Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-04-17

versity of Utah have entered their best
men.
This assures performances of the very
highest class. New records are looked
for in all the relay championships. while
the same may be said of several of the
special events. Such athletes as Craig
of Michigan. Richards of Utah. the Olym-
pic high-jump champion; Burdick, the
intercollegiate high-jum champion;
Wendell of Wesleyan. the intercollegiate
hurdle champion: Nicholson Of Missouri.
the hurdle and high jump champion of
the Western Conference Association; Lip
pncott, PENIS great Splinter; Meredith.
another famous Olympic champion. now
a freshman at Pennsylvania Thomas of
Princeton, the intercollegiate sprint
champion;. Gable of Harvard, the inter
collegiate hammer throw champion:
Wright of Dartmouth. the worlds record
no der in the pole vault, are but a few
of the great athletes who will be on
Franklin Fled April 26.
in addition to the college championships
and special events. in which the cream OF
the college athletes will appear. there
Will be several class relay races for the
colleges. many of them second only in
interest to the championships themselves.
In addition, the schools will furnish some
of the best sport of the afternoon. The
high school and. the preparatory school
championships have attracted the most
representative entry ever known in the
history of scholastic sport and the win
nerS of these two races viii indeed earn
the title of American relay champions.
Nearly 2G0 schools are entered. and 1t
will take some great hustling by the man.
ayers to pull off the whole program in
che afternoon. Nineteen hundred con-
testants' tickets have been ordered. which
will give some indication of the army of
athletes that will be seen on Franklin
Field the last Saturday of his month.
With such magnificent sport promised,
with a chance to see practically all the
best college athletes of the country on
one field. and the pick of the scholastic
runners. no real athletic enthusiast with
in 200 miles of Philadelphia will fail To
be on hand.
There will be some mighty high-class
in the individual events and
in the relay races at Pennsylvania. There
will probably be mile races in which the
average of the four men will be better
than II seconds for the quarter 1t may
be known how fast such a race is when
it is realized that there are probably not
more than two men in the whole south
who can do that well. in the relay races
will seer some of the best quarte.-milc
runners in the world. and the races will
be very fast. providing the track IS II
coed condition. The ind vidual events will
show some remarkable performances
also if the men entered compete up TO
their standard Wright of Dartmouth.
the holder of the world record in the
pole vault. will probably clear the bars
at more than thirteen feet. To one who
has not seen a man vault that height the
meet is worth while for that alone.
There will be several Olympic champions
and performers in competition, and these
men are bound to exhibit an all-round
class that is seldom seen in this section.
Eir2 MIA will come here next week for
two games with Georgetown. The Orange
and Blue won the series last year. and 1t
Will bend its energies toward repeat NJ.
II Will bend its energies toward repeat ns
IL WI have mUcn harder job. though,
to get away W TIL the games this season.
otwithstanding the fact that George
town has not been in the best of shape
during the carly part of the season. Nir-
ginia's main fault has been lack OF
competent pitching. The charlottesville
nine has not been able to muster corps
capable of holding its own with the teams
that have been met. and big scores have
been the general result of the games play
ed, with one of the pitchers having an
inning in which he would allow some
thing like four or five runs to be chased
across.
Georgetown will use Fienle in two of
the games Fieple will probably work the
game in Charlottesville and then pitch
the second OF the two contests here. Grant
will likely do the best work for the Viz
ginia nine
At meeting of the East Washing on
Sunday School League last night 1t was
found necessary 10 revise some OF the
dates in the schedule. This will be done
Immediately and the revised schedule sub
United at "a meeting of the league which
has been called for next "Wednesday
night by President Love. Work will be
begun on the grounds Immediately.
Those present at the meeting were:
First Methodist Protestant, Director f.
h. Arnold and Manager A. ID. Butz,
Church of the Reformation. Manager
Charles G.. Newman: 81. Agnes, Manager
j. c. Easter; United Brethren, Manager
g. c. Foltz; Ninth, Manager A. Refer;
First Presbyterian, Manager r. l.. Con-
ners