Evening star., 1899-03-04
Preparing for the Indoor Athletic
: Meet.
BRAY has BBEN INDUCED TO ENTER
Representation From New York
and knickerbocker Clubs.
AT WORK ON THE TRACK

The athletic meet which the Georgetown
College Athletic Association has arranged
for March II continues to attract the at
tentfon of the leading colleges and athletic
associations of the east. Almost every col
lege or athletic club of note has arranged
with Manager Duffy to have some repre-
sentatives at this meet who will be capa-
BILE of putting forth strenuous efforts.
Bray, the great. eastern runner, has de-
cided to enter the races in this city and
meet the cracks of the country Bray is
now at Georgetown, and it required the most
persistent endeavors to induce him to run
again, as he had determined to quit the
tapes and take no active part in athletics.
Bray will be entered in the quartermile
and half-mile events, and in him the Wash
ington lovers of track athletics will see
one of the greatest of American runners.
The Knickerbocker Athletic Club of New
York, which has lately combined with the
New Jersey Athletic Club thus making it
one Of the foremost athletic organizations
of the world, has decided to send a crack
relay team, in addition to its. other repre-
sentatives, to compete in the great relay
race which now promises to be one of the
distinct features of the meet. In this race
many notable teams will contend, and the
winner can rightly claim the eastern cham
pionship. The men who will compose the
Knickerbocker team have not yet been Sc
lected owing to the surplus Of crack ath-
letes but 1t can be relied upon that that
team will be a fine one, and one which Will
give it's competitors hot race.
The New York Athletic Club will surely
send It's famous team, as 1t Is very anx-
ious to show the other clubs that Its SUI
premacy is not yet over, but really in the
heyday of success. The representatives of
the New York Athletic Club will be Nc
Girr, great mile runner; Tewkesbury, the
great Pennsylvania runner; Long, who mas
and Walsh, whose record Is we'll known to
all followers of athletics. or this quartet
perhaps Long is to be more praised for his
numerous victories and his meteor-like as
cent in the world of athletics. He was un-
known until 1897. when he became mem
ber of New York's team, and during '3I,
but especially during '9S, he met and van
auished the leading runners of the country
in all distances from 100 yards to quar-
ter of a mile, and today his name is sur
rounded with a crown Of athletic glory,
which he has acquired on many hard
fought field.
The management was very sorry to hear
that the University Of Virginia could not
send team to Washington, as the friend
ly rivalry between Virginia and George
town would add much interest to the re-
suit of the races, and thus give them an
opportunity to measure Drawn and skill
upon the path.
In the long-distance race McGirr a for
mer Georgetown student, will contend and
endeayOr to win fresh laurels in his line
of running. McGirr has a national repu-
tation, and his ability is well known and
much respected among the long-distance
runners.
The workmen are laboring every day to
put Convention Hall in shape for the meet.
new track is being built with all the
recent improvements, and. as it will be
fast, perhaps some records will be shat
tered at the coming meet.
A correspondent takes issue with a re-
cent statement in The Star that Burke
has done the quarter In 49, seconds, and
Long is but a second slower" He writes:
Burke made his fastest 44O on the Man
haitian track. 4S 4-5, the track being a
qt-arter-nile track. Long made the 40 run
on a ffve-lap track around a big field of
runners in As 4-5. You will notice that the
time is the same, but Longs run is the
best as all Interested in athletics will say,
as to make his quarter he ran once and a
fifth around; and, being handicap, he was
obliged to run around many runners