Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-21
SPORTS AT ATHENS
Revival Of the Famous 0lympian
Games.
DEPARTURE OF PRINCETON'S TEAM
They Will Represent America in
Greece.
NATURE OF THE EVENTS

NATURE OF THE EVENTS
The most interesting International ath-
letic contests will be the Olympian games
at Athens next month America will be
represented by team from Princeton Col
lege, who sail for Naples today on the
steamship Fulda. The athletes will go from
Naples to Brindisi by rail. to Patras.
Greece, by boat. and by rail again to
Athens, arriving there the day before the
| games begin. The contests will be held at
Athens from April to Is.
| This gives the men no time to train ex-
| cept to take such exercise as may be pos
sible on the steamship.
Departure From Princeton.
1t is safe to say no other athletic contests
in which Princeton has ever entered has
| caused more enthusiasm among the under
| graduates than the ones to be held at
| Athens Pandemonium reigned at the depot
| yesterday, when, amid the cheers of the en-
tire undergraduate body, the quartet started
on the journey.
The men, with the exception of Jamison,
were In excellent condition. Jamison is suf-
fering from a sprained ankle, but will be in
shape In the course of week. Capt Weir
OF the Fulda has promised to give the ath-
water, and daily schedule of work has
been prepared.
Captain Garrett expressed himself as be-
ing confident that his men would acquit
themselves creditably, and that their efforts
would reflect credit upon America and her
| athletes.
While none Of the young men who will
| represent the college at Athens NEXT month
have distinguished themselves at the Mott
Haven games, two of them, at least, are
peileved to be intercollegiate winners under
favorable circumstances. These are Lane
| ~, and Tyler, 81 Jamison, '97 and Cap
| tain Garrett are not considered quite as
| promising as the other two members of the
| team.
Captain Robert Garrett prepared for COL
lese at baltimore, and entered Princeton in
1898 He is the son of the late T. Harrison
Garrett, brother of Robert Garrett. the
former president of the Baltimore and Ohio
Railroad Company. In his freshman wear
at Princeton young Garrett showed some
ability in the weights and Jumps Trainer
George Goldie took him in hand trained h. m
IN putting the shot especially, and has now
succeeded in putting him very close to the
| first rank Of college athletes
He has gradually increased his distance in
the shot-put from thirty-five to forty feet
| In the broad jump his best distance ia
| Il feet inches, and in the high iump feet
. inches. At Athens he will enter all these
events; in addition he will compete in the
MOI bar vault and the throwing of
the discus. He recently established a col
lege record in the horizontal bar vault nv
ooins feet 3 inches. Captain Garrett is
twenty-one years of age, weighs 176 pounds
and stands feet " inches tall
Francis A. Lane, '97, is the man whom
| princeton students look to more than any
| other member Of the team to win glory for
ms coliege; AT his preparatory school he
| made wide reputation as sprinter win
ming the championship Of Ohio in the 100
YARDS run In 10 10 seconds. and subsequent
~ in 10 seconds flat: In the fall handicap
| games at Princeton he won his heat in the
| hundred from scratch in 10 seconds fat hut
the effort famed him, and he did not enter
the final heat. He is now in the very pink
OF condltion. Mr: Lane is twenty-one years
| Of age. weighs 155 pounds, and measures
| feet and 10 inches.
Albert Clinton Tyler is widely known as
the right tackle of the Varsity foot ball
| eleven. After Captain LEAFS injury in the
| Harvard-Princeton game last fall TYLER
| was Entrusted with his place in the line His
| home is at Wyoming, Cincinnati, Ohio In
~ ne competed in the fall handicap games
| of the track team, the pole vault being his
| speciality. He Is the holder of the state
record for Ohio in the pole vault He is
twenty three years of age. stand 6 feet tall
| and tips the beam at $50 pounds. He will
| enter but one event at Athens-the pole
| vault.
H. B. Jamison of Peoria, ILL.,, is the lucky
youth whom Captain Garrett has selected to
| take as substitute for Colfelt, 30, whose
| parents objected to his accompanying the
team to Athcrs. His best performances
are as follows: 100 yards dash. 10 Is sec
run, So SO seconds. At the interscholast.c
| championship meet in 1893 he distinguished
himself by winning for his school three
events the 30. the 100 and the 22o yards
| dashes. In the fall Of 1888 he went to Prince
ton and secured a position on the track
team in his freshman year. Since that time
| he has represented Princeton on the track
| in all games. and has made a credita BILE
| record. He will run in the 400 meters race
| which is about equivalent to the quarter
| mile run on American programs. His weight
is 40 pounds, his age twenty years and his
| height > feet 10 inches.
| For the last four or five weeks Manager
! E. B. Turner and Trainer Jack MacMas-
| ters have been at work with few of the
track team with the purpose of getting
them in training for the Olympic games.
The Olympic Games.
The increase in popularity Of athletics
during the past decade in this country will
turn the eyes of the entire country on these
contests Of ancient renown.
Following is list of the events on the
program of the games:
A.-Athletic sports-O foot races, 1OO
400. 500 and 1.5OO meters fat (equiva-
lent to about 40. 40, $50 and 1850 yards
| respectively. and 10 meters with hurdles
| equivalent to about 100 YARDS; CT con-
tests. running long and high jump, pole
| vault, putting inc SHOt, anu QuOltS, 81
cross country race, As kilometers (equiva-
lent to 20.16 miles). from Marathon to Ath-
! ems, for a cup offered by NJ. Breal of the
| French Institute.
This is to recall the famous run of the
| messenger who carried the news from Mar
| athon to Athens.
Gymnastics-Individual armpull, hori-
zontal bar, rings, parallel bars vaulting,
weights. Teams Of not fewer than ten
| nemters will be admitted to contests yet
to be arranged.
| C.-FeEci cling and wrestling.
| D.-MarksmansEip.
E.-Yachting and rowing, according to
entries and under special rules to be OBJ
| tanned from the French Yacht Union.
| F.-Cyoling, 1000 and 10000 meters
equivalent to one mile and quarter and
six miles and quarter respectively, on a
track without pacemakers: 100 kilometers
(sixty-two miles, and twelve-hour contests
| with pac emakers.
| G.-Ht reemanship.
H.-Contes.s In lawn tennis and cricket,
| or similar games, for which contestants
| and teams offer.
Olympic games in the future will take
place at the following dates and places:
1900 at Paris. 1904 at New York city, 1905