The Washington times., 1912-04-03
HILLTOPPERS START
SPRING TRAINING FOR
COLLEGE GAMES
Track Team Men to Report
for Work After Easter
Holidays. !.

Despite all reports to the contrary
Georgetown University will be represent
cd at the South Atlantic intercollegiate
Athletic Association outdoor games which
are to be held in Baltimore on May 1.
Candidates for the team have been
ordered TO report for their initial work.
out on Thursday, April H. Immediately
following the spring recess, and from
all indications the squad will be even
larger than the one which tried out for
places on the indoor aggregation.
OF the indoor team which won the
intercollegiate championship Of this sec
ton last winter but two men will be
lost, Captain Davis and Ed Chapman,
who will be prevented from performing
on the cinder paths because of their
activities on the diamond. Even these
men may be able to run in the Monu-
mental City, for baseball work will keep
them in good condition. and, IL Coach
Sprigman decides that they can be
spared for a day. they should be able
TO place in the majority of the events
they enter.
The fact that neither of these speed
merchants scored any points at the
Georgetown games, being reserved for
the Georgetown-V Virginia relay race,
goes TO show that, while they are GER
tain to be missed, 1t is possible for the
Blue and Gray to win premier honors
without their services.
Can Count on ElleT.
Bob Eller, whose wonderful work in
the dashes and hurdles made him the
sensation of the indoor season, is in
splendid trim, and can be counted
upon to win all of the hurdle events
at Baltimore, and at least place in the
/ a ~ int Dc - f.N-
| the Olympic team which goes to Sweden
this summer, and is, going to train as
never before, as he expects to better
his indoor tine considerably, and IL
such should be the case many of the
existing records will go by the boards
when the big New Yorker runs in Bal
timore.
Besides entering the hurdles and
| dashes, Eler will go in for the shot
put, and judging from performances Of
other rival weight men during the win
ter he should be able to annex at least
| three points for the Blue and Gray in
this event Georgetown will have three
! other men who are certain TO score, as
well as several possible point winners.
Landon, Brewer and Costello; unless
should place in the half, dashes, and
pole vault, respectively, for during the
indoor campaign they demonstrated that
they have few equals in their line south
of the Mason and Dixon line.
4 An lupIONeu squad.
Mulligan, McGrath, former Capt.
Jack Martin, Devlin, Callahan, Hurley.
and Golden, while they failed to add to
the Blue and Gray totals during the
| winter season. exhibited form which
| leads to the belief that they will be an
| improved squad of runners on the out
door track. Mulligan, McGrath, Golden
| and Martin all won heats in the indoor
games but seemed to lack the en-
durance to perform as well in succeed
ing trials. AS the races in the Monu-
mental City will embrace no heats this
| quartet stands chances of finishing
among the first four men to cross the
| line.
Other men who failed to report for
| indoor work are expected out. and on
| the whole the outdoor team should be
able to present as great, if not greater.
| strength on the cinder paths than did
| the aggregation which wore the Blue
and Gray silks during the indoor cam
paign.
Bradley Gish has been retained by
| and he will combine his duties as In
structor with his own training work.
Gish. like Eller, plans to journey to
| the Harvard Stadium in June for TIE
Olympic trials. and figures that the
! work on the Hilltop track is just what
| he needs to fit him for his attempt
| to make the American team
Work will be begun on the outdoor
! track, which surrounds the west end
| field. this week. and, while II has not
yet been decided to make the course
cinder affair, It is certain that 1t will be
In better shape than ever before.