Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1922-02-06
V|RG|N|A'S teams READY
FOR GEORGETOWN MEET
Will Be Held in Convention
Hall i'll Washington
on March 3.
WILL 60 TO pALrIMonE
UniNcrsity Makes BiE Preparations
For Championship Mile Relay Rncc
TO Bc Held nj Joiins-IfapkIns Con-
tests February -.

Especial TO The Times Dispatch
CHARLOTTESVILLE VA. Feb. D.
-Nirginia will send the pick OF her
track and field squad to the George
town indoor meet. to be held in Con-
vention Hall, In Washington. March
J. Besides two-mile relay team.
Coach Lannigan will send down n
dozen or more Of his best men TO COM
pete I'm the Individual events
The Orange and Blue will also he
strongly represented in the Inter
collegiate events Mt the Johns Hop
kin's NTH regiment indoor games
and relay carnival TO he staged in
the Firth Regiment Armory. Bal
timore. February 25th.
Virginia to Enter Team.
One OF the features of the Baltimore
meet will be the South Atlantic Inter-
collegiate Athletic Association champ
ionship mile relay. In which Virgini.
will compete. The Old Dominion will
also enter team in the freshman
relay. n South Atlantic event which
Is being tried for the first time.
Candidates for the Virginia track
and field squad have been hard at
work now for the past two weeks
ana are being rapidly whipped into
shape by Coach Lnnnigan. in prepara-
lion for the hard indoor meet sched-
uled ahead. To date. seventy five
en- didatcs for the varsity and first
year teams have reported and now
that the snow has disappeared from
the board track In the rear'of tho
Y. NJ. c. a.. stiff workouts are being
held each afternoon.
Old Champions Hack.
Il. NJ. Baker and Bohannon, or last
seasons championship relay team, are
back in college, and have been out
| for practice some time. Baker Is rum
ming fast just now. close 10 nifty sec
onds, and should he In good trim by
the time OF tho Hopkins meet. He
will be used in the relay, sprints and
quarter mile.
| Captain Bernard Chamberlain is eS-
| pected to boost the intercollegiate
record for the high jump this season.
II Will he recalled that at tho Penn
games last year he tried In the high
jump event. with such men as Os-
borne, Of Illinois. and Murphy, of
Notrc Dame. Another high jumper OH
the Virginia squad is Archer. last
years captain.
! Among the dash men, Seward. Swim
ford ana G. &. Walker are showing
up well. Greene, the Stands brothers.
| OF Washington. and Bohannon, are
distance men OF past repute. while
Coward, who starred on last falls
cross country team. will prove val
| liable addition in the one-milc event
Good shot Putter.
Winston Is putting the shot I'm. great
| style just now. and Davis is also
| rounding into form i'm the same event.
| Watts and Zundel are the only varsity
pole vaultcrS of note so far reporting
| Each Is good for about eleven feet.
y freshman pole vaultcr OF promise
in Lambert.
The first-year sound Is not yet sufl-
ciently developed to show any parti-
cular promise on the part of the in
dividuai candidates. hut the men are
being closely watched by I.annigan.
Douglcs is showing up we'll in the
sprints and quarter. and Rosenberg
| is making fair time In tho distances
Trainer LanniEnn IL giving parti
cular attention toward the devotion
ment Of two-mile relay tcamI 10
| compete In the Georgetown meet
il Is too early just now To even hazard
a guess as to tn" men who Will be
picked for the team. According To
1.anniean. the selection will hardly be
made before February 18th. IL nv
| then.