Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-04-25
The Team of Speedy Men Sent by
Georgetown.
RACING RECORDS dF;s,4HE MEMBERS
Fast Time That Has Been Made in
Practice.
THE 'VARSITY'S COMPETITORS

The relay races held this afternoon at
Franklin Field, Philadelphia, under the
auspices of the University of Pennsylva-
mia will be doubly interesting to local peo-
pie, not SO much on account of the general
interest in the outcome of the various
events, but because two local UNIVERSE
ties are sending teams to compete with
the cracks of the other colleges And
what is more, the teams stand an excel
lent show of coming out ahead in the
events in which they are entered. The re-
lay races will be conducted on a greater
magnitude than ever before attempted.
There will be various events, commencing
at o'clock this afternoon, and ending at
$50 o'clock, in which the crack racers of
over twenty different colleges will COM
pete.
The principal event OF the day will be
the one-mile race of four relays for the
championship of America, which will be
the last thing on the program, and which
will be the event of the day. because Of
the fact that the leading colleges of the
country will enter teams to win the COW
eted championship. The most prominent
colleges entered Ill this race, as has been
stated in The Star, are Harvard, Yale, Uni
verslty of Pennsylvania and Georgetown.
This is the only event in which George
town is entered. BY authorities all over
the country the race is conceded to George
town and Harvard, with the balance in
FAVOR of Georgetown. According to the
as first, with Georgetown a clear second
and Yale and University of Pennsylvania
fighting for third place.
This is Georgetown's first outside race In
the relay line. The university obtained
prominence III this class of racing las; fall
when it defeated the team of the Un,ver-
sity of Pennsylvania at the annual fall
meet held on tie Georgetown campus. This
event was the most exciting ever held in
town. The Georgetown team was CON-
posed of young Wefers, Gallagher Dc
laney aa1 +. J. Wefers, and on the first
lap lie Pennsylvania men gained nearly
forty yards. Gallagher diminished the dis
lance two-Ihrds, and Delaney brought the
distance down to a close five yards, when
b. j. Wefers made the last lap and he
won, in magnificent spurt by about TWEEN
ty-fve. yards
Georgetown will send five men 70 the
meet, and the team will be Bernard j.
Nefers, J. NJ. Gallagher, j. c. Delaney
julius S. Walsh and William Holt. If it is
decided to send an additional sprinter the
man will be w. f. Fox Last week there
was test race for time among the can
didates for the team. Many were dissatis-
he'd with their times and arc other race was
held Sunday, at which some astonishing
fast time was made. Gallagher succeed
ed in making the circuit in the remark bIy
quick time of 81 3-5. Walsh and Holt tied
each other at the tape. their time being
~
while Fox, though a good man, could not
bring the time less than 3D. Wefers did
not run at all, and no one krows in what
Tune he can make the circuit. though it is
conceded that he can go any of the men
on the team two or three seconds better
in the 40 yards. az
Taking the time of the three fastest men.
Gallagher at 81 81, Holt and Walsh at 81 -
each, and allowing Wefers ~ 3-5, it would
make the average time of the Georgetown
men for the quarter of 5t41-2 seconds. This
is phenomenaily fast time. and will un-
doubtedly win the race for the boys in blue
and gray. It is claimed that Wefers can
run the distance in 40 seconds fiat and ii
he does this he will stih further lower the
average time. Wefers himself has made
the statement, and makes ii in good faith
that II any distance under thirty yards
separates him from the leading man when
he begins his relay, Georgetown will win.
If any man can back this statement UP it
Is Wefers.
Bernard J. Wefers.
The team of Georgetown is composed of
extremely young men, of which B. j.
Wefers is the most promising man. He is
of the class of '9S, is six feet high, weighs
ia pounds and is only twenty-one years of
age. This is his first year at Georgetown.
attending Boston College last year His
nome is at Lowell, Mass He first came in
to notice as runner in the spring of 1895,
when he ran 12O yards in ~ seconds This
gave MIN considerable prominence, and in
other events he made good time. Last sum-
mer he Joined the New York Athletic Club
and under their colors has won some not
able races. In their September games last
fall he broke the worlds record for 300
yards, and in the international games he
equaled the record for 100 yards in 8 40
seconds. This record was made by Owens
when the Amateur Athletic Union held its
annual field and track event in this city in
1870 on Anaiostan Island In the interna-
tlonal games in which he equaled the record
Tor one mile. he broke the worlds record
Tor 20 yards, placing the time at y 81,
seconds. 1t Is needless to say that these
records We're made in competition and that
Wefers won both races. He came to
Georgetown October |, 1898, and made his
debut in the local athletic world with the
Georgetown relay team, which defeated the
University of Pennsylvania on November D.
At the games of the twelfth regiment, held
IN Boston last February, he euualed the
worlds record for seventy-five yards, the
time being Z So seconds. In the same
month at the games of the New Jersey Ath-
letic Club, held in Madison Square Garden,
in New York city, ne broke the record for
nfty yards, but the record was not allowed
because in official terms Wefers beat the
pistol at the start. On April S, at an exhi-
bltlon run, held under the auspices of Bos-
ton Coilege, and at their annual games, he
equaled the worlds record for thirty yards,
time 3 80. At Georgetown, April b. in an
exhibition run of 30 yards, his time by
Tour out of six timepieces was u 20 sec
onds or 10 of a second better than his
worlds record. He will be the last runner
on the team.
j. NJ. Gallagher.
j. NJ. Gallagher is the next most promi-
nent man on the team, and is the next best
runner at the college. He is a member of
the post graduate course, and comes to
Georgetown from the Worcester Polytechnic
Institute. He is twenty-five years of age,
five feet six inches in height and weighs
l3S pounds, being the highest man on the
team He IS half and quarter-mile run
Ter and also a hurdler Of some ability.
Most OF the events in which he has COM
Peted have been relay races, in which he
ran under the colors Of the Worcester Tech.
and the Worcester Athletic Club For
these two he has run over a dozen races.
He was on Georgetown'si relay team last
fall when PeEnsylvana--was defeated, and
by many it is claimed that he won the race,
his competitor having lover forty yards
start on him, which he reduced to about ten
yards at the finish. In the New England
meet Of the Amateur athletic Union last
September he was leading Champion
Bremen until the ninth hurdle when he fell.
He is a good all round athlete, and one Of
the best men that ever attended George