Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-06-02

winged wheel symboIlzing the bicycle
race. Engraved upon the body par Of ii lie
The finishing scene Of q sprintins event
The trophy is very artisticaly proportion
ed, and is all extremely handsom" affair
the lower part, legs and handles being EN-
bosseG with artistic designs.
In addition TO The Evening Star cham
ponship trophy the following merchants
Of the city have donated gold and silver
medals: Hansen, successor TO Smeduc
Rros.. Saks d Company. j. Kari 5 Sons
J. Dcsio and S. DGsio, NJ. A. Tappan. NJ
CT. Copeland and Mr.. Z. P. Merlz. have
each donated athletic sundries from their
stock.
The championship cup is TO be contested
for annually until on" Of The schools man
ages to obtain it thrce times, when The
trophy will become the properly Of TIE
successful school.
System of Awarding the Prize.
The hampionship and the trophy that
goes with it will be won by the school
which scores the greatest number of points
according TO the following system: The
school represented by the winner of each
first event will be credited with five points.
while the second and third men will win
two and one points respectively for their
schools.
The meet Will take place on the George
town College grounds at O'Clock tomor-
row afternoon. and the events will prove to
be unusually interesting. All four schools
will he granted a half holiday, being dis
missed at II o'clock by DIR. +. f. Lane.
Tomorrow will be gala day. when MEM
bers OF all four of the schools Will undoTbt-
eddy attend in large numbers. Colors of
the respective schools will be seen every
where, and yells by delegations from all of
the schools will be heard almost constantly.
The meet is exciting the greatest of at
tention among all the students, who arc
making calculations and predicting what
DOlntS their rpSnecrila rr,1 n iNaS will
make. 1t is conceded that the Central has
the best chances in the track events. as
Jolly. Tndall, Curtiss. Ruff and Stuart are
all looked upon as possible first-prize win
neTs. The Eastern and Western schools
will probably share honors on the field, as
Kelly, Maupin, Chapel and Erby for the
Eastern and Tanner, Berry and Tausslg for
the Western all good men.
While the Central athletes do not expect
to win by large majority, they count on
Jolly or Tndall winning the hundred yards
dash. with Coffin well up in front: on one
of their men scoring a point or two in the
shot-putting contest; Stuart, and pos
sibly Oyster, scoring in the third event; on
Farrow having a fair chance in the run
ming broad jump: on Ruff or Jolly counting
in the two hundred and twenty yards dash;
on Curtiss. Gains and Underwood showing
up well III the pole vault; on Wilson and
Plant making a good show in the bicycle
race; on Curtiss beng first man in the two
hundred and twenty yards hurdle race: on
Stuart being successful in the mile run; on
t'arrow or CurtiSS being able to jump well
in the high jump, and on Ruff coming in
first in the four hundred and forty yards
run.
Some Expectations.
The other schools are equally as conf
dent, the Eastern counting on Hurst Gil
bert, Kelly, Maupin, Erly. Weaver, VIII
liams and Parsons scoring in the events
for which they are entered. The Western.
placing much confidence in Taussig Berry
Tanner Kirkland, Hudson. Darby and
MACEDONIAN, and the Business expecting to
capture a couple of prizes through the
efforts of Hoover CassIn and Wheeler
The meeting Will be held under the au-
spices of the High School Athletic Asso-
citation, composed of thee representatives
each from the Central Western, Eastern
and Business. These representatives were
elected about the middle Of February, and
have been working hard ever since to make
the meet a success. The members of tie
association are: Messrs. Philip Tindall
chairman; Hyder 3. Farrow, Fred; n. Al
bert, Gilbert W. Kelly, William NJ. Hal
lam, secretary; Hal. w. Chapel, Charles
A Taussig. H. p Hudson, Allan Z. Berry
Eugene F. Cough, Dana White and Newton
II. Ferree.
The officers for the meet have been Sc
lected as follows
Referee, Robert Dick Douglass vice
president Of the Intercollegiate Athletic
ASSOCIATION, three bernard ..
Wefers, champion sprinter in all distances
up to 300 yards: James A. Hendley and Mr.
Claiborne; three field judges, Mr.. McCor-
mack, MIR. Fox ard j. Earl Ambrose; three
timekeepers. Mr.. Lee, w. b. Hibbs and FL
mer Speare; starter. George T. Cox; clerk
of the course, Pat Wells of the c. A c.;
two measurers, Harry English and Emory
Wilson of the Central and Eastern schools:
scorers, Luther H. Reichelderfer and Eu-
gene b. Wilkins, and announcer, ]. E. Jones
of The Star.
List of Entries.
The fun list OF entries and the starters
from all of the schools and the order in
which they will be run, are as follows:
!. OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES dash-Central jolly
Coffin and Tindall, and Young and Ruff
Eastern. Hurst, Kelly and Coombs, start
ers. Western. Berry. Taussig and Tanner.
starters. Business. Frank Hoover.
2. Putting lwelve-pound shot-Central
Dumars. n. Underwood and Barnard start
ers. Eastern, Maupin. Chapel and Hurst,
starters. Western, Tanner.
3. acknowledgements run
Central, Stuart Oyster and Ballinyer
starters; Eastern, Erby, Hurst and Chap
pei, starters, and Hoover; Western Taus-
sig.
4. Running broad jump-Central, Farrow,
Young and ]. Underwood. starters and
Curtiss and Marean; Eastern, Maup:n.
Hurst, Kelly, starters; Western, Tanner.
Kirkland and Hudson, starters
%. Two-hundred- dash
Central. Ruff. Jolly and Coffin, starters and
Young and Tfndall; Eastern, Coombs, d.