Evening star., 1925-04-17

Moore and Giersch are excellent
hurdlers. the former doing the 40
ward high hurdles in 15 2-5 and doing
below 25 seconds in the 220-yard low
hurdles. and the latter covering the
220-yard low hurdles I'm % flat.
In the middle distances-44O and
SSO-the Carolinians appear to he
much weaker than in the other track
events. They, strange to say, have
nobody who can get much below 53
seconds in the quarter. and around
2.02 is their limit in the half.
In the field events, except Tor the
tavelin, the Tarheels also are strong.
Ambrose this week has done - feet
4 inches in the broad jump and feet
iIi2 inches in the high jump. Corbett
and Smiley both go up around II feet
in the pole vault. while Furdham
hurls the shot only an inch or two
under 40 feet. The javclin throw
seems OF be the only field event in
which really good marks cannot be
registered by Carolina athletes.
North Carolina S success in track
and field, its present team being the
result of a gradual development over
the last three years. is the result Of
concentrated and intelligent work 10y
Bob Fetzer, athletic director. Fetzer
took charge of track athletics when
that branch of sport was practically
nothing at Chapel Hill, and today it is
likely that his team can whip any
other school in the South in dual
meet
The Carolina squad comes up here
, May for a triangular meet with
Navy and Maryland at Annapolis and
is almost certain to win. The week
following that it will enter it's full
squad In the Southern Conference
championships a favorite to take
titular honors.
GeOrgetown's track squad has left
for Columbus. Ohio where ii is to
take part tomorrow in the Ohio State
University relays. The Blue and GRAY
Will be represented by two relay teams.
mile and two miles, and by three men.
DoWding, Haas and Norton, in events
1or individuals. After the Ohio games
tomorrow the HilltOppers leave Column
bus for Chicago where they are to
take part in the relay games being
staged on SUNDAY by Loyola College.
University of MaryIand's track squad
goes to Lexington, Va. tonight for
setto tomorrow with Virginia Military
institute. The Marylanders will take
~ men on the trip. Last year V NJ. l.
was victor in a dual meet with the
cause of its superiority in the sprints
FordIam and Georgetown furnish
the only excitement here TODAY in the
way of a college base ball game. They
are scheduled for their annual meeting
on the Hilltop.
Maryland's base ball team winds up
It's Southern trip today with a game
At Richmond against University of
Richmond. The Old Line aggregation
pulled through with a victory yester-
day at Columbia against South
Carolina, it's only one of the trip so
far. The score was II to 6.
Only one ball game is scheduled for
a local field tomorrow, Wake Forest
being due to come here to battle
Catholic University.
1t generally is believed that a good
sprinter is foolish to play foot ball,
because the bruises a gridman natural
ly gets on his legs are said to slow
him up. In this connection it is in
tereSting to note the actual expert
enceS of one of the greatest sprinters
in the country. Bowman of Syracuse,
who was a member of the Olympic
team last Summer, was asked the
direct question by the writer in Balti-
more yesterday whether he felt that
he had been slowed up by playing foot
ball. Here is what he answered:
Not in the least, and I've played
enough foot ball TO know. l played
halfback four years in a New Jersey
high school and I've played a fresh
man year and three varsity years at
Syracuse, and bruises on my legs have
never affected me in the least. The
only time ] had any trouble was when
| sustained a wrenched knee, which
developed water; that was last Fall,
yet this Spring l can run 100 in 10
fat and better and the 220 in better
than % seconds.
81 doubt if playing foot ball ever
hurt any sprinter, with possibly an
unusual exception or two. To my
way of thinking, no track coach need
worry in the least about foot ball put
ting his star sprinter out of commits
sion or even slowing him up in the
least. Probably it would make him
better, because of the general body
development he would receive to back
up his leg development"