Evening star., 1916-05-08
BY n, C. BYRD.

Few college base ball games are sched-
uled here this week. Georgetown and
Gallaudet are not to play at all and
Catholic University has only two booked
The Maryland Aggies meet one team
Catholic University goes against Villa
nova at Brookland tomorrow and plays
the navy at Anna polls Wednesday. The
Brookla n,lers will be meeting strong
mines and are not likely to have anything
other than hard contests on either occa-
sion VI. A. c. is to have Mt. ST
Joseph on its field Saturday.
Four contests are scheduled in the high
school series. Two take place tomorrow
and two Friday. Eastern and Central
meet in the first contest and Technical
and Business play in the second. Fri
day the Western Central combat Is to
be staged the opening attraction and
Business and Western will try conclu-
sions Immediately after the first is An
shed.
The work of Field of Catholic Univer-
sity in the South Atlantic track and
field games al Charlottesville Saturday
was "a fitting climax to the career in
collegiate competition of the best quar-
ter-miler the Brooklanders ever have
had. A month~ago Jimmy Mulligan,
coach of the track squad. predicted that
Field would be the victor in the South
up to the predictions of his tutor by
finishing first in the event in so 3-5
seconds. Norris of Virginia. the only
other man who stood a real chance to
contest. saving his energies for the
halfmile. in with he broke the record.
Field not only won the open quarter,
but started several yards behind the
last Virginia man in the relay race and
captured that event for Catholic Uni
versity by making up the handicap and
beating his man in the stretch. Had
Norris run the quarter the race be-
tween him and Field would have been
one of the most brilliant of the year.
he is credited with being able to do un-
der 81 seconds any time he is in fair
condition. and that he was physically
all right is shown by the way in which
he cleaned up the half-mile in l min
ute and 5S seconds.
One of the surprises of the meet was
the fact that Low, Georgetowns star
jumper. failed to get anything better
than third place in the high jump.
Connolly of Johns Hopkins and Archer
of Virginia tied for first place with a
leap of six feet. while Low fell just
short Of that figure with a mark Of
feet II inches.
Two new records for the South At
lantic intercollegiate Association were
set in the distance runs, Abbott of
Virginia creating a new mark for the
mile. and Chinn Of Virginia Polytechnic
Institute doing the trick in the two
mile run. Abbott covered the mile in
25 o-5 seconds. a figure much lower
than usually is reached in this sec
ton. Chin of V. r. !. broke the rec
ord made last year by himself in the
two miles. running it in 9.46 2-5
Mornhinweg of the Maryland Aggies
deserves considerable credit for his per-
formance in the shot-put in the meet
at College Park Saturday. Mornhin-
veg had quite reputation as a shot
putter in high schools up in New York,
but has not been allowed to do any
thing along that line while at NJ A. c..
because hes has shown enough natural
ability to warrant the belief that he
Last Saturday he was entered in the
meet without having put the shot in
practice since last year, and he stepped
| into the circle and sent the lead for n
ing the record for the college. Morn
/ hinweg did not even put on track
| suit to accomplish the feat.
That Ted Meredith is one of the
most versatile runners the sport has
ever known is certain. Last week in
a dual meet against Dartmouth he not
only won the quarter under SO seconds.
but took first place in the 1oo-yard
dash and 22O-yard dash in fast time.
Meredith did 10 1-5 seconds for the
100 and % seconds fiat for the 220.
Yet somebody said early last winter
that Meredith was going back. 1t is
reported he the fastest quarter
mile ever stepped on a circular track
in the Pennsylvania relays when he
covered the last lap against the Har-
ward four. though he will never get
real credit for that performance, no
| matter how good 1t was.
The fact that the University of vir-
ginia won the south Atlantic meet last
week by such an overwhelming ma
ltority shows the absolute superiority
Of that institution over tho others In
this section In track and -Aeld sports.
There is no college or university