The times., 1899-05-28
JUBILEE INTERPRETED
WITH ATHLETICS
Knickerbocker's Games Will
Be Star Event.
Georgetown's Team to Be Given
a Royal Welcome.
Y. NJ. C. A. Bicycle Club TO Hold nm
Y. NJ. C. a. Bicycle Club to Hold an
Evening Parade the
10th of June.

start will have to be made tomorrow, so
that the few remaining weeks OF a post
indoor season may have proper rounding
off,
With the intercollegiate championships
at Mott Haven out of the way and the year
of study and the season of exams" al
most at an end the student athletes, who
have gained form and expertness, and per-
haps have been prize winners, will be at
liberty soon to make entry in the various
open amateur events to be held in the
North and elsewhere. beginning Decoration
Day, and try for maiden honors.
The athletic end of this city has been
held up in very creditable manner by the
track and field team OF Georgetown Uni
versity, and the various favorites here will
be watched with equal interest in their
work elsewhere.
KniclSerbOcker's Big Meet.
The principal event in athletics on Deco
ration Day Will be the big spring meet of
the Knickerbocker Athletic Club, the newly
amalgamated Knickerbocker and New Jer-
sey Clubs. The games, track and field, will
be held at Bergen Point, and will mark the
formal opening OF the new home OF the
new club, which was the old abode OF the
New Jersey A. C. 1t will be an all-day
affair, and in addition to the usual track
and field sports will include polo and la
crosse games, baseball, and association
football-a grand programme TO suit all
lovers of sport, and a splendid reminder OF
the old-time Labor Day games held in
former years by the Staten Island A. c., at
its splendid grounds just opposite Bergen
Point
1t is quite probable that the Georgetown
track team may remain over from yester-
days Mott Haven games to attend this
meet. The cracks from all the big col
leges will be there to compete. and 1t will
much resemble consolation event for
them as it will give losers of yesterday an
opportunity to even up and bear away
trophies of the open" event. Mulligan Is
going so well and in such great form that
he will undoubtedly make it interesting
for those who start with him in the
sprint events. He surprised some of the
top notchers yesterday. and now ranks we'll
up among the best.
National Swimming Association
The National Swimming Association,
which does SO much to foster the sport and
stimulate the interest in swimming, one
OF the most useful of sports and one of the
most necessary accomplishments. held its
annual meeting last week in Philadelphia
and mapped out its season of competitions.
beginning June 3 and ending September
16. The schedule will include speed, fam
cy, short and long distance and team
swimming and for each event handsome
prizes will be provided.
The annual election of officers resulted in
the selection of the following: President,
DIR. Edwin J. Houston; vice president. Har-
ry Mcmillan: secretary. James H. Sterrett
treasurer ]. NJ. Hayes: captain. DR.. Alva
F. Tod; vice captain. C. W. Kinsing.
Atlantic Division Registration Com
mittee.
Local athletes who value the protection
of their interests, and which the Amateur
Athletic Union assures them, will be inter
ested in the announcement that II. b.
Pennman. President of the Atlantic Diyis-
ion Of the A. A. u, which includes this
city in its membership, has announced the
organization OF the new registration COM
mittee. To this committee all athletes in
this vicinity who desire full protection of
their amateur standing and proper classi-
fication must make application for regis
tration. The committee consists of:
Messrs. Frank F. Powers, Sharpsburg. Pa,
chairman; ". NJ. Mackdermott, 1927 Eutaw
Place. Baltimore, and John W. Kelley, jr.,
box Al, Woodbury.. n. J.
Il. W. - n. <AthieticS.
The attractions provided by the Peace
Jubilee during the past week interrupted
to considerable extent the class work in
the gymnasium of the Y. NJ. c. A.
Tomorrow the work will be again taken
up in earnest and until the hot weather
positively forbids there will be no let-up
in the work. About 5000 persons took ex-
ercise during the month of April and the
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system of registering or a daily roll
call is spoken of. and if put into opera
| tion either will be means of keeping rec
ord of daily attendance and a handy means
of keeping all hands up to the work.
Body building is made feature here
and a large number of examinations are
made each week by Mr.. Rideout and the
| proper exercise prescribed by him is pre-
pared and administered by Mr. Horton.
sort OF physician and apothecary combi-
| nation. The result is always beneficial
| Said prominent real estate dealer to
me the other day: "A month or SO ago
found myself STOPPING a great deal when
walked caused by allowing my head to
drop forward. probably through careless
ness or because of a weakness in my back
! Being a member of the association, | joined
one of the classes after being measured
| and prescribed for, and today | feel like a
| new man. | walk with my head erect
shoulders thrown back. and chest out and
feel like a friend said, as if | had made
a sale or two a day for the last month ,"
This is only one of the many cases where
| great benefit has resulted from proper ex-
| ercise systematically taken.
The baseball team will complete it's or
ganization this week and take up its prac-
tice as soon as possible. That it will be a
strong team goes without saying, as most
OF last seasons Columbian Varsity team
| will enlist under the capable direction of
| Manager Harry Greene. whose hustling
qualities in this line are wel,-known here.
| In short while the team may be expected
to take the same high rank the old Y. NJ.
C. A. team held in the local game.
Another athletic department which will
be made a prominent one will be that of
football, and Beard. another old Columbian
player, will have the organization and
management of the team in charge. With
this team in the field. and it will be a good
one, there viii be no lack of the old Rugby
game next fall, and a game with George
town Will probably be the seasons star
event.
lie Mott promises to be the association s
star field athlete, and especially clever in
the shot and hammer and broad jump,
Ballinger in the high jump also looks like
a Conner" and under the direction of
Mr.. Holton is raising the bar several pegs
a week.
The bicycle section is wide awake II
was formally organized last week and Fri
day night elected c. a. Holton, president;
Faye Temple. first lieutenant; H. S. Neale
second lieutenant; C. r. Norris, third
lieutenant Decoration Day will be spe-t
by the wheelmen in Baltimore, leaving
here over the b. & o. in a special car at