Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-08
GEORGETOWN MAY HAVE TWO
MEN ON OLYMPIC TEAM
Gish and Eller Will Be in Try-O Outs, and
Both Have Chance Of Making
Good-Other Gossip.
BY n. C.. BYRD.

mer to represent the United States IN
the Olympic meet. If present calculations
do not go astray Bradley Gish. who is
now coaching the Blue and Gray track
squad, while working out himself on the
indoor track, and Bob Eller are the two
men who are eligible to wear C. whe
may face the starter in the Olympic
games under the colors Of this country.
Gish expects that his ability to run a
quarter of a mile will win a place for
him on the team, while Eller feels sure
that there is not more than one man III
the country who can beat him for ITO
meters over the high hurdles. EEer has
confidently expressed himself as being all
most sure of his ability to make a place
on the team.
Gish at the National a. A. L cham
pionships last year did the quarter-mile
in less than fifty seconds, nothwithstand-
ing the fact that ne only ran second IN
the race. While this mark is not as good
as the one held by Young Of Amherst, it
is certain to carry Gish well up among
the leaders in the tryouts. 1t is said
that Gish can beat the time previously
made by him by at least a second, and
if hat be true then there is little ques-
ton about his being a member of the
team. Eller's ability in the hurdles is
we'll known. and there is an. element OF
to run in that event.
If Georgetown is represented in the
Olympic games 1t will begin to look very
much like the time when that school was
putting out some Of the best runners the
world has ever known.
Cathedral and Western will meet this
afternoon in basket ball. The Western
team has been considerably crippled late
~ because one or two of its players
have become ineligible to compete, owing
to failure to keep up in their studies.
And basket ball is not the only sport
in which Western is suffering decided
reverses because Of a lack Of attention
to classroom work.
That fight down in the National Guard
gym last night between members OF two
basket ball teams and in which the spec
tators were so thoughtless as to mix is
sure to give the game more or less of a
black eye. especially when played be-
tween two club organizations. Often
times in the heat of a closely contested
game two players will forget themselves
sufficiently to become enmeshed In a
small prize fight, but there was alb
solutely no excuse for those watching
the game from the side lines to rush on
the floor and further the disturbance
Gallaudet will start its candidates for
the battery positions on the base ball
team this spring, working indoors next
week. The call for men to work out for
the job as regular pitcher and catcher
has been issued by the coach and prac-
tice will be begun next Wednesday or
Thursday.
The Kendall Greeners have some good
men this year from which to pick team
and they will likely make a better show
ing than they have in some time. One
thing that will greatly aid the team is
that it will have a man at the head Of
affairs who will have charge of and d.
rect the policy during the season.
Besides having it's first relay four in
the race with the University of Maryland
in the George Washington meet, the
Maryland Aggies will run a reserve team
in the race in which the Richmond Light
Infantry and fremont Athletic Club will
appear. In entering that race Adams,
who is in charge Of the track policy at
the school, said that 1t was not SO much
with the expectancy Of winning the event
that he wanted his men to run as 1t was
to give them the experience they would
need for next year.
The rumor of some time ago to the ef-
feet that Morris, who played with the
Technical High team last year; Reggie
Rawlings of the American Security and
Trust Company and Shipley Of the Mary
one of the Connecticut State League clubs
to try out for the base ball teams. is not
true. Morris said a few days ago that
he would not play with any professional
team this year, and Rawlings is not going
to give up the place he holds in the bank
to take chance on something that is
not likely to result in success. 1t Is not
known whether or not Shipley will avail
himself of the opportunity to make good
in professional ranks OF not. but it is
hardly probable that he will ruin the re-
mainder Of his college career y-any such
procedure.
A good idea relative to the selection Of
the officials for the George Washington
meet is that the Hatchetites win have
practically all the big athletic organiza-
tons which have teams entered on the
floor. For instance, several Of the OFF,
Gals will come from Baltimore, and one
or two from the two largest local ath-
letic clubs have been chosen. Another
instance Is that while the Maryland Aggies
have always been one of the attractions
on the local floors, this is the first year
that they have been represented in the
list Of officials who run off the events.
The foot ball schedule for the Uni
versity of Virginia for the season of 1912
shows that at least two Of the teams
that were played by the Orange and Blue
eleven last year will not be met. St.
Johns College, which school has always
been fixture on the list of games, will
not be played next season, nor will
Swarthmore. One big game that is to
be played is the one with Vanderbilt.
The intention is to make the meeting be-
tween those two schools an annual one