Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-12-15
BILL FOLEY TO COACH TRACK
ATHLETICS AT GEORGETOWN
Veteran Trainer Will Likely Take Charge
of Blue and Gray Squad After the Holi-
days, According to Capt. Carrigan.

lar squad which represents it in the city
league.
Catholic University will open its basket
ball season tomorrow night. when 1t
meets the Frederick College five. The
university team has played one contest,
ana though it won by only small mar
gin 1t showed much latent strength and
gave evidence of having the ability to
play at least as well as any Of the sec
iege IS generally represented by fair
team and it Will probably be able to give
the university lads a hard game, even
though defeated which is by no means
certain Catholic University will start
the same team against the Frederick five
as that which it used in the contest
against the Corcoran Cadets.
All the basket ball games scheduled for
Catholic University this season will be
played at Convention Hall. thus giving
the Brookanders a suitable place in
which to play, something that was not
had last year.
There has been a tendency among the
local track meet managers to discontinue
the novice events as attractions in the
games which they hold during the win
ter. Here is the substance of what a
man prominent in track athletics had to
say in regard TO the matter of having
only events in which the most competent
men might enter:
he nOllctdDle abandonment OF the
novice events in amateur athletic meets
in recent Years, both locally and to a
great extent elsewhere has given rise to
Il consideration of the subject by a num-
Der of men directly interested in the fos-
tering of athletic ambition.
1t is argued, and with a good ground
work of reason, that the budding anna
teur track and field man is dependent to
great degree on the encouragement he
receives in the early stages of his career
an all to his future development. A
number of stars in the making came ear
lier into their own through the medium
of the novice event III the past than they
undoubtedly would have through the at
tertion attracted in handicap events.
The underlying reason to a considerable
extent lies in the fact that the athlete just
trying his spurs feels more competent to
compete with his fellows of the same
limited experience than to pit himself
with the tried athletes, in spite Of the
fact that in handicap event the former
has every bit as good a chance to win. if
not better than in u novice test. The
general draw back of the novice event,
especially in the meets of any magnitude,
is that il attracts such big fields as TO
make the affair long drawn out and
tedious in sprint or field event
ITO balance the point there is the item
that number of promising athletes are
likely to be uncovered who otherwise
would possibly consider themselves unfit
ted to compete in open competition.
The insertion OF novice events that Will
follow along lines not too greatly inter-
ferng with the conduct of a meet of
size is an object that it is expected will
be sought by the main body of the A.
A. L. 1t is more or less felt that this
is one OF the principal sources for the
recruiting of the bulk of future fields of
American athletes. \ resumption of the
novice event eventO limited degree is
considered as sure to have more effect on
the impetus given amateur athletics gen.
f.vtls N a
The idea has been pretty universally
suggested as means to the end during
recent years, and it's readoption seems
fairly certain of receiving a good test.