Evening star., 1918-07-03
NINE EEVENTSL|STED
IN ATHLETIC GAMES
Good Competition Looked for
in Track Meet at Camp
Meigs Tomorrow.
By n. c. BYRD.

Nine events are scheduled In the track
and field meet to be held at Camp Meigs
tomorrow afternoon. The first on the
program is the 1o0-yard dash and in
turn follow the mile run, mile relay.
broad jump. high Jump. shot-put. bali
throwing contest. tug Of war and hurdle
race. Two men from each company are
eligible to enter each event. except the
relay and tug Of war competitions. in
which. respectively. four men and ten
men from each unit will take part.
Good competition is looked for in all
the contests, but the mile run is ex-
pected to be exceptionally good. Three
Of the athletic stars of the camp are
distance runners and they all are to take
part in that event. They are Hansen.
who represented Denmark in the Olym-
pic games in London in 1908, and who
American Athletic Club of Chicago:
O'Meara, an Irisl-American Athletic
Club OF New York runner. and Mason,
who starred on the cinder path for
Ripon College, out in Wisconsin.
Yesterday Camp Meigs started
base ball game with the team repre-
senting the aircraft bureau OF the
War Department, and after about
four and a half innings the latter gave
somewhere between fifteen and twenty
runs-all track was lost of the count
and the Aircraft aggregation dur
ing most of the time was up In the
air higher than any of the ships they
are building ever will go.
Just to show that they could run up
q bunch Of runs, the Cloffeps in the
Navy Yard League yesterday jumped
into their game with the Gunners and
ran up count of twenty-one- The Gun
ners scored eight times. Cloffeps got
seven men over the plate in the open,
ing inning, which practically sewed
the game up. After the first couple OF
Cloffeps. eased up and did not try
very hard.
Rooney and Jenkins of the Cloffeps
had big day at bat, each player con-
losers in hitting, driving out a two
Dagger and two singles.
Errors were responsible for many
of the runs on both sides: The Clof,
feps were guilty Of six misplays. and
Gunners had twelve marked against
them in the error column.
Marines found the National Capital
Press nine an easy proposition yester-
day in the first appearance Of the
latter IN Ine navy 1 arQ League. Inc
Quantico aggregation won by Is to Q
and apparently did not have to extend
themselves much to do that. Single
ton, former Texas League pitcher, let
down the printers with two hits and
famed fifteen. Mulvey got both the
safeties credited to the losing nine.
Marines lambasted the ball in all
directions. chalking up thirteen hits.
Russell connected for a homer and
Pasquella for two doubles. Corwin
caught nice game for the winning
club.
War Trade was too strong for the
Red Cross nine in the Departmental
League. winning by to 3 after the
latt0r had obtained two run lead
in the opening inning. Murray of the
losing club got three hits, topping the
other players in batting. Henderson
at short played well for the Red
Cross. However. the all-round work
of the winning organization was bet
ter than that of the losers. War
Trade got most of it's runs in the
fifth, punching hits and taking ad-
vantage of misplays to get five men
across the plate.