Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-02-14

ers quartet has been i'll for some time
and not in condition to practice. 1t is
thought that lie will be all right in time
Tor the Georgetown meet. in which the
AgSleS expect to run against their old
rivals, ST. Johns.
Last year the Farmers had what was
probably the fastest relay in the south,
with the execution OF Virginia, and
from the way this seasons quartet ran
away with the Hatchetites in the Bal
timore meet it looks as though another
high class team Will be turned out. Last
winter NJ A. c. defeated every team in
the south with the exception of
Georgetown and Virginia and it is al
most surety that had it met the
Georgetown four the meeting would
have resulted in a victory for the
Aggies.
There was something funny about the
disqualification of King of the Washing
ton Grove A. A. in Baltimore Saturday
night. When the local runner spoke to
the official, who said that lie had dis
qualified him, that official said that it
did net matter what had been the rea-
son of the disqualification. King very
reasonably wanted to find out for what
he had been thrown out of the race, and
in the midst of the argument another
official stepped up. and said that he had
done the disqualifying, and If King didn't
like it he could came outside and lick
him.
There ought to be some high class
wrestling in the preliminary events that
are 10 be held in the National Guard
Armory tonight under the auspices Of
the National Guard Athletic Association.
Gallaudet College and the Memorial Ath-
letic Club will probably be the strongest
contenders for first honors. Both the
club lads and the collegians are pretty
well advanced in the art of graphing.
The relay four representing the Ire
mont Athletic Club deserves especial
mention for the good work it Is doing
in the indoor meets this winter. The
team was up against one of the best
mile guartetS in the south in the Balti-
more meet. While the team represented
the Baltimore Cross country Club, II was
practically none other than the old Nc
sensational race from the Washington
Grove Association in the 9th Regiment
Hopkins meet last year.
Rawlings again ran a great race and
practically won the contest for his team
Saturday night, when he beat Freeburger,
who ran last for the Country Club, by
fifteen yards. Freeburgcr did the quarter
in I3 seconds on the same track in the
trials. and when the local boy passed him
he was SO surprised that he stopped dead
still with a look on lis face as though
he was trying to solve a Chinese puzzle.
Golden of Georgetown is very fast in
the hurdles, but he takes the sticks too
high, going at least six inches higher
than is natural for a man in running
the low hurdles. AS soon as he over
comes this handicap the Prep will have
few equals in this section.
Smithson, the Washington Grove ath-
lete, has not run in meet this season.
The former Gurley Athletic Club man is
about the best quarter-miler in the Dis
trct, and he says that he has been TAX
ing a good long rest preparatory to enter
ing the Georgetown games
The Western basket ball team was no
match for the Cathedral school five yes
terday, when 1t met defeat at the hands
of the latter team by the score of 80 TO
l.. The Western team did not have
chance to win from the Cathedral lads
and was completely outclassed in the
second half. Todd and Bradley were the
stars OF the game