Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1892-10-22


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Bouic Clark has entered Swarthmore. class
Of &c. In the annual freshmen-sophomore
games st the college, held October II he dis
unguished b If by Winning three frsts for
his class-ir ., high jump. putting the shot
and throwing the hammer lie Is an earnest
worker and as al athlete gives great promise OF
becoming a record maker
Hodge. who PLAYED second base on the hall
team, Is another ambitious young man who has
been lucky. He goes TO Swarthmore next week.
and that he Will avail himself of the advantages
onered there Is no doubt He is one Of the
High school bows
w H. Lewis, private secretary 20 Justice
Harlan, wiz arrive here this week and 30 10
work in the foot ball team. While in northern
New York he kept himself in condition by
coaching a school team. and. getting them in
such winning form that they won from all the
surrounding country, he Was able 10 own the
little town he was located in. lie regrets that.
owning it. he could not bring it with him.
The members are well pleased with the work
of the foot ball team in practice and predict
for II great success, and this prediction Is
strengthened bv the fact of the engagement as
coach of the great quarter back aud former
captain Of the Princeton team. Edgar A. Poe
famlllsrly and wei known as Peter Poe. lie
started in Yesterday and supplemented his work
on the field by sort of lecture or chalk talk
upon the subject at the rooms last evening He
will continue his work this afternoon and to-
night. BY this method the team hopes TO gain
sufficient knowledge % the intricacies of the
game TO enable them with good, earnest
practice to make fair showing during the
season.
The little manual Just issued and entitled
Have You an IdeaI' contains in concise form
the general work of the organization. and
especially with reference to athletics and 20 the
kind of work and the method OF teaching it in
the gymnasium.
HEARD AMONG THE RECORD MAKERS.
In speaking last week of Wilson Condon's
performance in throwing the hammer on Ana
lostan Island at the e. A. c. fall games this
month l may have been misunderstood. 1
mentioned the fact that that gentleman had
broken his own record. II is well known that
when he throws he uses the right arm only,
using the left to balance himself with Now,
he Is the only man ever saw. and don { think
l ever read or heard of another. who Uses only
one arm in this work. The records made,
therefore, by him will not be entered in any
record book except as matter of reference.
They are his private records and for one-arm
throwing only, and with unlimited and unre-
stricted run: he makes a run of from fifteen to
twenty feet before he delivers and then mea-
sures from the last toe mark at delivery. ANY
one who knows any thing about hammer throw
ing knows that the delivery must be made
within a seven-foot circle. and for this kind of
work James Mitchell of the New York Athletics
holds the worlds record.
The great rider, Zimmerman is apt TO make
his presence felt in other lines than on the
wheel The fact that be finished second last
week to Schwauer of the y. I. A. c. in the
standing broad jump, and this without any
regular training for that class Of work. is re-
marksble.
harl - ~ ~
here and at present of the \. Y. 4. C., consid-
cred one of the best water polo players in New
York, is at work getting himself in trim for the
game.
Giannini. the genial captain of the \. Y. C.
"chipple eight. having taken TO field sports, is
putting the sixteen-pound shot in great shape.
At the club games last week ne was second to
Mitchell, with put of forty feet four inches. a
foot ahead OF the great Coughlan of the NJ A.C.,
and yet come persons have the nerve TO say that
rowing men are no good in field sports. Take,
for example right here al home, Adam johnson,
the great waist man of the GAG. big crew
What he is doing with the sixteen-pound ham
mer is making some of the land pirates tired,
and he will be better stIll next year.
SEEN AND HEARD ELSEWHERE.
There is a well-known cafe in New York CITY
called 1.-The Arena" 1t is the stamping ground
and the meeting place of athletes. past and
present. and here while your lunch or dinner is
being served you can see more men prominent
in amateur athletics Of all kinds in one hour
than you can see anywhere else in a month.
One evening last week in one group saw w.
b. Curtis editor of the Spir-it Of The Times.
otherwise known as Bill Curtis. the father of
athletics. With him are Daniel Stern. one-mile
champion walker in 1876; J. L. c. BIackhurst of
the Y. Y. A. {. and Ben Williams. There the
genial Peckwell of the old Nassaus sits with a
group of friends and near By party of y. A. A.
o. executive committeeman, also Mort Bishop
of fresh air fame. OF the men actively engaged
in field and track work there is a continuous
tream of small and big fry. There YOU hear
the question asked, What has become of
Queckburner. the weight thrower?" He is still
throwing the weights, but he is not keeping up
with the procession.
AMATEUR BASE BALL.
What sad commentary on the base ball edu-
cation of our local people, The representative
teams of the Atlantic Association and OF the
Central Association of the A. A. [. recently
played here for the championship of the A. A.
U. The Atlantics were represented by our own
Y. NJ. c. A. team and their opponents were the
famous Detroit Athletic Club team. teams that
played excellent ball and played for supremacy
all the time, and with which the game of the
professional stifs did not compare. What en-
couragement did the amateur PLAYERS receive?
II is sad. but il is true that for the whole series
played here the sum of Sj6.25 was the sum
total of receipts. OSCAR L. SCHMIDT.
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