Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-04
BY II. c. BYRD.

BY II. G. BYRD.
The track season Of 1912 will be in
augurated this week. With the holding
of the George Washington meet next
Saturday night, the teams representing
in this section will be seen In open
competition for the first time. while the
northern institutions will get their first
chance to show their strength against
each other when the Boston Athletic AS
ISOLATION holds it's games on the same
date
With the exception of Georgetown,
every school in this section will be seen
in competition in the George Washing
ton meet Saturday evening. The Blue
and Gray school will send its relay team
to Boston to run in relay race against
Holy Cross on that date.
What the meet will show in the way
Of comparative strength of the different
schools which are athletic rivals Is
question. 1t will be the first appearance
Of the teams this year, and 1t may De
that one or two will not be In cond1-
ton to show their true form. but IL
is almost a surety that the ma1ority
of them will be in almost If not quite
as good trim as at any time this year.
For instance, 1t is certain that WASH
ington and Lee will have its relay four
in as good shape as possible. because
It would rather score q win over c.h tnc
institute that 1t will meet later IN the
year.
Virginia and Washington and Lee Will
meet and it is probable that the CnaI-
lottesville aggregation will show its gen.
eraI strength, although the four men VINO
will run against the Lexington quartet
will hardly be up to the standard OF mat
which will meet Georgetown. Virginia
instead of showing its hand by entering q
first and second relay team. as II dlo
once before, will send up twenty-three
men to take part in the Individual events
in an effort to capture the point trophy.
Tie meeting of Swarthmore and Car
Isle will come pretty near TO giving
good line on which will have the Dest
chance to- win the championship OF the
intercollegiate association Of Pennsyl-
vania in the spring.
The Individual entries which will come
from Johns Hopkins will give good
kins and Virgiia. which will meet In a
dual affair In April. and also what chance
II will have to win its own games the
following week. The teams which Will
come from the Maryland Agricultural
College and the University of Maryland
should show the chance which each will
have to come out. with the long end OF
the tally in the meet which the Farmers
will hold for tie championship OF Mary
land some time In May.
Besides, i'm the colleges great deal OF
interest will center in the work Of the
scholastic teams. Four OF the local high
schools will have many entries. ana the
showing Of three will give good line
on what chance they will have against
Central in the spring meet. The Blue and
White school has been making clean
sweep in the interhish school meet
every spring, but it has been rumored
around that the other institutions would
make determined effort to stop the
long string of wins that have been scored
by the o Streters.
Tome Institute, Baltimore City College,
Episcopal High and the Woodbefry ForesI
School are the largest prep schools In
this section. and the meeting OF the quar-
tet with the Central High aggregation
will be watched with interest. as the
same institutions will be up against each
other at some time In the spring In
scholastic meet.
The work of the teams which will rep
resent the different schools In the meet
next Saturday will give good line on
their comparative strength and will give
some idea as to what chances each Will
stand I'm the big affairs in which they
will meet later on to decide the cham
pionships.
The fremont Athletic Club is hard hit
by the new ruling Of the Amateur Ath-
after he leaves one club may not COM
pete for another until he has run unat-
tached for a period Of at least one year.
The Tremonts lose five men by the rui-
ing. which went into effect after the
transfers had been made. The men who
are lost to the club are FRANKIE, Young,
Mcmahon, Adams and Sterrett. The
first mentioned of these would have held
down a job on the half-mtle relay four.
while Mcmahon. Adams and Young were
tod the
senior aggregation which Is to represent
the club as its best four. Sterrett, the
other man, stands a chance to win points
in any meet In which he may enter IN
the pole vault.
The ruling which has just been made
by the Amateur Athletic Union seems to
work an injustice on some of the men
who are entered in that body and who
TO another. The ruling was not an.
nounced until after the men transferred
and was not known at the time the
transfers were effected. 1t rather ap
pears that che rulings are having effect
over a condition which was just under
the previous rule. In other words, thu
men are punished by instance OF a rule
| which was put into effect after trans.
fers which were legal under the formeI
| condition.
| Because of the fact that the Y. M. c. A.
gymnasium was In use last night by
basket ball teams the relay trials for the
George Washington quartet which Is to
run against Richmond College In the
Hatchetites' meet Saturday night were
postponed. They will be held either Mon.
day or Tuesday.
AS was predicted in these columns, the
foot ball rules for next fall were changed
~ a considerable extent in order that
the defense aud offense might be more
equalized. so much so. In fact, that Il
lappears that just the reverse order OF
things win be the case next fall. Rather