Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-02-06

%FACk and field athletes OF the
local schoolboy group VIII
show their wares for the first
time this season on Saturday
night in the University ot
Richmond games.
Tech Eastern and Dewitt are
schools hereabouts whose colors VIII
he carried in the various events IN
the Virginia capital affair.
Centrals first appearance will be IN
the 5th Regiment games in Baltimore
on February 26. Business and west
ern will take no part in indoor com
petition.
Only three mon will he in the Tech
squad at Richmond. but Coach Gordon
r. Rath OF Eastern. who Is whoopinE
things ny in the cinder path sport al
the Lincoln Park school will take
along a squad Of %. although only 10
of this number will go into competi-
ton. Devitt's squad will number i've.
Alex Hatos Edgar Shaw and John
Griff1ths are the Manual Trainers who
have been selected to perform by
Coach Hap Hardell Hstos. who is en-
tered imp the 50-yard dash, is fresh
man. and will be competing for the
first time as a high school athlete.
Shaw. who was on the squad last sea
son. will appear in the half mile, and
Griffiths, who. although senior. Is en-
gaging in track for the first time,
also will run In the $50.
a bus has been chartered to take
the big Eastern squad to the Virginia
city Principal Charles Hart and
Coach Rath will accompany the party.
Those who will not compete for the
Light Blue and White will be taken
along, says Coach Rath, az reward
for their faithful training during the
past several weeks.
UNFOLDING the colorS of the Lincoln
Park school will be Joe BottaZie, for
mer playground and junior high fash.
in the 50-yard dash; Ronald Brown
and the Whitney brothers, Elmer and
Charles, in the $50: Joe Cosimano a
performer of tried worth. Arthur
Hazen and Richard Hollis. a freshman,
who has won three medals in play
ground competition. in the 50-yard
hurdles; Buck O'Brien winner of the
mile in the interhigh meet last Spring
and Ted Entwisle who was third in
that event. in the mile. Henry Tai
bert. John Roper Robert Smoke, Cost
mano and Benjamin Mccullough. al
ternate, in the mile relay, and Robert
Camera and Herman Riley In the high
jump.
Dewitt VIII have relay team In
action. places on which already have
been clinched by Mickey Harris. Dick
Garrett and John Teevens. Kirk
Hopper and Dick McCraw are to face
in time trials the early part of this
week to decide the other post In
individual events the Georgetown boys
will be represented by Mickey Harris,
a performer of proven ability in the
50-yard hurdles; Garrett in the 50-yard
dash and Teevens in the haIf.mile
George MarsterS. erstwhile George
town track luminary, who IL now on
the Dewitt faculty. is giving the
squad as much coaching as his time
will permit.
Aside from the Richmond games
Coach Hardell probably will send his
Tech proteges INTO competition during
the indoor season only in the Fikh
Regiment games in Baltimore. ~
though there Is a possibility that the
Manual Trainers may be represented
in the program of scholastic events
to be staged at the University of
Virginia at Charlottesville, on Febru-
airy is, prior to the intercollegiate
tests there the following night.
The Manual Trainers first outdoor
engagement Is their annual dual meet