left school
and the other is in the college and will
try out for the varsity nine. 1t is
thought that men will be developed from
the new material who will do even better
work than their predecessors. and it is
generally claimed by the embryos that
they will have a much better team than
last seasons product
The Maryland Aggies have just gotten
out for their first base ball practice. They
are about the last to begin work. The
Farmers are confident that they will turn
out an aggregation of ball players this
year that will give the other colleges
run for the intercollegiate championship
Of Maryland
While it is always disappointment
to Georgetown when a team representing
that university meets defeat at the hands
Of a University of Virginia aggregation,
it was not SO much felt over the relay
race last Saturday night. because it was
the meet, there were various reasons
why Georgetown did not have much
chance to win, and the defeat. when 1t
did come, was not half as hard as IL the
HiltopperS had been keyed up to believing
that their four would be returned the
winner.
The quartet which represented George
town was the fastest that has been turned
out by that school in the last four years,
even though it was beaten.
After all the bowling that the Business
High relay team did after the George
Washington meet about being left out of
the interscholastic relay lace, which was
won by Western High, and after all its
avowed intentions to enter a team i'm
mediately in the Georgetown meet and
be waiting on it's marks from the time
the doors were opened, there was no
team from Business in evidence. Proba-
bly, it's spirit forms were there and did all
the dire things that were foretold by the
earthly bodies month ago, but as there
was no evidence of a naturalization at
the finish. it didn't count in the final reck
oning for the District interscholastic
championship. which was won for the
third successive time by Western.
When asked after the Georgetown meet
what caused the disparity in some of the
handicaps that were given in the George
town meet, the official Handicapped Of the
A. A. U. said that the men had tried to
mislead him.
The Handicapped should know what
each man has done and what he is capa-
BILE of doing without having to consult
what the man himself says. He could
easily find out with a little trouble what
each man has accomplished by consult
ing the records of the meet in which he
had competed. No college man would
hardly try to mislead the handicapped, es-
pecially when he is seldom given the OPP
portunity, as the managers of the teams
generally make out all the entry blanks
for the men themselves
The Washington Cross Country Club is
making plans for its ten-mile run to be
held some time in the first of April. The
club has been registered in the A. A. U.
and a sanction will be secured shortly
for the affair, which is to come Off in the
early spring.
Pink Bowie. manager Of the G. H.
White Sporting Goods Company, has been
elected president. and several matters
placed in his hands to be adjusted. AS
tended to entry blanks for the run will be
sent out and preparation begun in earnest