The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1923-02-25
GEORGETOWN
EASY WINNER
AT BALTIMORE
HiIItoppers Take Honors at
Track Meet With Thirty four
Points AeIme Stars.

BALTIMORE, Nd, Feb. 24.Ir
an indoor track meet practically de-
void OF color, other than q
nethodical addition Of points to the
Georgetown University total, the
seventeenth annual Fifth Regiment |
Hopkins University meet went down
In history tonight before q slim
gathering. The feature of the
games was the fact that they were
concluded early
Georgetown won the meet with
thirty -four points, oudistancing
Lafayette, Navy, Penn and Penn
Hilltoppers, despite the absence Of
four cracks, were away ahead Of
all their rivals.
FEW STARS OUT.
Not in 8 good many years has
the set Of games fallen SO flat,
There were not the usual number
some events, were clogged with
Booth, Of Hopkins; SHANE Of
Georgetown, and Tharpe, the Fork
Union iistancer, finished their races
| in fine shape Fork Union, through
| the performance of Tharpe, corralled
/ the scholastic point trophy.
After q flock Of fnterminable
heats iii the 100-yard open, the
scholastic 100 yard and the 12O-yard
hurdles, the meet settled down to
real business. Semf-final trials be
gan to reveal the class OF the
sprinters.
OF the Washington contingent.
Arthur PIanslxy and Tip Morony.
OF Georgetown, came through the
heats In the open century. Dick
ZiegIer, Of Central High, qualified
handiIy. Dynamite Melton, his
terminate, was well off in front In
| his heat, but drew an unfortunate
dIisuual iffcafi lion IT was held that
ne had beat the gun.
CUMMINGS NIPS ZTEGLER.
In the final Of the schoolboy
century, ziegIer showed clean
pair Of heels for 30 yards. only to
be nipped for first place by Cum
mings, the Woodberry Forest School
f1ier. Earlier, another Virginian,
got third place.
AL Leconey, Of Lafayette. inter-
collegiate champion, won with a
/ fine burst to the tape over L.
Clarke. former Hopkins star sprin-
| ter, in the open hundred. Leconey
/ equaled the games record by do.
ing the distance in ten flat. Third
place was grabbed by MARBLE, the
Naval Academy lad.
| Western High Midgets were able
to get no better than last place in
q six-cornered relay race, in which
Baltimore City Y. NJ. G. A., XII.
| wants, Marston and Baltimore
Poly runners competed over half
s mile course.
/ Yale, Penn and then Navy took
! the track for mile race. The
! Eli speeders cut out a hot pace
! from the start and won over Penn
| by forty yards. Yale's quartet
stepped the mile in 1913 flat, re-
| markable time on the oval track.
/ M. s. Moore, of Penn State, step
/ ped over the sticks in the 100-yard
hurdle event, winning in IL 3-5 Sec
onds over his teammate, the scratch
man, III. III. Hile. Hedding, a Navy
lad, was third.
TRACK RECORD MADE.
An indulgent Handicapped slipped
q. Tharpe, the Fork Union Academy
lad, the limit in the half-mile
scholastic race. The Virginian won
by fifty yards, thereby proving that
handicaps do nothing but fool the
people and the runners. Ecke, Of
Central, was second, and Middleton,
of Mckinley, third. The time was
1859 1-5, and is the first time the
half-mile has been run under two
minutes in the seventeen annual
winter outings in Baltimore.
University Of Virginia. Maryland,
and Hopkins Yearlings hooked up
in a mile race which was close for
half the distance. Chinn and Castle
man, former woodbury. Forest
stars, put the race in the cooler for
Pop Lanigan by stepping out
ahead. Castleman finished twenty
yards in the, van. The time, $3.50,
was creditable. Maryland had the
satisfaction Of getting in ahead OF
Hopkins.
Johnny Loehler, Lafayette Col
lege, with a handicap OF six feet,
won the shot-put over Tony Plan
sky. of Georgetown, and Billbers,
of Maryland. Loehler Is credited
with 43 feet 10M inches.
L. M. Johnson, Of the Navy, with
seven inches handicap, grabbed the
running high jump. s. j. Needs,
of Penn, and H. D. Casson, Of
Penn, were second and third, re-
spectively. The height was six feet
and two inches.
In the scholastic shot-put r. d,
Hand, Of Episcopal High, was the
winner. 7e did seven feet nine
inches with his handicap, six feet.
Sibold, of Fork Union was second,
and Bowen, of Baltimore City, was
third.
RELAY IN SECTIONS.
There were SO many entries In
the half-mile scolastic relay that 1t
was split in two sections. Techs
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