Evening star., 1923-02-23
GEORGETOWN TEAM
! TO SEEK POINT CUP
HiIItoppers Also to Send
Medley Relay Four to
New York Meet.
BY n. c. BYRD.
all local col
Icges and schools which conf

lcges and schools which conf
peted in the Georgetown in
door meet Wednesday night will
have their men in games sponsored
bv the Johns Hopkins University
Fifth Regiment Athletic Association
in Baltimore tomorrow night.
Georgetown, George Washington,
Maryland. Tech. Central, Western
and Episcopal, besides the Wash
ington Canoe Club and other organ
izations, are due to test their
strength against the best the Monu-
mental city affords in the way OF
athletes.
Incidentally, the Hopkins meet is
just about due to be what George
towns was--the best in the history
ton has had to do in a managerial
way. And one big advantage the
Baltimore meet is going to have over
Georgetown is the fact that IT will be
held on a floor where thousands may
be seated comfortably and where the
track is only two laps to the quarter
instead of three.
Georgetown will not have its full
team in competition in the baltimore
meet as medley relay four will run in
the New York Athletic Club games.
The relay team at New York rs to
have as it's opponents Penn state,
Columbia and Syracuse. TWenty-two
Blue and Gray runners will take part
in the open events in the Hopkins
games, and they have hope OF cap
turing the team trophy.
Twenty five Maryland men are due
TO compete in Baltimore, comprising
entrants in the open events and
two relays The varsity relay will
, run against Hopkins and the Fresh
man four against team OF M aopkiis 1ot .
expected of the College Parkers:
though. as most Of the material OF
which the squad is composed IS very
green.
which won easily from Gallaudet IN
the Georgetown games, is entered
but its opponent has not been named
Natchings for other relay entrles
have not been made known.
John O'Reflly, physical director at
Georgetown is to be congratulated on
under the auspices of his school Wed
nesday night O'Reilly stayed in the
background in matters relating to the
games, but in reality directed prac,
tically all moves that were made ana
should get credit for the success at at
IL
the class of several performers, II
was well managed in it's preliminary
stage and in its actual running on
and there was good competitlon.
which was the failure of the Penn
sylvania four TO appear against
Georgetown in the final two-mile
event, and tat was not anything Tor
which OReiIly could in the least be
held responsible. 1t was the biggest
ntj
Washington.
Probably the real reason for the fail
ure of Ray to win the event IN Whlcn
he was featured was due to his own
mistake about the location of the finish
line. Ray ran a, race in which he judged
his pace and handicap distance as
nearly perfect as possible and the only
reason assignable for his defeat is in
an error as to the location of the tape.
Earlier in the evening the officials made
the mistake of locating the finish line
for the fifty-yard dash five yards t92
near the start and one heat of the han
century was timed in As seconds.
When that time was announced an in
vestigation started with the resultant
moving of the finish posts to the END
of the chalked alleys.
lust before Ray started his race he
examined the track thoroughly and OF
course noted the finish mark at the end
Of the chalked alleys. The upr1ghts
were standing there at that time Ray
started his event from the other side OF
the track
No doubt he could have passed every
runner on the track before he did had
he so desired, but as certain as can be-
he prepared a grandstand finish for
himself, in which he intended to win
in a final great rush. But during the
progress of the race the uprights were
moved back five yards and the final
straightway in which Ray intended to
make his grandstand drive was five
yards shorter than when he examined
it. Consequently the little Illinois man
miscalculated to that extent. Had the
finish line been five yards farther away
than il was Ray would have won.