Evening star., 1927-05-08
BY II. c. BYRD.

COLLEGE Park. victories were won
by the University of virginia
Central High School of Charlotte,
N C.. Towson High School of Mary
land. and three of the Old Line teams
Virginia defeated Maryland in the
morning in a base ball game, to 3,
but MARYLAND won from Randolph
Macon at tennis, from Johns Hopkins
I'm a dual track and field meet ana
from Princeton in lacrosse.
The Charlotte High School defeat
ed the best scholastic talent in the
section for the South Atlantic inter-
scholastic track and field champion
snip. and Towson High took honors
in the FIVE events closed to county
high schools of Maryland.
In its hall game. Virginia played
better than the Old Liners and de-
served its victory. Randolph Macon
was defeated by Maryland, 4 to 3, in
tennis. while Hopkins In track was
swamped IS 2-3 to so Ia, and Prince
ton badly beaten in lacrosse. 13 to G..
Charlotte High School and Towson
High School began scoring in the
firstvev events in which they took part.
Craver placed in both dashes while
Milstead and Ried We're stars in the
hurdles, finishing one, two.
Five Marks Broken.
Five meet records were smashed In
the open interscholastic events and 1t
was MiIstead who broke the first one
when he ran the 220-yard low hurdles
in 26 2.5 seconds, lowering the mark
= of rs 3-5 seconds made by Baggett of
Alexandria High last year by just one
fifth of second. Milstead captured
both hurdle events, winning the 100
yard high hurdles in is 2-5 seconds.
Woodberry Forest, Episcopal High
and Tech High athletes figured In the
other record breaking. Two Wood
berry Forest men knocked the spots
off the records in the javelin and dis
cuS throws. In the javelin Motley
mnKf5x ssed Young's record of last year
BY IA feet inches when he tossed
the spear 164 feet 9 inches. Rhodes
threw the discus 123 feet 9ia inches,
beating the 119-foot mark set by
Daniels in 1925. Day of Episcopal
High beat a record that has stood for
1L years when he put the shot AZ
feet 8 inches. Wallace of st. Albans
held the record more than a decade,
his throw in 1916 having been marked
at IS feet 1914 inches. The other
South Atlantic Interschoia site record
was tumbled by Mcdonald when he
cleared IL feet in the pole vault. The
previous mark in that was held
Jointly by Kestler of Eastern High and
Goldsmith of Virginia Episcopal
School of Lynchburg. Va.
One Hopkins Maryland dual meet
mark was lowered and one new record
set in the events for county schools.
Neuman clipped the half-mile mark
against Hopkins from minutes and
22-5 seconds to 2 minutes and 3.5
seconds. Several Hopkins and Mary
I1 ,ad hox fhaf in
half.mile races in the last few years
but not in the dual meet.
Kra icovic of Sparrows Point High
School has to his credit the new rec
ord in the county school champion
ships. He threw the shot 40 feet is
inches. The former mark Was held by
Marshall, Allegheny County High
School of Cumberland.
Talbert of Eastern was second in the
open interscholastic century dash and
Miles and O'Brien of Eastern got sec
ond and third in the mile. Bushing
won the high jump for Eastern.
Havel of Tech finished second in the
quarter and his teammate Blacki-
stone was third.
Sportsmanship Shown.
Charlotte High School not only de-
served to win the meet because of the
efforts of its men but also from the
high standard of sportsmansblp IL
showed Craver its entrant in the
1oO.vard dash actually was picked as
winner Of the event and was credited
with the victory and his school with
the FIVE points, but DR.. Barrett VINO
coaches the team walked on the field
end told the referee that his man was
not first hut third and that an Epis'
conal man was first. Referee Coggs'
we'll investigated and found that TO be
>, the case and Gasson of Episcopal gov
I the gold watch and Charlotte Hlgh
took one point instead of five. 1T was
an exhibition of sportsnahsilp ,e th%I
bannens only too seldom in such
cases.
In the Hopkins.Alaryland dual meet.
MARYLAND men ran away with an
events up to the mile In the mlle
and two miles Gwinn Of Hopkins was
far tno good for the Marylanders, at
Though he only beat Hin in the for
mer by yards. Hopkins finished one
two in the two miles, Gwinn htst an"
Scheidel second, the only event in
which that happened.
Three Clean Sweeps.
Tn three events. 100, 220 and
quarter. Maryland blanked the Balti-
noreane. winning all three places in
each event Sheriff also won both
hurdle races for Maryland. The
events in which Hopkins did best
were the two distance runs, the broad
iun1p and discus ViveH won the
broad jump with a leap of just over
% feet and Berger the discus with a
throw of Just under 100 feet.
Events began at 10:S0 with the
base ball game between Maryland and
Virginia. End all were finished Just be
fore o clock. No hitch was observed
at any time in the long program, ore
event following another in clock-like
precision from the time the first bali
was thrown across the plate
The track and field meet especially
was run eff wells and the day as Il
whole was one of real success.