Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-01-12
Seven Championship Contests
Will Be Decided in Meets to
Be Held Here.
OUTDOOR GAMES TO
TAKE PLACE MAY q
Georgetown Track Squad Will
Be Exceptionally Strong.
Other Gossip.
BY n. C. BYRD.


At a meeting of the board of managers
of the South Atlantic Amateur Athletic
Union held in Baltimore Friday night
a decision regarding the award of the
indoor championship track and field
events for the coming season was made.
The several contests which usually
decided in the regular \. \. |. champion
SHIPS will be apportioned so that nearly
an equal number will be run off in each
set of games. The events will be divided
between the George Washington. the
:. Georgetown and the Johns Hopkins-5th
- Regiment meets.
The following IS a list of the contests
To be decided in each of the sets OF
games: The Georgetown meet will get
the shotput. pole vault. high jump and
mile run: the 22o-yard dash, threemile
run. and one other event will he awarded
10 George Washington. and Johns Hop
kins-Jth Regiment games will be given the
hundred. quarter half-nile and hurdles.
All these events will lie open 10 every
registered athlete in the south Atlantic
section.
1t was also decided that the outdoor
championships would he held saturday.
May T. The events will take place on
Homewood Field. the home of the Johns
hopkins athletic teams.
There is only one fault to be found
with the apportionment of indoor events
to the various sets of games. The George
Washington inset has been awarded the
22tyard dash. which will consequently
have TO be run on three-lap track III
should have been given to johns HOPKINS
so that it could be run on a larger track,
one which is - yards to the lap. The
half-mile could have been given to
George Washington in place of the 10
There will certainly be no fault TO be
found with the track on which the out
door championships will be run this year
The field at Homewood is one of the best
in the country, there being few, If any,
tracks that are its superior
The trouble which has always been
found as regards the poor condition OF
the fields on which the championships
have been held has been overcome and
now 1t seems that the very best of con-
Gitions under which TO hold the games
have been secured.
In view of the fact that GEORGETOWN re-
fused To schedule a basket ball game
with Catholic University this Year. the
latter has certain basis for compari-
sen of the strength of the two CUNTS. or
which il is sure To make use. Here is
what happened: Gallaudet was defeated
by Catholic University by Il score or
something like IL to .; Gallaudet IN turn
Won from Loyola College. and the Loyola
double the score.
While a comparison of basket ball
scores is no more reliable than com
parison in any other sport, with only the
scores OF contests to go by, 1t is GER
tain that the Brooklanders Will avail
themselves of the opportunity 10 show
that they have stronger five than
Georgetown. Comparative scores are the
only method by which any kind of q con-
clusion can be reached. though. and ii
Is the one generally adopted by critics
il Is plain to be Seen. then, that il the
Hilltoppers happen to make more mis-
takes. such as they did Friday night
they will not be rated above the school
which is fas; becoming IA big local rival
The formation of foot ball club at
Virginia may mean a lot for foot ball IN
that school. 1t is no secret that general
dissatisfaction exists over the work OF
the eleven in the last three seasons. and
there is going to be made a decided effort
to 81 cure more favorable conditions.
While one ~ not yet at liberty to d.
vulge the nature of the fact, and the
method by which it IS hoped it VIII be
accomplished. there is on foot at Virginia
and among Virginia alumni whereby 1t
Is fairly certain there will be Il profess
sional coach in charge of foot ball.
Whether or not this Will be accomplished
next fall is a question, but there appears
little doubt that the coaching syste IN in
foot ball will be entirely different the
following year.
Track athletics have not as Yet started
at the Maryland Agricultural College.
The Farmers have been unable to get
their men out for work owing to there
beng no place to train Within the next
few days il - expected to have board
track laid outside and the running Will
be done upon il. The men will be more
or less Handicapped in the first meet or two
because of the late start, but 1t IS hoped
that they will be in. the right kind OF
how -hDrl no inns
20 against the other Maryland colleges
in the outdoor games.
IL GEORGETOWN schedules all the big
games IL is reported as being thought of.
IL may find next fall that it has taken
too great a burden upon itself. According
10 accurate report the Blue and Gray
Is contemplating arrangements whereby
four and possibly five. big contests will
be played. 1t is said that attempt
IS being made to effect schedule in
which the following institutions Will have
place Navy, Army. Princeton, Nir-
einia and Carlisle. If that he true, then
the Hiltoppers will have hard row TO
hoe before they are through with it.
Conditions are such on the Hilltop that
there are some positions for which there
are no real capable substitutes, and II
the regulars are put out of the play the
team is materially weakened. A series
Of contests with schools of the size OF
those mentioned, IN which there would
be liable TO be a greater or less number
Of injuries, would appear to be inadvis-
able.
1t may be. though. that the same thing
that took place last year will happen.
Then II was rumored that the Blue and