Evening star., 1939-04-16
Evening Stars and Schoooy Meet Climax Banner C. Track Year
Hoyas, Terps, Cards
Will Play Big Part
In May 13G Games
Colleges for First Time
Seek City Titles With
Entire Resources
BY ROD THOMAS.

Dy AN0D 1AAoNAAo.
As washington moves into the
biggest outdoor track season in its
history, on the boom OF a pre-
Olympic year, a brand-new event
Is announced this morning to cli-
max 1.-THE first annual Evening
Star games, to be held Saturday,
May 13. in Byrd Stadium at the
University of Maryland.
College, high school, club and
independent athletes Of the Dis
trict metropolitan arear, including
several pronounced Olympic candi-
dates, will strive in The Star meet
for two complete sets of champion
ships.
Fourteen District A. A. U. titles
and 13 Metropolitan Washington
public high school crowns will grace
the victors. The entry blank bears
the all-informative caption: THE
Evening Star District A. A. U. and
Metropolitan Washington Public
High School Invitation Track and
Field Championships"
Forming the backbone of the
A. A. U. section of the games will
be the cinder squads of George
town, Maryland and Catholic Uni
versities, all wholeheartedly in sup
port of the meet. American Uni
versity and Gallaudet also are ex-
pected to have entries.
High Schools Welcome Meet.
Enthusiasm reigned among high
school coaches and athletes when
plans for The Stars games were
made known to them. Your track
man would like nothing better than
q meet every Saturday and the
new meet comes at particularly
agreeable time. 1t will be the last
test for Georgetown before the Ma
tional Intercollegiates, the last for
Maryland before the Southern Con-
ference championships and the
final for C. U. before the Mason
Dixon games.
For the high school lads it comes
tn the midst of a veritable whirl
of flying spikes. On the Saturday
prior will be held the annual inter-
scholastic field day of the Univer-
sity of Maryland and the Saturday
following will be staged the annual
G Club meet. The District public
school championships will round out
meet-every-Saturday program In
May for the Washington proper
schoolboys.
Colleges Turn on Heat.
Capital colleges supporting track
will be brought together at full
strength for the first time in COM
petition for District A. A. U. honors
Dorsey Griffith, c. U. coach and
chairman of the local A. A. U. Track
and Field Committee; Geary Eppley,
athletic director and track coach
at Maryland and a member of Grif-
fith's Committee, and Jimmy Multi
gan, Georgetown coach, manipulated
schedules so that all could enter
their squads in the meet. George
town and Maryland, with a dual
affair slated May 13, moved 1t up
to May 10.
No matter how the Hoya- -Terp
party comes out, the struggle be-
tween these rivals for the A. A. U.
team championship, with C.. U.
sniping at both, is bound to be in
teresting, for freshmen, barred from
the dual contest, will be eligible.
Georgetown is blessed with excep-
tional yearling talent, but likely
will be an under dog in its varsity
clash with Maryland.
Schoolboys Eligible for A. A. U.
The high school youngsters, too,
will be eligible for A. A. U. honors
and several are capable of making
1t hot for the collegians. The same
goes for a number of unattached
athletes, former college and club
stars now employed by Uncle Sam.
While only championship events
are listed on the entry blank a num-
Der of special contests are planned
and an effort is being made to line
up an invitation race for national
stars to top off the show. While
the May 13 meet won't want for
class, it is planned as a foundation
for an event of the future that
would bring to Washington the out
standing track and field athletes
of the country.
Entry blanks will be mailed within
the next several days. In the mean
time, coaches desiring information
should communicate with the writer
at The Star sports department,
phone National 5000, branch 351,