The Washington times., 1912-03-03
MEET
IS HUGE SUCCESS
Blue and Gray Relay Four Declared Winner After Vir-
ginias First Runner Cuts Inside of the Track-Man-
ager Kingsley Is Congratulated.

Patrons of field and track athletics
who have been following the George
town indoor meets for the past fifteen
years are today practically unanimous
in declaring that the event last night
was the most successful in the history
of the university.
The largest crowd that was ever
packed into Convention Hall for q set of
games, close competition and high
standard of. entries all combined to
make the carnival an unqualified sue
cess, and Manager Jack Kingsley is to-
day receiving congratulations upon the
good work he did.
Georgetown piled up more points than
any other team entered, but failed to
reach the height, of its aspirations by
winning a, clean-cut~ victory, from Vir--
ginia in the annual relay between the
two Institutions Georgetown was award
ed the medals in the team race after
Virginia had been disqualified for step
ping in the infield in the first lap, but 1t
was evident to all that the men from
Charlottesville had the better four. No
gamer four men ever went to the mark
for Georgetown than Capt. "Inky" pa
Wis, EIer, Landon, and Chapman, and
the quartet apparently ran better than
they knew how. Eller forced Captain
Todd. of Virginia, to go inside the chalk
mark in order to lose him on the first
relay and Davis made up considerable
of this lost ground, but the Virginians
were in better shape and knew more
about running, and only the decision OF
the officials made it. possible for the
Georgetown men to get the medals
which ordinarily would have gone to the
Hln
not deserve to win, but it was thorough
ly worthy of the genuine support which
IT received from all sections of the hall
from those who appreciated the great
effort the runners were making to over
come the handicap of competing with a
better conditioned and better drilled set
of athletes.
The day following the meet in Balti-
more ii was pointed out in these COLI
umns that Georgetown was not likely
to have much of a chance with Virginia
in the annual relay, and had it not been
for the determined fight put up from
pistol to tape last night the Old Domin-
ion runners would have won by larger
margin than eight yards.
No two teams ever went to the mark
better matched for a two-mile relay
race than Yale and Princeton. Yale
took the lead at the start, Princeton held
1t for two reliefs, but in the final swing
around the hall Plat, of Yale, showed
a fine burst of speed and crossed the
line stride ahead of his rival. Usually
about 100 yards separate teams in these
long races, but no finer competition was
ever witnessed than that last night,
when the two ancient opponents went
to the mark together.
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The CarIisle-Cornell relay was the
easiest sort of picking for the Ithacans.
Monkeys men took the lead at the start
and were never headed.
Mike Thompson and his corps of Of
fiCals ran the games off in fast time
and what was even more pleasing was
the fact that Claude Iappone and his
assistants kept the floor clearer than
in any of the past meets.
Whatever chance Central had of win
ming the District interscholastic title
was lost when George Hamilton fell
heavily on the second corner. Iech
then took the lead and won easily
Bob Eller, although defeated by poor
start in the invitation hurdles, mad the
satisfaction of beating practically the
same field in the open event.
One of the surprises of the evening
was the work of Lee, of Hopkins, in the
mile open. Although comparatively UNI
known the Marylander put up great
race, and it was only the hardest sort of
squirt that kept John Paul Jones in
front in The final swing around the hall.
Mickey" Guy, formerly captain at
Western High School, ran we'll for Vir-
"inia. Roger Bone, another former
Western athlete. represented Virginia
in the .quarter-mile open.
Hopkins was second to GEORGETOWN in
the matter of points scored, with Viz"
Stnia third. 1t was the first time in
wears that Georgetown finished in frfont
in its own games
Summaries.
Relay race for midgets. 40 pounds-Won by
Western HiEh School; second, Episcopal High
School. Washington Y. NJ. g. A. ran FIRST,
hut was disqualified for not touching of man.
E0-yard dali. nOyiCc-Final wun by A,
Meredith, re, second, g. McGrath, U.