Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-03-27
By n. C. BYRD.

Outdoor track work will start this
week. The various schools will begin
training tomorrow for the meets that are
scheduled to be held this spring. While
the colleges will hardly get out their
squad until seven or eight days from
now, owing to the closeness Of the scho-
lastic games to be held by Virginia, it is
likely that tomorrow or next day will
find the schoolboys taking their prelim-
mary workouts.
The southern interscholastics are to be
held at Virginia April Is, and at best
there is little time to prepare for those
events. 1t is likely that three Of the
local schools will send squads to Char
lottesville. and, if so, they have no time
to lose, as the men will be up against
the best collection of athletes there is in
this section.
The colleges will also get to work as
soon as possible, owing to the nearness
Of the Pennsylvania relay games. AT
least two Of the local institutions will be
represented at Franklin Field, and the
chances are good that another will go.
The relay races are TO take place April
~, and three weeks is none too long a
time to train for the quarter.
Georgetown will get it's first chance to
show its real strength this afternoon.
when it goes against the local profess
sional club. The Hilltoppers will be up
against an aggregation that will make
them do their best to accomplish any
thing at all, and the result should in a
Measure give a fair line on the BILE
chances Of the Blue and Gray nine
against the other collegiate teams it is
TO face later in the season.
A story that appeared in Baltimore
49,, "a
or two opinions that have aroused con-
siderabl Indignation at the Maryland
Agricultural College. 1t was stated, in
regard to the track meet held at the Col
lege Park institution last spring, that
the games were poorly conducted and
that the medals given were inferior to
those presented by Johns Hopkins in the
meet 1t is to hold.
When asked about the matter this
morning Mr.. Wellstood White, chairman
that he did not consider the matter worth
discussing, as in his opinion 1t was only
a small attempt on the part of the Johns
Hopkins management to belittle4 the
land college on the same date as that on
which Hopkins will hold its meet. Mr..
White went on to say that he thought it
did not rebound any to the credit Of a
big university Of the standing OF Johns
Hopkins to try to belittle another institu-
ton, either in It's methods or what 1t ac-
complished. Mr.. White said that he be-
lieved that the attitude expressed in the
story published in Baltimore was more Of
a personal one than any held by the uni
versity itself. He said that the NJ.
A. c. had announced it would hold
its meet and had its entry blanks out
long before Hopkins chose the same date
and that it proposed doing it's best to
make it a success by using every fair
and legitimate MEANS but would not I'M
der any conditions cast a shadow on the
merits of the one to be held by the Bal
timOre school.
Central High played it's first game yes
terday, and 1t showed that it will be out
again this year with q mighty good team
-one that may we'll be considered danger
Gus by any of the other high schools.
The way the Blue and White nine
trounced the Naval Medical School is
evidence that 1t will be well up among
the leaders when the final count is taken
at the end OF the high school series.
There are several veterans on the squad,
around whom the regular nine is being
built, and 1t looks as though by the time
the series comes OF Central will have
one of the best in the bunch.
Catholic University lost its second game