Evening star., 1921-05-15

points, anu III tiS W NiiiiiiliS VI INV &C
broke as many records.
On second thought. instead of wait
ing until further along in the story
to dis. curse on the accomplishment
Of lie Gendrc. il seems ~rl H." Efr
him right at the beginning, and that
is hardly giving him what he de-
serves, because yesterday he featured
himself from the beg nning to the
end 1t was he who started George
town on a winning stride by finishing
first in the 100-yard dash and il was
he who won the last event OF the
afternoon. and in SO doing set new
record for the broad jump. 4 mark
Of ~ feet inches was set for the
event. the Old record of 80 ieet )
inches. held by Maxson of Virginia
and made several years ago. being
surpassed seemingly without much
difficulty.
starts by Winning Century.
lie Gendre. as stated before, started
the afternoon by winning the century
dash. then got secord i'll the shot-pu'.
walked across the field and captured
first honors in the discus. had rest
of as many as ten seconds before he
cleaned up the javelin throwers, then
proceeded to annex second place in
the 220-yard hurdles. got into the
broad jump and broke the record.
logged across the field to have his
picture taken WIN SoeHdlor bdNiu l.
Walsh, honorary referee, then rushed
away from the distinguished guest to
greet a smiling admirer. who was but
one of his fellow students. with
Eight o'clock? Yes. I'll be there. after
which he probably was willing to call
it an afternoon. Winning a track
meet on warm afternoon. seemingly,
is nothing of particular Importance
in that young mans life.
lie Gendre is great athlete was
heard time after time yesterday after
noon. and about all the reply that
anybody cared to make was: whats
the use to comment on the obvious.
And yet withal. the work Of Connolly
Of Georgetown must not be over
looked. He was the only man besides
lie Gendre to win two events. and IN
both his performances Connolly set
good marks, especially considering
that the track was slow. Connolly
won the mile in 4.33. and just little
while after took first place in the half
in 200 fiat. lie Gendre and Connolly
scored 3s of their schools IS points.
or Just a point and a half less than
half the total.
brilliant Efforts by Others.
But lest it be thought that the two
Georgetown stars occupied the whole
stage during the entire afternoon. let
it be known that athletics from other
SCNOOlS put up hISh
are as good as usually are seen in this
section. Seamans. Summers and Smith
Of Virginia Military Institute. Garard
of Washington and Lee. Blakeney OF
North Carolina State, Brittingham.
Woodward and Byrd of Virginia Poly
to Compiler of Maryland. who in the
stretch fought for and won a fifth
place in the two-mile race for the
only point scored by his team.
ra bling story anyway. it might as
well be brought in here that. while
lie Gendre was the star and the win
ners naturally get more praise and
comment than others. II must not be
taken therefrom that events were won
In reality. competition
was good. and actually it was the
exceptionally good performances of
others in at least two of the events !
in which lie Gendre was victor that
caused him to set new records. Aber-
foot behind LIE Gendre in the javelin
throw. the North Carolina man him 4
self having set new record before |
being beaten by the blue and gray !
athlete. I
Byrd Makes Long Jump. I
Byrd of V p. l. jumped % feet |
4 inches. within an inch of the mark. |
ma king the longest jump OF the meet |
with the one exception Of lie Gendre's
record breaking performance.
In the 100-yard dash. lie Gendre |
was led by Smith of Virginia Military /
Institute until within five feet of the
tape, when the Georgetown man
literally hurled his great bulk across
the tape ahead of his much smaller
and lighter opponent by the scant
of the bulge of his chest.
20 Gondra the of /
Of stars. being pushed in this way,
il takes no further comment to make
the reader understand just how close
and we'll fought were the races and
field events.
The summaries tell the story of who
scored points in the finals. but they do
not give even an inkling of the fine
evidence of sportsmanship and splen-
did examples of grit and ability and
keep competition which were evident
for nearly all the places in every kind
Of contest They tell nothing of how
Iarard of Washington and Lee, fifty
Yards behind in the emile run with
the stellar Blakeney of North Carolina
State in front, gradually wore down
that distance until in the final rush in
the last quarter he went out and won
in desperate squirt by many yards:
hey say nothing of how Seamans of
V. NJ l. seemed an easy winner in
he 12O-yard high hurdles. but
stumbled on the next to the last hurdle
md actually finished only fair
'ourth: they do not cover the brilliant
performance of Connolly. who. after
,unning a rather slow first quarter to
over his teammates. went to the front
n great sprint during the second
luarter which would have given him a
'ecord in the half had he covered the
irst quarter anything like as fast.
And they do not tell how in the
10 wv L |
md one from v. P. l.. both hopeless
Y beaten as far as points were con-
erned. literally sprinted neck and
leck to where the tape had long
ince been broken just for the pure
un and pleasure which come from
he testing OF each others mettle un-
Ter the stress of school rivalry. ,
&. u. Runs Meet SuccessfulIy.
And in reality. just as the story of
10 track meet ever is told in all its
interesting features, so the story of !
he one at Georgetown will not be
,iven except in the touches Of the |
Ugh spots already mentioned and in ,
he cold facts in the summaries of !
Who was first. second, third and SO on.
Suffice to say in conclusion that
ran the meet with all
he efficiency that could have been
esired. Not a single protest about
rything was registered. and every
Georgetown the honors of the occa-
ion. both for it's victorious team and !
or the excellent way 1t managed the
ssociation's championships.
Summaries of Games. ,
l0o.yard dnsh-Won by L~1,rhre &c. UD: Q
,cOnd. Smith ". NJ. IL: third, Werts (G | B
-; fourth, Costello ~. II. ID: NTH, saeadv
G. u. Time. O.lOI I-5.
22O-yard dash--won by Brittinghsm ". p.
} second. Smith tV. N. H.: third. Werts
G. u: fourth. Tuilar &c. u fifth, Thomas
W. and }. Time. O.23 So.