The times., 1899-03-19

G. Penniman. President of the athletic di-
vision of the Amateur Athletic Union. The
new official will have absolute control %
and will handle all handicaps of events TO
/ be run in this division, which includes this
city, Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland,
/ the Virginias and the Carolinas quite a
large field The new official has the repu-
tation of being competent in every way and
fair and impartial too. The latter two
qualities are particularly desirable in an
| official Of this class as in mis- keeping are
given 10 large extent the success or fail
ure of aspiring athletes, be they novices or
veterans The too severe handicapping of
scratch man has very often brought dis
couragement to a promising athlete who
has dropped out because the great odds
| against him were too much for him to
| shoulder. He has either dropped out of
athletics entirely or else he has waited for
! scratch events only and these latter are
entirely too far apart to keep him in touch
with the athletes of his class.
The new handicapper's address is $50
Dickinson Street, Philadelphia.
Georgetown Varsity Athletics.
| Now that the management of the George
town University Athletic Association has
| disposed OF the details necessary to closing
| up its very successful indoor meet held
last Saturday, Manager OBrien and his as
/ sistants in the baseball department will
again take up their work of preparing for
the season now so close at hand.
The prospects for successful season
| are very bright says Manager O'Brien,
and il is our opinion that this seasons
/ team wearing the blue and gray will be
! fully as strong as was last years very
snappy team, Notwithstanding we will not
have the valuable services of little Billy
/ Maloney, the most nervy little catcher
| that ever wore a mitt. He will undoubt-
| edly be missed, but We will have two very
promising candidates to draw from and
hope TO make that end of the battery
| strong one"
In the pitchers department the team
will be stronger than ever. as White will
start right in at the beginning and with
Bache as his senior side partner the team
will have two of the best pitchers in COL
| lege circles
White, it will be remembered, is the
young twirler formerly of the High School
team, who travelled with the blue and
| gray on its northern trip last spring and
gave such phenomenal account of him
| self. He is bigger, stronger, and more
reliable than ever. He has a great as
sortment of curves and greater speed.
Bache was the teams mainstay last sea-
son, and his friends claim that he is
stronger and better than last year, when
! his really remarkable work brought many
a victory 10 the blue and gray. He looks
the picture OF health and says he is in
condition TO play even now.
Owing TO the absence of Hafford ii will
| be necessary 10 find a new third baseman.
and TO fill that clever young players place
| it will take a very capable man, not only
good, fearless fielder, but a good bats
man and fast baserunner as well.
Capt Dan Mccarthy is giving the army
f~f sla.e- T,.la 4.
his Sitting process the number of players
| will soon dwindle down to a number where
| it Will finally stand when the season opens.
| He will probably play the first bag, and in
that position he has few equals. The sea-
son Will open with Gallaudet on March %
| and beginning with March 90 when Le-
| high comes, Princeton, Yale Pennsy and
Harvard will follow in rapid succession.
1t is very doubtful if the Athletic Asso-
citation will hold a track and field meet this
spring, although it is possible that after
having scored so great a success with the
indoor games the management will tempt
fate and try for more honors and money for
/ the association treasury.
Trainer Bill Foley is deserving of all the
compliments showered ON him for the ex-
celIent work done by his pupils in the late
meet. In another year he will have several
record breakers in his squad. Mulligan is
undoubtedly star and moves with the
ease and confidence Of a veteran. His stride
is quite Wefer-lilze and in other points his
work resembles that of the great world
beater whose successor he hopes to be.
Fleming. the clever second baseman, as
tonished his friends with his fast work in
the fifty-yard dash.
NJ. ]. Walsh, another representative OF
the baseball department, distinguished him
self by winning the sixteen pound shot
event. With such nucleus of clever per-
formers to say nothing of the second"
men in the several events last week IL is
easy TO see that the management is pleased
with the outlook for future events, and es-
pecially for a showing at the Mott Haven
intercollegiate championships this spring.
Columbia Athletic Club.
Tomorrow night the bowling team OF the
Columbia Athletic Club will meet for the
last time this season. the players repre-
senting the Saengerbund, and their next
appearance will be with the Business Mems
Club. with whose team they close the sea-
son on April 5, and not with the Saenger-
bund as enormously stated
Considering all the circumstances, the
real difficulties, under which the team has
played this season, II Is really surprising
that it has made so good. showing as its
standing indicates Many another team
would have become discouraged and thrown
up the sponge. and let the game go as it
would. Captain Stiles has kept his men
right at it, and now they will close the
season not very high up in rank, but with
the credit of having played every game
scheduled for II. The team has hopes Of
better condition next season. Ii is proba-
BILE that by next year the club Will have
good standard alleys in the basement of its
present cozy clubhouse.
Carroll Institute Athletes.
team is hardly what the Carroll Institute