Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-02-08
COLLEGE ATHLETICS
Columbian University's Nine Has
Begun Hard Work.
CAGE IN TEE CENTRAL POWER HOUSE
Activity Among the Georgetown
Track Men.
THE BASE BALL CANDIDATES

The base ball team of the Columbian Uni
yersity has settled down to hard work,
and when the outdoor season opens the
mer will be in prime condition for playing.
The weather conditions making It impos
sible for outdoor practice, the men were
forced to train indoors, and having no
place large enough, room in the central
power station was secured. The practice
room has been Gagged in. making without
doubt the finest cage In the United States.
The cage takes in six of the large rooms
on the fourth floor, having a southern ex-
posure The place is well ventilated and
well lighted, and embraces an area of near
ly 5000 square feet. This gives a good
idea OF its extent. Its length, from east to
west, is good throw for any base ball play
er. The place was secured last week, and
after all arrangements had been made,
the athletic association purchased wire
screams and other material to protect the
window lights, and prevent injury to the
building.
The place is we'll heated by steam, and
modern conVenienceS have been added in
the shape of hot and cold baths. A car
load of tan bark has been ordered, and as
soon as it arrives the floor will be covered,
and the aspirants for the base ball team
given plenty Of practice in sliding bases.
Practice began Friday and all during the
week the cage was filled with promising
base ball players, who enjoy the novelty of
playing ball in rainy and cold weather
while everything outdoors is against the
game at this season of the year.
The manager Of the team, Mr.. Barrett,
has secured the services of several of the
National League MEN to coach the varsity
pitchers every afternoon. Jack Gilroy,
Wasfington's twirler. was at the cage
Wednesday and Thursday afternoons and
coached the men.
The candidates for the base ball team are
as follows: Pitchers-Beard, Hough Ed
Mills. Cummings and Sioussatt; catchers-
Medford, Don Fugitt, Mcdonald and House;
| infield-Greene, Dalzell, Shaw, Beall, c. Fu-
gift. Rye, Alden and Burdetts; outfield-
Goodfelow, Lewis. Beard and Wesner.
Rye was the captain of Princeton prep"
for two years, and is regarded as a first
class man. He played in the outfield, with
a fielding average Of .975 and batting av-
erage of $50. Alden, who is in the Law
School, played four years with the Uni
versity of Kansas. He is candidate for
| second base.
Manager Barrett is hard at work arrang-
ing the schedule of games to be played
when the weather permits. He has nearly
completed it, and will announce it some
time next week.
A meeting of the students will be called in
few days to consider the organization of
tor-in-chief Of the Call" the Varsity pub
LEGATION, is deeply interested in the matter
and recognizes the abundance Of material
| at hand for such an organization.
Invited to the Relay Race.
During the past week Manager Douglas
Of the field and track team Of George
town University received an invita-
ton to the Intercollegiate Relay Race
| meeting, which is to be held In Philadel-
phia April %, under the auspices of the
University of Pennsylvania, open to all the
colleges of the United States and Canada.
One race will be a contest to determine the
1ol1A a1ov ~ hit of
will be open to all colleges that desire to
contest for that championship. Harvard
and Pennsylvania have already signifed
their intention of entering this race. There
will also be a number of other races be-
tween the colleges, and every effort has
been made to arrange the colleges in
groups that are about equal in strength.
By racing in one of the general contests
college Is not debarred from entering the
race for the intercollegiate championship,
If that college be the winner of the general
contest in which it Is entered. Four college
teams are to run in each race, and valua BILE
prizes will be offered. The groups embrace
all the important colleges of the country,
and Georgetown is placed in the first rank,
her opponents being Yale, Brown and
Princeton. The makeup Of the team which
will uphold the blue and gray has not yet
been decided on, but it is probable that 1t
will consist Of the same men who won from
Pennsylvania in the annual fall games.
ConEratulatinS Wefers.
Bernard ]. Wefers, who ran in the 50-yard
dash in the New Jersey Athletic Club games
in Madison Square Garden last Saturday,
returned to college Monday, and a meeting
of the athletic association was held Tues
day, that the students might have an OPP
portunity to offer their congratulations ami
show their appreciation of his magnificent
work.
w. S. Martin, vice president of the athletic
association, made a few Introductory re-
marks. and was followed by Douglas, man.
ager OF the field and track teams, who pre-
scented to Wefers, in the name of the associ-
alton, a beautiful toilet set in tortoise shell
and silver.
Mr.. Wefers responded gracefully, and
spoke modestly of his work.
"Mtdge" Gallagher. the little hurdler who
finished third in the quarter-mile run, was
called upon by his many admirers and ex-
pressed his thanks in a few well-chosen
words.
A stirring and enthusiastic speech was
made by John P. O'Brien, manager of the
base ball team. urging the students to exert