Evening star., 1924-02-10

III Convention Hall a week from
splendid patronage accorded the e;
this winter have spared no expens,
about all of the outstanding athleti
pete in invitation events and ope
schools and clubs will be represent
brilliant relay race program that is
Among those whose signed ac-
ceptanceS of an invitation to compete
are already filed are five members of
Uncle Sans last Olympic team and
more than a score of athletes who
have championships to their credit.
Some of the nationally known track
and fleld performers to attend the
games are:
Joie Ray, world premier miller. who
,, has more world records to his credit
than any distance runner in the
game. In addition. Ray is credited
with the phenomenal accomplishment
of having won the national mile
championship for the past eight
years.
Sprint stnr to Appear.
Loren Murchison, regarded as
Americas chief hope in the dash
events at the Olympic. He is the
present holder of the national 100
yard championship and has several
world records in the sprints to his
credit.
Jimmy Connolly, former Hilltop
track captain, who is holder of the
world record for two-thirds of mile,
record holder for the intercollegiate
indoor mile and the interscholaStic
intercollegiate indoor and outdoor
titles.
Mike Devanney, former world
record holder at two thirds of a mile,
national steeplechase champion and
member of the last Olympic team.
Bob lie Gendre, former Hilltop cap
tain. who won the interallied all
around championship at Paris In 1919,
the pentath1on for three years at the
Penn relays, and is holder of the
jump.
Horatio Fitch of Illinois Athletic
Club, present national A. A. .. senior
quarter-mile champion. He won the
coll, Tommy Campbell and other
prominent performers.
Verne Booth of Hopkins, intercol-
| legate cross-country and two-mlle
champion. He is the youngster who
defeated Joie Ray at the Georgetown
games last year.
Lewis Clarke of hopkins. phe-
nomenal young sprinter who astonish-
ed the athletic sharps last May by
winning the intercollegiate sprint
title.
Eddie Farrell, formerly of Ford
ham, an ex-national 100-yard cham
pion and winner of that blue ribbon
event at the Penn relays.
Bob McAllister, popularly known as
the flying cop, who won the national
100-yard championship in 1892, and Is
credited now with new world in
door mark for 110 meters.
Emerson Norton, a student at
Georgetown, but ineligible for the
Hilltoppers this year because of the
one-year residence rule. He won the
Missouri Valley conference all a rouud
championship and is consistently bet
ter than IL feet in the pole vault and
6 feet in the high jump.
Beers in short Putt.
Ralph Hills. Washington boy at
Princeton, intercollegiate shotput
champion. He won his letter in foot
ball at Old Nassau.
Bill Beers Of Maryland, former South
Atlantic intercollegiate shotput title
holder, who Is credited with the South
Atlantic record for that event.
Vernon Ascher of Georgetown, who
won the national A. A. A. junior quar-
ter-mile championship at Chicago last
fall in full second faster than the
time for senior quarter mile. This
season he has defeated Jake Driscoll,
Tommy Campbell and ran as anchor
man in the east-west relay that fea-
tured the Millrose games.
Paul Herlihy of Georgetown, for
mer South Atlantic quarter mile
champion, who holds the sectional
record Of SO seconds for that event. !.
Capt George Marsters Of the Hill
toppers, national junior half-mile
title-holder and credited with the
South Atlantic record for the same
distance. He was a member of the
Blue and Gray relay team that estab-
lished new world record for mile
and seven-eighths at Buffalo two
years ago.
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