Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-12
TARHEELS' DEFEAT
BY TIGERS T|P-OFF
Conference Meet FaVorite
Easy Woiim-Terrapln
Stickers Recover.
BY H. C. BYRD.

play just as well and that
their mines are fully as
strong as those that represent
Northern universities, but track
and field athletics seems to be one
sport in which the Northern in
situations are so far ahead as to
leave hardly any room for COM
parison.
Take, for instance, the dual meet be
tween North Carolina and Princeton
Saturday; Notwithstanding that North
Carolina is picked to win the Southern
Conference championship this week and
stands generally far ahead OF other
Southern teams in dual meets, 1t was so
easily beaten by Princeton as TO lnol-
cate that the best the South has to offer
in the way of track team simply was
not in the running.
Princeton beat the Tarheels by SO13
to ASIA. which just about tells the tale.
That tale simply is that the best team
in the South could not even make inter
esting competition for one Of the big
Northern schools, and that the South
has q long way to go in track and field
athletics before it can compete on any
thing like even terms with its Northern
friends.
If North Carolina wins the Southern
Conference championship this week.
and right now no other school looms
strong enough to give any indication
that any other outcome may be expect
ed, the result will not show particularly
we'll for Southern track sports. 1t has
been known that margin was held by
the North, but 1t was felt that North
Carolina this year had such fine team
Judged by the way 1t has been cleaning
up in the South, that 1t was good enough
to give some of the Northern schools
battle. But what happened at Prince
ton makes those that desire to see track
athletics in the South reach much
higher standards realize that there is
considerable distance to go before North
ern schools can be met successfully.
Only one contest Is scheduled here to-
day for local college, Mount st. Marys
being listed to appear in a base ball
game with Catholic University. On the
recent trip to Emmitsburg the Brook
landers took a beating from the
Mountaineers, but have hopes that this
afternoons contest may place things
on an even basis. Lou Hurley probably
will do the pitching for the Brookland-
ers, and, If he Is right, should come
near winning.
University of Marylands lacrosse team
came back Saturday with vengeance,
when it went I'D to Philadelphia and
trimmed Pennsylvania by Is to 2. The
Old Line twelve must have played
lot better lacrosse than when they lost
to st. Johns q little more than a week
ago, as Penn is one of the three teams
that was strong enough to take the
measure of oxford Cambridge when 1t
played in this country.
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Probably the most noteworthy mark
made in the Quadrangular track and
field meet in which Virginia, Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Military
Institute and Washington and Lee took
part Saturday at Blacksburg was the
shotput distance achieved by Swart OF
v. P. /. That young gentleman hurled
the brass sphere As feet Az inches.
So far this year no other athlete has
tossed the shot near enough to that
mark to indicate that anybody has q
chance to beat Swart in the champion
ship meet at Birmingham this week
end. It may be that Swart will create
q new Southern record, as the mark,
held for several years by Beers OF
farther than the distance reached by
Swart last week.
Il Ia not likely that any Of the track
squads in the South Atlantic section
will be represented in the Southern
Conference meet by full squads except
North Carolina, the likely victor. Viz
ginia, Washington and Lee. Virginia
Polytechnic Institute, Virginia Military
Institute, North Carolina State, Duke
and Maryland, comprising the South
Atlantic contingent, are likely to pick
a few of their best men and send them.
Maryland is to be represented by only
two men, Linzey in the half mile and
Kinnamon in the 220-yard hurdles. 1t
is felt that both these men, II they
are at their best, have chance to
win their events. Linzey ought to run
his event in less than two minutes and
cinnamon should get the hurdle mark
down close to a. seconds.
There has been a disposition on the
part Of Amateur Athletic Union ON
Gals not to look with favor on apph-
cations for a world record for the 100
yard dash when that event Is run In
92-5 seconds. That mark has been at
tanned several times, but officials who
have charge Of allowing records have
turned cold shoulders toward 1t. Rector
Of the University Of Virginia was said
to have done the distance in that time
as long as 10 or 20 years ago. More
recent is the time made by Simpson of
Ohio State, and last Saturday along
comes Frank Wycoff Of Southern Cali
fornia with the same time. This mark
will be set some time under such con-
ditions that officials will not be able to
find any excuse for not granting 1t,
although, Of course, this Is not In any
way attaching blame to officials for
being conservative in accepting as ON
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