Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1927-03-27
CATHOLIC j. PLANS
ATHLETIC CONTEST
Arranging an InterSchoIaStiC
Track Meet for High Schools
in the East.

AT the last regular meeting OF the
athletic council, 1t was decided that
an interscholaStic track meet lot
Catholic high schools in the East
would be held under the auspices OF
the Catholic University this Spring.
Rev. Charles A. Hart was named as
chairman of the committee Whlcn Is
to be in charge of the meet. The frst
step of DR.. Hart was to enlist the
assistance of the students, in. whose
hands most of the details of the work
are to be left with the athletic coun-
Gil serving as an advisory overseer.
With a view to organizing the
students in the work, Dr. Hart called
a meeting of a specially selected COM
mittee last Wednesday afternoon.
This committee consisted of repre-
sentative group of students, including
presidents of the classes and clubs,
the student council, captains of the
athletic teams, and managers of the
ma jor sport teams, the editor-in-ch1ef
and managing editor of the Tower.
the president of the Athletic Associ-
alton and the student delegates to the
athletic council.
Five subcommittee Formed.
After addressing the committee on
the nature of the business in hand.
DIR. Hart divided them into five sub
committees, with a member of the
senior class as chairman of each, as
follows Committee on invitations,
chairman, J. j. Stack, Duluth, Mimi;
committee on program and housing,
| chairman, J. J. Mccain, Brooklyn,
| n Y: committee on entertainment
and transportation, chairman, j. r..
Kenney, Holyoke. Mass; committee
on finance and publicity chairman, j.
J. Daily, Naugatuck, Conn: commit
| tee on prizes, chairman, w. S. Shields.
Frostburg, Md. These committees
were instructed in the work they
| would be expected to do, and were
| asked to start functioning as soon as
| possible.
| The date for the meet has been
| definitely set by Mr.. Stack as the
| fourteenth of May.
Debaters Chosen for Contest.
Last Friday night in the reception
| room of Gibbons Hall, the Shahan
| Debating Society conducted prelimi.
| nary tryouts for the annual oratorical
| contest. The successful candidates
chosen to enter the finals were Frank
| Smith, Brooklyn, N. Y; Edmund j.
| FITZGERALD, Brooklyn, N. Y; John J.
| Meng. Cleveland, Ohio: Paul Mcneil,
| Washington, D. c.; James Blaney,
| Coaldale. Pa, and Soseph A. Beatty.
| Lawrence, Mass. Those taking part
| in the finals will be required to deliver
an Grafton of their own composition
| not to exceed IL minutes in length.
! The final contest will be held some
time before the Easter vacation.
| Tickets for the sophomore supper
| dance were recently put on sale by
! the chairman of the committee in
! charge, George A. Sullivan, Newbury-
| port. Mass. The affair is to be held
! on the twenty-eight of April at Ward
man Park Hotel.
| The Cardinal, official publication
| of the senior class at the university,
has recently gone to press. Under
the direction of James B. Cronin, ST.
| George, Staten Island, the editor-in-
chief, and John P. Dickinson. Belle
| fontaine, Ohio, the business manager,
work on the annual has progressed
with startling rapidity, with the re-
suit that 1t has reached the printers
on schedule time.
! Tribute to st. Patrick.
| On March II Rev. DIR. Bernard A.
| Mckenna was the celebrant of a
| solemn high mass in honor of st.
[ Patrick. The service was held in the
| crypt of the National Shrine of the
! Immaculate Conception. A similar
| mass in honor of St. Joseph was cele-
brated by Rev. DIR. McKenna on Sat
| urday the 18th of March,
A continuation of the exhibition of
| paintings of Senior Decio Villares of
| Brazil has been granted the univer-
| sity. Senior Villares' works have been
on display for the last three weeks
In the salon. of the National Shrine.
At a meeting of the letter men in
tennis, Walter Hicks of the senior
class was chosen captain of the team
for the coming season. Hicks was
the interscholastic singles champion
in 1922, and is now playing his fourth
year for Catholic University. In the
past three seasons he won the ma
jority of his matches. John Kuwaski,
also a member of the senior class,
is acting as manager of the team.