The Sunday herald and weekly national intelligencer., 1891-11-08
ATHLETICS AND ROWING.

Capitol Park should be put in repair before
the big game of Thanksgiving.
Townsend is playing a strong game for the
9. A. G. His runs are very clever, while he
tackles the big fellows with all the courage of
q Reff1elfnger.
On Saturday afternoon next the excellent
team Of the Athletic Club of the Schuylkill
Navy will play the c. A. G. at Capitol Park
The Georgetown Varsity team lacks prac-
uce, and If they do not get more games be-
tween this and Thanksgiving Day they will
suffer for want OF team work.
1t is probable that at an early day another
game will be arranged between the George
towns and Kendall University teams. The
kendall's have shown better work lately and
they are confident they Will score in the next
game.
The American Football Union sat down on
the Manhattan Athletic Club very hard last
week and the Manhattans have retired from
the union. Following oft it's usual profess
sional ways, this club sent out to Chicago and
got Ames, Donnelly, and Lilly to come east
for few months to play with them and the
union passed resolution prohibiting any
player from taking part in q cham pionship
game who did not live within one hundred
miles of New York. This killed the Manhat-
tans.
The board of governors of the Potomac
Athletic Club held an important meeting on
Wednesday evening and mapped out plan
i. for the future welfare of the club. To meet
existing obligations it was decided to issue in
terest-bearing bonds Of the face value of $40
each. and the money thus raised will place the
club on an easy footing This the directors
believed was much better way of releasing
the club from its Indebtedness than by impos-
Ing an assessment on the Individual members
The club 1s In no worse shape than it has
hitherto been, but this is deemed a good way
to clear of all the debts Mr.. o. P. Schmidt
was given authority to get up entertainments
during the winter season at the club house
and the first one takes place on Saturday
evening next.
On Tuesday the Columbia Athletics will
play game at Capitol Park with the team
selected from the Baltimore Athletic Club
The team from Baltimore is strong-made up
OF Princeton and other college graduates
Mr.. L. A. Poe, the great quarter back, is
coaching them, while brother plays quarter
back. large delegation of Baltimoreans will
come over to see the game.
1t is understood that the Columbia Athletics
are endeavoring to get Wagenhurst, of the
University of Pennsylvania. and Thomas, of
the Princeton College team, to come here and
coach them for the big game of Thanksgiving
Day. 1t is very proDable that the latter gen
tleman will come. He was the great tackler
in last years Princeton eleven, and therefore
must be good man to handle an eleven.
The G. A. G. did not go to the University
of Virginia yesterday owing to the Inability OF
several of their players to get away from bust
ness.
Captain Wells, of the G. A. c., went to
Philadelphia yesterday to see the game
between the University, of Pennsylvania, and
Princeton.
The project to hold joint athletic enter
tainment in this city during the coming win
ter, under the auspices of the A. A. u, meets
with considerable favor among our clubs. In
the three organizations there is a coterie of
scientific wrestlers and sparrers, and each
aspiring athlete is anxious to try conclusions
with the other. Such an exhibition, where
the contest would be for points, would surely
afford plenty of excitement among the Or
ganizations, and there would be just as much
enthusiasm as If IL was a boat race The
clubs should arrange the meeting.
Lee Harlan, the splendid half-baek of the
Columbia Athletic Club, has been kept out of
the game OF late on account of a lame leg
He is getting himself in trim for the games
with The Princetons and the Georgetowns.
On Wednesday next the Georgetown Var
sity team VIII go TO Annapolis to play the
crack eleven of the Naval Academy. This
win be the first game of Importance the
GeorgetoYns have played since they tackled