Evening star., 1939-04-25
Few Present Marks
Likely 10 Survive
Meet on May Is
Only Pole Vault Is Shy
Of High Grade ToIent;;
Freshmen Prominent

Virtually every record for the Dis
trict A. A. U. track and field cham
piOnshipS will be smashed in the
first annual Evening Star Games to
be held May 13 at the University of
Maryland, it was predicted today by
A. A. U. officials, notably Dorsey
Griffith, chairman Of the District
chapters Cinderpath Committee.
A meet record will be established
by every winner in the Metropolitan
Washington Interscholastics mas
much as this set of events will be
staged for the first time. The public
school athletes of the Capital and
nearby counties of Maryland and
Virginia will be given equal promi-
nence with the seekers of A. A. u.
laurel.
Never before have so many fashy
runners, leapers and throWers been
lined up for an outdoor meet here.
The University of Maryland will en-
ter one of the strongest, If not the
strongest. college track squads in the
East. Representing Georgetown will
be some of the finest young athletes
in the country, notably freshmen
who won national honors in high or
prep school.
Star Javelin Tosser Turns Up.
Filling out the fields will be hope
fuls from Catholic University, Gal
laudet, American University, the
Washington Track and Field Club
and from unattached ranks, num-
ber of whom concede little to the
touted Terrapins and Hoyas. For
instance, one Eugene Janz today
submitted an entry in the javelin
throw. He turned out to be Gene
JAM, class of '34. University of
Oklahoma, who hurled the stick 208
feet to win the Oklahoma State A.
A. U. championship and who taught
javelin technique to Bob Peoples of
Southern California, who recently
made the longest throw accredited
to an American-234 feet.
Peoples" said JAM, probably will
hang up world record. He missed
the last Olympics by foot"
Janz will represent the Washing
ton Track and Field Club along with
a bevy of other former collegians.
A Government clerk he keeps in
trim by catching for Tuffy Leemans'
Rinaldi ball team. He was Okla
homa' champion middleWeight box
er and played little football.
Olympic Prospects Compete.
In the A. A. U. javelin event he
will oppose at least two Olympic
prospects in Greg Kohler, George
town freshman, who is beating 200
feet in practice. and Robert Beatty
of Bulls School. who last year, rep
resenting Ridley Park Pa) High
School, was the outstanding scholas-
tic javelin thrower in the country.
With toss of 200 feet inches he
was the only schoolboy in the land
to better 200 feet.
The Washington Track and Field
Club, organized and coached by
Griffith, will menace the collegians
in several events. In George Began
it will present defending champion
in the century and 220 and may
acquire Jimmy Milks, undefeated
in the 40 and $50 at Washington
Lee High School last year.
Georgetown's Freshman Tuck
mott and Maryland's Joe Murphy,
unbeaten in varsity competition this
year and Southern Conference in
door 60-yard champion, will bid for
Bogan's dash titles along with half
dozen other formidable sprinters.
Tucknott was member of the La
Sale Institute New York; team
that set world interscholastic mile
relay record last year
Each of the IA contests on the
A. A. U. program, with the possible
exception of the pole vault, will in
clude at least several exceptional
performers, lads apparently headed
for high places in the world of field
and track.