The Washington herald., 1918-02-24
How he Points Were Scored.
Scholastic events:
By JOHN A. DUGAN.

ment Armory tonight Georgetown dls-
played a few athletes who were equal
enough to the occasion Of landing the
honors IN the South Atlantic col
legiate events.
Georgetown came through with such
a margin that the Hopkins team,
their nearest competitors, were four
teen points behind them Georgia
Technical School finished third.
Penny won the open events, while
the Georgetown team not only proved
the world beater in the South
Atlantic events, but they also came
through with second honors in the
open races. Central and Poly teams
were tied for the honors in the
scholastic race
Joe Lane, Of the Blue and Gray
team. jumped out into the lead In
the half mile South Atlantic event
and was never topped The feature
Of the race was the fact that the
Hflltoppers ran one, two, three In the
event, while Hopkins was compelled
TO take fourth place.
Robert Maxam, formerly Of West
ern. High School and st. Albans
School, who Is now running under the
colors Of the Meadbrook Athletic
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Washington boy to break the tape as
he landed first honors in the second
heat of the open 1O0-yard dash. Dor
sey Griffith, Of Georgetown, toed the
mark in his first heat against Clemin-
shaw, Of Cornell, and Duskey Trout,
from Camp Meade, but he easily land
ed the honors. Young Renee, Of
Georgetown, took second honors in his
second heat, D. Rogers, Of Mead
brook Club, taking things easy after
the first fifty yards
Georgetown was the first to score in
the South Atlantic events as Dorsey
Griflth, captain Of the Hilltop team,
landed the quarter-mile event which
was-the second on the card. Griffith
was followed closely across the line
by Billy Gates while Shay, Of G. u,
finished fourth, annexing nine points
for the Blue and Gray in the South
Atlantic.
Seward, Of Episcopal High School,
scored in the opening heat Of the CEN
tury socialistic, while Aaronson, of
Tech High School, was second. Car
pentier, of Tech. and Parker. Of the
Manual Trainers worked into the
finals by finishing second in each Of
their heats.
Technical High School grabbed
off second and third place in the
half mile interscholastic. Hal
Brown. of Baltimore Polys. won the
event with but a a few feet to spare.
while Young Gross of the Manuel
Training. came in second, ahead of
his captain, Monroe Sheehan. Max
am, OF the Meadebrook Club. fin
ished third to Cleminshaw. Of Cor
nell and Raymond, of Penn, in the
one hundred yard open event. Billy
Foley shot through his first athlete
in the money when Young Hal
Johnson, OF the Central High School
team, finished second in the schol-
astic, while Seward, of Episcopal
High. landed fourth place. The time
was exceptionally fast for scholastic
as the winner stepped off the dis
tance in 10 rs.
Billy Gates, Of Georgetown. capt
ured second honors In the open hur-
dies giving Erdman, of Princeton,
a great race during the final TWEEN
ty yeards, Joe Guyon of Georgia
Tech, finished third. while Sheman
Landers, Of Penn, landed the fourth
honors.
Dorsey Grifith, Of Georgetown.
withdrew from the semi-final Of the
open hundred but Robert Maxam, Of
the Meadbrook, was the Washington
youngster to stay in the event finish
ing second. In the second semifinals
Bill Trenholmes, OF Episcopal, made
Sherman Landers, OF the University
of Pennsylvania, hustle to land the
opening heat in the open century
hurdle while Billy Gates, OF George
town finished second to Cleminshaw.
OF Cornell, in the second heat.
Joe Guyon. Of Georgia Tech, finish
ed In the place position to Erdman,
OF Princeton. In the third heat.
Jack NoakIey, of Cornell, the vet
eran coach, scored a real victory here
tonight as his Cornell runners came
through with a victory over their
rivals, Pennsylvania. To Ed Fortier,
a former Technical High School boy,
and Ike Dresser, Cornell owes its vic
tory. Fortier grabbed the lead in this
two-mile hike and gave Dresser the
second runner for Cornell about a
ive-yard getaway. Cummings of
Pennsylvania. made the mistake IN
the early going trying to catch Dress
er who IN the last two laps increased
CorneIFs lead to thirty yards Gus
tafson. who ran third for the Phil
adelphia collegians, tried mighty hard
TO put his team In the front but his
efforts were all to no avail as after
making up about twenty he was
forced to Be satisfied with six yards
as Finn. Of Ithacans, came through
and gave Mayer q ten-yard lead. The
veteran Mayer had his pace until the
final dash when he came along with a
great burst Of speed and shook or
Irwin. II was q great victory for Cor
nell and one that will long be remem-
bered by the large crowd which pack
ed the Fifth Regiment armory to-
night.
Mark Mclean placed Central on
top as point winners in the
scholastic events by grabbing on
top honors in the quarter mile
scholastic, he finished first in this
event while his teammate Defin-
baugh landed third honors, while
Mcnamara, Of Tech, landed fourth
place. but Central went out ahead
in the scholastic point scoring with
nine points. while Polytechnic was
their nearest rival with six.
Billy Gates. of the Hilltop George
town team, was out in front in the
South Atlantic events by landing
first honors in the 10o-yard hurdle.
In landing this victory Gates was
compelled to defeat two Of the
greatest football players known in
the South last season. Joe Guyon.
Of Georgia Tech, and his teammate
Everett Strupper. who was consid-
cred the greatest of all gridiron
Players in the South. finished sec
ond and third respectively in this
event. George Washington handed
the District fans the surprise OF
the night in the half mile open run,
when Raymond Harsch. of the
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