The St. Louis Republic., 1900-08-22
NOTES ON AMATEUR ATHLETICS.
Tennis Courts mt Forest Park Worked
Overtime.


| Despite the excessive heat of Sunday the
| tennis courts in Forest Park worked over
| time, with the air fairly sizzling on them.
Some CT the boys played for two hours at
| feet Tennis does not have the universal at
| tention on Sundays that 1t has on week
days as there are quite number of ath-
| letes who SO out to timber up. The new attn
| day morning, ana was given some rather
severe trials. The caddies who arrived early
did not Ike the siXteen-pound shot; and
proceeded to make it look as If 1t had been
rolled down Pixies Peak by throwing it
against the twenty-eight-po FOUNDER.
The athletic field on Sunday reminded one
of the Spanish fleet at Santiago. Ii is right
In line with the ninth hole of the golf links.
| and is situated in such a. way, that most Of
the drives for the last hole land right in
the middle of it. Between lodging golf balls,
heavy shots. put by exceedingly husky
young men. the new spears. like those to
be used in the Exposition games, and. worst
was thrown by every one on the grounds.
one had to keep a very sharp lookout while
In that vicinity.
Gwynne Evans who is training. in a way,
for the Exposition games. made several tries
at the running high jump, doing five fee feet
without spikes. Most of the boys tried to
throw the spears, which are an entirely
new thing to them. as they have always
been confined to the Turner's in athletic
where near the record of severty-five feet.
and most of the boys pronounced them too
spears are seven feet in length and weigh
fVe pounds.
Audenreid Whittemore, who has the max
ing of q clever athlete. will not deisn to
look at anything that is not connected with
golf. He is gradually cutting down his .ec-
ord for the nine holes at Forest Pars and
Is now dangerously close to the record for
the park links. Aud will have one more
crack at tennis before his return to Cor
nell, as he has entered the tournament of
played on the same day. Whittemore. being
entered in that also. is wondering which
,, game to play first. as he Is very anxious
to show his college churnS that he has not
been idle this summer.
All the members Of that well-known
family of athletes. the billions, were out
in force Sunday morning, but did not pay
much attention to their strongholds pre-
ferring first to play tennis. then to watch
the others roast themselves on the courts.
Dave Punch and his playing partner Mr..
PuffleS. had q contest to see which could
take off the most weight during the morn
ing, but both agreed to call it a draw after
one set of tennis had heen played Then
some man took four turns of the trottins
track at good L pace with no apparennt
nation feel very cheap. indeed.
Tom Gleeson was on the courts Sunday.
expecting to get in some fine practice for
the tournament. but the heat was too
much for the slender youth so he left for
home, vowins to get up with the sun here
after.
Mr.. Jerome Karst is an old gymnast as
we'll as an athletic enthusiast Mr.; Karst
spent two good hours Sunday with the
shots. spears and the hammer. showing
some of the wise youngsters a few things
which made them open their eyes. The
,-ny ON in IN, af lAt{ hoe
ideas of his own that are very hard to
oust until he has overtrained or had q
score of failures.
on the schools all oyer the State is evi-
tournament will be given at the State
University at Columbia. in October. which
will be. open to all the st. Louis institu-
has decided to send a team of three men
there which is more than likely to return
with the trophy; as the men chosen to go
city. They are Harry Pollard. Eugene
Senseney and Sam Forder. all of whom are
putting up, a great game at present The
to Columbia, but the boys at the Grand
Avenue school do not class with the Wash
ington University lads as racquet artists.
There is oyer, a month for practice before
u team will have to be picked. however,
and it Is pretty certain that some of the
boys will improve their game during the
vacation. Two boys. who will try for the
team. Stadle and Foster. have been play
ing on the st. Louis Athletic Association
courts all season, but cannot go the pace
with Harry Pollard by any means. although
both play a game that is more than or
dinary.
Smith Academy boasts of some cracka-
jacks at the game, but as all of the lead
ing spirits of the athletic association Of
that school are out of town nothing can be
done in regard to forming team for the
Columbia tournament just yet The High
School is in the same boat with Smith. but
the chances are that at least four ST. Louis
schools will be represented in the State
University tournment.
Tom Aitken has been working hard with
the old bicycle track in the Pastime grounds
to get it in shape for the race meet to be
given by the Peerless Racing Association on
Sunday, September 2. 1t was thought that
the banks had been washed away too much
to hold a triplet at speed. but Tom doctored
them so as to make the proposed multicy-
Gle race a possibility.
The One-nile State championship will be
run off on that day, with bunch of new
men as starters, Alex. Laing and Bob Orr
being the only ones whom ST. Louisans will
recognize. The former is training hard for
the event, as he won it in 1896 and is anx-
iOus to have one more medal for the Mis-
souri, title. Wentworth Steele and Eddie
Grath are at the track every afternoon pre-
pairing for the tiye-mile paced race. in which
they will be the lone stars.