Evening star., 1932-03-10

EOINTE OWN Is pldllIllIlS
~ to send at least five men,
~ berS of its track team to
the Pacific Coast in June
to take part in the intercollegiate,
and in the Olympic tryouts if they
make good in the intercollegiate.
The Blue and Gray squad, with
Coach Jimmy Mulligan, will leave
Philadelphia June 19, with 236
other athletes representing East
ern colleges and universities, to
travel en- maSSe in de luxe train
to Berkeley, Calf, where the in
tercollegiates are to be held on
the track of the University of
California.
Probably the group of athletes
scheduled to leave Philadelphia for the
West Coast will be the greatest galaxy
of track and field men that ever started
for a meet on the same train. Certainly
the East has never sent such living
armada out to what in athletic vernac-
ular might be called foreign territory.
The writer came near saying to the
conquest of foreign territory, but, re-
membering the record of Far Western
teams in the East in the last few years,
the conquest part was left out.
A CCORDING to present figures 241
n athletes, with their trainers,
coaches of the teams and man
ayers, will be on the train that is to
carry them to invade the West in
big way for the first time. No other
group of that size has left the Eastern
Seaboard in the whole history of track
furnish oodles and oodles of good copy
for the newspapers. 1t may be a more
or less dead Spring in college sports in
this immediate section, but, with the
OlympicS and all, it should be a pretty
live Summer nationally.
I'm my opinion says Jimmy Null
ligan, track coach at Georgetown, the
journey of the Eastern college athletes
to the University of California will
mark the high water of track athlet-
les in the United States Also it should
be productive of one Of the greatest
meets ever held in this country With
all the Eastern schools competing on
the West Coast. and many Of the
men remaining there to take part in
the Olympic tryoutS, one of the most
attractive Summers track athletics has
ever enjoyed is in prospect"
A Ii the college athletes who finish
A in first. second and third places
in the Intercollegiates will be kept
out on the coast until the Olympic
tryouts and will be furnished with
their expenses during that period.
The Olympic tryouts are scheduled on
July Is and 16.
Georgetown men who are counted
on to make the trip are: Briggs, Mara, |
Burke, Jim Kelly and AL Kelly. Al
Kelly, Sprinter, seems to have the best |
chance of making the Olympic team, |
although Coach Mulligan says that |
any one of the five has the potential |
ability to come through.
While at Berkeley, the Eastern COL
lege athletes will live in the dormi-
tories at the University of California |
and eat in one of the university dining
rooms.
The Blue and Gray track aspirants |
certainly have something to look for
ward to. No greater incentive should
be needed to make them stay out and
train as few college athletes do train.
CEORGETOwN does not plan to
" schedule any dual meets this
Spring, unless it picks up one Just
FOR practice. It intends 10 center its
whole effort on the intercollegiate and
the University of Pennsylvania relays
A much larger squad will be taken
to the Penn relays than to the Olym-
pics. mile relay team, medley relay,
and freshman relay are to be entered,
Al Kelly and Walter Kovaloneck in the
sprints and Bradley in the hurdles.
Coach Mulligan said that he plans
10 get his squad out March 16 or II
f1ld will continue in practice until the
trip West. The squad Is to take the
most of its workouts on the Western
High School track, but plans to make
considerable use of the University of
Maryland track, as that track has
220-yard straightaway In fact, there
is a strong possibility that the George
town and Maryland squads may do
good deal of training together, which
should benefit the latter a good deal, as
the Georgetown men are more expe-