The Washington herald., 1917-02-25
Harvard Relay Four Defeated
by Princeton IN Final Race
IN Hopkins Meet.


Tiger was victorious over fair Crimson
OF Harvard here tonight in the feature
relay race Of the evening. The Tigers
won this one-mile hike after a great dash
Of a quarter Of a mile between Terrell.
Of Princeton. and Teschner. Of Harvard.
Teschner attempted TO ride Terrell on
the track at the turn IN the northeast
corner. and practically threw himself out
Of the race. The performance Of Minos
when he took the lead OF the second las
from the second runner was remarkable
as he came from behind OF a 'ten-yard
lead and sent Meanix away with four
yards 10 the good.
In the South Atlantic relay ceoreetov,
showed a classy quartette that easily
captured the honors. Griffin grabbed a
lead Of ten yards on the opening rush
and the Hilltoppers held this lead until
the last lap Of the third runners. when
Stone, OF the virginia team. passed Con-
molly. Of the Hilltoppers. Connolly BY a
great burst Of speed overcame this small
margin and sent Auray away with
7-yard lead.
State moved ahead Of Hopkins IN the
second relay when Brooke Brewer,
the State College champion, was touched
on In the final sprint with four yards
on Hopkins and twenty yards behind
Virginia Brewer made up this distance
and passed the Virginia runner. but
could not stand the great sprint in the
stretch.
Coach John o'ReiIy. of the George
town team, put over the most points in
the South Atlantic events. by scoring
q. Virginia was second in line with ~,
whle Johns Hopkins scored II. Mary
land State brought up the rear with 2
The University Of Pennsylvania, rep
the open trophy, by scoring q points
George Washington University was sec
ond. with Z. while Maryland State.
Georgetown, and Episcopal High School
followed with each. Catholic University
scored 3
Harry Curray carried the colors OF
Georgetown to the front in the first final
OF the evening when he beat Wallace.
OF Virginia, and Smith, of Hopkins
| across the line in the South Atlantic
| l0o-yard championship.
After running second in his opening
heat and coming back into first place in
| the semi-fnal "SfT' Maxim, a former
Western High School and st. Adams
School youngster. running under the
colors Of the Pennsylvania Freshmen.
landed first place in the lOo-yard open
Sellner. OF st. Johns. and Elmer Smith
Of the Red and Blue
Pendleton, OF the Episcopal High
School Of Alexandria, Va. ran first in
the fourth heat OF the interscholastic
but failed to qualify in the final William
E. Mcnamara. Of the Technical High
School. OF Washington. secured first point
in the fast time OF 1925 seconds swaine
| Of the Central High School team OF
| WaEhinElnn
OF Baltimore Polytechnic Institute. landed
third place.
The University OF Virginia put over FIVE
points in the South Atlantic lOO-yard
championship hurdles when Wiser fin
tshed first. beating Gates, OF GEORGETOWN
4 by two Yards
: The haIf-miIe open brought out a feId
on thtrty-two starters. but Earl Eby, the
Chicago schoolbOy dash champion. run
ming under the colors Of the University
OF Pennsylvania, landed first honors Eby
came from behind shortly after the first
/ 800 yards and won in a great sprint
Johnny Mahoney. fremont Athletic
! Club runner from Washington, finished
third, while Karl knight, Of the Wash
ington Swimming Club. finished fourth.
/ Eby stepped the distance in l minute
and IS SIS seconds.
The Baltimore Polytechnic Institute re-
lay team defeated the Episcopal High
| School quartet in a half-mile relay
pole on the jump and were never headed.
| The Monumental City team captured the
winning by fifteen yards.
Washington athletes forged to the front
| in the first two heats of the 22O-yard open
dash. Allen. Hon and Mulcahy. OF Cath
olic University. came over in this order.
while Weller. of Georgetown University.
| was first in the next heat and Maxim. OF
Pennsylvania. followed.
Sheehan. OF Technical, made a runaway
Of the hah-mile interscholastic. Taber,
jr.. Of Central High School, finished sec
l ond. while Brown. of Baltimore Poly
technic Institute, finished third.
The Hartford Athletic Club. of Wash
| ington, won the quarter-mile midget relay
race from four Baltimore clubs Lever
| ton. who started for the Hartford Juniors.
grabbed a four to siS-yard lead on the
jump ard when White was touched OF in
| the last dash he had easy sailing.
Johnny Weeks, of Johns Hopkins. land
! ed first place in the South Atlantic cham
! pionship one-mile run. Edmunds, OF the
University OF Virginia. put over second
! place, while Bernhart. Of the Hopkins
team. landed third place.
Artie Thurman. who made football his
| tory at the University of Virginia dur
| Ing the last few years. landed the shot
put with q heave of forty-one feet ten
ana Ollt-ndI 1fiCneS- l<edoOedlef- OF mop
| kins. was second and whiterow, of Penn
syivania, was third.
Earle Eby, running from scratch, land
ed In the +40-yard run in the fast time OF
| y seconds.
Bill Gates, Of the Georgetown team
| landed first in the 10o-yard hurdle, beat
ing McDonough. Of Baltimore, the former
South Atlantic champion. by a few inches
The Washington Swimming Club relay
team was beaten by the Germantown
boys school in q fast quarter-mile race.
The three-mile special race between Car
roll Institute OF Washington and the Bal
timore Cross Country Club. of Baltimore.
was won by the Capital City runners.
they put over the first FIVE men in the
first ten over the wire. Little Jack
Downey, of the Washington school, gave
a great exhibition in landing first place.
Schmidt. OF the Cross Country team. set
a hot pace for the first eleven laps. but
the Washington youngster then forged
ahead and Tapped Schmidt.
Kimbell, OF the Maryland Swimming
Club. captured the high jump with q
vault of five feet ten and one-half inches.
Morrison. OF George Washington Uni
versity. and wingate. jr., his team mate,
finished third