Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-24
BY H. C. BYRD.

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league which is to be formed in the east
next year. Plans are now being made for
the organization of the circuit. which is
to include five cities. Representatives
from each of the places to be included
in the league are scheduled to meet some
time in the near future to perfect the
details pertaining to the matter.
The idea of forming a big league in
some of the larger cities in the east has
found root here. and after being APP
preached by representatives of other
cities relative to the personnel OF the cir
cult it has been decided to organize a
team here. Those cities which have sig
nified their intention to place teams in
the league are Baltimore. Atlantic City.
Wilmington, Richmond and Washington.
Mr.. Whiting, who is in charge Of one
of the local amusement places, Is back
of the movement to organize team here
strong enough to hold its own in such
company. and he is the authority for the
statement that at present he has players
in view who will compose a team that
will be second to none.
The league will play a hundred-game
schedule, and the season will begin about
November l and last until March !.
There is little doubt that if good team
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as is contemplated there will be suffi-
cient support given the idea to guaran-
tee the furtherance of the plan. 1t Is pos
sible that team may be organized here
this year. and that it will play a few
contests just to get the game started.
Tonight the best track and field talent
which the schools in this city AFFORD will
go to Richmond to compete in the games
held in that city under the auspices OF
Rirhmnnd athletes
pear to stand a fair chance to get away
with many of the honors in the differen,
events.
Georgetown will send it's relay team
and a full squad of individual perform
ers beside. There is every reason to be-
lieve that the Blue and Gray has at least
an even chance to win the point trophy.
While all the events in the Richmond
meet will be run from scratch, and the
Georgetown men will not get the handi-
caps that they did last week, 1t can be
figured that the local university does not
have a fair chance to win.
Virginia is the school which George
town will have to fight for first honors,
likely to prove very worthy antagonists:
In the middle distances Virginia will
have much the advantage of the local
outfit because the Blue and Gray has no
man who will compare with Wi'ev rn"'e
in any event above the quarter mile.
points in the dashes. while the Oran G
and Blue is also ligely to get some points
in the hurdles, which Bob Eller OF
Georgetown is practically sure to win.
The Georgetown relay team is booked
to run the fremont Athletic Club in the
meet tonight. and 1t will have to go some
to win on the Richmond track. The track
in the horse show building. on which the
collegiate games are held. is more like a
saucer than an oval track. and as the
fremont Club is composed in the main
of small, fast men who hardly break their
stride going around the turns, the Blue
and Gray auint will be seen at a disad-
vantage.
George Washington is not apt to de-
feat the Virginia four this evening.
While Virginia will probably send in only
strength Of the Hatchetite outfit will be
gagged well enough by Lanigan to run no
risk of losing the race
The George Washington quartet, though,
showed SO much improvement in its last
race against Western Maryland College
that it would not be surprising if it were
to run the Orange and Blue aggregation
close race tonight.
The zenith of the ambitions of the Ire
mont Athletic Club four would be reach
ed if it were to defeat Georgetown to-
night in the mile-relay race scheduled to
take place between the two teams. The
clubmen do not often get such an oppor-
tunity to make a name for themselves.
and they can be depended on to do all
in their power to cross the finish line In
the lead.
If the Maryland Aggies open their
meet this spring to all the colleges in this
section, it is likely that College Park will
see the largest gathering of athletes in
its history.
The shift made by Jim CollifiOwer in
the personnel of the Georgetown basket
ball team last night at the beginning of
the second half worked SO much for the
good of the play that a sort of runaway
of the game was made. The addition of
George Collifiower made the team much
stronger. both on the defensive and oYen-
much better brand of basket ball than it
did in the first period.
There was a great deal of kicking done
by the Washington and Lee players and
also some strenuous disapproval voiced
by many of the spectators because the
members Of the Georgetown quint had
their arms and shoulders rubbed with
cocoanut butter or were creased, as the
opposing players termed it, when they
went into the game in the second half.
The fairness or sportmanship of the
idea is not to be discussed. The rules
of basket ball are the most strict of any
of the intercollegiate games, and there
is nothing in them to forbid the use OF
oil in rubbing down the players. The
use of the cocoanut butter did not facli-
tate the play of the Georgetown team to
any great extent. even though 1t was