The Washington herald., 1922-03-03

Georgetown. University's twen-
tieth annual indoor track and field
carnival gets under way at 1880
o'clock tonight at Convention Hall.
Hundreds of athletes are in town
representing colleges of the East
and South; preparatory and high
schools and athletic clubs A full
program Of thirty-four events. in
cluding more than a dozen relays,
will be run off.
The New York Athletic Club will
have i've of its most brilliant per-
formers on deck for the open
events and the special relay with
the an-South Atlantic intercol-
legiate four. Accompanied by Ber-
ME Wefers. sr.. who smashed all
worlds sprint records while sports
ing the Hilltoppers' colors a quar-
ter OF a century ago, the Manhattan
squad consisting of Wefers, jr..
Andy Kelly, Sid Leslie. Joe Higgins
and Jack Sellars will arrive here
late today, according to a wire re-
reived last night.
Navy's entire track team, consist
ing Of twenty Midshipmen, arrives
this afternoon with coaches and
trainers. The squad will stop at
the Raleigh while in, the Capital.
Big Virginia squad.
q. Pop" Lannigan. veteran coach of
the University of Virginia, is bring
ing twenty-siX men from Char
lottesviIle The Old Dominion ath-
tetes are expected to make a strong
bid for the team championship. The
virginians' headquarters will be at
the Ebbitt-
a Pennsylvania Is sending the var
sity relay team and a number of
entrants for the open events. Le-
high will enter her crack quartet
in a special match with Hopkins
and also a selection of individual
stars. Johns Hopkins Is coming
over from Baltimore with a full
squad and will be a contender in
every open event on the program.
Georgetown's full team of thirty
men, which captured the Hopkins
meet at Baltimore Saturday night.
will be a prime favorite for point
honors. LeGendre, interallied and
intercollegiate pentathlon champion,
will run in the sprints. hurdles and
relays Jimmy Connoly, intercol-
legiate mile champion, who outdis-
tanced Joie Ray and Hal Cutbill at
Buffalo two weeks ago, will start
from scratch in the open mile
against a field of forty entrants.
He will also carry the Blue and
Gray IN the South Atlantic emile
relay championship.
Marsters should show Wen.
Marsters. Georgetown's brilliant
IS-year-old half-miler. is to be used
In the relays and possibly in the
open $50. He triumphed over a
neld of the country's best middle
distance men at Buffalo recently
and gives promise of developing 9
INTO a marvel Kinnaly, another
find. who has turned in some
splendid performances indoors this
season, will be the Hilltoppers'
chief reliance over the quaSter-mile
route in the relays
q Immediately following the games
tonight Georgetown's varsity relay
team, consisting Of Capt. Connolly,
I.eGendre. Marstefs and Kinnaly,
will entrain for Boston, where the
quartet will battle Boston College,
4Iofy Cross, Fordham and Detroit in
the special mile relay to be run for
the Cardinal O'Connell Cup. emble-
matte of the Catholic college cham
pionship.
u Capital high schools will be rep
resented in the open events and
special relays. Other local con-
tenders will be the Potomac Boat
Club, Washington Canoe Club and
the Mohawk and Emerald Athletic
clubs. There have also been re-