The times., 1898-06-05

ing and ought to make a very fast
sculler.
Happily there was no foundation for the
report that Capt Joe Bradley was about
! to join the Roosevelt Rough Riders and
| go to Cuba for glory and the fever. He
will more than likely remain here and
| boom big regatta for early in July. he
| will issue q call this week for aspiring
oarsmen to report 10 him at the boat
| house preparatory to making up crews
for the season. He will be assisted by
the "old vets President Doyle and
Treasurer Warden and Harry Blunt and
| Billy MCGOWAN, formerly of the c. A. G.
.'big four Among some of those who
! will secure seats in the shells will be
Hartly Whelrley. Vinton Birch, the
! Hume boys, Hazel. Billy Dodge, Bob
Heth, Dannenhomer, Rouzee, Duncan
Bradley, Bradford, Urquhardt. Clifton,
Ball. VanDachenhousen.
Young Dannenhomer is one of the most
promising of the young oarsmen and he
will be flre to find a seat in one of the
fast ere rs. His canoe, Kitty. is one of
the nattiest little craft afioat.
A crew composed of the Hume boys
Charlie. Graham, Tom. and Tying, will
probably be one of the features of the
season. and Ii will be a good. fast snappy
-four too.
The club has not in recent years, been
in such prosperous condition as Ii is
now. another proof of how the old organi-
Zation is booming under its new admins
tration. The membership is an energetic
one and the standard. individually, is ex-
cellent All is harmony and everybody
is pulling together for the success of the
old red and white Some twenty-five
applications for membership file.
awaiting action, and these will be taken
up at the regular meeting of the club, to
be held on next Wednesday evening.
Mount Pleasant Athletic Club.
1t has been decided by the management
of the Mt. Pleasant Athletic Club TO
defer the furnishing of the big clubhouse
with the necessary exercising apparatus
until next Fall. Everything will be in
readiness for an active indoor season by
the time the leaves begin to fall. Special
attention win be given to the develop
ment of basketball players with view of
getting together a crack team for next
seasons league series
At present attention is given specially
to tennis and bicycling. The latter sport
has large following in the club and road
riding is one of the features Capt. APP
-pleby will take a large number of riders
out on q long run this morning with
Camp Alger as the objective point The
club attended in body the bicycle races
/ at the park last Monday and rooted effec-
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racer
The semi-monthly informal hops at the
clubhouse are very enjoyable and the cor
dial reception given to guests has made
the affairs universally popular. Another
of these affairs will be given on Wednes-
day evening, June 10.
Georgetown Varsity Athletes.
The showing made by the Georgetown
Varsity nine on its Northern trip, which
ended on Wednesday. has not been
! equaled BY the blue and gray" since its
4 advent into college baseball. Indeed none
I of the big colleges from the North made
such a good showing. and the winning OF
five out of six games played on the trip
Will probably stand for Georgetown rec
ord in college baseball
The men under Capt. Mccarthy played
4 great ball and the fact that they were
travelling by night and playing every day
makes their showing all the more surpris-
+ ing. 1t was too bad the team could not
\ land the last game, the one lost to Prince
/ ton on Wednesday, but then there must
! be some defeats. Every man deserves
I the highest kind of praise and Bach.
! White and Maloney cannot be given too
much for their extraordinary battery
work. The reception rendered the re-
turning victorious players by the stu
&
! the occasion, and the addresses made by
1 the Messrs. Kirby. Tom Price and O'Neill
! were very clever, but they but feebly ex-
| pressed the real feelings Of the stay-at-
4 homes. They expressed themselves -effec-
lively in the Hoya! Hoya! Saxai and 9TH
er well-known college yells. 1t was a
I gala Homecoming.
The last game of the trip was played
on Wednesday with Princeton and result
ed in the only defeat Of the trip. With
the end of the trip the baseball season
closed.
Tennis now has the call and the courts
are filled every day. Some good material
is being developed and this will help along
q good entry list in the several classes.
| Manager Mcmahon is at work on the
| details of the annual tourney for the
varsity championship and he will shortly
| announce the date, which he promises
viii be one which will interfere least with
| the long string of examinations still on
hand.
The Mott Haven Intercollegiate track
and field games about wind up the col
lego outdoor season everywhere and
Georgetown varsity is no exception TO
the rule. The season has been more or
less profitable one
1t is reported that Wefers, the king Of
! sprinters, has left the ranks of the
bachelors and is now fulI-Hedged men,
Der of the Benedicts and has been so, it
IS said since the middle of the past week
! If the report be true it may mean his
retirement from the cinder path, on
which he has performed so brilliantly.
and during a comparatively short period
covered himself with glory and brought
honors to the organization with which
he is connected
Ii is quite probable that the "blue and
gray will be seen in several events in
| the athletic program which will be a fea-
ture of the Carroll Institute excursion to
River View on June 49, Cody. Dessey.
Walsh, Maloney and one or two others
are spoken of as probable entrants.
Georgetown Field will be the scene on
next Wednesday afternoon of the annual
inter-High School track and field meet
for the High School championships. The
affair promises to be the most attractive
| the High School Athletic Association has
ever held. The athletes have all been TAX
ing hard practice and are in fine shape
and it is expected that some of the local
! records viii be touched.
The Central High School has won the
championship two years in succession.
There will be 100 220 40 $50 yard and
mile runs; 220-yard hurdles and 2-mile BIZ
cycle, high and broad jumps, pole vault
and shot and hammer. There will be a
special feature in a 4-rnile bicycle relay
race, between the four schools, each rider
| tn poyer one mile Fred Cchada yUiI t,-1-