Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-02-02
Cornell, Yale, Princeton, Penn,
Indians, Hopkins, W. and L.
and G. u. to Appear.
kIVIAT MAY RACE
JONES IN THE MILE
'AIOysius Would Have Been
Given Game Under Protest."
Says Basket Ball Official.
BY H. C. BYRD.

There will be four very interesting
relay races in the Georgetown meet
and one individual event that will at
tract a great deal of attention. TIL,
relays that Will be carded as special
events are the ones that will take place
between Yale and Princeton. Cornell
and Pennsylvania. Hopkins Washing
ton and Lee and Carlisle and George
town and Virginia. The Individual race
likely to he provided is the open mile
in which 1t is intended that John Pau
Jones and Abel kiviat Will start.
The most important event of the
five is the race in which the George
town and Virginia relay teams will
figure. The very fact that Georgetown
has not Won one of those events In
years and that it this season has the
best track material that has repre-
scented it in q long while is the main rea-
son why the race is going to attract
special attention. The Blue and Gray
came nearer to winning last spring
than in a long while, and this season
four. That. coupled with the loss of
two able men by Virginia, will lend
much to the event, especially from the
viewpoint of the followers of the local
institution.
The next ranking race will be that be-
tween Princeton and Yale. The event will
he for two miles, and is an annual feature
OF the games 1t will be remembered
that that was the event which provided
the closest finish of the evening in 1912.
Princeton led until the last five yaruS,
when the last Yale runner beat him out at
the tape by the bare margin of a few
inches II Is probable that the contest
will be as we'll run this year, even though
the finish is not quite as close.
Two other big universities are scheduled
to appear in a two-mie relay. Cornell
and Pennsylvania will meet in an event
at that distance. While this race has
seldom proved the attraction from a
standpoint of being closely contested. it
has been a feature because of the many
followers each institution has in this city.
Another contest which will be attrac-
tive because one of the teams Is always
"A drawing card no matter what contest 1t
is in. is the race to be run between the
Carlisle Indians. Johns Hopkins and the
" Washington and Lee University. Also
from Il local standpoint. this event should
he of some Importance in that 1t Will
have in it two teams that will be rated
as contenderS for the South Atlantic
championship.
Any event in which John Paul Jones
and Abel Kivat are to run against each
other from scratch will be Well worth
seeing. These two men are rated as being
among the four or five-mile runners In
the world, and they have already COM
L~.ted in events In which they have nm
-ished very close together Jones ran
beautiful mile here last spring, just beat
ing out Lee of Hopkins. and as he is a
Washington boy. he will be all the more
desirable as a competitor. 1t Will De
I[iviat first appearance In this section,
and there will be a lot of curiosity simply
TO see the marvellous little fellow in ac-
ton. Pitted against Jones he should put
up brilliant race
These are the general plans Tor the
feature events in the Blue and Gray's
meet and the other relay races to be put
on between the secondary colleges will
ind the fastest fours in the South At
lantic section, barring the larger schools,
running against one another. All the
colleges to be represented in the relay
races will have several men entered III
tie club events.
There is one race which will take place
al the Georgetown meet which, while II
Will probably be Won 10y neither, will be
a sort of dual affair 1t will be che hur-
dies, in which Blackstone of Georgetown
and Crowley of Virginia will compete.
There is a lot OF personal rivalry between
these two men. dating from their scholas-
tic work. Blackstone is the former Cen
trail High School lad who has done such
capable work over the timbers in the last
three years, while Crowley use to be at
Episcopal. While in the two prep schools
the two lads ran against each other time
after time, yet it seemed that the Gen.
trail boy could not win from his rival
Ii is rather a coincidence that the two
men have entered rival universities, and
note the results of the races in which
they figure as representatives OF George
town and Virginia during the coming
season.
When an official OF the City Basket
Bail League was asked regarding the pro-
test of the Aloysius club. and the drop
ping out OF the circuit OF that organiza-
ton he had the following to say: The
conditions under which the protest of the
AIoySius club was made We're undoubted
~ in violation of the constitution Of the
circuit but | think that the protest could
have been better timed. AT the time the
protested game was played the George
town COllegians We're compelled to meet
the Epiphany and the Aloysius quints on
the same night The majority of the
hest players on the Georgetown team had
deserted Prof. Joyce on short notice to
+Oin the varsity five. This left Prof.
Joyce without enough men to fill in the
positions TO play the games. He used
tWo men from the prep school. who Were
not as capable as those who had left the
team. and had the league been able to
hold q meeting on the day of the games
these men would have been declared ineli-
sible. The Epiphany quint went against
the Georgetown youngsters In the first
contest and beat the Collegians decisive
~. In the meanwhile and just before the
Neutrality-suspicious. Coleg1ans game
was to start the Aloysius players were
1Ushing Prof. joyce, telling him how bad
asking him To put in better and older
men The members or the Aloysius team
aid not protest before the game. and said
nothing of the ineligible boys on Prof
Ioyce's team playing against Epiphany or
against them. The game was played, and
for some reason or other, perhaps be-
cause they thought they had an easy
proposition on hand, the Aloysius men
were away off color and played the poor
est basket ball they have shown this year
and lost the game Then the protest was
made
while have nothing to say personally
regarding the matter think that some
protest should have been made before the
contest began. At that. though. If the
A'Ovsius club needed the contest to give
1T the championship or If the forfeit'ne
Of the game would i'm any way affect the
standing of the leading team at the end
Of the season. the league would adhere
20 the technicality and give the contest
20 bloysius. but il saw little or no use in
Naking a forfeit when II would do nc
good to anybody"
Cornell and Pennsylvania have beer
showing the best form In the Intercol.