Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-06-09
AMERICA SHOULD SWEEP
THINGS IN OLYMPIC MEET
With Exception of Dashes, Team Looks
Strong Enough to Win Almost Every
Event-Knights and Eagles toPlay.

, and the order in which the countries nave
finished each year:
Athens 1S96-America, winner; Eng
land second: Greece. third.
Paris, 190O-America, winner: England
second; France. third
St. Louis. 1904-America, winner; cana
ia, second; Greece, third.
Athens. 1GO6-America, winner; Ireland.
second: Sweden, third.
London, 19tS-Ameriea, winner; Eng
land, second: Sweden, third.
II will be noticed that in each OF the
five meets America has finished first.
Three times England has been second.
while Ireland and Canada each finished
country the games are to be held this
year, has never been better than third,
but the fact that it has been in that
place in the last two games is indicative
of the slow but sure progress being made
along the line of track and field athletics
in that country.
The game in the East Washington Sun
day School League was called off yester-
day by mutual agreement between the
managers of the two teams.
Only two games were played in the
amateur leagues yesterday They took
place in the Northern Association and
Sunday School League. In one or two
instances there were forfeits, while in
poned. Too much parade.
The Potomac Electric Power Company
had little trouble winning from the Brad
dock club in the exhibition contest on
the Columbia League grounds yesterday.
The score was 10 to B. Barton and Kid
well did the twirling for the Power Com
pany and their opponents were never able
to reach their delivery with any cony
sistency.
The Post Office is making more of a
runaway In the Departmental League
race this year than has been the case
for long time. 1t is not called to mind
any season recently when any other club
has secured as much Of lead as has
Post Office this spring. The mailmen have
gone way to the front and now have a
record of eleven games won and none
lost The nine is composed practically
OF the same men who have been in the
lineup for the last three seasons.
Judging by the way that Post Office
has been cleaning up for the other clubs
in the circuit 1t would appear that the
standard of the teams in general is way
below what it has been in previous years.
Commerce and Labor, which has until
this year presented strong front and
has been out in front fighting for the
pennant. appears to be a great deal
weaker than in long time. 1t has failed
utterly to make the showing it did last
season or the one before. The other
mines are ndTuiy as SOOO as tney nave
been in former years.
The high school boy who won the hun
dred-meter dash yesterday in Olympic
trials is colored. That he beat out
Craig, the former Michigan flyer, is in
dicative of his real strength.
This is not the first instance, though, in
which a colored boy has won out over
the best runners that could be pitted
against him. Taylor of Pennsylvania
and one of the greatest intercollegiate
quartermilers. belonged to the colored
race.
None of the college base ball teams in
this section will play any more regu-
larly scheduled games this season. NJ
A. c. played its last collegiate contest
last week, when it defeated the Wash
ington College nine, that being the last
college game of the year. The Farmers
will place once more. though. as they
will meet team picked from the alumni
next week. Members of the graduate
body have been making efforts to get
some of the old players back for the
game in order that really good showing
may be made. The alumni aggregation
has not won from the regular squad for
about fifteen years.