Evening star., 1919-03-24
CENTRAL PLANNING
E. FOR TRACK GAMES
Intends to Make South Allan.
tic Meet May 10 One of Big
gest in This Section.
BY II. c. BYRD.

Central High Is planning for one Of
the biggest interschoIastic track and
field meets in the sorth Atlantic SEC
tion this spring. The date for the
games, as previously announced, is
May 10, and extensive ARRANGEMENTS
have been begun for the various de-
tails relative to building up an at
tractive set of competitions. Entry
blanks for the meet are due to go out
today or tomorrow and special fnvi-
tations will be sent to most of the
schools within a radius Of 100 miles.
The Blue and White expects to draw
athletes from all the big high and
prep schools of Maryland and is cer-
tain to get all from the District and
many from Virginia. 1t is possible.
too, that several of the Philadelphia
schools will send down men.
Robert A. Maurer, acting principal
of the school. is enthusiastic over
plans for the meet and says that time
and effort will not be spared to make
it successful. Says Mr.. Maurer:
..This is the first time Central has
attempted an event of this kind. but
I believe it will be successful. Tome
School always has done well with
it's set of games. and I believe that
Central is much more favorab1y sit
uated than Tome. We are the CEN
ter of district in which there are
a great many high and preparatory
schools supporting track and field
athletics. and 1 can see no reason
why we should not have an excep-
tionally good meet. Undoubtedly we
have one of the finest fields in the
south, and that usually is an attrac-
ton to good runners and field men,
We want the support of the local
schools, especially the other high
schools, and 1 think we deserve it,
as we are going out into an unusual
field for high school in order to aid
in building up track and field sports
In Washington. Entry blanks and
invitations are to go out today or
tomorrow, and we shall be glad to
take up with any school any matter
on which Information may be de-
sired"
Georgetowns more or less green
squad of athletes made a decidedly
good showing in the South Atlantic
intercollegiate A. A. events in the in
door track and field meet in Balti-
more Saturday night. The Hilltop
pers counted the most points in these
events, registering 20 against for
Hopkins. The Blue and Gray was
defeated in the relay race by Hop
kins by about four yards.
1t was understood that Hopkins had
a veteran team. but it's failure to ac-
complish more against Georgetown is
sufficient evidence that 1t is not so
strong as had been anticipated by
! many followers of the sport. With
Virginia Polytechnic Institute, vir-
ginia Military Institute and probably
Virginia and two other institutions in
| the track and field meet May and
May 10, it is likely that an excellent
set of events will be run off.
Western High and Central did well
| in the meet Saturday night. The
Georgetown youngsters took two re-
! lay races and the Mount Pleasant ag-
gregation gathered the most points
in the open scholastic competitions.
College base ball gets under way
! this week and from now until the 1st
of June there are scheduled for each
local institution two or three games
each week. College base ball this
spring will come back into its own,
there being more contests booked than
have been played in the last two years
put together.