Evening star., 1919-05-12
SCHOOLS To BEGIN
MEETS THIS WEEK
Western, Central, Business,
Eastern, Tech to Engage
in TituIar Games.
BY II. c. BYRD.

Interhigh school track and field
three meets for Western, Central
Business. Tech and Eastern being
scheduled Saturday. The initial COM
petition will be an open handicap
meet in which each school may enter
as many men as it desires. One of the
remaining two is to be the same as
the annual high school track cham
pionships of years previous to last,
and the other a meet in which one
man from each school will be entered
in each event.
If the meet of last Saturday, the
open events held at Central by Cen
closest competition seen in years in
the scholastic meets should take
place. Although Central won the
meet, it was only after Western and
Technical had given it real fight.
and field athlete, also is a remarkable
foot ball player. according to men
familiar with his gridiron career in
prep school. The star track man is a
tackle and certainly possesses an ideal
build for the position. Tall and strong,
he has more than the requisite speed
for the place. The Blue and Gray is
banking on him to be one of it's star
linemen.
Beverly Smith of Johns Hopkins is
one of the most capable middle dis
tance runners in the United States:
He is a star in both the quarter and
half. Ted Meredith, Penn's former
great quarter miller, made the state
ment at the Pennsylvania relays
week before last that the two great
est 440 men in the country are both
Smiths, one being Elmer Smith Of
Pennsylvania and the other Beverly
Smith of Hopkins.
Barall, who won the running broad
jump for Maryland State in the South
Atlantic I. A. A. meet Saturday in
really meritorious performances of
the games. He was credited in his
winning jump. with 21 feet inches,
rather good work under any condi-
tions. In that jump, though, Barall
probably missed his take-off by
close to % feet inches. And to make
the jump even more meritorious, it
was the first time since last summer
that Barall had practiced jumping.
Incidentally, that 21 feet s inches,
with which the State athlete was
record, the former mark having been
something under 81 feet.
Charley Cox. graduate manager of
athletics at G. u, stated yesterday
that Georgetown would resume it's
that the meet would not have been
abandoned even during the war, had
it not been that no place could be
obtained in which to hold it. The
government had Convention Hall last
winter, the place where the meets
have taken place for several years.
The South Atlantic intercollegiate
Athletic Association meet next spring
should be the biggest collegiate track
and field event ever held in the south.
These colleges and universities have
promised to send squads: Washing
ton and Lee. University of North Car
olina. North Carolina State. Virginia
Military Institute. Virginia Poly
technic Institute, Georgetown, Cath
olic University, Maryland State and
Johns Hopkins. Also, the University
of Virginia probably will be repre-
sented. No meet ever held in the
south Atlantic section has brought
together that many of the best in
stitutions.
Tom Crooke's Navy Yard nine goes
out to College Park this afternoon to
play Maryland State. The contest
will be the first of four this week
for the Marylanders. he three other
are with Western Maryland, Wash
ington College and Catholic Uni
versity.
Georgetown and Maryland State
will meet in theiTr second base ball
game next week, probably on Tues
day or Thursday. If Georgetown
beats Hopkins Saturday and Mary
land State gets through the week
with a clean slate the south Atlantic
will lie between George
town and State.
It is not often that a ball player puts
up a good game when shifted from
third base to shortstop, but Rooney Of
Catholic University is doing just that.
Rooney is playing even better ball in
the shortfield position than he did at
third, If reports of his work in the
games C. U. is taking part in are true.
The annual track and field meet Of
the Tome School will suffer this week
through the holding of the high school
track and field games here. Central,
Western and Tech usually have sent
squads to Tome, but this week will not
be represented.
With the exception of the games
played by Catholic University, last
week was almost a blank for local
college mines. c. u. had two contests
on foreign fields, but neither George
town. Gallaudet, nor Maryland State