The Washington herald., 1918-02-21
PAIR RELAYS
FOR Big MEET
Hopkins Committee Has
Batch of Fours to Ar
range for Games.

Lieut.. Joe England. the South
Atlantic handicapper. who is at
present connected with the ord
nance service of the War De-
partment, and the delegates of
the Hopkins track games would
not announce any of the handi-
caps handed down for the vari-
GUS events. after their confer
ence here yesterday. The handi-
caps will not be announced be-
fore Friday.
Baltimore, Feb. 20.--Matching the
big batch of teams that have en-
tered for the relay events in the
Hopkins games next Saturday night
at the Fifth Regiment Armory is
the job now taking up the time of
the committee in charge. 1t Is no
easy task to arrange the various
teams so that the best results can
be obtained. especially as relay
squads quite often feel that they
have not been put up against quar-
tets of their own standing.
OF course the big event of the
night will be the relay setto over
the two-mile distance between
Cornell and Penn. Both of the
universities report their respective
teams in great condition. and a
spirited battle is looked for from
start to finish. Hopkins has been
fortunate for some time in having
it's feature events prove SO in every
way. Occasionally what is planned
for a feature in the nature of a
relay proves a walk-over. but no
such happening is being looked for
this time. when the boys from
Ithaca and Franklin Field get un-
der way.
The relay event that will we with
the big race OF the night for honors
will be the military affair between
Camp Meade and Camp Dix. The
soldiers are eager for the fray. and
with Howard Berry, the former Penn
star. among the Dix runners, Meade
realizes that its work is cut out
for it.
The committee announced this
morning that the mile championship
relay of the South Atlantic Inter
collegiate Athletic Association has
been called off. Only two teams en-
tered. they being Hopkins and Geor-
gia Tech. While the latter entered
its team, a request was made that
it would prefer to run in a half
mile event. Granting this request
would have left Hopkins with
walk-over in the championship race
and the Black and Blue boys did
not care for honors OF that sort.
Accordingly the event was called of
and it will be run at the Penn Re-.
lays at Franklin Field on April 26.
As a result of the cancellation of
the race on Saturday. Georgia Tech
will be matched with a half-mile
team from Penn. while Hopkins will
tackle another Penn squad over the
mile route. Thus Penn will have
three relay teams on the floor dur
ing the night, besides the big batch
of individual entrants. The Quakers
surely promise to make things warm
for those who hope to land the team
trophy.
Great interest is being manifested
in the bayonet assault, which will
be demonstrated by 40 officers and
men from Camp Meade. The work
of building the wooden trenches for
the affair is going ahead and Donald
X. Belt, of the committee, who has
the matter under his personal
charge. says the event will probably
arouse more real enthusiasm than
any athletic battle on the program.
Camp Meade will send about fifty
men as entrants in the games, and
there promises to be plenty of SOL
der spectators on hand to root for
their comrades. Gen. Nicholson and
Col. Sweezey, of Baltimore's Own
31Sth, will be among the honorary
officials.