Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-02-21
COLLEGES ENTER
BALTIMORE MEET
Many Track Stars to Com
pete in Annual Johns
Hopkins Games
SELECT PENN ATHLETES
BY PAUL PREP

The first real test of intercollegia ate
| track and field strength of the year will
take place Saturday night. when Lawson
! Robertson's University OF Pennsylvania
athletes meet Cornell in a special two
! mile relay and Georgia Tech in a special
half-mle relay in the annual athletic
games of the Johns Hopkins University
in Baltimore.
Coach Robertson has selected Gustaf-
son, Irwin. Cummings and Price to com
pete against she big Red runners from
Ithaca, while Captain Landers. Davis
! Raymond and Brennan will carry the
Red and Blue colors against Georgia
Tech.
Little Is known of the prowess Of
| PENIS opponents, but of late rather
| promising reports have been coming
| from Ithaca. Jack Moakley is Just as
| busy as he was before the war, and with
Captain Dresser Spear. Yost. Maynard
| and Finn, Gf the cross-country squad ::
! Mayer, the fastest quarter-miler at Cor
nell in several years; Shackleton a good
| sprinter. and Cleminshaw and Smith
| two hurdlers. who are expected TO turn
4iO under 81 seconds, Cornelrs pros
poets aren't half bad.
Seeks Team Prize
In addition to the relay events. Penn
will be represented in every race in an
effort to win the team prize. The fol-
/ lowing will be taken OH the trip: Can.
! tain Landers, Gustafson. Cummings
| Price. Brooks. Van Ginkel, Raymond,
Davis. Bullock. Beardwood. Brennan,
| Clayton and Friedman.
While the Johns Hopkins games have
attracted many college athletes. it is I'm
| the Meadowbrook games, in this citv
"a thnt hA Lao Itt,a s,,..
will enter their full strength Tommy
lteane, OF Syracuse, has written Sam
Dallas that he will bring down eight or
| ten of his best men; Keane Fitzpatrick
| expects to enter between forty and fifty
| Princeton athletes; Bowdoin. coached by
Johnny Magee, will be represented in the
| local games for the first time by an even
dozen; while Cornell Dartmouth, CO.
| lumbia, city College OF New York: in
fact, all the eastern institutions are pre-
pairing for this meet.
| ID. &. Sinciaire. of Prince ton. winner os
carnival last year and indoor intercolie-
in the Johns Hopkins games.
| The National senior indoor championship
meet Of the Amateur Athletic Union viii be
New York, ON March 16 Entry blanks wege 3
| mailed yesterday to athletic clubs. colleges 3
/ alu aIHls anu navy TRAINING ana Receiving
stations throughout the country. All but
| fve OF the winners of the titles last wear
are now in the service of Uncle Sam
| The indoor championships of the Middle
| Atlantic District of the A. A. L. will take
place Thursday evening, March II, In the
second Reeiment Armory. Broad and sus-
decided r6 d. are @ ss follows 4o-ysGd dash 500,
| two-mile run. 45-yard high hurdles i2.ponnd
shotput and the high and broad jumps
There will also be special events for nam.
bers OF the service. a 40.yard dash. um,. soo-
s,l, sssr,d dash and Z military relay race. In
Championship events. the national iunior
medley relay Championship will be staged
from Chicago, New York. Bsitimore'e enPpsIred PIi,sd1
burgh. as well as local teams.
Schoolboys haven't been overlooked bv m.
kcommittee in charge and speciaA one. mill iie
| relay race will be held. Local teams VII,
| have hard task defeating out-of-tou, !
auartets from Mercersburg and Hin.
According TO Martin Sheridan and otbs,
authorities, u takes six years to deveion
Into a hrst-class hammer thrower But II
he must begin dieting at the sse OF lei;
and aim 10 weigh $50 pounds when he Il,
twenty-one. This IL necessary for six YEAS
OF strenuous training.
The annual American marathon from,
Ashland to Boston. will be run as usual this
year ON Patriots Day, which falls ON Apri
10. Hannes Kohlemai1en. the Olympic dis
the MeadoNbrook Club exu uecta IN he !. ~. ".