The times., 1899-08-06
LAND AND WATER SPORTS
Amateur Athletic Union Games
VIII Be a Meeting of Stars.
Middle states Regatta TO Re Held Mt
Philadelphia This Ycar-ProbabIe
Entries by Our Ciubs-septen,ber
23 Date OF Y. NJ. C. 4. Track and
Field Meet-ROwing Notes.

Field Meet-bOWing Notes.
The annual championship track and field
meet of the Amateur Athletic Union will
this year be held at Boston, the first time
in several years. The date fixed is August
20 and the beautiful Riverside Recreation
| Park will be the scene of action.
The meet will bring together nearly all
the star athletes of the country and viii
be an event worth going miles to witness.
Among those VINO will compete are A. Z.
Kraenzlein, OF ''Pennsy'' and the New York
Athletic Club, the holder of several worlds
records in field and track events; Marvel
and Bray, the middle distance runners;
Flanagan, of the New York Athletic Club
the worlds champion hammer thTower, his
| latest record in that speciality being 164
feet 10 inches; Tewksbury, the great sprin-
| ter, and Wood, the new star in the $50
yards, whose friends believe he will make
it interesting for Marvel in the distance
named.
| 1t is said that Bernard Wefers. formerly
of Georgetown Varsity and now of the
New York Athletic Club who will make
| his first public appearance in two years
at the Asbury Park games next Wednes-
! day, is fast regaining his old form, and if
this be so, he will make it interesting for
| all the stars who have appeared on the
athletic horizon since he equaled the
worlds mark OF 40 seconds in the 100
yards and made Il 1-5 seconds, the world s
| record, in the 220-yards DASH
McGirr formerly of Georgetown, will ap-
| pear in the fiye-mile event against the
great A. Grant, of 'Pennsy,' who will also
run the mile. Baxter, the amateur cham
pion running high-jumper, with record of
| six feet three and one-half inches will
try to hold his own, and Powers, the ma
| tionai all around champion will try to win
the pole vault, high jump, discus, and run
ming broad jump. In the latter he holds a
| mark of twenty three feet and three quart
| er inches. The clever Sheldon, Yale So
will be entered in the shot, discus, and
| 56-pound weight. Arthur Duffy, the New
England schoolboy 100-yard champion, will
! see what he can do against such flyers as
| Jarvis, Wefers, Tewksbury, and Cregan
and others.
The Knickerbocker A. C. WILL of course
! have out its best team and the makeup
of this team will be decided upon after the
Metropolitan A. A. U. championships to be
| held at Bergen Point next Saturday. What
| an aggregation of stars this A. A. U. meet
of August &c will be- What an amount of
| interest in athletics they would arouse here
| If they could only be brought together, say
on Georgetown Field, this fall.
! Middle States Regatta.
For the first time in many years the
Middle States regatta will be held outside
of the State of New York or its immediate
vicinity. This year Philadelphia will have
the honor OF playing host upon the occasion
| of this big annual rowing event, which
promises this time to have as large, if not
] larger, list of entries as upon any former
similar occasion. Entries close at II o'clock
on the morning of August %. with Secre
tary W. f, Boland. ?. 0. Box 724. Philadel
| phia.
Heretofore the regatta committee always
| opened the entries at New York city, with
/ out regard to the place of holding the re-
gatta. This time entries will be opened
at the Quaker City.
| 1t is in this regatta that the Potomacs
and Columbias will probably enter their
! junior eights The regatta will be held
! on Labor Day.
Y. NJ. C. A. Athletics
| Securing the athletic park at Seven
| teenth and Streets, known as Van Ness
| Park. or Columbia Field. by the Y. NJ C.
| A. for athletic practice and competitions
was one of the cleanest ten strikes yet
scored by the new management. and Sec
retary Sleman and Instructors Rideout and
/ Holton and all the officers and members
/ are to be congratulated upon this addi-
| tion to an already long string OF attractive
| features.
| Already the 100-yard dash and the base
| ball diamond and field are in shape and
/ mr. he had at
Work en- the running track is going on now
/ and this and the four tennis courts back of
! the old clubhouse will be in shape this
4 week. The present grandstands and bleach
/ ers will be torn down and new and larger
ones erected in their stead. In the spring
q new clubhouse with all modern bathing
! facilities will be built.
The baseball team will be organized
| shortly and practice of candidates for
| places on the nine will begin next week.
| Harry Greene is manager of the baseball
| department and as soon as he returns
! from his vacation he will arrange for
! series of games with local teams. There is
lots of good material in the ranks and a
| strong team is assured.
| The new park will be formally opened
with set of games on September %. 1t
has not been decided If the games will be
pentathlon or open or both. The latter
| line will probably be the one adopted. The
association already has the nucleus of
| good field team and as a starter for
track team it has Spear. Hough. and
! Stewart. If the games are open Stewart,
McElhone. and two or three others who
are members of both organizations, will
represent the Woedside Athletic Club.
Speare, formerly the crack sprinter of
| the G. A. c.. will be called on to do most
of the sprintiDg for the association. He
is constantly In good condition, and is un-
doubtedly holding his own, and with two
/ or three weeks training should clip off
some of the dashes in fast time.
| 1t is probable that the juniors will be
! given an opportunity of distinguishing
| themselves in several track events, q fea-
ture original here with Prof. Grossley, who
developed number OF clever kid sprint
ers. Ata
A fall tennis tourney will be held at the
park from September 25 to 80, open to
members of the association only.
The side bowling alleys at the Street
clubhouse will this month have a thorough
overhauling and resetting, and then the
set of three will be among the very best
in the city.
The gymnasium will be closed from to-
morrow until September, during which pc
riod necessary repairs to it and the work
ing apparatus win be made. During the
past week the gym. was forsaken, the
warm weather having driven out all the
enthusiasts and seekers after exercise.
The new bathing facilities to be intro
duced into the big brown clubhouse on
Street will be the best and most extensive
any local club has ever had, and to Sec
retary Sleman belongs the credit OF pro-