The times., 1898-10-02
AMONG THE ATHLETICS
Competing for Money Brings
College Men in Trouble.
NEW HURDLE RECORDS
Trnck and Field Stars May Come
Next notwithstanding Has the
Caii-.'Hinge Arroyyn Games VIII
Have Muny Entries-GeorgetoS
Team Almost Made Up


or athletics in the ranks of the intercol-
lesiate association by making an example
! In the ranks of its own student body in
, the cases Of Maybury, the crack West
ern sprinter, and the president of the
university athletic association, and Hen
! ry Corchems. captain of it's football team
both of whom We're ousted by the fac
ulty for participating in professional
races.
The faculty must have had some strong
convincing proof of their guilt. or it
would not have take nsueh extreme
measures.
To still further show it's displeasure,
and at the same time its desire to do
what it can to purify college athletics, a
step which 1t might profit nine-tenths of
the colleges in the land To follow, it now
contemplates the resembling of the de-
grees awarded the alleged guilty cracks
at the last graduation day.
If 1t does not do this says a later
report, lit will send a full statement of
the case to Dean Ames, of Harvard,
which institution the young athletes have
planned to attend. the faculty's purpose
being to prevent their entrance TO the
Cambridge institution" This would be
humiliation with a vengeance, and if car
ried out would certainly stand out boldly
as a drastic remedy for an abuse which
has long since injured amateur sport,
not only in college athletic circles but
in athletic clubs well. a bona fde
amateur athlete can have no show in
open competition with professionals who
travel under the guise of amateurs, and
the sooner all colleges follow in the step
of Wisconsin University the better il will
be for athletic sport provided they have
strong evidence to back the step and are
sure OF their grounds of complaint.
Then let the athletic clubs have the
nerve to take similar steps, and ''sepa-
rate the wheat from the chair and let
athletic contests in their ranks be for
and against only those who take part in
them for the love of the sport The
others will sooner or later find their
level.
An echo of the report that the athletes
named would join the athletic associa-
ton of Harvard comes from Cambridge,
and gives notice In plain terms that they
are not wanted, and that II is contrary
to Harvard's Interpretation of the inter
collegiate rules and TO its long-estab-
lished principles.
New Hurdle Records
At the fifteenth annual meeting OF the
Amateur Athletic Association, OF Cana
da. which is a counterpart OF the ANA
teur Athletic Union, OF this country, held
last week there was only one record,
canadian broken and that in the 10
yards hurdle in which the tnvincible
Kraenzlein, of the Chicago Athletic Club,
topped the sticks In fifteen and three-fifth
seconds. which will now stand until il Is
| tumbIed over, as the Canadian record. In
| all the other events the sport was tame
| and the leaders in their specialties won
! as they pleased. The best that Clapp, OF
| the New York Athletic Club, could do
in the pole vault was ten, feet six inches
and the high jump. Kraenziein cleared
| five feet, eight inches 1t is possible that
| Long, the IO0-yard man. and Clapp the
| pole vaulter, both members of the New
! York Athletic Club. may De induced 10
| come down TO attend the Columbia Ath-
| Ietic Club games next Saturday.
Columbia Athletic Club.
With favorable weather on next Sat
| urday afternoon the track and field
games announced 10 be given then by
| the Columbia Athletic Club, should draw
| out record breaking crowd, for the at
| traction will be the best of its kind Of
| fered by the club since it left the Ana
| lostan Island grounds.
The games committee is more than
pleased with the outlook for a successful
meet The entries are very large, num-
! bering nearly seventy-five and this num-
| Der includes cracks from Baltimore,
! Philadelphia and New York.
| From Orioletown will come representa-
| tives of the Maryland Athletic Club:
Johns Hopkins and St LeO's gymnasium.
| Included in the Baltimore contingent
will be Robert Garrett, the great discus
thrower, the same who beat the Greeks
| at their own pet game at Athens several
| years ago. At that time he won on a
] throw of ninety-seven feet. Since then
| he has beaten a score of rivals with a
| very much more extended scale of the
| implement. He will also compete in the
| shot and hammer events. He will ind
several competitors here worthy OF his
| best efforts and among them are Won
| Boeckman Percy Thompson. and "Ad-
| am" Shirley Carter. too. is coming here
and he promises he will keep In front in
| his two events.
There is some doubt about Stewart
starting in The middle-Gistance runs. as he
has had no time for practice recently. As
he is nearly always in condition. it
would take but short while for him to
get his form In stride and action. and q
is hoped he may yet decide 20 enter.
Spear and Tally will undoubtedly give
a good account % themselves in the
sprints. and ara going well. and uHless
the visiting athletes bring along some dark
horse, tho chances are that these two
sprinter>s will keep the prizes here.
In the junior 1O0-yard dash over forty
are entered. and this promises 70 De a
lively "get-there' event.
The prizes will be- the hands0mest the
club has ever offered and every first and
second man in each event viii feel him
self more than repaid for the sacrifices
made in training. The prizes will be put
on exhibition In the window OF some down.
town business house on Tuesday.
The games will be held at Columbia
Field. at Seventeenth and c Streets, near
the new Art Gallery. and Will begin at
o'clock sharp. and ID is the committees
intention To have the events run of with
out tedious waits, and in that way keep
the spectators Interested at all times
The club members who have entered are
taking hard practice, and from TO 8
O'Clock Prof. Crossley is busy watching
their work, correcting faulty action and
making suggestions where they will do
the most good.
II was decided during the past week to
nut a football team in the field, as stated
in The Times, and the players will be Sc
lected shortly from among a large num-
her of candidates. 1t is a little too late
to get on a schedule of games with out-of-
town teams so the play Will be confined
to local teams on such open days as they
may have. HecoX was made manager
and promises to get out a hustling team
Regular class work in the gym will be
taken up on October TO- and the pros
poets are that there will be an unusually
large attendance.
The tennis tourney for club champion
ships closed during the past week and
winners are H. c. Coburn. jr in singles:
Pomeroy and Clemons, doubles, and
George May, consolation singles The
winners and several other players who
finished close up will enter the fall Dis
trict championships to be held this month
at the Bachelors Club courts.