Evening star., 1938-03-06
c. j. TRACK MEET
IS SSNAPPY AFFAIR
Rector's 1000 Headlines
Biggest Indoor Event
Here in 13 Years.

Washington's biggest indoor track
meet in 13 years will take place at
Catholic University Saturday night
when that schools once-annual winter
meet is resumed after q lapse of four
years.
Not since the Georgetown games OF
the early 20s were discontinued due
to the installation Of bowling alleys
in Convention Hall has any indoor
meet attracted the quality and guam
tity of entrants who have signed ur
for the Brookland affair.
Including Pennsylvania, Navy, Penn
State. N. Y. U. and North Carolina,
2l universities and colleges will send
representatives here, while IA high
and prep schools and athletic clubs
also will be represented.
The big five" OF local universities
Georgetown, George Washington,
Maryland. Catholic and American
will be represented, and District high
and prep school prestige will be up
held by Central, Tech, Wilson, Con-
zaga ana st. Johns.
The Washington Track and Field
Club is one Of the four organizations
entered. the Others being the Stone.
wall Democratic Club of Baltimore.
the 1rish-American Of Newark and
the Waranaco A. c. of Elizabeth, N. ].
$50 in 22 Events.
Altogether, some $50 athletes are
expected to compete in the % events,
not including heats and sections. Be-
fore the evening is completed. a total
OF Al races. jumps and vaults will
have been run of.
The feature event on the big pro-
gram will be the Rector's 1000, an
invitation event in which seven COM
petitors from as many different
schools will run. Two alternates have
been enrolled in case of scratches. It
Is in this event that athletes from
Georgetown and Maryland will run
against some of the fastest from
Washington and Lee, N. Y. u, Penn
State. Duke and Pennsylvania.
Either Mason Chronister or Jimmy
kehoe will run for Maryland. while
Vincent Braun has been named by
Georgetown. Harold Harvet, w. and
L.: Howard Stocker. N. Y. u; Nathan
Gordan, Penn State: Bill Morse, Duke.
and Gerald Tarant. Penn, are the
other delegates. Each of these has
held some sectional or national rec
ord. either collegiate or scholastic. and
they comprise the best field that ever
competed for this trophy.
Sprint Is Attraction.
Next to the Rector's 1000, the
sprint invitation 50-yard dash, known
as the Abbey Club Race, looms as the
most important Of the meet. While
Gibby Young Of Washington College
and Frank Cronin of Maryland are
regarded as the men to beat, they will
be up against strong competition con-
sisting Of Jimmy Maher of Villanova.
Chabo Of Navy, Kalamanowicz Of
Penn State and Carlson of N. Y. U.
Young holds the Mason-Dixon Con-
ference championship for both the
100 and 220. while Cronin is Mary
lands star sprinter and middle-dis-
tance runner. Mahar, who recently
ran second to Princeton's Wilson in
the Penn A. c. games. coming in
ahead of Peacock and Marty Click
man. has run the century in 90, and
many predict he will be on this coun-
try's 1910 Olympic team
The 1-mile relay, always one of the
most popular events of any meet, has
drawn eight teams and will be run in
three sections. Maryland will run
against N. Y. U. in section A, George
town will face Villanova and Wash
ington and Lee in section B. while
Catholic U. will be up against Penn
State and Delaware in section c.
Preceding the meet, some 500 local
playground track stars will stage their
own carnival in the Brookland gym
on Saturday morning. Dick Tenny-
son. Assistant Supervisor of Play
grounds in charge of the meet, said
yesterday that there will be % play
ground teams competing.