The Washington times., 1917-02-16

You may be sure the Georgetown
/ meet will be started well, for Jimmy
Mulligan will have charge Of the gun
firing. Mulligan Is one of the best
starters Of sprint races we have seen
in many q year. In addition to get
ting the boys on well his handling of
the more or less nervous youngsters
is more than commendable.
Navy will resume its athletic pro-
gram. Only those actually engaged
against the navy teams will be per-
mitted in the Academy grounds. The
order shutting out all civilians from
the yard at Annapolis has been in
force two weeks. 1t was seen that
the Academy athletes would be with
out contests save among themselves
and late order permitting competi-
tion with outsiders has been put
through recently. This permits the
usual crew races, tennis matches. and
the baseball games this spring. 1t
Is a good thing that the youngsters
are allowed their sports during the
remainder of the year. All work and
no play is not to be thought Of In
connection with the thousand young
sters at Uncle Sans institution.
Manager Devlln has worked like a
good one in getting the Georgetown
meet under way. The illness of
graduate manager Charlie Cox has
thrown the responsibility OF the af-
fair on the youngster who appears to
have been able to shoulder the bur-
den.
Arguments pro and con will prob
ably be heard among faculty athletic
advisers today as to the relative
merits of the long and short base
ball series. 1t is a crying shame that
Washington schools are without
suitable grounds upon which to stage
their baseball games. The Central
stadium Is thought to be too small
for the baseball series, the right field
fence being too short a distance from
the home plate. Even were the games
to be staged there II would work a
hardship on Central athletes. East
ern will be provided In a few years
with a suitable athletic field. This
cannot come too soon as the schools
are forced to beg grounds upon which
to stage their games.
America boasts probably the great
est runner in the world in Joie Ray,
the little Chicago youth who recently
smashed the American two-mile re-
cord. Ray ran the distance in 0 min
utes IL 2-5 seconds, which beat the
mark OF George Bonhag of Ola 1-5,
and experts all over the country are
predicting that before long he will
break the worlds record held by
Alfred Shrubb, the Englishman. OF
900 3-5. Ray is barely twenty and
is improving right along. Howard
Valentine, a New York track expert,
has this to say about the Chicago
flyer: "Put Ray on the Harvard
Stadium track on a dry, clear day
and he'll trounce Shrubs mark as
easily as he did Bonhag's.
II reports are true, and Georges
Carpenter, the French fighter is
dead, the world loses one of its finest
representatives of the squared cir
Gle. Throughout his career Carpen-
tier has showed himself to be a good
sport and a gentleman.
Since the war began he has be-
come one OF the most beloved citi-
zens OF his country. His aeroplane.
exploits have given him a name
throughout the world for bravery. II
Carpenter is still alive and ever
visits this country he probably will
be given a welcome never before ac-
corded a visiting boxer. America is
fond OF Carpenters type. It has
shown this in its frowning attitude
toward Les Darcy, the Stacker.
One of the most notable gather
ings OF sport celebrities in history