Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1930-01-08
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Old Liners Need Much Toll
This Winter to Prime for
Outdoor Season.
BY II. G.. BYRD.

T UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND
plans a resumption of its in
door track activities this Win
ter. when 1t will send men TO
indoor meets at New York. Philadelphia
and Charlottesville. The indoor program
Is to be carried out largely because OF
the value Of the work in getting squad
ready for a long outdoor campaign, but
also because Coach George Eppley feels
that he has a chance to build up the
nucleus of strong squad and good
relay team.
For three consecutive years Mary
land went North with relay teams that
Just about cleaned up all the opposition
they faced. Coach Eppley has not said
that he thinks the four this Winter will
be as good as the fours of those three
seasons but he does say that it should
be strong enough to give good &C
count Of itself. II Is likely that the
relay race against Harvard and Penn
sylvania in the Milrose games in New
York the first week in February.
Maryland has one of the most strenu-
Gus outdoor seasons scheduled that 1t
has ever gone through. 1t has dual
meets with Virginia Military Institute,
Johns Hopkins, Washington and Lee,
Virginia, Navy and william and Mary,
besides competition in the Penn relays
and the Southern Conference cham
pionships A feature Of Maryland's
outdoor track season will be resump-
ton of it's annual interscholastic meet
This meet will be held on May 3, and
have in addition to 1t. the same day,
a dual meet between Maryland and Vir-
ginia and a lacrosse game with st.
Johns.
The new track. which Is the best In
the South, was completed last Septem-
Der. The 220-yard straightaway is 30
laid out that the finish is at the same
place as the finish Of the hundred.
The track also has been considerably
widened.
One of the funniest foot ball stories
that has come out in connection with
the last season was of an incident in
Vermont, 80 to o, and it was said Of
the Vermont players that it was dim
cult to see how they so often got out
of the way Of the Yale ball carriers.
It seems that the Vermont players
were so worn out in the last half that
Yale gave them the privilege of sub
shutting at any time and as frequently
as they chose. Toward the end of the
contest Vermont player who had been
taken out Of the game ran over to the
Yale bench, grabbed a Yale blanket
and dropped down on the ground. One
of the Yale coaches leaned over and
said, Say. buddy, aren't you on the
wrong side of the field?" Whereupon
the Vermont player replied, Not on
your life. I've been in that game I'VE
times already"
A good deal of interest of a local
nature attaches to the basket ball game
tomorrow night between Duke and
University Of Maryland; Two former
Tech High players are the backbone of
the Duke quint and both have friends
on the Maryland squad One Of them
lives just about a mile from College
Park. Werber and Councillor are the
, former Tech men starring for Duke and
many Of their friends and about the
whole town Of Berwyn, Md. where
Werber makes his home, are likely to
be on the sidelines when the game
starts.
The trouble at American University
which led TO the disbarment of several
basket ball players first arose out of
basket ball game that was scheduled by
them to be played on Sunday night in
Cumberland. Some people at Cumber-
land interested in the local school pro-
tested the playing OF Sunday games.
The university authorities issued an
edict against it, but 1t seems that the
players went to Cumberland and took
part In q game anyway, with the conSe-
quent recourse to discipline by the
university, which was a good thing for
IL and for the players as well.