Evening star., 1899-02-11
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
Preparations for the Meet in Conven-
ton HHl.
TEAMS FOR 0NE-MkE RELAY race
Field and Traekl Eyents to Be
SimuItapeous.
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CONTEST FOR HIGH SCHOOLS


That the athletic success of the indoor
meet to be given March Ii at Convention
Hail. under the auspices of Georgetown
University is assured is shown by the large
field of entries already received. Column
bian University has fifteen men out every
day working under the direction of Captain
Beatty, ali of whom are trying for places
on the various teams. to be entered under
Columbian University icolors. The commit
tee on entries have been engaged for a
week in distributing blanks and responding
to the many inquiries from out-of-town
clubs. That much interest in the meet is
being taken in the north is shown in the
large number of entries sent from Philadel-
phia and New York.
One-Mile Relay Race.
AT the request of number of Baltimore
athletes, who are desirous of measuring
strides with quartet of Washington quar-
ter-milers a one-mile relay race between
those cities will be added to the already
lengthy program Of events. The men from
the monumental city viii be handled by W.
K Mackdermott of Johns Hopkins Univer-
sity and will be chosen not only from that
institution but from among the athletic
clubs.
Tending her end with such men as Multi
gan, Walsh and Dessez of Georgetown,
Beatty, Stuart and Meigs of Columbian,
Speare of Columbia Athletic Club. Wilson
the crack quarter of the Central High
School, and others who have during the
past showed their speed upon the cinder
path to choose from. w. v. Kelly, the
crack half-miler of Temple College, Phila-
deiphia, and champion of the Atlantic As
sociation, has sent his entry for the scratch
half mile for colegians. This will be one
of the prettiest races of the evening, as 1t
will include Grant of University of Penn
sylvania Dessez of Georgetown, Stuart of
Columbian, Mullin of Baltimore Medical
and others who have won honorS for their
colleges.S On paper Grant would appear to
be the winner, but Dessez, who has, under
Trainer Foley'S care, developed into
speedy middle-distance man, capable of
following any amount of pace, Should give
the red and blue wearer the race of MS life
The fifty-yafd high hurdle race will bring
together Kranzlien, the intercollegiate rec
ord holder; Remington, who is regarded as
one of the best high-stick toppers in the
country; Hirst, the yotng giant, who eiec-
trifed the nterscholastic world last sum-
mer; Douglass, the Georgetown flyer, and
Horsey of Baltimore. Individual hurdles
will be used, thus preventing fouling and
assuring an equal chanceIto all competitors.
One of the most noticeable and most dis
agreeable features of athletic meets to the
spectator is the unnecessarily large num-
Der of persons usually seen inside the in
closure upon the track who obstruct
the view of those upon the stands.
This nuisance will. be- overcome at this
meet, as no one but officials and representa-
tives of the press will be permitted to go
beyond the outside rail. Competent mar
shals and clerks, of course, Will arrange to
have competitors on the mark in time for
each event. but no one will be allowed on
the track before the event in which they
are to contest is called. af
While the track men are conteStlng for
the honors and prizes the spectators will
have an opportunity to see the shot and
weight men hurl the leaden missile and to
break the indoor record. special prize
will be awarded the jumper who succeeds
in disp'acing the present mark.
The Field Events. .yi>
The field events will be conducted simul-
taneously with the track features, and the
entries will include every athlete in this
vicinity together with several out of town
men. Trainer NJ. C. Murphy of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania has promised to
send his weight men with the team which
will represent Pennsylvania, and this in
sures the presence of McCracken, the giant
guard who holds the intercoilegiate record
for shot and hammer. AT the New Y ork
games, January IL, Mac was badly beaten
by Sheldon of Ya.e, but he was in no con-
dition, and is anxious TO get an opportunity
to redeem himself With Garrett of johns
witnessing.
A never-ending source of interest are
school boys races, and of these three are
set down for determination In the fifty
yard run it is expected that sixty boys Will
compete for the silver cups while in the
haif-mile run thirty young athletes Will
defend their respective schools.
Both these events have been made handi-
| caps because of the feeling that in a
scratch race it would be a virtual gift to
| boys who have shown that Washington has
| some of the best school boy performers in
| the country.
High School Relay Race.
The relay race among the four high
| schools will bring out all the old MATERIAL
and in addition encourage new men to try
| for places. Centrars team has won at the
| Pennsylvania carnival for the last three
years, but she has lost thres Of her best
men by graduation and Eastern hopes to
show clean spikes to the blue and white on
| the night of the games. Both teams are
working hard, and a good race Is assured.
Stuart of Columbian, who won the mile
at the indo games of Boston College last
| year. is likely man for first honors in the
| distance event, but he will find work cut
| out for him when he meets Mechling Har-
| ton, Loughlin Grey and Boyce, who ara
working hard to land first place.
| Among the Georgetown preps who have
| commenced work are Ewing, Starr, Wilson,
| Murphy, GRADER, J. G. b. Ewing, Burns,
| Hammersmitn, Edmonston, Heinz, Sexton
| and Fitzgerald
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