Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1912-02-11
AND
VIRGINIA ON TOP
Re'ay Teams From Those
Schools Take Feature Races
in G. w. U. Meet.
VIRGINIA AID TOME
GET POINT TROPHIES
Athletes Wearing Their Colors
Feature Performances in
Open Events.
FONTS SCORED BY
COLLEGES AID CLUBS
BY II. C. BYRD.


meet held last night under the auspices
of the George Washington Tniversit,
was that there was too much of 1t, the
Hatchctites having too many events
carded. Barring thar fact, 1t is question
able if the Buff and Blue institution ever
held a set Of games that attained the
success that did the one last night. Col
leges. clubs and schools were seer in
relay races which were we'll run. and the
individual events brought out a 10, Of
classy competition
The two feature events of Intervening
We're the relay races between Washing
ton and Lee and Virginia and Swarth-
more and the Carlisle Indian School
Both races We're well run, although The
two teams which won in each outclasscd
the sour opposing them.
When Virginia appeared against the
Washington and Lee four there was marh
applause that went up from among the
adherents of The Orange and Blue school
The first two men who started Iran a
fairly fast quarter Fite. who toed the
mark first for Virginia. ran well ror the
first two laps, hut was passed on the
third by Anderton of Washington and
Lee, and the Lexington school started
the second relay with five yards to the
good Briggs took mp the race for yir-
sinia at that point, and he made up the
distance on Hayne of Washington and
Lee ana gave Guy of Virginia n good
lead. The former Western boy increased
the distance to about thirty yards ana
Todd of Virginia had no trouble i.oiciug
tie led till the end OF the race.
Swartnmore outcle ssed the Carlisle In.
dian team by slight margin. There was
time during the third relay when IL ap-
peared that the Indians would have
good chance to win. but the Quaker
runner was keeping within himself and
S2Ee ms teaina MAZE a Sooo ten-yard
lead. WelCh. wilo ran last for Carlisle.
covered much ground and made MP some
of the distance but did not have fil..
efldula nae 10 hoid out the last few yards.
Swarthmore won by about ten yards.
George Washington failed to do any
thing much against Richmond College in
the relay with that school. The Ratchet
ties had no chance from the start and
each man was left gradually behind
The Hatchetltes scored tneir real vic
tory in the two-rnie event, in which
Fleming. the captain of the team. won
out over Reside OF Johns Hopkins Uni
yersity Fleming followed the pace and
ran behind the Hopkins man for the
first twenty laps. but after that sprinted
out and took the lead. He won the race
by margin OF ten feet in what was
the best comparative time OF the even
ing, ~ minutes Is 40 seconds.
In the two big club races that were rpn
one victory came to "A representa- tive OF
a local athletic organization. The Ire
mont Club won from the Richmond Lieht
Infantry by biz margin. Rawlin IS. the
last man. being thirty yards in the lead
when he crossed the finish line. The
Maryland Aggies reserve team was
poor third.
In contrast TO the work of the Maryland
Aggies second team, their first four Went
after its race and won 1t i'm the easiest
F,s. lit Ts.l,a -l,.1
for the Marylanders. followed the Uni
yersity of Maryland man until the last
lap and then he cut loose and gave -Haf-
rison 4 lead of ten yards Harrison. in
creased the distance to about fifteen yards
and Augustus and Kemp. the other two
men. added five or ten yards TO the lead.
until Kemp. who ran last. finished about
fifty yards to the good over his opponent.
Tech Gets Scholastic Race.
The interscholastic race scheduled he
tween Tech, Western and Business was
won by Technical. AS a result OF three
of its men being disqualified Western had
no first team to put in the race and sent
III its second string. which had previously
run a mile against the Tech and Y. NJ.
C.. A. second teams. Western held Tech
for the first two. laps. but aftsr that IL
lost out by wide margin. DeGrange
made up several yards-tbat lIaI. pecn lost
and put his team in the lead t. e. fair
Offutt, the Tech cas,tain. IN
creased the lead until the Maroon and
Gray was half a lap to the good. Bust
ness High was a poor third
The Western High Junior team won the
last race on the program for the smaller
teams. nosing out the Regent Athletic
Club by the scantiest of margins.
The meet was in general sue
cess, far the events were con-
cefned and the way in which they were
run oft. The officials lost no time In get
ting the meet under way. and the differ
ent races were run off with much dis
patch. The great Number Of relay races
that were down deiaye0 the finishing OF
the meet for quite awhile, and caused Il to
be "A little too long drawn oui. NoGwiti-
serves much credit for the Inaniier IN
which the affair was arranged ana rna
off.
As far as the point trophy was con.
,erned, the athletes from the Univer.
sity OF Virginia scored "A sigma. tri-
amph Although Pop Lanigan brought
up Il more or less green crew. * n.In-
ged to score enough points To VII, tie
meet Tome Institute won the scholastic
ug much Older and much more
,erienced than those from amy ot!.er in
;titution.
Among the individuals. IL is question:
ible il there was man who showed
he form that did Wylie Cooke OF Viz
,inia.e He is undoubtedly the best midi
lle-distance man in this part of the
country.
The preliminary events in the daslles
and J0-yard hurdles were run of III
order. and in the majority of the heals