Evening star., 1926-05-13

II seems that the four teams given
the best chance for victory are Mis-
sissippi A. and NJ. Louisiana State,
North Carolina University and Nlr-
einia. Kentucky. Tennessee and Mary
land are considered 70 be the best bets
Of the other schools. North Carolina
has high hopes of winning the meet
The Tarheels claim that they are
strong enough to score in almost
every event and do not figure that
any other school can do that.
Plenty of Speedsters.
So close is the competition likely 10
be ana SO fast that in a pTe-meet 1ore-
cast sent out from North Caronna,
after a. study of the entry lists. sucn
men as Matthews and PuGh OF Mary
land are not even mentioned as nav
ing a chance in the dashes AS
matter Of fact though. competition
will have to he exceptionally fast to
keen one or the other OF these run
uers out of pupils in the two SprlntS.
Cummings Of Virginia. Mcpherson OF
North Carolina. Tracy OF Kentucky,
Millbank OF Washington and Lee.
Montague ~ V +. T., Sides OF North
Carolina State and Green of Alabama
Polytechnic Institute are said tn lie
the most formidable of the dash men.
will be remembered. heat Cummings
in the t00-yard dash last week, and
Washington and Lee men claim that
was not as much Of IN accident as
some would have It seem. Several or
these dash men are credited with
having done the 100 yards this year IN
better than 10 seconds and the 20
wards in better than -.
Best of the men entered in the
iA., .llyi yiyN 11T
Auburn. present holder of the confer
ence record for the high hurdles.
Nash of SeUanee, Davis Of Washing
ION and Lee and Watts and Giersch
of North Carolina have done well in
both the high OF low hurdles in dual
meets.
Irvine of Virginia, Endslow Of
Maryland, Jonas of North Carolina,
Howard Of Washington and Lee.
Mitchell of Georgia Tech and Elliott
and Plitchett Of North Carolina are
good in the middle and distance
events.
Two Good Pole Naulters.
Brady of kentucky seems to have
the margin among the pole Naulters,
as he holds the conference record tor
that event and last year won with a
lean of over - feet. Clemson also IS
said TO have a 12-foot pole vaulter.
TNnn Of Y. L. !. is the best of the
discus men. as lie has been Eeavtng
The plate farther in dual meets than
the conference record. Lunn dld IA
feet in practice this Spring, but has
not reached that in actual competition.
lie Bauer OF Virginia and White OF
Y. VI. l. are the best shotputters. both
having been doing around Al feet.
University Of Maryland has entered
Is men in the meet, and the squad
leaves here tonight at $40. The Old
Liners figure that a good many OF
their entrants have even chances OF
figuring in the scoring. The following
entries have been made by Mary!and
TOO. Pugh, Matthews: @20. Pugh, Mat
thcws, Thomas; 44Q, E.ndslow. Thomas,
Nhiteford: $50, Endslow, Blanz: mile.
Newman, Elanz: = miles, Bowman,
1iill, Gadd; 120-yard high hurdles and
.20.vard low hurdles, Sheriff, Fahey:
high jump. Matthews; broad jump.
Sheriff, Matthews: pole vault. Supplee;
discus. Supplne. Zulick; shot, Dittman,
Zulick; javelin, Supplee.
Trelininaries in the meet in oil
events except the mile and miles
take place tomorrow, There Will be
no preliminaries. of course, in the high
jump and pole vault, but it is under
PEELED TO make qualifying heights.
Catholic University won from the
Army nine at West Point yesterday
hy 13 TO >. The Brooklanders played
hotter ball from the start than their
soldier opponents. The two runs that
were made against them were the
result of a home run drive after a
man had been walked. Cloonan. who
has pitcl "a most Of the freshman
games 10. {. L. this Spring, was on
the slab and his work was brilliant.
i!c famed seven and allowed only
SIX nits.
che Brooklanders do not play to-
day. hat move over to New Haven,
where they meet Yale tomorrow.
Georgetown and Maryland ball
teams play ON foreign soil Saturday
Th" former goes to Annapolis TO face
The Naval Academy and the latter to
CheStcrtoWn to meet Washington
College. In game played at College
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