Evening star., 1923-02-18

SprinterS are 10 run, the race III w
shotput.
Last OF the events on the progr
ton OF the evening will be. the tv
and University OF Pennsy ylvaRia. Thi
best quartcts i'll the east. and it is nc
winner may be the victor in the na
at the Pennsylvania games the last c
Other dual relays between collegiate
aggregations should be very interest
ing. Princeton and Navy, repre-
sentatives Of which should be ex-
tremely popular here. are to meet in
a mile event, and Virginia and Penn
sylvania also will toe the mark to-
gether in the same kind of a contest.
Penn. Virginia and Princeton have
several quarter-milerS who stand out
among the fastest men at that DIS
tance the east has produced. and.
while they cannot hope to do their
best on tweive-lap track. by using
spikes they undoubtedly should put
Up brilliant exhibitions of running.
G. W. to Race Gaiiaudet.
Local interest in the race between
George Washington and Gallaudet
should not fail because these two in
stitutions do not measure up to the
size and prominence of Pennsylvania
Yale. Princeton and Navy. George
Washington has "a much better team
this year than last. and Gallaudet
also is said to possess a good quartet.
On llc fldltNStlte QudIlcl
are Henderson and Grass, who a,
members of the Washington Canoe
Club and Potomac Boat Club have
earned fine regulations as quarter
;.:'!e:c.
New York Athletic Club is due to
send down its championship four
This quartet. which ran away from
picked team year ago III the
combination made up Of Georgetown
and Virginia runners. with the prob
ability that the two Blue and Gray
men will be Kinnally and Herlihy.
while the two Virginia men have been
announced as Douglas and Bohannon.
Bohannon, though. is likely to find
himself at disadvantage on an in
door track. as he is the type of runner
who does his best work on the cinder
path.
In addition to the college relays
already mentioned, the freshman
quartets of the Universities of Mary
to run a mile race. This should be
an event we'll worth while as the
teams probably will be we'll matched.
Washington high schools are TO take
q prominent part in the relay races
Eastern is matched against Tech
High and Epiphany in a halfmile
race, and the Manual Trainers also
will be pitted against Episcopal, Fork
Union and Baltimore Poly in two
thirds -of-a-mile event. Tech and
Western will have teams In the same
race with Episcopal at one-third OF
mile. and Western has a mile event
carded for 1t, with Episcopal and Bal
timore Polytechnic Institute as its
opponents.
Club Teams I'm Relays.
Most important of club races that
usually are scheduled for such meets
is that in which the Potomac Boat
club, Washington Canoe Club and
Baltimore Cross Country Club are en-
tered. These organizations have com
peted against one another in previous,
meets and always have aroused con-
siderable enthusiasm along the
straightaways, both by their close
races and because of the large number
of partisan supporters. Another mile
relay between club organizations is
that between Baltimore Cross Coun
try Club and Fifth Regiment Athletic
Association.
The distance Of the race in which
Joie Ray will compete has not been
decided. but will be known today
when the Georgetown representative
returns from Buffalo. where Ray was
in competition last night. Ray is that
type of runner who is such an attrac-
tive feature of a meet that he usual
ly Is allowed to select his own dis
tance. 1t is believed that he will run
a two-mile event, and in that case he
will be opposed by Ritola. Connolly.
though, that Ray will think his propo-
sition somewhat easier if he limits
his race to q mile.
The dashes will bring together the
greatest array of sprinters that have
gathered in Convention Hall since
Seitz. Duffy. Bernie Wefers, sr.: Deer
and others of twenty years ago were
brilliantly treading their way be
tween the white chalk marks. Meal
lister, national 100-yard champion;
Lever of Pennsylvania. national so.
yard indoor champion; Farrell of
Fordham, former national 10o-yard
champion; and Bernie Wefers, Jr.. |
metropolitan sprints champion are the
northern sprinting celebrities who
will pit their capabilities against the
best men the south Atlantic section
affords.
BESIDES the men mentioned. several
others, who have won championship |
titles, are entered. Taylor of Prince
ton, great hurdler, and intercol-
1egiate champion in that event, is to
appear Hills of Princeton and Beers
Of Maryland, two of the best shot
putters in the country. are to heave
the lead against each other. Plansky.
Marsters and Helme of Georgetown,
who have won national Junior or
senior championships will be against
the stellar lights of other sections.
should BE Attractive.
No double the meet Wednesday night
~riIl be one of the best ever held in
washington. It should measure well up
to some of the competitions staged here
tdan, George Bonhag, Harry Kraentz-
: jim. Mel Sheppard, Harry Hillman, Mat
McGrath and others were holding tho
= stage as the stellar lights of the ath-
letic world through their brilliant
work in keeping the United States to
the front in the Olympic meets at
Paris, ST. Louis and Athens.
And something of a comparison OF the
work which may be expected in the
Georgetown meet with the performances
:. Of those great athletes may be gained
. by a comparison of the shotput. In
: which Martin Sheridan always was win
-ner and which caused him to be hailed
as one Of the greatest athletes OF all
time. Sheridan's put which won the
svent In the Oly1npics at Paris was
forty feet four and four-fifths inches,
but Wednesday night two men will be
An that event in the Georgetown meet
who will beat Sheridan's mark by three
feet at least.
The floor at Convention Hall has been
laid out and rows OF "bleachers set up.
The seating arrangements should give
> q great number of spectators good views
Of all the races.