The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1899-02-26
CHAMPION CREGAN
ENTERS THE LISTS
The Princeton Crack to Meet
Grant of Harvard.
Local Athletic Indoor Meeting Will
Be a Brilliant Affair.
New York Athletic Club Will Have
Team in the Inter-
city Race.

From present indications the indoor ath-
letc meet, to be held at Convention Hall
on Saturday, March II, will be an all-star
affair.
The entries already received include most
of the cracks in all lines in college ath-
letics, and even If no others enter it will
be the greatest aggregation of star per-
formers ever seen south of New York. Add
to these the coming men, the dark
horses, and the performers in interscholas-
tic events, for whom special races have
been prepared and the list of performers
will reach about 125. The local admirers
of athletics have in store for them treat
such as is the good fortune of but few
cities to have.
An entry has been received from John
F. Cregan, captain of the Princeton Uni
versity track team. This star will GER
tainly add increased lustre to an already
brilliant constellation, and Manager Dufty
and Captain Mulligan are delighted at re-
ceving the entry, not only because OIL the
great attraction but because the great run
ner had decided to go out of training on
March /, but out of compliment to George
town and to aid in the effort to introduce
indoor athletics here he decided to con-
tinue his work and sent his entry.
Cregan is the half-mile and mile cham
pion of the Intercollegiate Association,
having won both events at the last games.
He is a small man. but has an enormous
stride and is regarded as the most grace
full distance man in the collegiate world.
He has developed very rapidly within the
last two years and is thought to have The
two distances cinched at the next meet. He
will run in the mile open and in the Closed
half for collegans. This race is growing
in interest every day, and the men now
entered comprise the cream of the coun-
try. 1t was thought week ago that
Grant, of Pennsylvania, would capture the
closed event, but the entry of Cregan puts
a different aspect upon the situation, and
it will be hard to pick the winner Des-
seq, Stuart, and Mechling are hard men
to kill off, as all are capable of following
any pace made. and the knowing ones pre-
dict that If the visitors make the game TO
suit themselves they will find the local
men topnotchers as sprinters and the
chances favor the prizes being kept in this
city.
Another man who is a prime favorite
with the local public is Curtis ti902), OF
Princeton. who will be seen in the fifty
yards hurdle and in the high jump. Cur
tbs, who was the best all-around athlete
OF last years crack Central High School
team, will accompany the captain Of
Princeton.
The New York Athletic Club. whose
team holds the record for a one mile relay
race. is DESTROYS of entering a team in the
intercity competition, and il the consent
OF the Washington and Baltimore runners
can be secured the MercurIes will be al
lowed to enter their quartette. 1t is not
known who will comprise the team to be
sent as representatives of the metropolis,
but the flyers last year were Wefers,
Burke. Long, and Lyons.
1t is doubtful if the king of sprintsrs
will again wear the emblem of the New
York club, but the other three men still
compete under the colors OF that organiza-
ton. and with Tewksbury added they
should have no trouble in taking away the
cup. Burke has done As 1-2 seconds for
the quarter, Long is but second slower
Tewksbury will cover the distance in ff-
ty, while Lyons can be depended upon to
do fifty one.
The Central High School, OF Philadel-
phia. will be unable to send full team
but several men will come down to wear
the crimson and gold of the Quaker City
school Brown Preparatory, of the same
city, will also enter four men in the fifty
yards for schoolboys and the half mile for
props. as will Wilmington and Norristown
High Schools.
Twelve men are now trying for places on
race, and the men will be picked on