Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-05-02
Next Weeks Contests Between Co.
lumbar and Georgetown.
ENTRIES BY TIE LATTER UNIVERSITY
Field and Track Sports to Be
Held on the Campus.
PROBABLE LIST OF OFFICIALS

The athletic meet between Georgetown
and Columbian universities comes off next
Saturday afternoon on the Georgetown
| campus. At the invitation field and track
meet November 8 Columbian University
was represented in several of the contests
| Since that time Columbian has formed a
| field and track organization, and as a re-
suit more numerous entries can be looked
for in the coming dual meet lLan the in
Vltation field and track games of last year
| The meet Will have more than ordinary
significance, inasmuch as the showing m de
| by the men on the team in the various con-
tests will determine the team that will rep
resent each university at the Mott Haven
games, which will be held this year at
Berkeley Oval, on Decoration day. Under
the rule of the Amateur Athletic Union
regulating such affairs, only eight men
can be entered in each event, of which
number but five can run. The entries for
Georgetown have all been made, and ev-
erything is ready for the program. Co
lumbar has not as yet made up its list of
contestants
Georgetown will put number Of men in
the field this year outside of its excellent
runners. The university has a promising
stock of sprinters in its ranks, any one OF
whom Is, perhaps, able to give the best
local men a hard tussle B. j. Wefers
Gallagher, Delaney, Holt, Walsh and Fox
Will all enter. Walsh is promising sprint
er, and ran the first lap In the relay race
at Philadelphia last week. He came in sec
ond, and only a few feet behind Vincent
the crack runner of Harvard. OF the other
promising men at Georgetown Frank b
McAnerney stands at the head At present
ne Is giving his attention to the low hurdles
ana Jumps these in such form as to call
forth the admiration of Trainer Foley He
Is a young man Of athletic build and wiry
muscle. He resides in New York city, is a
member of class SS, stands five feet seven
inches In height, is twenty years old and
weighs l4S pounds. In the games last No
Vember he Won the wo-hundred-and-twen-
ty-yard hurdle in twenty-nine seconds a
record 10 be proud of, and one which Nc
Anerney intends to lower. His work in the
sprints and in the quarter-mile shows speed
and form. He made the fifty-yard in i -
seconds at recent trial, and then was not
ing man.
Joseph F. Collins of the class of '97 Is
another athlete OF some prominence at the
college who will participate. He halls
from Boston, Mass, where he formerly was
student at Boston College with B. ].
Wefers. He is twenty-one years old s feet
inches tall and weighs 15G pounds In the
potato race he is second only to Crowley.
the New England champion. His time in
this event is 81 3-5 seconds. He has acuuir-
ed perfection in starting, when is So neces-
sary to sprinters, and which aids him in
making fast time in the fifty wards, For
this distance Collins can easily fsrisb
among the foremost of Georgetown's
sprinters. In the quarter mile he is a
speedy man, though the short distances
now occupy his training.
John Dillon of the postgraduate course
and native of st. Louis is one of the best
all-around men at Georgetown College He
ups the scales at 1j1 pounds, measures 8
feet Z inches in height, and is twenty-one
years old. At the st. Louis University he
distinguished himself as a clever man. and
holds this reputation still He can make
the best of them hustle for go or 40 yar]s
He is a good broaI jumper, and took third
place IN the pole vault in the games of last
fall.
Charles B. Claiborne, class Of 80, of New
orleans, is a young amateur who gives
promise of doing something later He
weighs 152 pounds, stands one inch over
six feet in height and is nineteen years old
Claiborne's endurance fits him for the mile.
HIS stride Is pretty and in good form and
he promises great development
Frank ]. Bowln, class of 81, of St Paul
Minn weighs l59 pounds is nineteen wears
old. and is 8 feet eight inches tall. He won
the ~ yards hurdle in games of the 81.
Paul High School, where ne prepared. He
Is harl worke' and an aspirant in the
quarter and half mile.
Peter +. Mclaughlin Of Worcester, Mars,
came to Georgetown last fall with a good
reputation gained at Holy Cross He held
the intercollegiate record for New England
In the mile walk, the time being minutes
and ~ seconds. Mclaughlin won his games
Cross games, besides coming off victor in
many other races in New England At
present he Is over weight but by hard
training expects to get in TRIM
"Big Mikes" Ambition.
George Mahoney, better known as big
Nike" Of widespread reputation, desires
greatly to enter the hammer and shot
event, but it is not likely that he will par
ticipate. The base ball manager, Mr. John
O'Brien, is opposed, thinking it would in
terfere with his pitching abilities How
ever, this decision may be reconsidered
Last year big Mike was entered in the
hammer and shot events, and also in the
running bread jump. For a man of his
weight, 237 pounds, he is exceedingly good
on the running broad jump.
John McCrea Of Alabama is a giant, who
will make mary hustle in the hammer
throw. He stands six feet three inches and
weighs 232 pounds At recent trial he
threw 100 feet, which distance Trainer Fo-
ley honestly believes he will lengthen. Nc
Crea is a comparatively new man in this
line, and when he gets the knack Of 1t he