The times., 1898-09-18
AMONG LOCAL Athletics
The Date Fixed for Handicap
Events at Columbia Field.
BOWLING NOW IN ORDER
0rtoie TenDin Players Preparing for
Intercity COntests-BaItimOre Meet
Next Week Is "a Closed AHair-The
Prizes To First md Second Men in
'Winged Arroyyn Sports.

With the date fixed for an "open' set
Of track and field games at Columbia
Field under the auspices of the Columbia
Athletic Club there is prospect that the
outdoor athletic season In this city will
have spirited ending. The games will
serve as notice to the athletic world
that we are still alive and kicking not
withstanding we failed to give an open
regatta.
The prospects are that these games to
be given on October s will be the best
the club has held in several years. Es-
pecial effort will be made to draw out
large entry list from among out-of-town
aOittes, and already a number of crack
specialists from Baltimore amt Philadei-
phia have signiiied an intention of COM
ing here
The effort to have union set of games
under the combined auspices of all the To-
cal athletic organizations failed because
none OF the clubs outside of the
Columoias are in shape TO go into
such an arrangement at this time. Next
year, probably in the Sp. ing with he Ma
tional Guard Athletic Association in good
running order and with the probable as
sis,ance of Georgetown and Columbian
colleges, we may be able TO hold
set of games in which the city may re-
deem Itself for recent lukewarmness in
the line of athletics.
The war has undoubtedly had mucn
to do with the condition of affairs in gen.
eral athletics. as 1t has drawn away from
the track and field many of the ablest
athletes. not only here, but in other ath-
letic centers. and this effect will be felt
for some time TO come II has had the
effect in some places Of blocking all effort
IN this direction and in the New England
Association of the Amateur Athletic I'm
ION, which includes Boston and vicinity
1T was decided not to mold the annual Fall
games because of the absence from the
country and illness of many who have
come back of the athletes who have help
ed make former affairs a success.
BnItimore's Closed Meet.
1t has now been fully decided that the
union" track and field meet to be held
at Maryland Oval, in Baltimore. on next
Saturday, is TO be closed affair, open
only to athletes living in Maryland. This
is very unfortunate, for up TO the last
moment ii was hoped that it might be
open TO all corners, and that our Winged
Arrow" boys might have a chance to be
tried out and thus get line on what
they can do in active competition
Among the Maryland athletes there
time on account of the action of the
games committee in fixing on next We'd
nesday as the date for holding the pre-
liminaries, or trials. Some OF the organi-
cations wanted the day just preceding the
games; another wanted the morning of
the eyentful day, and another preferred
yesterday. One big club wanted at the
very outset 20 have the games open to
all. or at least to have them open to the
at LOT of fS Dss tI,Fe-
like spirit was promptly squelched. and
so they win be closed tight to all but
Oriole athletes.
Another meet to which our athletes
looked with the hope that they might
/. have chance to try their skill is the one
to be held also on next Saturday, by
the Pennsylvania Railroad Y. NJ c. A.
at Philadelphia. This, too, is almost as
good as closed 10 outsiders. all but three
events, and two of these are bicycle num-
bers. 1t is unfortunate that there will
be no chance TO take a preliminary spin
TO learn exactly how the new and old
sprinters are going when in sure enough
competition. Track events will prevail,
there being no field numbers at all. The
games will be held under the personal di-
rection of Prof. John Sims, well and IA
vorably remembered as the physical in
structor of the Y NJ C. A here when it
some entries for the Columbia meet, to be
held here on October s.
Columbia Athletic Club.
It was definitely decided at meeting
of the athletic committee of the Columbia
Athletic Club, held on Thursday evening,
to hold a set of track and field handicap
games on October 8, open to all amateurs
who are properly registered. From pres
ent outlook this will be the most attra It
i've of a long line of similar events. The
prizes will be valuable and useful and
enough have already been donated to as
taking. First and second men will re-
ceive prizes in each event and no second
prize will cost less than five dollars, and
the list includes jewelry, bric-a-brac,
medals and so on.
Entry blanks have been sent out to a
large number of out-of-town clubs and
colleges and special invitations will be
sent to some of the cracks of the coun-
try, which includes Robert Garrett, the
record holder in the discus. The Bal
timore and Philadelphia clubs will be
well represented and likewise Johns Hop
kins College.
Carroll Institute expects to make sew
eral entries which will include big
Smith, who will make a strong bid for
the SIOI, MANNER anu ulSCuS.
Adam Johnson is hard at work with
the hammer and will be in great shape
and hard to beat in that specially. Won
Bockman is working with the discus and
rapidly acquiring the knack of scaling the
implement. He has great strength and
will make it interesting for all corners.
More entries and good ones too, will
compete in the weight events than ever
before, and it is confidently expected that
some of the District records will be
broken.
A new vaulting pole has been ordered
for Greene and McElhone, who are in
shape to hold their own against the best
that come. McElhone is doing his record
distance in the high jump. Speare. An
trim, Tally and Clark are daily at work
in the sprints and short runs and doing
well.
In order to give all local athletes outside
of the club (members of organizations
which have no grounds) every oppor-
tunity to prepare themselves, the club
has placed Columbia Field at their dis
posal for practice every week day after
6 o'clock, at which time club members
are through their practice Doubtless
many will take advantage of the courtesy
thus freely extended and take plenty of
practice.
Capt. Sam Stinemetz is back from his
Summer outing, and he and Prof Cross
ley will soon have the preliminary details
worked up in shape.
AS the matter of registration will be a
new thing for many of the local athletes,
1t is suggested that they consult Prof
Crossley, who will be glad to assist them.
1t should be remembered that the regis
tration must contain about the same in
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