The Washington herald., 1918-04-14
SERVICE MEET
IS POSTPONED
Athletic Games Changed to
MAY 4 on Account of Wet
Track at Stadium.

Inc L nlte0 SSerNlce meet, scheduled
to be held at Central High School
stadium next Saturday afternoon,
April 20. has been postponed to the
afternoon OF May 4. This announce
ment was made last night by Harold
Keats. executive officer of the Dis
trict war camp community service, in
charge OF the meet here. Following
a conference with Principal Emory
Wilson, Of Central High School, II
was decided by school officials and Of
ficials of the war camp service that
the heavy rain and snow of the past
week had rendered all chance of the
grounds drying out by next Saturday
impossible and on this account the
meet was postponed. Permission TO
hold the meet was granted by the
Board OF Education pending the
opinion OF Principal Wilson.
1t is expected that with the ad-
ditonal time given to. ask for entries
from camps all along the Atlantic
seaboard and to advertise the meet in
all the training camps near the coast.
more entries for the meet will be OBJ
tained, so officials in charge are not
greatly disappointed by the can
collation. OF the original date.
Names OF athletes prominent in in
tercollegiate athletics for the past
three or four years are included in
the latest entry lists. With such men
as ]. Howard Berry, of Penn, pen
tathlon champion in 1916. Judged by
many TO be the able successor of Jim
Thorpe as the best all-around athlete
in the world; James Mount Pleasant.
formerly of the Carlisle Indian School.
picked by Walter Camp for his
mythical all-American football team.
and now a lieutenant I'm the United
States army. and many others OF equal
fame competing. the meet is expected
to gather together the classiest ag-
gregation of all-star athletes ever on
one field in this country.
Other names of star track and
field men announced last night by
the war camp service include the
following: Butterfield of Penn
State, a middle-distance man; How
ard of Cornell. a star SS0-yard man
Harvey OF Cornell, anoher middle
distance man of fame: Harry Nc
Donough, former Georgetown star
over the high hurdles: Addison of
Colgate. Bird Of Yale. Marchant of
the University of California. Lewis
of Cornell. and many others well
known in track athletics nation
ally. all from Camp Dix. Wrights-
town, N. j.
A squad Of ten men from Com
pany B. Forty-fifth Engineers. the
"camouflage" company. stationed at
Camp American University. led by
Harry S. Conell, former broad
jumper at Penn State University.
has been entered. Three OF these
men are well-known middle-dis-
tance runners and one of them has
to his record the winning OF a
marathon race held by the Univer-
sity of Washington.
The postponement of the meet
will not eliminate the special fea-
lures planned by the war camp
service for the entertainment OF the
service athletes. The two dances
planned for entrants in the meet
the might the meet is to be held,
will be carried out, and the twenty
mile automobile trip scheduled for
the men has been arranged. This
trip will be to many of the men
their first view of Washington. and
will bring into view all the execu-
tive and administration offices OF
the Capital.