Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-05-08

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letters in athletics, such
- as Georgetown is holding
tonight, have a much more far
reaching and wholesome effect
than the average person might
suppose" said Tom Mills, athletic
director at Georgetown, In talking
about the annual &c" Club ban
Quet.
It is Mills opinion that such dinners
not only serve their purpose in bring
ing together men of kindred ideas and
thereby producing q feeling OF good
fellowship, but also have much deeper
effect in that they raise the standards
and ideals underlying the whole struc.
ture Of intercollegiate sports. And that
is the real reason why Georgetown
each year brings together its 90" men
Of the past and present, as It Is DONG aG
tonight at the Mayhower Hotel at $50
"Back Of our thought In holding this
annual dinner for letter men," con-
tinued Mills, tiles our desire to improve
our own university's athletics and 90
our part to help raise the standards OF
intercollegiate sports everywhere. II
simply Is a case of athletes Of George
town and invited guests from other
institutions getting together IN friend
" way to discuss publicly and con-
structively our problems. These din
ners, while they do In q measure extol
prowess on the gridiron, on the base
ball field, on the track and In other
sports maintained by colleges, really
have as their ultimate aim higher
plane Of conduct for college athletics.
Acquire Understanding.
s'when hundreds Of athletes from
GEORGETOWN get together with athletes
from the other schools, the representa-
tives Of those schools understand better
Z Closer knowledge Of their problems
and how they are. trying to meet these
problems. Such interchange Of ideas
are helpful to all. Then again, these
discussions usually ind their way into
the press, are read by high school
athletes, and by others not in anyway
connected with high school or college
athletics, and such readers naturally
are impressed and consequently them
ter things in the amateur or profess
sional sports in which they are engaged.
Athletics generally benefit by such
dinners as we are giving tonight, Just
as much Is GEORGETOWN athletics. In
my opinion, such dinners are an i'm
portarit part Of the work Of universities
In educating the public TO know the
better side Of intercollegiate sports and
In bringing to 9 higher plane the stan
dards Of actual competition and rela-
tionships in all sports"
Georgetown's &c" dinner usually at
tracts O capacity gathering, no matter
what the size Of hall In which held.
The affair Is open to. alumni students
and their guests and no dinner has yet
been held that all present have not
departed feeling they have had o pro-
Atahle and enjoyable evening.
Bachman to Talk.
Charley Bachman, athletic director Of
the University Of Florida, Is to be among
the invited guests tonight. He is to
talk on athletics generally, as will sew
eral others, including Coach Madigan
Of st. Mary's College Of California.
Arthur Duffy. greatest sprinter In the
history Of Georgetown and one of the
three or four greatest the world has
produced. is TO award the letters to
athletes, and, besides this years ath-
letes, those that won letters between
1911 and 1915 are to be given certifi-
Gates.
Virtually all Georgetown men in this
section that have won their letters are
expected to attend, and, of course,
many alumni who have never taken
part In athletics, but stin have the in
terest Of such things at heart. It should
b o real Georgetown night and big
one at that.
Georgetown has the only college base
ball game scheduled here today with
Wake Forest as its opponent. The Blue
and Gray expects to add another scalp
TO It's belt, unless an unexpected slump
hits the team. And, then, Georgetown
has an added incentive to win today,
because It's team would not want to
carry o defeat into the banquet tonight.
Yesterday the Georgetown nine took
Princeton into camp for the second
time this season, the score being 8 to 2.
'sPackey" White held the Tiger batsmen
IN subsection throughout, allowing them
only five safeties. Three runs In the
sixth inning settled the affair In favor
of Georgetown, but up to that time
Princeton had held o 2-to.l lead.
Mooney, Georgetowns first sacker, got
two hits out of four trips to the plate,
and kept up his heavy hitting streak
by making his two hits double and .
triple.
The score:
Geo'town. Abb. GA. Princeton Abb. GA.
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