The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-03-04

The annual open indoor track and field
games under the auspices Of the Baltimore
Athletic Club and St. Leo's Gymnasium.
under a sanction Of the Amateur Athletic
Union. will be held next Saturday night in
the Armory OF the Fifth Regiment Ma
tional Guard OF Maryland at Baltimore.
The affair promises 10 be one Of the best
OF its kind held in that city under an
amateur athletic union sanction.
The clubs which some weeks ago with
drew from the Amateur Athletic Union
held a meet a fortnight OF so ago and the
affair vas . success in many ways. Now
comes the meet by the "loyalists, and it
remains TO be seen If they will do as well
IN an athletic way. On account Of the pres
ent conditions. much interest is being
taken in the coming event.
In order to show that they are still in
the field and 10 still further show that
there is enough interest in athletics in
orioletown to support rival organizations
the Insurgents. otherwise the seeding
clubs. viii give their second set OF games
on the same night at the Fourth Regiment
Armory Both claim TO have the cream Of
that citys athletes entered for their meets
and il remains to be seen which can make
lite claims good.
This sort OF thing is competition red
hot and for keeps" On next Saturday
night---you takes your choice and pays
your money" reversing the general order
Ofsthings.
The Insurgents" or Middle Atlantic As
socistion games will be handicap aud VIII
include the following events and are open
to all amateurs: 35-yard dash. junior 30
yard dash. senior; 4f0-yard run, Ss0-yard
run. mile relay race, pole vault, running
high jump. standing broad jump. putting
16-pound shot. running broad jump, and
relay race-colleges.
The following events are open TO all
military organizations: Mile relay. heavy
marching order. Entries close Tuesday.
March 6. 1900, with Mr. Rodney c. Miles,
jr.. care Pennsylvania Railroad. corner
Baltimore and Calvert Streets, Baltimore.
Md. Entrance fee. % cents for each event,
except relay races. for which the entrance
fee is 81 per team. (S mem.
High Bowling scores.
Reports from the closing matches Of the
American National Tournament at Brook
Ign, show some remarkable scores. In the
plsy-oT for the second prize. these being
a tie. three teams competed: Monarchs.
Fidelias, and Germanias. The former won
from the latter two. the scores being re-
spectively 905 and s62. In the game be-
tween Germania and Fidelis, the former
rolled a 902 game against 763. Each team
had five men
The highest individual game was 233 Il
Is not often that the winning team in a
three-gamc set rolls over the 800 mark in
each game on standard alleys
!. VI. {. 4. Athletics.
The management Of the Y. II. c. A.
means TO encourage its athletes in every
way. especially by entering them in as
many as possible local and nearby meets.
Next Saturday large track and field team
(the largest the meet viii havel will be
sent over to Baltimore to compete in the
games to be given at the Fifth Regiment
Armory under the auspices OF the Baiti-
more Athletic Club and St. Leo's Gymna-
stun.
The entrants and the events they viii ap-
pear in follow:
In the mIle-Meigs. LeMat, Ford.
and Reddington.
Quarter mile-sanold. Keyser. and Nc
Elfresh.
Forty-yard dash--Speare. McEifresh,
Kearnes, Ferris. and Ford.
Pole vault-Greene and Mather.
Running high jump-Hough. LeMat, and
Ferris
Shot put-TIough and Weaver
Standing broad jump-Kearnes and
Hough.
Middle-weight wrestllng-C. c. Graf:
heavy weight. Paul Won Boeckmaun; light
weight. Frank Huseman
Relay team race-Meigs. Speare. McEl-
fresh, Saffold. Keyser. and Ford
OF the latter-named. Meigs. Speare Nc
Eifresh. and Ford composed the team
which so handily defeated the Baltimore
Y. NJ. G. A. team at the recent George
town games The winners have kept hard
at work and are going faster than ever,
and the team that beats them out will
know il has been In a race. Mr.. Halton,
assistant physical Instructor. has carefully
coached his big team and he claims for its
members that they are 10 prime condiiinn.
He viii accompany his charges to the
games. He feels much pleased over the
new records made Friday night special
car has been engaged for the GO train,
and 1t viii be filed with Y NJ. c. A.
Tooters.
Baseball is being worked up in earnest