The times., 1897-04-18
the bicycle, of which he is already mas

the bicycle, of which he is already a mas
ter.
Work on Columbia Field is being rapidly
pushed forward under the capable direc-
tion of George Aspinwall, whose work in
this line s well known. Franz, Speare and
McKelden have already begun work on
the track for the early spring games The
C. A. c. open games, field and track, will
be given on June 8.
The entertainment committee of the
Eastern Athletic Club has perfected ali It's
arrangements for the club reception and
hop to be given tomorrow evening at
Haines' Hall, Eighth aud Penns ylvania ave
nue. southeast. Amongthe musical features
to be presented will be the new Eastern
Athletic Club March," which was composed
for this occasion.
The club will entertain its members and
friends with a smoker" to be given on
Thursday evening next at the clubhouse.
The committee having the affair IN charge
has prepared an attractive program AS
it includes several novelties, which VIII be
sprung as surprises, the features OF the
entertainment could not be learned.
The cycle contingent met and organized
on Friday evening and elected V. L. Vio-
land captain and w. H Wright lieutenant.
1t was decided to hold the annual one-mile
road race for the club championship medal
about the middle OF May. The exact date
and place of holding the race were left TO
the officers of the cycle corps TO decide.
The medal is now held by Harry Gather,
who Will again compete for it, Lieut..
Wright is slowly recovering the use OF his
rorx S,,s IN, nnr,t hinNnla fr1l
Cards of admission to the annual Easter
Monday reception and ban of the Washing
ton Athletic Club are in great demand.
and the affair promises TO be an unusually
enjoyable one. The ladies who expect
to attend are requested to wear the cub
colors-red, white and blue.
The club members were more than
pleased with the work of Patrick o'Con-
nor IN his sparring bouts at the smoker held
on Friday last. o'Connor has been made
the sparring instructor OF the club, and
he viii make capable one, no doubt.
The entertainment committee viii dur
ing the reception tomorrow evening give out
the cards for the complimentary eXcur-
sion to BE given by the club next month,
The smoker was such success that the
club committee will repeat It early In
May.
One OF the prominent members of the
club is Robert Roy Mackey, captain Of the
basketball team, who began his career
in athletics about three years ago as menl-
her of the Canterbury Athletic Club, on
which team he was star player. He also
earned honors as a boxer, winning four
round bout with Jimmie LOTUS. He
Join ed the w. A c. last winter, and is very
popular with the members. Since join
ing he has met and taken falls out OF several
of the best local wresuers. AS between
him ana Bobby Akers in this line 1t is hard
to tell which S the better wrestler.
The members of the Washington Outing
Club are more than pleased with the splen-
| didprospects of the club for this season. AS
the clubhouse is too small for the member
ship, the board of governors is contempla-
ting making additions thereto, and plans
| have been submitted by several archi-
| tects, and as soon as the finance rom
mittee gives the word estimates and bids
will be called for. 1t is proposed, also,
| to entirely rebuild the bowling alleys and
| to make them as good as the best here.
| This latter work will be done under the
direction of Mines Oppenheimer, the
king bowler of the club, who early in the
season scored an average of 272 for three
games.
tits proposed to make the baseball team
stronger than ever before, and this is to be
the work CT Manager Sam We'll, who is an
enthusiastic fan" Kid Rothschild is q
| most promising pitcher, and in game
with the scrubs" last week not player
| of the latter team got beyond third bag,
mainly due to the excellent work Of the
| "Kid"
| The younger players will be inspired
| by the presence of those sterling player
! of the club, Harry and Sam King. Abe
| King, of the same family of good players
| is promising player and natural hitter
| Young Behrends, too, the only new man in
| the big team, is also likely to be heard from
! He promises to be the ''find" of the season
He is looked to to fill the gap at short
filled SO well last season by Milt Damman,
| who will this season play with Western
| team.
boo" "Nordling has again been appointed
the clubs official umpire, and he VIII
fill well a most unenviable position.
The club will hold its annual track games
earlynext month and for the running even,
| Wallach, Sigmund, and Gus Nordlinger are
faithfully training. Sid Kaufman, the pop
ular feather-weight boxer of the club, i
in fine condition, and will shortly maxi
a match for the District amateur champion
ship in his class.
| Manager of Baseball We'll is desirous o
arranging games with local mines, and re
quests that all challenges and communica
tions upon the subject be sent him, care o
| Hub, PPnnSyl
vauia avenue. he already has number
games arranged and expects to have
stronger list of attractions than last years.
splendid array.