Evening star., 1925-05-24

part OF August.
Swimming will be the major sport
of the Friends School campers, with
, hiking. canoeing, base bail, tennis.
horseback riding, track and golf as
additional activities.
The camp will be under the direc-
tion of Edward c. Wilson and Maj
Louis +. Lamborn, with Mrs. y. r.
Foster acting as camp mother. Mrs.
! j. Howard Palmer as hostess and Mil
dred Dunnock as head councillor.
Swimmers of the Capitol Athletic
Club will form the nucleus and the
assistant instructors in a series of
lessons in life-s saving nechnique and
water safety methods, to be given at
the Wardman Park pool every after
noon except Saturday and Sunday Cor
a period of three weeks. The series
viii begin Monday, May 25, and will
be brought to a close on June II, with
the Red Cross Life-Saving Corps
tests.
Capt. Elbridge Colby, volunteer
coach of the Capitol Club, has offered
his services. In mid-June he leaves
to serve as instructor in Red Cross
Camps at Brevard. n. c.. and Tuxedo,
n. Y, but until that time he will de-
vote his major attention to the water
safety Campaign started by the Capitol
Club. He is fully qualified as official
examiner for the Red Gross and will
be able to certify as to the proficiency
of those who pass the tests and their
suitability for membership in the Life
Savings Corps of the Red Cross.
In accordance with Capt. Colby's
continued custom of retaining his
amateur standing, he will give the
series of Is lessons in saving
method, without remuneration, to all
users of the Wardman Park pool
The lessons will start each day
promptly at O'Clock, and will be over
in an hour.
Capitol Athletic Club has entered
team in the South Atlantic field
and track meet, to be held in Wash
ington on June 6. They hope to
take better than third honors this
| time, as they have been hard at work
since the &C" club meet and have
bettered their own records in several
events.
Metropolitan Athletic Club is plan
ming camp UP the river this Sum-
| mer, although the site has not yet
been decided upon. The ground
| which the club was at first consider
has decided not to sell. However,
| two other sites are now under con-
sideration, one on the Virginia side
and one on the Maryland side of the
river.
| Curtis-Hyde schlag ball team won
the championship of the Georgetown
division Friday afternoon when it
| defeated the Toner School team of
section B, s to d, in an exceptionally
interesting match. This is the second
year that the Curtis-Hyde ten has
won the cup in this division IL
has only to capture it one more time
in order to claim it permanently.
Emery-Eckington won from Brook
| land. by default in the Bloomingdale
. division. This leaves but one game
to be played off to complete the
B1oomingda1e schedule. Emery Eek
ington will meet Langley on Tuesday
| In this last contest
Tomorrow Arthur School will op-
pose Ludlow for the final game of
the Plaza League and Wheatley will
play Kenilworth in the Rosedale
League.
| On Tuesday Buchanan and Randall
Highlands will meet on the Virginia
avenue grounds.
1t is hoped that by the END Of the
weeH all OF the schedules will be
complete and the winners in each
group formally announced.
The star match of the Fairgrounds
| tennis series was played between
Alice Brown of the Garfield division
and Clara Alderton of Iowa avenue.
Miss Brown won a hard earned de-
cision after more than two hours of
play by a score of 81, 2--e, Ga.
Out of the first 16 games, IS went
deuce. Miss Alderton started off
with a lead in each set but could not