The evening times., 1895-10-21
GOSSIP OF LOCAL ATHLETES
sprinter Wefers Has Again Stirred
Up John Crum.
Herenf fter Try TO Avoid Dissatis-
faction With Handicappers.

The great championship handicap live
bird tournament, to be held at BaliIniore
begins tomorrow and will continue through
Wednesday and Thursday. Washington is
to be represented In the event by j M. Green
and William Wagner.
The trophy to be shot for is Il cup of solid
silver, weighing 10 ounces. 1t is firtceI
inches high and rests upon an onyx pedestal
1t Is designed to represent Il rack holding
four guns. Famous shots from every sec
ton of the country have entered, and the
cash purse that will go to the winner along
with the trophy will be Il rich one. A party
OF twelve. whose names are familiar ia
the shooting fraternity everywhere, LEFT
Chicago for Baltimore last night. They are
Shepherd, bingham, FELTON,, Kern, and
Ruhc, of Chicago; Frank Parmlce, of Onia-
| ha; Grimm, Cook, and Gilbert, of Iowa
Tom Marshall, of Springfield, H.; Charles
Powers; of Peoria, ILL.,, and The celebrated
old shooting wonder, Capt. Bogardus, OF
Lincoln, Ill.
On last Thursday, when it was given out
that Fred Scbadc had gone a trial mile
over the Van Ness PARK track, which is
by no means a well-shaped or good one for
fast riding, In 2:l3, many persons whistied
and looked wise. In fact, there has been a
good deal of doubt expressed by some in
regard TO about every good performance
| Fred has been credited with Of late, but
| the clever boys work on Saturday should
| set the quibblcrs at rest. In the paced mile
he not only beat his trial of Thursday by a
| quarter Of a second, and lowered the track
record by more than five seconds, but from
| the style in which he rode this race 1t looked
nc hnu I'm h.ax- snrfa ira1s nIi
several seconds Off this ii a faster pace
had been set for him. In the other two ra ces
which he won he clearly demonstrated that
none of his his'opponents were in Ii with him,
and that he is by long odds the fastest man
| in the District.
The notion expressed by some bicycle
enthusiasts that George Ball " ould not go
! into Saturdays two-milc-handicap race
with the confidence that he should have
| 10 make his chance of winning good, did
not figure their man well. If there was
any lack or confidence in him before the
race 1t certainly disappeared when he
mounted his wheel for the contest From
the start he ran n good race, and though
he looked well tagged near the end his
| finish with Smith was rs game a one rs
anybody would have made.
The Times stated several days ago that
| II was very doubtful whether the Columbia
Athletic Club would have team In either
the basket ball league or the bow ling league
this year, II such Leagues Were formed.
The failure of the Columbias TO DE repre-
sented at the meeting OF the basket ball
players on Saturday night indicates the
truth of The Times prediction, which
was TO the effect, also, that several other
clubs that have heretofore been among
the first 10 go into league movement,
10. "a
remain Independent. Neither the Outing
Club, Orient Athletics or Washington
Athletics were represented at the meeting
The failure of these clubs to participate
In the meeting is not. however. attributed
TO any dissatisfaction, and IL is Eoped and
believed they viii all come into the move
mcnt in good time.
The racing season is about over here,
but when another one comes it is likely
that there will be an effort made To avoid
some of the customs that have heretofore
prevailed in arranging for meets. There
will be opposition, for one thing, to any
man many wa connected with the manufac-
ture or sale of bicycles acting In the ca
pacity of Handicapped. The reason for
this is obvious. If u man in n race gets
what lie thiuks is too heavy task, and he
uses a wheel of other make than that haEalled
by the Handicapped, If the handiclpper is in
the bicycle trade, the rider invariably
charges that if he rode the handicapper's
wheel things would be different. Such
charges are frequently without foundation,
not otwithstanding the argument commonly
made that no man willhandicaphi own bus
mess: but for the sake of harmony among
the bicycle brethren. ii is proposed 10
hereafter urge that handicappers shall not
be In any way connected with the bicycle
business.
The bowling enthusiasts VIII hold meet
ing shortly, 1t fs said, to complete arrange
ments for the bowling league OF 1885
1896. The Washington Athletic Club,
Young Mems Catholic Club, Carroll Insti-
tute, Buena Vista, all of the organizations
of last year viii be in the league this year,
with the exception of the Columbia Athletic
Club, and several other clubs are expected
to join it.
The many plea nj things that have been
said about Bernard Wefers since he came |
TO toGcOrgetown College have again wakcned |
the friends OF John Crunl, the Iowa College |
sprinter. The ion of the name of |
Mike Murphy, the Yale trainer, by wefers |
in q talk with Times reprcsc ntative the |
other day, has fired up all of the West |
erners. They do not believe that when |
Crum is right there is a man on earth who |
can beat him 100 or 22O yards, and the |
all around athlete OF Chicago, who saw |
Crum tust before and after the race at New |
York, that Murphy had wilfuly neglected |
him and treated him in the most shabby /
manner and that he was in no condition |
TO run, has renewed the unpleasant feeling
in them. II is lucky that Wefers is pro.
tected by amateurism. If he wasn't the
wooIly fellows out in Crum's country would
make money bluffs at him every minute.
AS it is they say they will never be
until Crum has had another try
at Wefers, and If he gets it they will see
that n man named Mike Murphy has no
hand in conditioning him.
Joe Lyons returned to Washington last
Wednesday with Frank Norcum. Both
Lyons and NOrcum have been with the
Warsaw, Ind. team, in the Interstate
League. Lyons is a pitcher as well as Nor
.un and both young men made good rec
,rds during the season. Lyons was FORM
,rly a member of the strong Blakes. Nor
.um was with the Shamrocks. Norcum,
while with the Warsaw team, pitched ten
games and won eightofthe nspitched
nineteen games and won thirteen. Norcum
S now a member of the Shamrock football
cam. Lyons says he wants 10 football in
lis He can come close enough to getting
,illed in baseball. Both NOrcum and Lyons
ave offers to go back to the Warsaw W team,
mt as yet they have not made up their
minds whether they will or will not accept
t.
Young Sam Dalzell, son of Congressman
Dalzell, who has been with the Homestead
'aseball team during the past season, re-
urned to the city the latter part of last
week. He made good record as third
aseman, and will probably return to the
next year. Young DalZell
vas formerly member OF the Columbia
Lthletic team.