Evening star., 1932-03-28
TRACK, SPRING GRID
ONLY VARSITY PLAY
Base Ball, volIey Ball, Hand
Ball, Horseshoe Events
Occupy Many.
BY HI. G. BYRD.

TIME only two activities in the
nature of intercollegiate
Il athletics to be conducted
at Catholic University this
Spring are a track schedule and
Spring foot ball practice. How
ever, this does not mean there will
be no sports contests, as Athletic
Director Bergman is planning a
series OF intramural events, which
should take in so or 10 per cent of
the whole student body.
This week the track squad begins its
serious training for the outdoor
schedule. Coach Dorsey Griffith in
tends to put in some good icks with
his men between now and the first time
they go out in competition, late in
April at the Penn relays
Besides the Penn relays, dual meets
probably will be held with st. JoSeph's
OF Philadelphia, Wake Forest, Villanova
and Maryland. The meet with the Old
Line school is listed the latter part of
May, to wind up the year
Coach Griffith is a quiet kind of
chap, modest, and seldom says any
thing about what he expects to ac-
complish. He has intimated, though.
once or twice since the indoor season
that he may have surprise or two to
spring before the season ends.
DIRECTOR of Athletics Bergman
~ hopes to develop his intramural
competition to greater degree
even than last year, when it was very
fl1I Ia ic "A ri p
base ball league, a six or eight team
volley ball league, will have six-team
playground ball league, and again in
tends TO stage hand ball, tennis and
horseshoe tournaments.
With this number of activities Berg
man hopes to get out into active play
competition big majority of the entire
student body. He estimates that $50
men should take part in base ball. so
in volley ball, rs in the hand ball
tournament, 100 in the horseshoe. rs
in the tennis. OF course, some duplica-
tions are sure to occur, but the total
of individuals who take part in these
events should represent very large
percentage of the entire student en-
rollment.
Bergman, by the way, says that he
is in about the same situation with
his foot ball squad as the other
coaches, as bad weather has kept him
from getting in very much practice.
It is Bergnan's intention to get the
squad out again Immediately after the
Easter holidays and keep the practice
going until the first week in May.
r TNLESS Ben Eastman sustains some
" kind of an injury sufficient to
lessen considerably his efficiency,
the United States is just about as GER
tain to win the 400-meter dash in the
Olympics as anything of that nature
can be certain. When Eastman broke
the world record for the 440-yard dash
last week, record that has stood for
nearly two decades, he demonstrated
that as a piece of running machinery
he has never been equaled. To cover
440 yards in 46.4 seconds is to run
that distance at top speed and with
no letup The average quarter miller
runs his first 100 yards about as fast
as he can, then eases just a bit for
the next $50 or ITS yards, and when
he turns into the straightaway for the
final stretch goes his best to the tape.
Eastman must have gone the route at
top speed, because he is not fast
enough to let up in any part of race
and still finish with mark such as
he set Saturday.
TN connection with Eastman's record
i it may be that, for the dashes and
middle distances especially, most of
the future records will be made on the |
Pacific Coast. Out there weather con-
ditions are such that the athletes may |
train on the cinder path all year, which |
Is big advantage over the conditions
under which most Eastern athletes train |
during the Winter. Let the South get |
a real awakening in track and the
great stars of the future may come from |
that section and the Far West. AS a
matter of fact, victories California
teams have won in the intercollegiate
the last several years are indicative OF
what Is likely to happen.
1.-THE first lacrosse game Of the year
i took place Saturday in Baltimore
between Mount Washington and
Princeton and resulted in 15-to-0 VIC
tory for the club twelve. Princeton
stood no show against the veteran out
At that represented Mount Washington
and it was not to be expected, as the
latter was made up largely OF picked
players from Hopkins, st. Johns and
MARYLAND teams of the last several
years. With picked players from the
best teams of three of the strongest
college teams it was hardly to be ex-
pected that an average college twelve
could be very successful against them.
One former Princeton player, Eddie
Stinson, who, incidentally, began his Ia
crosse career in Baltimore prep schools,
was In the Washington lineup.