The Washington times., 1921-03-06
TRACK MEETS !
SHOULD DRAW
Plenty Of Competition offered
Schoolboys in Seven Differ
ent Engagements.
BY BRYAN MORSE.

Washington schoolboy athletes
will be afforded plenty of chance for
field and track competition this
spring following the announcement
of the various dates of the big meets
in this section. Within the next
week the youngsters will work out
Of DOORS. Plans are under way for
considerable activity in track aside
from the regularly scheduled meets.
The big high school meet date has
been set for May z and from present
indications all five local schools will
participate. For the first time in
. many seasons there are no conflicts
in the games for the schoolboys and
from present indications heavy en-
try lists will be sent in to every
meet.
The annual triangular Episcopal
Western-Technical track meet. to be
held at Episcopal High School, has been
set for April 23, just one week before
the Washington schools hike to
Franklin Field for the Penn relay car
nivai.
On May the annual field and track
games of the Washington high sch ools
will be held in the Central High
School Stadium. This Is the banner
meet OF the year and IS closed to the
local high schools. Western, Tech.
Central, Business and Eastern will all
have entries this year and first-class
competition is expected.
EXPECTS MANY SCHOOLS.
The following Saturday. which Is
May IL, the big &C Club" meet of Cen
trail. the third annual affair, will be
held In the Central High School
Stadium. These games will attract
practically all of the schools of the
District, Maryland and Virginia.
There is every indication that Mer-
cersburs. the Hill School Harrisburg
Techs Staunton Military Academy and
perhaps the Philadelphia Central
High School will compete this season.
The annual field and track games of
the Tome School, at Port Deposit. Md.
are announced as being held on the
date of May 21, which will give the
Washington lads procession of
meets on successive Saturdays.
DUAL MEETS PLANNED.
In addition to the meets already
named II is likely that the school
boys will stage a number of dual en-
gagements as well as closed inter-
class competitions.
The track program is but one fea-
ture Of the scholastic sport endeavors
this year. With four new men hand
ling the baseball teams added inter-
est is attahed to the series which is
expected to be first class affair
this season.
George F. Green is at Western:
Mike Kelly Is at Business; Gould
Menefee is at Central and Charles
Guyon is at Eastern. These men,
with the exception of Menefee, are
all newcomers in baseball. Menefee
had charge of the Central team sew
eral seasons ago and did a first-class
job.
Wilbur M. Apple, of Tech. who
landed the title for his team two years
ago, is the only veteran baseball men,
tor in the schools. All of the Ave
high schools have listed a number of
contests for the teams. The games
are expected to start up within three
weeks.
PLAN MANY TRIPS.
Trips have been planned for prac-
tically all of the squads, and Mary
land and Virginia teams are on the
schedules. Centrars pretentious list
of thirty-two games leads all others.
Tech will have seventeen contests
and the other schools will have a like
amount of games.
In tennis all of the schools Will be
represented. Central leads in this re-
spect, and has listed twelve engage
ments for its racqueters. Western
will have a frst-class team, while
Tech and Business will be represent
ed. The net game is finding favor
with a number of schoolboys. Plans
are under way for an inter-scholasti
tennis tournament which will be
staged early in June just before the
schools close.
Swimming programs for the schools
in the spring are being mapped out at
present and will be announced short
ly. Central Tech, and Western will
urobably he represented in the va