Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1917-06-15
TWO MEETS BOOKED
FOR LOCAL ATHLETES
Grade School Championships and
Events at Clarendon Hold
Much of Interest.
BY n. C. BYRD.

Two track and field meets are to be
held here tomorrow. At 10 o'clock IN
the morning more than 500 grade school
boys will get together in the Central
High School stadium to compete in the
District Of Columbia championships
and tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 high
school, college and unattached stars
are scheduled to go to Clarendon for
the annual games under the auspices
of the Alexandria County Athletic
Association.
The grade school championships are
the elimination OF the year for the
youthful athletes of tho city. For the
last month the various playground di-
visions of the schools have been hold
ing sectional competitions to attain ell
igibtlity for the championships. These
were finished Tuesday. the Georgetown
division being the last to get through
its events. and for the last few days
the youngsters have been getting ready
for their most thorough test of the
wear The meets held for the divisions
separately and the championships take
place under the direction of the play
grounds
There are not one-tenth the number
of entries in the meet scheduled at
Clarendon that are registered to COM
pete in the grade school events. hut
some of the best of tho local high
school and college athletes are to ia re
part. Some fast running and fairly
good work in the field events should be
done.
The annual track and field and swim
ming meets under the auspices Of the
District government, known rs the
municipal meets, for the last several
years have been declared off. There
was no appropriation in tho last bill
| to meet the expenditures incident to
the events and the small residue from
| the 1916 meet went for another pur-
pose.
Track athletes and swimmers who
! have always taken part in these events
| Will miss them undoubtedly. Some kind
of competition of that character should
| he held on July in order to keep up
| interest I'm the sports. Particularly is
| this true of swimming, a branch of ath-
| letics in which more persons now are
! taking part than at any previous time
! in the history of the city. 1t would not
| he a. bad idea for the playground de-
partment to foster a meet of some kind.
| particula rly along the line of SWIM
! ming.
| George Green has resigned as director
| OF athletics at the Tome School, Port
Deposit, Md, position accepted by
| him last fall. No official announcement
| has been made as yet concerning
! Green's ction, but it became known
| yesterda. that 1t had been taken. It
! has been understood for some time
( that conditions at Tome We're not par
| ticularly pleasant for the former st.
! Adams coach, but it was not thought
! he would discontinue his connection
| there.
! Official announcement is made by the
University of Pennsylvania that 1t will
| continue its athletic schedules upon the
! reopening of the university next fall.
| There may be some notifications of its
i program, according to conditions which
| may exist at that time, but the sched-
ules in the various branches of sports
4 lac. "a -iks1 lac ION
| adopted by the athletic association of
| the university. though, makes a course
| in military work obligatory for every
| man who takes part in athletics. No
| man Will be eligible for membership on
! a team in intercollegiate competition
! unless he is engaging in military drill.