The morning times., 1896-09-22
on GEORGETOWN FIELD.

Quiulan. of Fordhan, will enter October
/ , and appear in Georgetown ; track events.
Quinlan ran second to Wefers IN both the
100 and 200-yard events at the national
meet.
Edward Romadka, graduate of Ford
ham, viii enter Georgeto this year Us
freshman. Romadka has high repu-
taton as sprinter, aud IL baseball
player Of ability.
Edward Smith, a graduate or Brown,
will enter the law school. Smith has held
for several years the hammer-thro wing
record OF the New England IGter- Collegiate
Athletic Association.
At the national amateur championship
games be won a first i'll both the 100 and
200-yard events, and ran second TO his
old rival Burke, OF the Boston Athletic A s.
sociation in the 440-yard run.
The outer class games are being doomed
by the various classmen, and the series
promises to be hotIy contested. Many
men. however. who will take part, have
not as yet returned 10 the university
Just to start the athletic ball rOlliag
at the Georgeto University, the members
OF the Greek SOCIETY organized "A baseball
team yesterday and played "a very exciting
game with tie boys OF the preparatory
department.
Notwithstanding the stateInen nt> pu blished
by the faculty. there are numerous rlmurs
afloat through the university t!-it Before
the close OF the season the football pro-
scrIption will be removed and the college
berepresentcd byateam.
\ football player who wa on his way 10
Lafayette to re-enter, said that dates had
been secured by the Georgetown College
Athletic Association for football games to
be pia yed during this fall. Certainly the
sentiment OF the students a the universit Y
lsin favor of this course.
The classic element won haudily by u
score of 23 to >. Tobin and Dixon were
in the points for the Greeks. and Hicks
and Mem ahon officIated for the Props.
Despite the frozen face given To football
by the faculty athletic interest will he AZ
fever heat during the winter
Just now it is tennis, and Manager
Cover Is Eard at work CoaNing racket
wielders to get together on the excellent
courts which the campus boasts. The
fall track meet is looked forward to with
interest. and the High School relay race
is one of the prominent features.
The reason generally assigned for this
change of policy is the fact that the uni
versty Is losing caste among possible car
didates for admission on account of its
athletic attitude. and that MANY are going
elsewhere, where their muscular proClivi-
ties can bc exercised with greater freedom
A number of new track athletes have
entered the college and more are coming.
DriscoH. who won the District collegiate
tennis championship last year, will re-
enter the law school October l. Drscoll
has just won an honorable second place in
the San Francisco athletic games for the
championship OF the Pacific slope.
Among the possibilities that rumor is
circulating is the entrance OF Fred Schat de
the wel-Snown cyclist in the Georgetown
collegiate course. y number of good riders
are already ut the university, but none
in the class with Schade, who would, no
doubt, be used repeatedly to maintain the
honor OF the school on the slantindicular
oval.
Burke has recently returned from abroad
after representing his club in the Athenian
games. on a previous occasion Wefers took
first honors from Burke at the Lowell
Athletic Club meet in the 3OO-yard event,
and an effort Is being made by the New
York Athletic Club to get the two men
together shortly TO decide which of the
two is the superior.
Bernard j. wefers, Georgetown's pride,
athletically speaking. will return shortly,
after n season OF triumph, having taken
second place at the recent collegiate
games in Philadelphia, led by Harshaw by
toe. He broke the worlds record for the
3O0-yard dash last Saturday ut Bergen
Point, N. j., and previously at the New
Jersey Athletic Club meet. egualled the
worlds amateur record for seventy-fiye
yards.