The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-10-28
AMONG THE ATHLETES
American Track and Field Men
Hold All Worlds Records.
District Bowling League Will Open
It's season Next N'ecN-Winners of
First Y. VI. c. a. A,l-Round Con-
tests - CarroI1's Team National
Guard Preparing for Indoor Meet.

Guard Preparing. Tor Indoor Meet
This is about the time for summing up
the records made during the outdoor sea-
son by track and field athletes. and 1t is
a pleasure to record that all the world 5
records made this year on this or On
the other side of the Atlantic. were the
result of the efforts of American Drawn,
skill. fieetness. and endurance.
The records made up the middle OF last
month have already been mentioned, and
among these made since and very note
worthy ones, too, are in putting the IL and
16-pound shot by Dennis Hogan AZ the
Pastime Athletic Club games.
He put the 12-pound shot IS feet 9 IL
inches. or 9 1-2 inches farther than any
other athlete anywhere ever put it be-
fore. In putting the 16.potnd SHOT Ho-
gan added half an inch to his own world S
record of As feet 2 inches.
Both records were made in exhibition
and not in competition, but as they we're
properly measured by Amateur Athletic
Union officials. they viii stand as the best
for the two events named.
The successful effort of Ma Key Long,
of the New York Athletic Club. IN maxim Z
new records in the short ruiis viii so
down in athletic history as one Of the
achievements of the age. Starting out to
make a record in the 4i0-yards run, re
easily accomplished it, and in doing so
made two other records, ami they are
these: The $50 yards, coyere IN Sc 20
seconds; the 400 yards in az 1-e seconds.
and the i40 yards, in a seconds nat end
these records have bsa1 cerrii.l by
A. A. e. officials.
He accomplished these feats uudsr mos:
unfavorable conditions. First the run
ming was done On an old race track,
which was .noc'h. but hard and ieal.
lacking all the life AMI sprinsinrss If q
cinder track. Then the weather was not
the most favorable, and there was IN
absence Of lively c0mpe- GrS and the
cheering r.owd.
The former recorl of IL ) Sc .onJs for
the 40 yards straIgi:. was "a e
by Wendell Bake. ,f Harvard. 4 Bt s.
ton, July /, 1856.
Opening the Bowling Season.
The ten-pin bowling league season in
Baltimore opened a fortnight ago. while
our season does not begin until the last
day of this month upon which occasion the
Columbia Bowling Club and the Saenger-
bund will start the tumbiing of the pins.
In Orioletown, as here, from the pres
ent outlook the game bids fair 10 have a
larger following than even last year. which
was the banner season of the sport. The
new Season was started by the Wholesale
Drug League and the Diamond and Athlet-
&c Club leagues.
The District Amateur Bowling League
this season has seven teams in its make
up and it will start out in better shape
than ever before. The teams are COM
posed, for the most part, of seasoned play
ers and being well matched, the contests
provided by these clever ''fves'' will be
spirited and well worth witnessing.
The league this season is composed Of
seven instead of six teams, as heret fora,
and this will necessitate each team play
ing seventy-two games, three games .
night for twenty-four nights.
The teams composing the league are:
Columbia Bowling Club, Y. NJ. c. A,
Saengerbund, Carroll Institute, South
Washington Business Mems Bowling
Club, Golden Eagles. and Fat Mems Club
The Columbias and Saengerburd opsn
the season on the alleys of the former.
October 81, and on November Carroll
Institute shows its team against the
Business Mems Club. and from thence on
two or three times a week there will be
. merry rumbling and a-thundering down
the polished alleys.
Athletics mt Y. NJ. c. A.
There is more than ordinary interest
in basketball at the Y. Nj. c. A. gymna-
stun this season, and there are enough
candidates for places On The regular team
to make two lines-up, and hard practice
games are played each night after the
regular class work.
A picked" team will meet Carroll In
stitute in its gymnasium tomorrow light
at $50 O'Clock. An interesting game is
expected. and admirers of the sport are
invited to witness it.
The indoor baseball team is fast getting
into playing form and promises to be
stronger than last year when 1t defeated
every local team. IL defeated the Corco-
rams last week by the score of 90 to G.
Epeare and lie Mat. pitchers. and Shepard.
catcher were the Y. NJ. C. A battery, and
tglehart and Sherman OBLIGATED for the Cor
corans The Association made twenty hits
and Corcoran g. Mitchell and Moriarty
were the umpires.
The Association team which will line up
this season in all important games is as
follows: Speare, pitcher or catcher: r.
Shepard, catcher or centrefeld; Shaw.
shcrtstop; Bielaski shortstop; lie Mat.
or pitcher; Lindsay third base;
second base, S. Shepard, ieftfeld.
Greene. first base.
The first of a series of contests FOR the
all-round championship of the Associa-
ton was held last Friday. and consider
Ing the short time the contestants have
had for practice since the opening Of the
season. the work was of high class. Each
man will be scored according to the num-
Der of points he makes in the season.
The four highest scores made by points
in the opening contests were made as fol-
lows:
n . ortehe- .s....... 5zS
Royce iough Observation-Disclosures. ss9
r. F. LeMat. ................ All
The second of the series of contests will
be held Friday, November 80. The events
'or seniors will include 25-yard dash, |