Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1914-06-22
STARS SCHEDULED |
FOR TRACK MEET
Several Expected to Take
Part in Contests in Charge 3
of Local Hibernians.
JONES OF GEORGETOWN
is ONE OF THOSE TO RUN
Contract Signed by 0'Reilly to
Train Hilltop Athletes,
It Is Announced.
BY n. c. BYRD.

Several stars will take part in the
track and field games to he held at
Chesapeake Beach Wednesday under tbs
auspices of the Ancient Order of Hi
bernians. The best field will he in the
1oo-yard dash, in which Jones of George
town will compete. Jones will have
against him Brewer of Georgetown. Kelly
of Baltimore and Freeburger of the same
city. The 44o will find a fairly fast ag-
gregation on the starting mark. while in
the 1"0-yard there are very few entries
1t Is in the five-mile race that the fine
competition is sure TO be seen The best
distance men in the District are entered.
schools are to be represented in the relay
race for parochial schools.
The event is being held by the Hiber-
mans of Washington and Baltimore and
is only part of a general joint celebra-
ton of the day by the two cities. All
the medals have been donated by friends
and members of the order. and they are
OF greater value than any given in this
section
a good set of officials has been OBJ
tanned. and Jimmy Mulligan will be the
starter. The meet is being held under
the management of Dan Hassett. a for.
mer member of the Irish American Ath-
letic Club
A dispatch from Boston contains the
information that John D. OReilly has
signed a five-year contract to take
charge of athletes at Georgetown. 1t has
been known for some time that O'Reilly
has been practical certainty for George
town for the coming scholastic year, but
it was generally understood that he was
to be a trainer instead of director OF
athletics. The need of good trainer at
Georgetown has been felt for some time.
and steps were taken early last winter
to secure the services of O'Reifiy. who
has had much experience around Boston.
The Fort Hunt nine defeated the Co
Iumbia A. c. of Washington Saturday
by to ). a mistake being made in print
ing the score just the opposite.
CIV Nickalls. coach of the University
of PENNSYLVANIA crew, is reported to
have made some pertinent remarks rela-
tive to the regard in which Americans
hold Englishmen. Here is what was at
tributed to him:
THE trouble with you Americans II
that you can see no good in an English
man and you will give him no credit for
what he does. no matter how splendid 1t
is The fact of the matter are that
Yale did beat Harvard, and with an
English stroke. and the English polo
team won. too. Victories won by En-
Rl1Shlnen are always StciuiHe's uiSSooae-
ed in this country. while an american
victory over an Englishman Is hailed as
a marvellous triumph
These remarks seem hardly to the point,
nasmuch as the newspapers were united
in their praise of the English polo team.
The only disparaging remarks that ena-
mated from individuals concerned the
Americans far more than they did the
British 1t was generally thought that
a more representative four might have
been chosen to go against the visitors.
but there certainly was nothing said
against the play of Capt Cheape and his
men In fact, just the opposite WAS true,
in that every critic who wrote the
series was unstinted in favorable COM
ments on the play of the winners.
The statements that English VICTORIES
are discounted in this country hardly
seem true, as the Americans are noted
for the credit they extend to one who 10
a victor over them. To come down 10
fine POINTS, though, II appears that II
has always been the English press that
has given vent to opinions derogatory to
accom- plishments of those who were vic
tors over English teams. The adverse
statements as regards athletics In Amer.
lea, Immediately following the last
Olympics, have not yet been torgoelen.
1t is generally accepted In this country
that England Is superior to America IN
polo but when 1t was demonstrated tnat
the Americans were superior to the Eng
fish in track and field athletics there
was an entirely different attitude taken
by the English.