The Washington times., 1922-03-02


1t was planned to place Ray, Cur
It's, Shields, Brown, Connolly and
Cutbin in a mile event. Cutbill per.
forms the following night in Boston
in the X. OF G. games and Jack Ryder
will not allow him to come to Wash
ington.
Larry Brown is accompanying the
Penn two-mile team to Urbana, ILL.,,
to take part in the special race for
the University of Illinois carnival,
and was unable to compete. Larry
Shields is competing for Penn State
against Cornell in dual indoor meet
Ray is In the Middle West competing.
Connolly, Curtis and Booth, of Hon
kins, will probably appear in the mile
open handicap. and should furnish Il
sterling race. Last week, Booth ran
q great race against Connolly in the
mile handicap, while Curtis and
Shields furnished a thriller in the
medley relay.
The University of Pennsylvania.
Virginia, Lehigh, Hopkins and the
famous New York A. c. quartet
will furnish plenty OF speed for
those who delight in watching
finished teams perform. In addi.
ton the special two-mile South
Atlantic relay race with George.
town, Virginia, Hopkins, Maryland
and Washington and Lee compel
Ing will be high water mark IN
the meet.
PENIS relay Is down to run
against the four Navy flyers at a
mile. The Virginia Freshmen and
Navy Plebes are competing over a
Ia Hiafn Id
Lehigh are running in a mile race.
The Hopkins men won the mile
titular relay last week at Baltimore
and earlier in the season set a Mid.
die Atlantic record.
In addition to all these races
Georgetown's crack sprint medley
team which will probably be CON-
posed Of LeGendre, Gaffey. Kinally
and Marsters or Brewster, will cor J..
pete against the sprint medley relay
team of the Navy.
In this race two men will run 22O
yards. one a quarter and another a
half mile. The distance medley
finds a 220, 440. $50 and mile or one
and seven-eighths miles for the four
competitors. II was in such a race
last week that Shields and Curtis
had their great battle in Baltimore.
more City and Central High are
matched in all sorts OF relay races.
Tech and Western are down for n
half-mIle chase. Baltimore City and
Central are competing in n mile race
while Tech and Episcopal are down
for another of their many engage
ments Of the winter over the mile
route.
Western and Tech are also hooked
up in a medley race while the
Potomacs, Old Dominion and Wash.
ington Canoe Club relays are
scheduled for competition.
There are twelve laps to the mile
In the going at Convention Hall
and there is no furlong dash offer.
ed. This event was tried some
twenty years ago and discarded.
, yard open and "A fifty-yard hurdle.
Other events from the quarter to
the mile are on the program.
One race always attractive in the
Georgetown meets is the 60O-yard
novice which usually draws out a big
field OF first-class entrants.
The meet is scheduled to start at
1880 o'clock and will begin with the
fifty-yard dash for scholastic per.
formers. AS this is the only special
scholastic event there is sure to be
q host Of youngsters competing.
OF these lads Kern, Of Central, and
whiteford, of Baltimore City. are
sure to be on scratch. Many OF the
schoolboys will compete in the open
events, there being races of every
description for those who have work,
ed for the ma st months for this meet
IL Is expected that Tech, Central,
western and Episcopal will have
more than one hundred and fifty
youngsters competing. Baltimore is
sending over host Of performers.
The relays appear to be we'll.
matched and will bear watching as
some exceptionally fine performances
are looked for. The big feature
relays will be accorded the places of
honor and special preparation will
be made to clear the floor for these
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