Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1931-01-20

r. organization of the District
i branch of the Amateur Ath-
letic Union a determined
and intelligent effort is being
made to build up the organization
here. And the effort is meeting
with such response that it seems
reasonable to believe that within
the year a strong orgS -sZation
should be effected.
Since the cooperative agree
ment reached between the A. A. U.
and National Collegiate Athletic
Association two months ago, the
? colleges and universities have be-
gun to work with the former or
ganization and a field, especially
locally, IS thus opened that should
aid materially in the effort to
widen and strengthen the scope
of work in building up amateur
athletics, especially track.
The National A. A. u, of which the
District of Columbia Association of the
Amateur Athlesic Union is a branch, is
making a great effort throughout the
Nation to get in the best possible shape
to play a successful part in the 1882
Olympics, to be held in this country at
Los Angeles.
The real effort being made here to
place the organization on a coed foot
ing Is part of this Nationwide move
ment. The new agreement between the
A. A. U. and the N. c. A. A. is giving
big impulse to activities along this
line, as the colleges now are working
more in accord with the club body than
they ever did prior to that.
O'ReiIly Hard at Work.
Right here in Washington it is a
college man who heads the A. A. U. or
ganization, John D. O'Reilly. George
town track coach, and he is looking in
no small measure to college men here
to give him support. Fer three or four
months O'Reilly has been giving a good
deal OF time to the work and has been
making Roadway, though the process of
building here, naturally, will be some
what SLOW
OF the situation. O'Reilly says:
We are beginning to see daylight in
our work here to build good branch of
the A. A. q. For a number Of years
there was virtually nothing to the or
ganization as far as the District of CO.
lunnbia was concerned. the colleges be-
ing more or less ufiSyAspathetic and
there being practically no track ath-
letics among clubs. In fact, I presume
that washington has fewer clubs sup
porting general amateur athletics than
any other city its size in the country
And, as far as club track sports are
concerned, such think just has not
existed.
Track athletics in the clubs is the
life of the A. A. u. and without much
in that field Washington's interest in
the A. A. U. languished to point where
1t was almost corpse. Our job is to
fa s,, 4t.o
walking around and with the colleges
and clubs cooperating we ought event.
ually to get somewhere. It's a tough
job. but think we should see some real
results in another year"
THE pugilistic efforts put forth by
i Catholic University against Ameri-
can University during the course
OF the basket ball game last night at
Brockland might have been serious, as
far as the athletic relations between the
two schools are concerned, had it not
been for the humorous touch developed
little later through the evident desire
Of Catholic q. player to get close
enough to engage an American U. man
in some kind of a duel.
Early in the contest two c. U. players
had been removed because they evidently
had some kind of an llallucination thet
they were engaged in a boxing match
with their opponents and proc eded to
act accordingly. Then a little later
from a melee in the center of the floor
emerged an American u. player with
big Catholic u. guard after him.
Around the floor they went for couple
OF turns. the American University man
evidently believing in a paraphrase of
an old saying. its better to run and
play some more" The Brooklander
wanted to do real battle but the object
of his wrath evidently decided to make
the competition a foot race instead OF
one with fists. And in that respect the
A. U. man was victor
It was something like the Irishman.
who when challenged to a duel by an
Englishman, availed himself of the pre-
rogative of the challenged and decided
that the Tight should be at IL PAGES
and that the weapons would be a peck
Of Irish potatoes for each man. The
Englishman stood no more chance of
winning that than the G. o. man did
the foot race, especially when Johnny
Oliver, c. U. forward. decided it was
about time to intervene to save his
teammate from too humilitating a de-
feat. 1t was plainly evident that the
c. U. man just could not catch UP.
and as the stands began to realize 1t
they Just roared with amusement Moth
ing else could have been staged to SO
tickle their funny bones. and then
SnlQSC the upfOariOOS laughter Oliver
decided ne would stand no longer for
his teammate being the object of such
rnerrtment. so he closed in and made
Such a flying tackle as would have
r~evented lot of touchdowns had other
C. u. men made them as we'll last Fall
Then the idea entered the referees
head, himself a Catholic University
man, that he could no longer run the
risk of again having a student of his
alma mater so decisively and humiliat-
ingly outrun and, for fear that tho man
whose efforts had been so suddenly
terminated by divers tackle might
challenge again he respectfully and with
great sympathetic regard for the de-
feated ones feeling. insisted that the
young man spend the remainder Of the
evening on the bench in comDanv with
the two young men who previously had
been able to get close enough tn their
opponents but whose manner of COM
retttion did not come within the regu-
1a'ions
The basket ball game itself? oh, yes.
that was finished, but with the three
best c. U. men having had reached for
them the decision that ii would be
better for all concerned II they en-
joyed the game as spectators, there
was not much to IT, American Uni
versity won BY 80 to 10. won largely
because its players kept their heads
and held true to their purpose.
Line-ups:
American t2s,. 4 Catholic ds,.
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