Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-05-08
BY n. c. BYRD.


BY H. c. BYRD.
| The Maryland Aggies meet will be the
| largest affair Of the kind to be held on
an outdoor track in this section this sea-
son. From the number of schools entered
| and the number Of entries received the
| games are certain to surpass those of last
| spring and also any others this season.
Twenty-six schools will be represented
| in the different events, and there are more
| than 500 entries from about $50 athletes.
No other outdoor meet held in the south
Atlantic section has as many entries as
have been received by those in charge Of
| the Aggies' games.
Almost every scholastic institution in
the state of Maryland and the District
Of Columbia that supports track athletics
is to be represented by its full squad
, with the exception Of the Baltimore City
College and Baltimore Polytechnic In
stitute, which schools will send half their
| teams to the Hopkins meet Particular
J ly are the county schools to be well rep
resented. there being a great number of
boys from the high schools in the coun-
try towns who have entered.
There is no question other than that
/, the meet this spring will surpass by a
great deal the one held last season
The Princeton foot ball schedule for
next fall Is out, and one or two teams
that have not been met for some time
by the Tigers will be played. Syracuse
is down for game in the Jersey town
for the first time, while the Virginia
Polytechnic Institute will be played for
the first time since 1908. Only one game
will be played away from home. the one
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The schedule follows: September %.
Stevens at Princeton; October 2. Rut-
gers at Princeton; October 5. ,Lehigh
at Princeton; October II, Virginia Poly
49, Syracuse at Princeton; October %.
Dartmouth at Princeton; November 2,
Harvard at Cambridge; November .,
New York University at Princeton; No
vember 16, Yale at Princeton.
Gallaudet and Georgetown will meet
this afternoon on the Hilltop, providing
the field is in fit condition. O'Connor
will likely do rhe pitching for George
town, while Battiste is sure to be sent
to the mound for the Kendall Greeners.
Georgetown should win rather easily,
but IL Battiste pitches In the form that
he has at different times the game may
be closely contested. The Indian has the
pitcher and IL he has control of it will
make the Blue and Gray batters hike to
hit him consistently.
There is much debate as to what will
be done in regard to the postponement
made necessary in the high school series
yesterday. Western and Central were I'M
able to play because Of the unfit condition
of the grounds and just when the contest
will take place is hard to say. It is prob
able though 1t will be played Friday.
There is an old rule in force in regard
to the schedule of high school games to
the effect that when one Is postponed the
rest of the schedules shall be moved up
and the games still be played in their
regular order If that Is adhered to.
then the Central-Western game will have
to be played Friday and the Tech East
ern contest moved up until next Tuesday.
The track meet to be held in the Har-
ward stadium, known as the Olympic
try-outs. will be about the best that has
ever taken place in this country, and
should see some of the best performances
OF recent years. The track itself is one
Of the best in the country and everything
will be done to have 1t in perfect condi-
ton on that date. The best athletic
talent in the eastern part of the United
States will be collected for the events
and the entries in all the events Will
practically be one solid list Of intercol-
legiate and Amateur Athletic Union
champions. Every event will be COM
tested between champions, with not a
second-rate runner entered. ..
There is apt to be but one event in
which the performances will not be as
on any track. The 1OO-yard dash is the
race in which compa ratively mediocre
talent Is expected. At present there is
not q man in the east who can do the
questionable IL there will be single heat
run that fast in the eastern trials. 1t
will be remembered that when the last
Olympic trials were held there were two
or three heats run in that time, and one
in less. Unless something is unearthed
before long there will be no Rectors and
Cartmells running the 100 in record time
when the athletes meet at Cambridge to
fight for places on the team that is to
represent this country at Stockholm.
Just how scarce good sprinters are is
shown by the fact that the best time
made In the races at Pennsylvania two
weeks ago was 10 2-5 seconds for the 100
yards. It looks very much like. II there
are good men in the dashes in the try
out, they will have to come from the
club ranks and not the colleges.
All amateur games will be played today
with the exception Of the those In two
leagues. The Government circuit has an
open date. while the Sunday School
League has postponed Its contest.
Tho Manhattan club has a hard three
days in front Of 1t. Last years Inde-
pendence League champions have to play
three games in a row. beginning today.
This afternoon Lofier is the team that
will be met, tomorrow Aloysius will be
played while Friday Southland will be
the opposing nine. With the aid OF Wal
ter Hughes, who will work one OF the
games, last years leaders are expecting
to come through the test creditably.
washington, Western Maryland. st.
Johns. Rock Hill and the Maryland Agri-
cultural are the colleges that will contest
in the intercollegiate event at College
Park Saturday.
II the Maryland Aggies were to lose the
track meet Saturday to St. Johns, which
school seems to be in the running for the
point trophy, and then were to fall to win