Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-01-27
ATHLETES IN TRAINING
Preparing for Georgetown Univers-
fty's Coming Contests.

Preparing for Georgetown Univers-
ity's Coming Contests.
Great preparations are being made to rem
der the coming indoor meet of Georgetown
University the biggest kind of success.
1t will be run off in Convention Hall on
the evening of February II. Work was be-
gun the track last week, and the cor
ners will be soon in place, thus permitting
the athletes to practice on the track on
which they will run in competition, a big
adv antage. There will be ten laps to
mile, which will make this track similar TO
the one in Madison Square Garden, New
YORK.
Pennsylvania will send it's usually strong
team, including the many champions en-
relied under its colors. A strenuous effort
is being made to bring Kraenzlein, the
holder of three records, the low, the high
hurdles. and the broad jump. together with
Hutchinson of Princeton, in the hurdles. l.
Is. Baxter. the champion intercollegiate high
jumper, has returned to PENNSYLVANIA. and
may be seen in competition with Carroll
oil Princeton in the high jump.
The Relay Race.
The star attraction of the evening, how
ever. will be the relay race between Penn
sylvania and Georgetown. In this event
will be seen some of Americas fastest quar-
| ter-milers. Georgetown encounters Harvard
tonight at the indoor meet of Boston Col
iece. and the outcome will be watched with
interest, especially since Pennsylvania will
| meet Harvard the following Saturday night.
From the showing made the followers of
each team may be enabled to estimate the
chances.
! Not all the relay running will be done
by Georgetown and Pennsylvania however.
| for the Washington branch of the Y. NJ c..
| A. will put team in the field against the
| Baltimore branch of the same organization.
| and great fight is predicted. number
| OF the members of the local branch are
| Ridout and Hoffman. Villanova is also
| very anxious to meet its old rival from
| Lewisburg. Pa, Bucknell, and its wish may
| be gratified.
The man who will furnish the most sur
| prise and establishment to the crowd VIII
| be Arthur F. Duffy, the champion sprin-
| ter at 100 yards. He is a small chap, and
| it seems well nigh incredible that he should
| run as fast he does. He is quick as
| the pistol flash. His title as champion at
the 100 yard distance was won in The A.
A. L. games in Boston on August 26, when
| he ran away from Kraenzlein, the cham
pion hurdler and Stephens of Canada in
| the time of ten seconds.
Training at Georgetown.
The following are among the men now in
training: Lynch. Barry, Lenane, Hirst
| Coad, Rice. Lennon. Holland, Kerns, Sheri-
| dan, Dessez, Fey, Wilson, Brown, Mckay,
| Horsey, Douglass, Keane. Cranston, Finn,
| Long. Cummings, J. Lynch, J. Oracle,
| Walsh. Brady, Mullgan. eastman, Downs.
| There will be relay race between the
| local high school, and many of the repre-
| sentatives from the different schools are
| now utilizing the indoor track at George
! town. The events of the meet will COM
| prise two forty-yard runs one handicap,
| one scratch; 220-yard handicap. SS0-y yard
! Intercollegiate one-mle run, fifty-yard
| hurdle. pole vault, shot put, together with
| the school-boy races.
The indoor track in the Healy building
| Is daily the scene of activity. From the
| hours of II o'clock to IL, and from 8 to 5
| in the afternoon many of the students may
| be seen limbering up, taking starts, and
| srrinting for twenty or thirty yards Owing
| to the great number of men in training 1t
| has been found expedient to divide them
| into squads.
| All the men in training and trying for
positions the team are under the sur
| veillance and ever watchful eye of Trainer
| William Foley, than whom there is no one
| more painstaking or earnest. He shows the
| recruits how to stride, and keeps down
| the too-wlling spirit of the veterans to run
| away from each other when placed on the
| mark. Besides Trainer Foley, Capt. Multi
| gan of the track team is always alert for
| any mistakes made by the men, and is ever
willing to lend any aid, material or other
| wise.