Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-11-04
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Preparations for the Autumn Field
Day at Georgetown.
SuME RARE SPORT MAY Be EXPECTED
Outlook for the Open Games Next
Saturday.
FOOT BALL

.INTERCLASS FOOT BALL
Preparation for the autumn field day of
Georgetown University Is in full blast.
The contractor promised to have the run
ming track and other portions of the cam
pus ready for practice over a week ago, but
Lis promises were not fulfilled. The track is
Gut of the ordinary run of college tracks,
and is expected to develop considerable
speed. Instead of the usual upper coat of
cinders there Is red clay rolled hard, which,
while probably not as easy under foot as Gin
ders. is great deal easier to keep in.order.
The track measures a quarter of mile, with
the finish point nearly opposite the grand
stand. 1t is. however. in its shape that it
differs from those of it's rivals Instead of
the semi-circle at each end there is an
ellipse with two straightaways. one each
on the east and west sides of the campus.
The straightaways are level, but the sur
face of the two ellipses is slanting, with
rise of about eighteen inches at the outer
sides of the ends. The advantage in the
ellipSe arrangement is said to lie in the fact
that man more than makes UP the time
lost in turning the rather sharp angles by
the two straight sides than he would if
large part of the track was a continuous
.urn. The hundred-yard dash and the hur-
ding ground is located on the east straight
away, and is really 125 yards in length,
with the starting point slightly de-
scending. AT the extreme northwest cor
ner of the campus. but inside the track, is
placed the ground for pole vaulting, and to
the east OF this is the jumping ground. The
track entirely surrounds the base ball field,
but does not interfere with it in the slight
est.
Saturday November 8, the open field day is
to come off, and this is expected to equal
anything this city has ever seen in the line
and certainly surpass all local college COM
petitions. Manager Robert Dick Douglass
has sent letter to each of the colleges
composing the Intercollegiate Athletic AS
ISOLATION and to all neishboring institutions,
in all about fifty colleges, asking them to
compete.
Events of the Day.
The official rules of the intercollegiate
American Amateur Athletic Association
Will govern all events. The events will be
those of the l. c. A. A. A. A. namely: One
hundred-yard dash, 220-yard dash, 44O-yard
daSh SSO-yardS run, mile run, mile walk,
two-mile bicycle, 120-yards hurdle. 22O-yards
hurdle, running broad jump. running high
jump, pole vault, putting sixteen-pound
shot and thowing sixteen-pound hammer.
gold medal will be given for first prize
and silver medal for second prize in each
event.
1t Is expected that there will be some en-
tres from outside institutions, possibly one
or two men from the University of Pennsyl-
vania, but even if only the local collegians
slow up, Washingtonians will have a
chance to see the holder of one worlds rec
ord in competition, and also another man
who has defeated a worlds record holder,
and the man next to him.
In the 1OO-yard dash Bernard ]. Wefers
who has equaled the worlds record with 8
40 to his credit will, of course, carry off
the palm. Wefers comes from Boston Uni
Hersity, though he ran for the New York
Athletic Club at the Manhattan Field
meet To spur him to do good work there
will be Fox, who represented Georgetown
at the Mott Haven games, and did 10 S-5.
Fox is large and we'll built and with prac-
tice is expected to develop into a remark
ably fast man. Julius Walsh Is the other
competitor. He is from St. Louis UNIVERSE
~. but has never tried against time. Walsh
Is small, but has a graceful gait In the
2.0-yards run, in addition to the three lust
mentioned, there will compete Dillon, new
man, from the University of St. Louis, who
mas never run in competition before. We
fers holds the worlds record at the DO
beating John v. Crum In 81 3-5 seconds
Sharp Competition Promised.
In the undred-and-forty-yard dash,
James Wefers. brother of the crack. is bill
ed to make 1t. He has accomplished 1t in
.52 3-5. Holt. new man from Philadel-
pha, will push James Wefers hard. Holt
will also be seen in the half-mile. His record
for this Is two minutes, plus three seconds,
or two seconds slower than ]. D. Delaney
McAnernany is to make the third man Of
the trio in this event. McAnernany is well
built. and should make a strong finish. In
the mile run. however, Georgetown has q
sure thing in the person of the Delaney lust
ment oned. Delaney comes from the Wor.
cester Athletic Club, and at the last field
day of that organization he defeated the
two best men in the United States. except
ing Tommy Connef. for the distance De-
laney does this in four minutes and TWEEN
ty-eight seconds. McAnernany is his run
ming mate for the mile. In the two-mile
bicycle. F. w. Hutchins of the law depart.
ment has sure thing, unless the two new
men in the collegiate department turn out
extraordinarily well. They are Mclaughlin
of Brooklyn and B. ]. Maher who halls
from the Portland, Me-, High School In
the MISUNDERSTANDING hurdle the col
lege has another star in the person of j.
NJ. Gallagher. Gallagher learned all he
knows of hurdlng at the Worcester Ath-
letic Club. Of which he is a member, be
sides being in the school of arts at George
town. ]. A. Devereux is the other wearer
of the blue and gray who will essay the
hurdles. The college entries are the same
in the next event. the Northumberland
twenty-yard hurdle, with the exception
that Fox will help out. OF big Mike" Ma
honey wonders are expected. He does not
train he ought to, and in consequence
lacks a zeal or experience He Is booked
for the running broad jump, having already
cleared twenty feet eight inches at this.
P. J. Seaman. the ball player, and Nc
Anernany are the men who will act as his
racemalters. ard nossibly go him one bet
ter. Arthur McEhone. medico, is too
well known in Washington to need COM
m mt, except that he can clear the bar at
five feet ten in the running high jump.
julius Walsh is six inches below McElhone.
McElhone may also be induced to try his
hand at the pole vault, at which he is an
adept, but at which he has not practiced
much Of late. Gallagher. who swings over
the bar at nine feet six. and Dillon are.
however, sure to represent the college at
the vault. George Mahoney ought to make
a good shot putter, but he has not come up
to expectations as yet If, however, ha
was given the assistance of a professional
&C lch. the same as the college champion.
W. O. Hickok of Yale, has always received.
he might equal the latter. He has put the
ball thirty-seven feet ten inches, and Is
constantly increasing the distance. w. T.
S. royle and T. Welsh are the other shot
putters, and they, with Mahoney from the
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