The times., 1899-02-05
INDOOR ATHLETIC MEET
Will Be HELD HERE
Crack Varsity Track Teams
Expected 70 Enter.
Interest in the Coming Election OF
the Columbia Athletic Club.
Standing of Bowling and basketball
LenEuers-NntiOnni Guard GYM
nasts-Corcorans in Demand.

Now that II has been fully decided by
the Athletic Association of Georgetown
University to hold the big indoor athletic
meeting several times spoken of here, the
management has begun earnestly and &C
lively to work up the details leading up to
the great event a decided novelty here anil
one which has a number of times bean
suggested in this column to the several
local athletic organizations here as good
thing 10. unite forces in. The very nove-ty
of the affair, aside from the great atttrac-
tion the collegiate athletic cracks viii
prove, already assure success for the un-
dertaking.
The big affair will be held in Convention
Hall. place admirably adapted to the
purpose and the interest that is being
worked up in the matter and the still
greater interest that is bound to be tak.n
in it as the date of the event approaches
will bring to it success in every way-ath
letically, socially. and financially.
In the meantime Manager of Athletes
Duffy is hustling for entries from all the
big colleges and he is even now assured of
the presence here of the very cream of the
teams representing Yale, Harvard, Prince
ton, and Pennsylvania and Cornell, and
many of the smaller though equally for
midable college teams. Even Chicago and
Michigan universities, the latter the great
athletic centre of the Northwest, are con-
sidering the sending of big teams.
Trainer Bill Foley has reasonable hopes
of making a good showing with team
which for the most part will be selected
from among a lot of green timber, mixed
slightly with some very promising season.
ed material He hopes to put out some
runners and sprinters and timber toppers
who can fill the places made vacant by
the absence of Wefers. McAnerney, Dew
ereuX. Julius Walsh, and Little Billie Ma
honey. He places much dependence on the
ability of Muiligan, Law to All in the
sprint events and he looks to NJ. Walsh,
DesseZ, Fleming. Owens. Douglass. and
Sheridan TO uphold the Blue and Gray"
in the other events. Much of the new
material at hand is doing we'll and Train
er Foley, who is a good judge, believes
that he Will be able to spring several sur
| prises when the meet is held. The varsity
| men are somewhat handicapped by the
lack of large and we'll equipped gymna-
| sium. Under the circumstances they are
! doing very well with the limited exercis-
| ing apparatus at hand.
Bowling and Basketball Notes.
| The local bowling league is playing off
its schedule without interruption of any
/ kind and the admirers OF the sport have
! had opportunity of witnessing a number
| of we'll contested games, in which there
was not so much of the brilliant style as
| of the steady and consistent sort. The
| teams composing the league have about
! struck, their gait and the victories and de-.
! feats are more evenly divided in the sew
| eral series than was the case during the
1 nf .cGba alr,lo ,,ho
| was an almost regular occurrence for GER
| tain teams to win or lose three straight
| games an evening.
President Harry Stiles TO whose ener-
| gy is due much of the success of this sea
| sons league. has been confined to his
room for several weeks with an attack OF
the grip. He is out again and looking
after his pet sport.
1t is a remarkable fact that not a sin
| gle member of either of the teams has been
laid up with the grip. while members OF
| basketball teams and followers of other
lines of athletics have been more or less
affected by the prevailing disturber. Is il
possible that bowling is a preventive? II
! 1t can be demonstrated that II is physi-
| clans may lind ii as easy to prescribe q
certain number OF games OF tenpins, as
| they now take pleasure in dealing out tht
regulation prescription.
The Greater New York Bowling team is
continuing its triumphant tour among tht
| Western teams; the percentage of defeats
it has suffered is very small and the team
| totals made have in some instances beer
remarkable. In the games with the Ori-
entails at Cincinnati last week the New
York average was $50 in three games tht
totals of which We're S72 S1S. and 921 TIL,
Orientals totals were $50, S52 and S42
which indicate that this team is by NJ
| no ola
"'""ng the three strongest teams in tn,
West
AT the teams next stop at Laurenceburg
Ind. it won two full sets in one day, tn
first set on an average of $50 and the sec
ond on S11. 1t is one of the stronges
bowling aggregations gotten together re
Gently.
The Basketball League is keeping righ
on with its schedule and giving the hes
exhibitions OF the popular sport ever show
in this city. The popularity OF the gam
is growing with each weeks exhibitions
and the average attendance is given q
400, which is about equally divided betwee
the two sexes.
The Infantry has not yet suffered defeat
and is playing its usual fast game which
with the weight Of its players, makes tn
team almost invncible. The CorcOrans ar
a good second and will probably finish i
that position. The rest are well strun
out and the losing or winning of a gam
causes Il see-saw all along the ranks an
| in the games of the tail-enders there
great amount OF interest.
There have been but few postponements
and upon this point President House is I
be congratulated. especially as the audi
cnces have been seldom disappointed o
this score when assembled to witness
scheduled game.
The hustling president Of the league an
all concerned deserve credit for the smoot
manner in which the schedule is run of