The times., 1899-02-19
STARS AT THE COMING
ATHLETIC MEEEfI
Pennsylvania to Send a Crack
Field and Track Team.
Tewksbury, Kranzlein, and Grant
Brothers Among the Entrants.
Intercfty Races Open to All Runners
in or Out of schools and
Colleges.

The busiest men at Georgetown Uni
yersity between class hours are Manager
Duffy and Captain Mulligan. They are
busy acknowledging receipt of entries and
hustling with the aid of the telegraph and
mails for additional contestants for the
big indoor athletic meet TO be held under
the auspices of the Varsity Athletic As
sociation at Convention Hall on March II.
The number of entries already received
is so large that the prospects of success
even now indicate greater success than
the management dared hope for All the
big colleges will be well represented, ani
the University of Pennsylvania will send
one of the largest teams for track and field
work it has sent out in years, and this
shows in more convincing manner than
any other the strong friendly feeling exist
ing between the two varsities.
Among the list of entries received during
the week is that of Theodore C. McGirr,
one of the cracks of the New York Athletic
Club. McGirr who is a graduate of
Georgetown, is the present record holder
and indoor champion of the world at ten
miles He also holds the one-mile inter
scholastic record of the Middle district,
and was for three years the schoolboy
champion Of the United States. He Will
of Pennsylvania, with whom he has had
some hard races On January 13, in the
five-miie A. A. L. championship, McGirr
led the field of twenty-four starters for
more than four miles. In the last lap
Grant, of Pennsylvania, and his brother,
the Harvard crack, jumped TO the fore,
and for five laps the three men were
striding together. The Pennsylvania
gradually forged ahead and won out by
few yards.
AT the games of the Twenty-second Regi-
mept in New York two weeks later McGirr
ran away from crowd of distance men
in the three-m mile run, making them look
like noyices.
The University of Pennsylvania has de-
cided TO send a team Of eight men, who
will be chosen from among those who do
the best work at the games in Philadel-
phia on March ]. The team will undoubt-
edly include Tewksbury and McClain in
the sprints. Grant and Mechling in the
distance events, Baxter in the high jump
Captain McCracken in the shot put, and
krRnzlein and Remington in the hurdles.
Tewksbury is the Intercollegiate cham
pion at the 100 and 220 yards, and will in
addition TO being entered in the three
Eprints that evening run a special race of
nifty yards with Mulligan, of Georgetown,
for the championship of the world The
track will be put in especial condition for
this race. expert timers will be secured
and everything possible done 10 give these
men an opportunity TO displace the record
of 2-5 seconds now held by L. E Myers,
and which has withstood the attacks made
upon 1t for fifteen years.
Mechling who will enter the SS0-yard
and one-mile runs, has a record of l:57 3-5
for the half and at the longer distance has
gone close TO limit figures. He is a tall
man and very much resembles Hollister,
the Harvard champion.
Baxter the high jumper, is capable Of
clearing feet inches, and will try for
the record held by Sweeney of Cos SIS,
made at the international games in 1895.
McCracken, who was an unknown at the
game shattered all records with the ham
mer and shot when he competed against
the cream of college athletes last May at
Berkley Oval.
Remington is the hurdler and broad
Jumper for the red and blue, and is also
very fast for fifty yards. He has cleared
eS feet in the running broad jump. To-
gether with kranZlein he will represent
Penn in the hurdles.
OF the many men who have made mark
In athletic circles none surpasses a. c.
KranZlein. He was known until 1898 in
Western tracks as fast man, but no one
Supposed him capable of smashing records
that had stood for years. He did, however,
knock the marks Of both the high and low
hurdles and placed both at figure that
IS close TO fat running time. He steps the
bars instead of hurdling them, his great
strength making a seemingly impossible
task easy for him. In addition 10 his
ability in crossing the sticks, he is also
q 23-foot man in the broad jump. $40 feet
In the high, and 10 2-5 second man for
the hundred. II is expected that he will
win the allround championship this year
at Bayonne
This team is undoubtedly the greatest
aggregation OF athletes In the world.
Thirty men are now working daily at
Georgetown trying for places on the team
Everyone whose work gives promise of
satisfactory results will be entered in the
meet and il is thought that several sur
prises will be sprung by Trainer Foley,
who has a lot OF new and ambitious young
sters on hand. The men who will repre-
sent Georgetown against Virginia in the
relay race have not yet been chosen, but
the next few days should find the decision
made. Twenty-four men selected by Foley
and Captain Mulligan were taken TO the
training table Saturday. and from now until
the intercollegiate meet in May strict
training rules will be in force.
il has been decided to send q couple of
men to Philadelphia on March ! in the
eprints and in the distance events.
ANY local athletes who desire to CON
test for places on the intercity team.
which will represent Washington against
Baltimore, is requested 20 send his name
TO the captain OF the G. L. track team al
once This team will not be composed en-
tirely Of collegians, but is open to every
one in either city, and ii is hoped that
every man who has any ability in the ath-
Ietic line will come out and try for a place
on il.
The Central High School team is work
ing daily, and from present indicat ons the