Evening star., 1917-03-03
|G. w. TRACK MEET COMPLETES !
SUCCESSFUL INDOOR SEASON
Games in South Atlantic Section This Year
Much More Interesting Than Last.
Hatchetites Score Victories.

could have won by q greater distance
had Brewer exerted himself IN the maj
land State. started Chipman on about
four yards to the good. Chapman IN
creased that distance to about nfteen,
and Grace added six or seven more
yards on the third relay. Brewer ran
easily and without much effort. and
yet was fifteen yards to tho good at
the finish. Penn State was expecting
to win, the last runner remarktng to
Brewer Just before the event started.
year and tonight I'll be Tar enough
ahead of you when we start that you
won't have chance" All that Brewer
replied was maybe"
The two-mile relay between George
town and Virginia for the champion
ship of the South Atlantic lntercol-
legiate A. A. aroused more interest
closely run and deserving Of all the
applause which resulted from time to
time. Georgetown's first two runners
trailed the first two for Virginia and
finished within three yards OF their
man than Round OF Virginia on the
third relay and took the lead, starting
McDonough off about five yards in
front of Edmonds of Virginia. Ed
monds trailed his man until the next
to the last lap, when a burst Of speed
carried him to the front. and he won
for the Orange and Blue by fve or
six yards. Virginia men crowded the
floor and hoisted Edmonds off his feet
in their joy at achieving the victory.
Lehigh won from Lafayette by a big
margin in the dual relay race between
those teams. The South Bethlehem
team was in the lead by a big margin
all the way.
Bryan Morse's bunch of Western High
and showed latent capabilities which
should make them much feared by the
other scholastic squads within the next
year or 80. Victory in the open schol-
astic and second and third in the novice
ffty-yard dashes and the winning of q
relay race were the records credited to
the Red and White. Westerns team has
shown much improvement as result
of it's work of the last few weeks.
The Hartford Athletic Club midget
team won another race. being the third
it has captured this year. 1t defeated
the Technical High four easily. Schmidt,
Slye, Leverton and White constitute a
can whip any other four in their class
in the South Atlantic section.
The two-mile run for the champion
ship of the South Atlantic Intercol-
legiate A. A. resulted in the breaking
of record. Weeks of Hopkins cover
ing the distance in minutes Sc sec
onds. Carter of Maryland State finished
second and Maury of Virginia. third.
"Untz" Brewer of Maryland State won
the open 50-yard dash in the fastest
time that has been made this year in
that event in this section. Brewer
started from scratch. with the remain
ing sprinters, except Griffith of George
town, with varying handtcaps In front
Of him. Brewer covered the distance in
s 3-5 seconds, the best previous time
season being As. Griffith also was
on scratch, but slipped when he started,
and could not catch up.
body by beating Grifflth of Georgetown
in the South Atlantic intercollegiate
A. A. quarter. Grifith is faster and
better in the 440 than Goodwin, but
last night was in poor shape. Griffith
did practically no practicing after the
Hopkins meet last week, owing to ILL
ness. Even at that. Griffith would have
won had he used good judgment. The
Georgetown man ran poor race in
that respect, falling to take advantage
at the proper time of the much greater
speed possessed by him.
Shehan of Tech had little trouble of
winning the scholastic $50, being in
front at the finish by half a lap. Shee-
han started from scratch. and soon
closed up the distance on the men in
front Of him. The Tech man probably
could have won more easily still had
he so desired. Mcnamara of Tech, run
ming from the one-yard mark, finished
second in the scholastic quarter.