The evening times. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1895-1902, 1900-01-20

Arrangements have been completed for
the second annual indoor track and field
games at Convention Hall on Saturday,
February II. under the auspices Of the
Georgetown University Athletic Associa-
ton. and. judging from the entries already
reeei>ld and the calibre Of the men, il will
be the foremost athletic carnival of the
year
Last years meet brought together an
unusually fine Held OF athletes G.Om
Pennsylvania. Princeton. Johns Hopkins,
Colui. biau. and Georgetown universities
together with a host of competitors from
smaller colleges and schools. Entries Tor
this year have been received from all the
foregoing. together with several from Yale
Harvard Dickinson. BuckneH williams
and Dartmouth The events 10 be desiIed
will be the regulation indoor schedule
consisting Of a G-yards scratch. 40-yarCs
handicap, 22O-yards handicap, SS0-yards in
tercollegiate scratch, oue-mHe run and
relay race, a J0-yaTds hurdle. pole vault,
and shot put. together with sch,olboy
races.
Last year the relay race between George
town and Columbian was won by The for
mer by more than a hundred va DIS, but
this year the blue and grey weareIs viii
have a different proposition TO solve when
they meet the champion team from Penn
sylvauia. The Pennsylvania management
has promised TO send a team Of iutercol-
legiate point winners. consisting OF Kranz-
lein, the wonderful ail-arOuld athlete, who
holds worlds records at both hurdles and
the broad jump, and who viii be remem-
bered as the winner of the ifty-yards hur-
die az last years meet; McCracbeu, the
giant guard and intercollegiate champion
hammer thrower and shot putter; Cook
the Quarter-miler; Grant. who ran such
beautiful race with Cregan, and who cap
tured the two miles intercollegiate in rec
ord time; Deakin. another speedy furlong
IuI ner comes with the team. as do also
Captain Hare. OF the football team; Bull
lard and Leary in the sprints. Parry ard
MeChlng in the mile, and that old Wash
inrton high school runner. W G. Stuart.
WHO will face the starter in the SSO-yards
handicap.
II is. OF course too early to decide WIN
W. represent Pennsylvania in the mile
rel y race. The team runs its first event
OF the year at the Boston Athletic Asso-
citation meet on February B. when they
mcet Harvard. On January 81 at the Bos-
ton Col, se meet Harvard and Georgetown
cC-"Dei., so it will give follower OF ath-
loIcS 49, opportunity 10 get lire on the
respective merits Of the two teams.
Another relay race which will be an in
teresting one will be the one-mile cham
pioaship for high schools Of the District.
Three teams are already entered and
training hard every day. Last year Cen
tral won but this years Western team ap-
pears as most likely TO carry away the cup
as Wilson, Saffold, Alden. and Brinker-
hof have been graduated from Central
In the ffty-yard dashes two wonderful
sprinters viii come together in Duffy. Of
Georgetown, and Kranzlein, OF Pennsyl-
vania. The former is the American cham
pion. while the latter has so many records
that he is anxious to try for the short
distance mark. Another race in which
stars will come together is the 440 yards
which VIII bring out Long, Of Columbia
the intercollegiate champion; Mulligan. OF
Georgetown; Holland. now of GEORGETOWN
and Cook, OF Pennsylvania.
J. z. Sullivan, the Secretary Of the ANA
teur Athletic Union. has promised to Of
hciate as referee and will bring with him
several official timers. thus guaranteeing
any records that may be broken or equaied
that evening. Training has begun in earn
est at Georgetown for the meet, and thirty
men are now working under Trainer Foley
and Captain Mulligan.