Evening star., 1927-05-15

" The Third Athletic District
a annual track and field cham
4 u pionships today were post
poned until Tuesday afternoon
when rain interfered.
The meet will be held on Hayden
Field at $50.
Rain also prevented the tennis
match between Episcopal High and
Gilman Country School Of Baltimore.
With only two weeks Of practice
oarsnden of the Old Dominion Boat
Club already have displayed enough
ability to warrant a display of enthu-
siasm among the members that never
before has been shown,
Coach Walter Thrall has been work
ing his crews steadily for the past two
weeks and with every oarsman back
from last year and fifteen new candi-
dates, the material is plentiful. There
also are several junior club members
from the Alexandria High School pull
ing the Orange and Black sweeps and
they may be entered in several events.
An invitation TO compete in the sec
ond annual water carnival of the Nor,
Portsmouth Chamber of Com
merce has been accepted, This re-
gatta at Norfolk will be held July %.
in connection with the other events
that win be staged July &c, 81, 2S, 29
and 80.
Qualification at the request of the
Potomac Boat Club Of Washington
for reinstatement in the Southern
Rowing Association was expressed
by the club at its meeting Thurs
day night. The addition OF the
Washington Club will make competi-
ton much keener in the annual
southern regatta, which will be held
July @3 on the PatapSco River. at
Baltimore.
Magnus w. Bales. captain OF the
local club, and Il. T.. Lawler. jr., a
member of the board of directors of
the Old Dominion Boat Club and
president of the Southern Rowing
Association, will serve as delegates
from the local club at the meeting
of the Middle States Regatta Asso-
citation, May %. at Philadelphia.
They will make every effort to have
the 1927 regatta of the Middle States
Association awarded to either the
Ariel or Arundle Clubs of Baltimore,
If the Monumental City Club desire
TO hold it.
Canoe racing crews will start work
shortly under Capt. Bales. Entry
will be made in meet at Baltimore,
Philadelphia, Washington and sew
eral in New Jersey and New York
In its desire to promote rowing the
Old Dominion committee has extend
ed the use Of it's clubhouse and
shells to four students of the Epis-
copal Theological Seminary. All four
men are former college rowing stars
and one roWed on the 1924 Yale crew,
which represented the United States
in the Olympics.
Alexandria, Barcroft and Washing
ton Rapid Transit Co. nine will play
the Shamrock A G. of Washington
when the two teams resume hos
tilities tomorrow afternoon, after a
years lay-off. The game will be
played at the Dreadnaught Park al
3 O'Clock.
Charlie" C0rbett's St Mary's Gel
tics will have the Boiling Field Ayl
ntors of Washington as their op
ponents when they take the field n
o'clock tomorrow afternoon ia Cam
eron Park.
SareptG lodge, Odd Fellows, will
play the Red Sox of Washington TO
morrow afternoon at o'clock on the
st. Agnes Episcopal School field.
Pirate A. C. will go to Burke. Va,
tomorrow for game with the Burke
A. &. tossers,
IOudOn A. {. nine of Loudon. Va.
Will play the No 5 Motor Co. team to
morrow afternoon on the North Alfred
street field, in this city.
Episcopal High School winds up it
base bali schedule next week with tWt
games on the home lot. Central o
Washington viii be played Tuesda,
and Woodbury. Forest will be seeI
here Saturday.
A meeting Of the Virginia Gray Ath
fetic Cmb win be held Tuesday nigh
TO arrange plans for the reorganiZa
tiou OF its unlimited base ball team.
Alexandria High goes away for tw'
games next week, playing Gonzag;
High in Washington. Wednesday. ant
Swavely at Manassas on Friday.
Severn and Woodberry Fores
Schools will be the opponents of tn
Episcopal High net team next Thurs
day. and Woodberry Forest visit
Saturday.
The newly organized Merchants
Realtors and Bankers team will pla,