The daily morning journal and courier., 1896-02-07
GENERAL STOPPING NEWs.
Sterling Eiliotts Career-The Univer- sity yofPennsylvania's Big Relay Race


 sembly of the L. A. w. will convene next week in Baltimore. The assembly will have many important measures for consideration, for not less than seventy five amendments to the constitution VIII be offered A. c. Wnlison and Sterling Elliott, the rival candidates for the league presidency, have infused so much enthusiasm into the campaign that many important questions have been re- tired, temporarily at least, to the pack ground. Usually the selection of place for holding the national annual race meet has been a subject that occupied the time of wheelmen to large extent.
 This year, however, while Louisville and Toledo are hustling rivals for the honor of holding the meet, the question has not assumed the prominence of pre- vious years. The vote for the presiden- cy will probably be. very close. Willi- sons friends claim the south and west on the ground that man of capaplllty deserves a two years term in order to bring about successful results rom many undertakings that require more than twelve months to mature, Bos- ton friend of MT. Elliott's says: MT. Elliott will have the support of his own division, the vote of all New England, with the possible exception of Connect icut; the support of New Jersey and New York and strong western vote brought by the candidacy of an Illinois man and Hartwell of Denver on his fo1r ;, +n er1 him majority, and his friends claim that he is a reasonably sure winner. Elliott was born in Michigan in 1852. His fa- ther was 6, miller. When he was young man he was an expert carriage builder. Always possessing an inven- tive mind, he has to-day more than for ty patents. He invented an electric chronograph for timing races to the six tieth of a second and has seventeen pa tents covering the pneumatic tired sul- ky His interest in bicycling and good roads dates back ten years, and he has always been a member of the league. For six years he has been member of the Massachusetts board of officers. He was chairman of the national highway committee during 1894 and has been member of the national assembly since 1S90 In 1894 he was made the chief consul of the Bay state, receiving the unanimous vote of the entire division, and last November he was reelected" The Athletic association of the Uni versity of Pennsylvania will hold the biggest intercollegiate relay race meet ing on record on Saturday, April 20, open to all the colleges and universities of the United States and Canada. The race will be to determine the relay rac- ing championship. Other races will be for groups of four and competitors of nearly equal strength. There will also be a consolation race, open to the teams that fail to get first or second prizes. The races will be governed by the same rules of qualification and eligibility that now prevail in the Intercollegiate Attn letic association, namely, competitors must be members of their respective col leges since the 18th of the previous Oc- tober and shall have taken at least five hours recitation per week during that period So far the entries for the cllam pionship of America are Harvard and Pennsylvania The other colleges have been grouped as follows:N Cornell, Columbia Lehigh and Lafay- cite.
 swarthmore, Haverford, Rutgers and Stephens.
 Williams, Dartmouth, Amherst and Union college.
 College of City of New York, Univer- sity of New York, Fordham college and Syracuse university.
 Chicago university, University of Michigan, University of California and University of Iowa.
 Yale Princeton, Brown and George town university.
 University of Minnesota, University of Illinois Toronto university and Univer- sity of Wisconsin.
 State college, Bucknell university, Franklin and Marshall and Dickinson college.
 Pennsylvania college, Gettysburg; Muhlenburg, Westminster college, Ma ryland, and St. Johns college, Annapo- lis, Md
 University of Virginia, University of North Carolina, Johns Hopkins and Vanderbilt university.
 Trinity, Wesleyan, Tufts college and Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
 Western Pennsylvania university, AL legheny college, Washington and Jeffer- son and Jefferson college.
 The Barnard school will hold a set of indoor games on Saturday afternoon at ? o'clock in the Eighth regiment armo- ", Ninety-fifth street and Park avenue. Evert J. Wendell, N. Y. A. C., will be the referee. The judges will be John F. Condon, R. G. Garrett, M. P. Halpin, H. Barrister, C. Ayres, E. F. Simpson and Garret Cochrane; timers, Robert Stoll, G. V. Lyons, Darwin R. James and E. w Golf; starter, Jack McMa sters; clerk of the course, E. W. Hjertberg, and an- nouncer, Fred Burns. The events will be: Sixty yards dash, 60 yards hurdle, one mile run, 220 yards dash for jun iors, SS0 yards run, 440 yards y1n, 60 yards dash for juniors; putting the shot and running high jump. H. Washburn of Barnard is the probable winner of the hurdle. F. Bedford looks good for the mile run; w. Wilson for the 220, junior; W. s. Nipple and E. W. Beiford are rivals for the SS0; R. W. Moore and H. Moeller are expected to fight out the final heat in the SO yards dash, While W. Wilson is fancied for the junior race at that distance. w. S. Nipple and c. IT, win-Martin are evenly matched in the 440. The other events are more uncer- tr,s,