Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1924-02-17

SNHooi ana CluD representatives.
While there is not likely to he a
dull spot in the evening most OF the
interest naturally will re manifested
III those events bringing into connpe=
tItion potential Olympic athletes.
Meets in other cities THY winter hHve
been marked by so iuauy startling
upsets in important races that the
performances of al asrirants to mem
bership in Uncle Sans team that will
90 TO France in the summer now are
watched carefully. Tho fields for the,
big numbers of the Hilltop carnival
program assure considerable enter
tafnihent for the Spectator
sprint stars on Card
Among the sprinters entered are
loren MurChison of Newark Athletic
club, national champion at virtually
every distance from 60 to 400 yards;
Louis Ilarst OF Johns HoDk ms III
tsreollegiaters sprint charnpion: Pat
larson of Ealtifnore Athletic Club.
WING Won the intercollegiate title
while compet ting for Pennsylvania a MI
VINO holds the Fem record of % Az
for the century dash. Fob Ie Gendre
former Georgetown star. and Bill
lowdinE. H Hilltopper. who formerly
vas interscholastic champion and
las defeated Murchison several times.
consider the quarter mile lot. There
IS Vernon. Ascher, now AZ 1eorge-
town, National A. A. L. junior title
holder. who equaled tho world indoor
record for 40 yards a fav- weeks asn
In New York Horatio. Fitch. Chicago
Athletic Club, National 4 + L. senior
champion: Cook, regarded at syra-
cuse as the Successor nf tho sheedr
Milan WoodrinG: Paul Herlihy Of
,ieorgetown. South atIanti" record
holder; Burgess. another ,EIilltopper.
metropolitan A. 4. L. tee bnider; Far.
O. Pennsylvania and Hitaero, If
Princeton. Some dash In this crew,
moss seeking honors in the half
i iha 1a are G Nike Dievanney, member of
er of the world record for two-thirds
Of mile and national steeplechs sc
champion: George Marsters. HILTON
track captain. credited with the south
a.lan,ic title at the distance. Coneer
or Princeton, who holds the metro
polttan A. A. L. three-qliarters of n
mile title; Edwards. former Hopkins
star; Thorpe of University of Rich
mona. who was a sensation In school
hoy ranks while at Fork Union Mill
tary Academy aud rieorgetowh;
Johnny Holden, Hyattsviile boy. who
starred at Central High School and
Penn: Eddie Brooks and Walter
Joie Ray 10 Race.
Three athletes of national prom
1nence In the male class are on the
lists. They are Joie Ray, holder of
a great collection of world records
and probably the most remarkable
distance runner ever developed in
America; Jimmy Connolly. former
Georgetown track captain, who holds
the world record for two thirds of a
mile. the intercal lesiate indoor mile
record and former intercollegiate in
door and outdoor CHAMPION, and
Billy sullivan of Georgetown. metro
politan \. A. L. mile champion and
national A. a. u. junior title holder
at 1000 wards.
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class will include Verne Booth of
Johns HOPKINS. intercollegiate cham
plon at this distance and over the
cross-country route as we'll: Harry
Helme Of Georgetown. who won the
rational senior and Junior tWo-mile
championships while still school,
boy. and Duncan of Princeton The
hurdlers comprise Karl ChristerL-
sen, world champion and member Of
the swedish Olympic team: Ra1ph
Hills, Washington boy now attending
Princeton: Martin of Pennsylvania.
and Norton and Kearney of George
town.
A high class OF entries are listed
for the field numbers. The shot put
will bring together Hills. intercol-
legiate champion: Beers of Maryland.
south Atlantic intercollegiate title
holder. and Plansky of Georgetown.
both capable of lettering six feet.
are In the high jump field, while
LIE Gendre of Newark Athletic Club
and Dowding and Haas OF George.
In the broad jump. Owens. Sheriff.
and Stewart of PENNSYLVANIA and
Norton are the cream of the poles
vaulting talent on the books of the
meet.
A twelvelap track may cut the
speed of the runners to some extent.
hut indications are that in the field
events sectional records will he
threatened seriously If not shattered.
University of Maryland has COM
pleted .pretentious track schedule
for the winter and snring campaigns.
In addition TO the Georgetown and
Johns Hopkins-6th Regim mt games
this week. the Old Line runners will
take part in Ave other events Vir-
ginia Military Institute will send its
team to College Park April IL and "a
week later the ;Marvlanders will go
Hopkins. The third dual meet will
be with the University of Richmond
In Richmond May 8.
relay team will be sent to the
University Of Pennsylvania carnival
in adelphia April 70 and the lead
ing athletes at the Old Line varsity
will enter the Southern Conference
games at Atlanta May 10.
a Maryland quartet will run
theSHilltop meet here Thursday night.
Tt will be composed of Ed Pugh, Ham
Whiteford and the Endslow brothers,
Joe and Dave, the last named being
captain Of the track team.
Entries also have been registered
for the shot put 600-yard novice, 40
yard open and rnle race. Kenneth
Spence, Winslow Randolph. Ed Ten
uey, L. w. Sheriff and Roger White
ford will start in the quarter; G: NJ.
Shear, Ed Thompson. Pat Lannigan
and Joe EndAow will compete in the
60o-yard novice. H. w. Finch in the
mile, and Bill Beers will do the shot
The varsity relay with the same
lineup as for the Georgetown games
will run against New York Univer-
sity and Lafayette in the Hopkins
tth Regiment carnival Saturday night.
The only other Marylanders to con-
test in Baltimore will be the fresh.
men relay of r. Whiteford, Shear,
Sheriff and Spence, which will take
an the Navy plebes. and Beers iii the
bhot.put.
A great race for the team trophy
at the Hilltop games is expected to
develop among the squads Of Penn |
sylvania, Princeton and the host
Lawson Robertson, coach of the
Quakers, is bring n formidable lot of
athletes to the meet bent upon carry
ing away the bulk OF the laurels. |
Princeton, too, is likely to make a |
determined bid for top score. The
Pennsylvanians undoubtedly are
strongly fortified for the field events, |
while Princeton also has some cap
Georgetown apparently has the edge
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