Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1911-05-14
]. /. i. Wins MEET
Beats Virginia in Dual Track
Events, So to Al. -
VAULTING RECORD BROKEN
Curtis of Tome in Scholastic Events
Breaks South Atlantic Mark
by Three Inches.
The Point Winners
in Scholastic Events
Special Dispatch to The Star

Special Dispatch TO The Star.
BALTIMORE. Md, May 13.-Johns
Hopkins University scored a notable vic
tory over the University of Virginia in
a dual field and track meet here today,
winning by IS points to IL accredited
their opponents.
The defeat of the Southerners was in
large way due to the crippled condition Of
their squad. Capt. Martin showed con-
clusively that a bad leg that has kept
him out of athletic carnivals since early
last fall is still far from right He was hard
ly the invincible timber-topper taht he was
last season. losing to Horrax. Hopkins
star. by goodly margin on each attempt
among the short-distance men. failed to
place, in spite of the fact that the time
registered was below his average mark
in the 100 and 90 yard dash events.
HOrrax. who. since his debut in south
ern circles, has shown remarkable form
as an all-around athlete, was easily the
star Of the day. The husky adherent of
the Black and Blue captured three events.
the 1a0-yard hurdles. pole vault and broad
jump In the last named event he made
an exceptional leap of % feet IA inches.
Virginia showed greatest strength In
the middle-distance events. carrying off
first honors in the quarter and both
places in the half Cooke and Wallerstein
won rather easily in the last-named
event over Fulton and Catlin Of Hopkins.
the former negotiating the distance in AS.
The phenomenon of a prep school ath-
lete smashing a South Atlantic mark that
has held for number of years was
realized in the scholastic end Of a field
and track meet under the auspices of
Johns Hopkins University on Homewood
Field here today. Curtis Of Tome Scnol,
who for the past few months has at
tracted the attention Of field and track
authorities throughout this section OF
the country through his creditable per-
formances. topped the bar in the pole
vault at IL feet 8 inches, lettering the
record held for several years by Jack
Sterrett, formerly captain of the George
Washington University track team, by
several inches.
Washington athletes made up in class
what they lacked in number. and were
always in evidence. Central High School
squad, which only last week walked
away with the honors in the Georgetown
University meet, was crippled on the eve
Of the local event, losing Hamilton and
Kelley. it's two most consistent point
winners. through indisposition. Never
theless. their squad of half a dozen
Baltimore City College, in the matter Of
points, with sixteen to their credit.
A feature performance Of the carnival
was furnished by Marshall Low of the
Friends School of Washington. when the
high jump at feet 10 inches. defeating
among others Shoemaker, considered one
of the best scholastic high jumpers in
the north.
Capt. Fritz Reuter- of the Central High
squad led a large field in the 4O-yard
dash, negotiating the distance in the ex-
cellent time of 81 % seconds. Reuter-
was unable to compete in the 100 and 90
yard dashes in the morning round of
the affair because of indisposition. In
the hammer throw, an event entirely new
to his curriculum, he copied third posi-
ton.
Goodman. a novice on the Central High
School squad, sprung a surprise in the
22O-yard dash. in which he finished sec
ond to Patterson, premier short-distance
runner of the southern scholastic field.
Patterson's time for the distance was
% 2-5 seconds. a fifth Of a second better
than that accredited the winner of the
collegiate event in the dual meet between
Hopkins and Virginia.
Blackiston, also of Central High of
Washington, won an easy victory in the
22O-yard hurdles winning by a margin
of five yards from athletes representing
Tome School, Penn Charter of Philadel-
phia and Baltimore City College. Hunt
Centrars other timber topper. finished
third in the same event, and copied the
same position in 12O-yard high hurdles.