The times., 1899-05-07

divided makes the development OF high
er class work and specialists comparative
ly easy. The leaders Of squads are also a
great aid to the instructor, and all in all
the work in the gymnasium is of the most
congenial sort, and by next season the
CHERRY Diamond" gymnasts Will be In
shape to cope with and hold their own
against all comers.
1t has been decided to put baseball
team in the field at once and to that end
Manager Harry Greene. popularity known
as clever player and all-round athlete.
is securing the material which will in
clude most of the players OF last year
Columbian Varsity team and will have
Beard, Weaver, Lewis. and other we'll
known players. Practice will be had at
the old Columbia Field. Seventeenth and
C Streets, where also most OF the games
will be played. If the team develops into
half as good an one as the old Y. NJ. c. A
nine, from which so many clever players
graduated into professional ranks, 1t ought
to be a winner. Games with all the best
LEGAL teams will be arranged.
Next year the Y, NJ. c.. A. will have bas-
ketball and bowling teams in the respect
i've leagues.
Columbia Athletic Club.
Since the members of the Corcoran Ca
dets have come into the ranks of the CO.
lumbia Athletic Club. rowing matters have
taken on lively turn at the boathouse.
and Lieutenant Hecox is very busy getting
things in shape and sorting up the materi-
al he has at hand. Indications are that
it will be lively season. Early in the
next month a club regatta will be held to
be followed by similar affairs monthly.
1t is understood that preparations will be
made at once to repair the street front OF
the boathouse smashed in last year by a
runaway electric car. With the money
awarded by the railroad company the club
will be able in part to make repairs ani
replace the damaged and broken club and
private boats.
The amusement committee is arranging
to give another big smoker at an early
day at the clubhouse, 1909 H Street. where
the new era of prosperity. which set in at
the time OF the move seems to be OF per-
manent nature.
Carroll Institute Athletics.
The gymnasium season at Carroll Insti
tute seems practically to be at an end. \
number of the members are taking exer-
else, as many do all the year round. but
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getting too warm to do indoor work." say
the members.
The season has been a very successful
one, the attendance on class days and
nights has been larger than ever before
and the members all feel benefited by the
work they have done.
The ladies' gymnasium classes have
closed for the season, but the boys classes
keep going as the warm weather has no
terrors for them.
King, the new boy phenom. is keep
ing up his coed work and putting on some
really clever acrobatics.
The Carroll Institute Dramatic Club is
in constant rehearsal of Alabama, which
pretty play will be given at the Carroll In
stitute benefit shortly.
COrcoran Cadet Athletes.
Notwithstanding the fact that four of
the most experienced players Of the Cor
coran Cadets basketball club dropped
out of the game when the season was
about half over, the team finished q good
third, and Captain Edwards is very proud
of the work of the new men who took the
places of the veterans. II these same men
had been in the game from the beginning
of the series the gallant Cadets might have
landed still higher in the ranking. The
team deserves credit for its good showing.
The Corcorans and CAROLS will play a
game on May 10 at the Institute gymna-
stun for the benefit of their respective uni
form funds. The game Will be for FIVE
men teams. under the national rules, and
promises to be hotly contested.
Now that the basketball season is clos
cd, baseball will be the fad with the Cor
corans and it is expected that the new
team will put up a good game. James
Hendley was elected captain OF the nine
and he will at once proceed to get his team
into shape.
Manager Edwards, of the Corcorans, and
Manager McCabe, OF the Light Infantry.
have about completed arrangements for a
game between the two teams. to be played
at an early day. The Corcorans would like
to arrange games with some OF the best
local amateur teams. The team had in
tended joining the new league, but it was
found that many of the players would be
unable to spare the time to play frequent
games, such as n regular league schedule
will call for.
AS stated last week the Corcorans will
take up rowing as another of their depar-
lures in athletics. The boys will row from
the Columbia boathouse, and Lieutenant
Hecox has expressed the opinion that he
will be able to get out good strong crew.
made up from among the following Cadets:
Rowland, Heffner, Lockhead. Hendley,
Hazard, Vaughan, McGlue. Schultz. Bou-
lay. and Moriarty. They are for the most
part basketball players, and in good phy1;-
cal trim. and ought to make the work easy
for the Columbia's lieutenant of rowing
They are all noyices and should be Easy
to instruct in the science of handling a
sweep"
AS a number of the Carroll Institute
members are in the ranks of the Potomac