The times., 1899-07-30
Land And WATER SPORTS
American Bowlers viii Play at the
Paris Exposition.
Y. VI. c. 4. Having Secured Van Ness
Park VIII Now Lead the Way in
Local Athietics-Analostnn and CO.
1umbin Onrsmen-COrcoran VolIcy
Ball Team-woOdside Athletic Club

Through the unceasing efforts of the
Amateur Athletic Union tenpin bowling
has been included in the list of athletic
competitions which will be held during
the Paris Exposition. Sam Karpf, mana
ger of the Greater New York bowling team
whish made such a successful tour of the
Southern and Western States last fall and
winter, is a prime mover in this line OF
sport, which is to be made feature among
the exposition's many attractions.
1t viii be the first time team of bowl
ers has left these shores to meet the bowl
ers of the Old World and this will mark
an epoch in the history Of the sport. The
team, while on the other side, will also
make a tour of the bowling centres Of
England and Germany. In the latter, the
home OF tenpin bowling. the team expects
to meet the strongest bowlers known to
the game. as this is the Germans favorite
sport and by them it has been reduced to
science.
The team will bowl over American made
pins with American turned balls over
American standard alleys laid by American
workmen, and such a combination viii be
hard to beat
of course, there will be hundreds of ap-
plicants for places on the team, but moth
ing will be decided in that direction until
after the regular fall and winter tour, for
which a special series of games has already
been booked as far West as Denver while
Chicago, St. Louis, and Milwaukee and
other cities which were visited last year
will have return dates.
/ Mr. Karpf will see to il that as near as
possible the best bowlers on this side will
make up his ive-men team and the se.ec-
tion Will be made from the best bowlers
on his team of last year, and such ex-
ceptionally high average men as may be
| recommended by the big leagues in New
York and elsewhere. This team and its
substitutes will compete for places on the
Paris team, and the average made during
the annual tour mentioned above will de-
eide as TO their going abroad or staying at
home. Instead of Offering individual
prizes as heretofore. the reward for max
ing high averages will be a place on the
Paris team.
A. A. U. Championships.
The entries for the track and field games
| of the Metropolitan Association of the
Amateur Athletic Union are pouring in in
great numbers and the meet promises to
be record breaker in point of number OF
entries and high class of contestants.
The games will be held August u at the
| Knickerbocker Athletic Club Field, Ber-
| gen Point N. ]. Entries close with +. w.
| Ruben, No. 20T East Sixteenth Street.
New York, next Saturday One of the fea-
lures of the days sport will be base
ball game between the New York Athletic
Club and the Knickerbockers. but this is
not to be championship game.
The championship events include: One
hundred yard run, go yard run, 40 yard
| run, $50 yard run, one miles run, three
mile run, 120 yard high hurdle race 220
| yard low hurdle race, putting the sixteen
pound shot, throwing the sixteen-poun
| hammer, throwing the ffty-six pound
weight. throwing the discus, running
broad jump, running high jump, and pole
vault.
| AS usual, the games will be attended by
a number of admirers of amateur sport
| from this city. This time they will root"
| for Mulligan of Georgetown and McGirr
and Walsh and Shehan, all well known
| here.
| Y. VI. C. A. Athletics.
| The announcement made last week that
the management of the Young Mems
| Christian Association had secured Van
Ness Park for an athletic field was hailed
with delight by members of the association
and its many friends
N u
as Columbia Field, so named by the CO.
/ lumbia Athletic Club. where it gave num-
I Der of excellent field and track games and
where it played with some of the star
[ football and baseball teams of the coun-
| try.
The association will at once begin putting
! the track in good shape, and especial alter
ton will be given to improving the bicycle
track, which is regarded as one of the
j hoe lon eLyS 10
proposed upon this track to hold several
meets with outside crack riders as spe-
cial features.
The securing of the park will mark the
! associations first real entry into local
athletics and from this out an active cam
paign will be carried on in all lines.
Football, baseball, bicycling, tennis. and
| track and field will be made active de-
partments and each will have live man
ager, and with nearly all the local field be-
fore it there is no good reason why the
association should not again be the same
live, aggressive, and progressive factor in
local athletics that II was several years
ago when 1t had park at Seventeenth and
| Street, whence came some of the best
athletes in all line developed hereabouts.
Track and field games will be given this
fall. It has not yet been fully decided
whether the games will be open or only
for association members. The latter will
probably be the line followed for the reas-
on that the members have had compara-
lively little practice in field athletics and
none at all in track work and to make the
affair open would give the members but lit
tie chance in competition. An invitation
has been extended to the COrcoran Cadets
to play a series of practice games OF volley
ball and the first will be played next Fri
day evening.
Commodore" Holton has about COM
pleted arrangements for the trip down the
river on the good ship Bowen" and Au-
gust is the date fixed for the start.
The bicycle section is winding up the
series of weekly runs mapped out early in
the season. Last night outing was in the
shape of a watermelon run up the Conduit
Road and was well attended OF course IL
was very enjoyable affair.
Columbia Athletic Club.
AS the Potomacs have about decided to
send junior eight to the Middle States re-
gatta Lieutenant Hecox, of the Columbia
Athletic Club, is desirous, too, of having
the organization represented at the same
big rowing event and to that end is giving
his men every chance to show their ability
At present the men are handicapped by
the lack of good boat The best boat is
still at Troy being repaired and the other
| eights are not suited for speed purposes.
Much will depend upon the work of the
men when they reach Colonial Beach, where
they will go for a short seasons prastict
and training and from among those who
; show up best upon the return here, the
; regular crew will be selected
The past weeks practice showed consid.
cradle Improvement in the work of some o.
| the aspirants for rowing honors and wher
7 Lieutenant Hecox has cured certain faults