The times., 1898-10-30
AMONG L0CA''l9HLE7ES
ATt
Fol ming of Intercity Bowling
League Now Doubtful.
LOCAL Players ARE READY
Nick Young Elected "a Director of
the Mount Pleasant Athletic Club.
EOwlerx' Schedule to Begin Next
Week-C. A. G. Indoor Season
Opened.

Opeheus
After all that has been said about form
ing an intercity bowling league 1t now
seems doubtful If there will be such an
organization. When the various mem
bers of the bowling league in the city
came to think about 1t seriously they
found several reasons why such an ar
rangement would be impracticable. First
and foremost the lack of an open evening
in each week to play with the visitors.
1t was at first thought that Saturday
evenings would be chosen as intercity
night, but 1t was found that a number of,
the bowlers in several of the teams, near
ly majority of them, indeed, were so en-
gagged with their business demands on
that night that it would be impossible to
TO put out the full league team of several
clubs against the visitors. The other
evenings of the week when focal league
games are not scheduled are for the
pleasure of such members of the several
organizations as are not players on league
teams. From the above it would seem
tional to the regular schedule would be
impracticable. However, the league will
meet on Tuesday evening at the Saenger-
bund clubhouse, and there the matter
will be thoroughly gone over. 1t was the
opinion expressed by several prominent
bowlers that games to be played with the
Oriole bowlers would be by such indiyidu-
al local teams as could arrange the time,
for playing here and in Baltimore, just
as was repeatedly done last season.
Local League Matters.
AT meeting of the District Bowling
League held on Wednesday evening last
the committee on schedule presented its
report was discharged. The first set of
games, the opening struggle in the race
for the pennant, will be between the
champions, the Saengerbund, and Carroll
Institute teams. upon the alleys of the
latter on November g. The committee
upon alieys-as to their fitness and correct
size and so on-res-orted all league alleys
TO be In shape and the committee vas
discharged with thanks. The committee
on prizes hopes to BE ready to report at
the league meeting to be held at the
Saengerbund on Tuesday evening At
this meeting the matters lof an inter-city
bowling league Will be taken up and
probably disposed of.
President Harry Stiles is very enthusi-
astic over the prospects and believes that
the outlook before The opening of a Sc
ries was never brighter for a very sue
cessfui bowling season. The interest in
the grand sport is general and embraces
all classes of followers of indoor athletics.
Columbia Athletic Club.
All work at Columbia Field by the
athletes of the Columbia Athletic Club
has been discontinued, excepting that oc-
casionally a pair of tennis enthusiasts
warming up" From now on all interest
will center in the indoor work, the promi-
nent features of which will be seen on
the gymnasium floor and on the bowling
alleys.
The classes under the direction of Prof
Crossley are in full swing and for SO
early in the season are very large. On
last Monday evening there were thirty
three pupils on the floor taking exercise
of the kind that the professor is proud of
the sort that builds up and strengthens
and develops. In the classes are many
of last years men who have returned
for more of the work which benefits
So far forty-odd measurements of new
men have been taken.
Prof. Darialat, instructor of fencing
will open his classes tomorrow night, and
like those of Prof Carter, instructor OF
boxing, promise to be very large. TheiI
class days are the same as those of the
ymnasium-Mondays, Wednesdays and
Friday evenings and Tuesdays and Fri
day afternoons. Special hours may be
arranged.
Football is having quite a struggle tc
keep its headway, and the unsettled con-
dition of affairs is mainly due to the
great irregularity of the attendance oi
| the players at practice. Unless there is
a better showing in the teams work, the
game with the Maryland Athletic Clut
announced for November may be called
off Matthews, the faithful assistant tC
Prof Crossley, and in the summer in
| charge of the boatnouse, is enjoying his
annual vacation.
The new mat for the gymnasium is
nearing completion and will shortly fill q
long felt need. Since the juniors bave
sto,sed using the pool the attendance is
| not so large only about thirty of the
Youngsters being on hand last Saturday
| Their hours are from 10:15 to II o'clock
for class work, and from II to 1l:30 is de-
voted to basketball.
The candidates for the League bowling
team are keeping the ten-pins and alley
boys busy every night in the week, and
some very good scores will be made by
the time the average bowling is at ar
end. Among those who are bowling well
and from among whom the team of five
and subs" will be selected are: Stitt
Kicker, Walker, s. Desio, Stiles. Rodier
Morse, Yarnall. Norwood. Maize anG
Jorss. Stitt still holds the club higf
score, with 2S9 as the best single game.
CorcOran Cadet Athletics.
The basket ball players of the Corcorar
Cadet Corps are taking lots of practice
and are even now ready for the season.
The players and management are pleas
ed over the prospect of the one-league sea
| son. They are all in favor of the five
men game, and feel that no matter which
| hall or. gymnasium is used as the centra
| playing field that the space should b,
| limited to 70x50 feet as required by th'
| National Basketball Association rules
| which hold that the fewer the men il
| II II