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MUST CHOOSE BETWEEN
CLUB and COLLEGE
Athletic Points Will Be Prop.
erly Accredited.
Pennsy's Relay Races viii Have
More Entries Than Ever Before.
Standing of League Teams and
Their Scores-Cnrrolls' Circus.
Gossip of the Players.

rule introduced at last weeks meeting
OF the Metropolitan Association of the Am
ateur Athletic Union is such a good one
and seems to be just the one long needed
that it will no doubt be adopted by the
a. 4. L. at its next meeting, for the gen.
eral use of all its associate members for
protection of their respective clubs. to be
applied upon the occasion Of association
as well as championship track and field
meets. The new rule is as follows:
When a man enters from an athletic club and
his college or school, the points to be cred
tied TO the club only. II he desires to represent
lis college or school for the purpose Of scoring
points, his name shall only appear on the pro-
grsmme from his college or school,
The new rule will have good effect in
more ways than one principally in that it
viii prevent disputes in the future between
colleges and athletic clubs over the matter
of points scored by an athlete, who, on the
programme represented both his college
or school and an athletic club. After this.
under the second part of the rule, an
athlete must decide before his name goes
on the programme, to which of his two
connections the points scored by him are
10 be credited. II will go long way to-
ward protecting athletic clubs, who, after
going 10 the expense of preparing men,
Der and sending him away to a meet, found.
10 their loss, that points scored by their
representative have been credited by him
to his college Certainly it was not fair
to the club.
Pennsy's Relay Race.
One OF the greatest events in all the year
in athletic circles are the relay races given
under the auspices Of the University Of
Pennsylvania. This year they will be held
on Franklin Field on April 90, and from
present indications the number of contest
ants promises to be the largest ever en-
tered in similar event.
The entries will include representatives
from all the big 'varsities and from many
of the smaller, but not less formidable
and from scores OF academies and schools.
Those two rivals in every line of athletics,
Swarthmore and Haverford, come each
year TO this affair, and settle by means Of
the relay race some OF their differences.
and in similar manner other colleges find
an outlet for strong feelings.
Georgetown will as usual be represented
and will more than likely enter the cham
pionship quarter mile. The blue and gray
will have a strong team, despite Wefers'
absence. and Mulligan the new Splinter of
whom so much is thought and deseryedly
so. for he is very clever performer, will
endeayor 10 show his fitness to follow in
the great record holders footsteps.
Dick Grant Of Harvard and his brother
Alec of Pennsy will be on at the head of
their respective teams and it will be a bat
tie royal between the crimson and the red
and blue.
Next Wednesday the university will hold
its annual indoor games in the Academy OF
Music and this event as usual will be the
event in Philadelphia's indoor season. In
addition to the usual events there will be
several more competitions, principal among
these is the goal kicking contest and this
will bring together all the kickers, who