Evening star., 1919-01-22
SCHOOLS TO HOLD
BIG TRACK MEETS
One Open, Two Championship
and Freshman Competi-
tions Are Scheduled.
BY II. c. BYRD.

Four big scholastic track and field
meets are scheduled in the Central
High School stadium in the spring.
One is to be an open set of games.
held under the auspices of the Blue
and White. and the other three will
be regular high school championship
affairs Besides CentraPs open meet
the high school faculty advisers will
foster a regular set of championships,
I such as took place prior to last year.
a meet like that held in 1918 and a
set of freshman titular contests.
| Central plans to invite all high
| schools in the section to take part in
its open meet. In fact. any scholastic
institution, be 1t prep or high school,
is to be considered eligible to enter
men IL present plans go through. This
is a project fostered by Emory Wilson,
principal of the school. since before
Central got it's new building. The
idea is now to be carried out on the
line he planned.
Back on the program Is the regular
set of high school championships, the
elimination of which last season
| caused such breach in high school
athletics that Central refused to enter
a squad in the set of events that were
staged in lieu of the usual titular COM
petitions. Besides the mentioned
| championship meet. which will be con-
Quoted along old lines, another set of
games such as were won by Tech last
spring are listed. In that meet each
only one man in each event and the
same man in not more than three The
FRESHMAN meet is to be run along the
usual track meet lines.
Central did not have much luck yes
terday in Baltimore against Baltimore
/ Polytechnic Institute. else it failed
| to play near as well as 1t has been
doing on its home floor The Blue and
White took the short end of a "a to s
score.
Business continued on its glad
march toward high school basket
ball championship yesterday when it
| won from Western by 81 to Is. The
Red and White at no time appeared
anywhere near on a par with the
Stenographers. The latter showed
| greater experience and generally
played much better game than their
opponents.
| st. Adams found the going yester-
day against the Georgetown Preps
| just little too hard and had to con-
| tent itself with the little end of the
! ~ to II count that resulted from the
| meeting Of the two basket bail teams.
L
sters was the stellar unit in the con-
| test.
| Georgetown's basket ball team to.
gay goes to Annapolis for what is to
| pc the heardest test that a basket
ball team can face-a game with the
| Navy on the Navy's floor. The BIue
and Gray has been doing well in fits
own gymnasium, but it is going to be
against just as difficult a proposition
L =
when it tries conclusions with the
! M1ddies. The floor at the Naval Acad-
emy is peculiarly difficult to play on
anyway. and besides that the Navy
never @ goes OF that floor for games.
combination in basket ball. If the
Siue and Gray prevents the Navy
| ooupiing the score IL may consider
| that 1t has done as well as ordinar.
lily might be expected.
Central High this afternoon enter
tains the Episcopal High quint in the
central gymnasium A return Eame
IS to be played with Episcopal
saturday at Episcopal
Georgetown has scheduled q g1ms
with Tufts College in foot BAN for
next IAN. The contest is to Be
played November Is at Tufts. This
makes three hard games the Hili-
weeks: They meet Fordham in New
York November 4, Navy November 8
at Annapolis, and Tufts November IL
up in Massachusetts,.
| University of Virginia is to play
the University OF Georgia at Athens
next fall on November s. While no
| announcement has been made. it is
presumed that Virginia is arranging
practically the same kind of q sche-
dule that 1t had two years ago, and
| that Vanderbilt will BE- back OF, tho
list. 1t Is known. though. that vir-
ginia is seeking better alliances than
it has with those two institutions
because of financial reasons: neither
the Georgia game nor the Vanderbilt
game now measures ND to The re-
quirements from that standpoint