Evening star., 1922-01-15

At several places work is planned
to begin next spring. North Carolina
State College will have stands to ham
die a crowd of more than 10000 when
it plays its big foot ball games next
fall. Profit. W. Harrelson, graduate
manager, told the writer just short
time ago, I'VE have reached the point
where we must enlarge our field and
its facilities. Larger seating capaci-
ty for foot ball will soon pay for
whatever expenditures we make. And,
again, our track and field facilities
are very meager. and we plan to build
new course"
University of Maryland started
work last summer on new athletic
field, when il practically completed
track, and that part of an athletic
field inclosed by the track. and it will
begin work again in the spring or
early summer to put up stands In the
| hope that il can complete the whole
plant by next fall.
Georgetown is making plans where
by ii expects. within the next year or
two. to put into operation scheme
to build stadium on the Hilltop to
seat 10000 persons. Catholic Uni
versity is going to make a real effort
! to improve its field and George Wash
ington has for some time had under
consideration a plan by which it may
nave a stadium or Its own.
University of Richmond is increas-
ing its athletic facilities, having
played its first games on its new field
last fall. 1t has gymnasium under
construction and is to add to the
seating capacity of its gridiron
stands. Johns Hopkins. with the big
drawing game with Maryland a GER
tainty for the next five years, VIII
, increase the capacity of its field. for
taking care of spectators. to $4,000.
The Hopkins field now seats about
5000.
University of North Carolina. ac-
| cording to c. T. Wooden. graduate
manager of athletics and busine IS
manager of the university, last fan
| bought temporary seats for about
as. with the Virginia game at Chapel
! Hill in alternate years, the present
seating arrangements are woefully
/ insufficient
Virginia Military Institute dedi-
| Gated new field last fall. when II
| played Virginia, and it is understood
| that more stands are to be added.
| More people were in Lexington on
| that Saturday of last October than
ever We're there on any previous day
in the whole history of the town.
| Preparations to make both the
Johns Hopkins-Fifth Regiment meet
| in Baltimore. February 25. and the
| Georgetown meet here, March 3, two
! of the biggest events of the kind in the
south are well under way. Hopkins
plans are much more advanced than
! Georgetown's, but the latter has in
dicated that it will leave no stone
| unturned to bring its games back 10
! the prominent place they held In
south Atlantic athletics prior TO the
| war.
| The medley relay between the Naval
! Academy and Penn State should be
i brilliant event. The mile part OF tnis
race will bring together Shields and
Curtis two of the greatest distance
men in the United States. 1t is a
| remarkable record Curtis has made
at Annapolis. not having lost mile
| event since entering there. Yale rs
| to enter relay team and three sp.-
| cial relays will be featured for col
| leees in this section-one- mile. tWo-
| mile and freshmen mile. Inc speciai
! .00O-yard race is likely to attract
| some of the fastest middle-distance
| men in the east
| GEORGETOWN is preparing to get its
| own men out for real work ana aiso
| to make its meet generally a success.
! An outdoor board track is to be buHt
| on the Hilltop and the Blue ana Graz
| believes il will be able to deVeiop
! SQUAD as capable as any in the soulh;
I George Washington's track squau
iras begun work Coach Morse says
that he has few men of real expert
ence. but hopes to get many itesh
n,en ont and lay the foundation Tor
GOOD team in future years Heorss
| Washington intends to place a squau
of about twelve men in the hopN's
and Georgetown meets. .r.cl
/ IEniversity of Marylands track
souad will go out Monday afternoon,
| Ali training this winter Is TO tahe
,Iaoe ont Of doors About thirty men
ara eynected to report, and most OF
| them are freshmen. In TACT, 1uhioiSI
| and seniors, unless men OF exceptoiiat
aan, b;iities probably will not pe
| counted as members Of the squad. ne
! Lacrosse squad began practice Ia,
+, week in a rather informal wa! atu
| nlans to get down to real preparatiol
| for some hard games Sity Ss,
| Cornell. Navy and Penn state alreauy
! have been listed by the Maryianoers
and probably St. Johns and Lehlgh
| will be added.
| MARYLAND is to arrange about three
! anaJ meets for outdoor track ana VIII
| sand teams to the Hopkins ana
| Gaoreetown meets indoors and take
| rart in the quadrangular meet Win
| Georgetown. Catholic L. ana Georse
! Washington. the Penn relays % ~
/ South Atlantic championships. Also IL
is expected that three or four men
will go to the meet to be held under
. tbe auspiceS of the National ColleRi-
, ate Athletic Association in June
Merrill Tyree. former Central High
runner, is one of the members OF the
! Naval Academy \plebe relay TOUR.
| Tyree ran the quarter and haif AT
! centrsl and was one of the best mid
ale-distance men in the local high
SohoolS