Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1900-02-17

tne local hlgh schools nave members en-
tered. and their old-time rivalry will assert
itself Their star event. however will be
the re.ay race, and prediction to the
winner is likely to be erroneous. the men
gently and faithfully. The followers will
come along with the teams and will cheer
them on to victory by their yells.
In the relay line will be seen another big
attraction in the contest between the local
branch of the Y. NJ. C. A. and the Balu
more branch of the same organization.
baltimore is fully determined to retrieve its
lost prestige. The local branch is as fully
determined to hold the championship at all
hazards. The Baltimore branch is to bring
an unusually large number of rooters with
them who will endeavor to drown the yeils
of their opponents.
Georgetown Relay Team.
The victorious relay team that not only
defeated the crack team that represented
Harvard at the Boston College games re-
Gently. but clipped good two-fifths off the
time previously held by Harvard. will be
the event of the evening. This team will
be matched against strong aggregation
from New York city, composed of old col
lege stars. and men who have had much
perience in running. They were picked with
intention of finding about as fast team as
New York could furnish. and consequently
the various athletic clubs We're visited and
q remarkably strong contingent has been
scheduled for this race. The knicker-
booker the Pastime and the Xavier A. A.
will be represe nted, as well as St. Francis
Xavier College.
Joseph E. Muligan is the captain of this
team as well as the captain of the George
town track team. He is from Philadelphia.
and is strong runner, well a con-
ScientiouS trainer. He has been very prom
inently connected with athletic matters at
the university since his entrance there two
years ago, and speedily recognition by
his ability. He prepared at on. of the Phil
adelphia High Schools and ran on its team,
showing his grit and endurance very much
even then
William F. Holland, medical 'H;. is from
Boston College. with whose athletics
has been very Intimately connected. He is
a strong. well-built fellow and runs a hard,
gritty race. He is one of the cleverest in
door quarter-milers that ran on an
indoor track, which fact is indicated fur
Their by his holding the record for the indoor
track of Boston College at the quarter mile.
He is a hard student, and is entering into
the training for this meet with a zest that
augurs well for the showing that he will
make.
Theodore F. Dessez is a local boy. and
has shown in the many races in which he
represented Georgetown that he is a strong,
gritty and heaGy runner. He Is law stu
dent. and will finish this year, much to the
regret of many of his fellow students, for
he is very good man. He has shown
fine form on several occasions. and always
can be depended upon to run good race.
The biggest surprise of the year is in
Georgetown from the Catholic High School
of Philadelphia. He started in training
with other men. and easily outclassed
many of them that he Immediately won
recognition. and the day of the trials
foI the relay races gained a place on the
team. AT Boston. in the with Har
ward he overcame a big lead that his man
had on him and romped away home an
| easy winner. He dubbed conner by
a leading Boston paper and a man that
would bear watching. The paper also said
He Is out for world record
John Emmett Sheridan fifth member of
the team, born in Iowa and having
finished the preparatory department of
Georgetown entered the college. He has
been running about three years. and in
that time has appeared as a representative
for his college on many occasions and has
always acquitted himself well. He was a
member of last years relay team, but fall
ed to make it this year.
The other events, consisting of the 90
yard run (handicap), 5O-yard hurdle thandi-
cap), 22O-yard run (handicap), 440-yard run
thandicap), potato race (handicap), pole
vault thandicap), putting 1G-pound shot
| (handicap), running high jump. are all well
| filled, and the entries show much talent.
Another star attraction will be the meet
| ing of the Grant brothers in the special
| two-mile race. They have met four times.
and, although the finishes were close, yet
| neither could be said to be the better.
Another relay race has been added to the
already long program, and will serve to
| Introduce Villanove to the followers of
| Johns Hopkins of Baltimore.
| Unsurpassed Aggregation of Talent
The meets of the Boston Athletic Asso-
| citation. which have for years been regard
| ed as the best in the country, never secured
such an all-star team the Georgetown
| management has brought together. Ma
| tional. state division, intercollegiate. col
| legiate and interscholastic association cham
| pions and point winners have entered to
compete for the honors and prizes offered
by the local university, which is determined
! to make Washington to the south what
Boston is to the northern collegiate world
| in athletics.
Arthur F. Duffy, the American and New
England champion, will start in the sprints.
| in which will also appear Frank Jarvis of
Princeton. an intercollegiate point winner;
| ]. W. B. Tewksbury of Pennsylvania, the
intercollegiate champion: ]. f. Mulligan.
| the Pennsylvania state champion, southern
| champion and intercollegiate point win
| ner: William ]. Holland, Bostons fastest
! indoor runner and worlds record holder for
| the 440 yards indoor; J. B. Mace, who de-
| feated Tewksbury and Mulligan last year
from the one-foot mark: E. b. Minehan,
| the novice who electrified the collegiate
| world last Saturday by his clever work in
| New York, when he captured both sprints
The open inty yards. in addition to the
| collegians named above. will bring out
| Kent of New York, Flores of the Xaviers
several Johns Hopkins men and a host of
| local runners who. by reason of the gener-
Gus handicaps allotted them. hope to cut
| out the better-known entries.
| The 22D-yard run has thirty-five entries
| and the handicaps have spread the men all
| over the track. and the scratch men who
succeed in gathering the field will have to
| do record time
| The 40 yards run will have several heats
| and final. and Long. the intercollegiate
and American record holder, will have no
| end of trouble to find the limit men who
| have been set out for the purpose of pre-
| venting runaway races.
| Every Starter Champion.
| Then will come the intercollegiate $50
yards run. In which every starter is a
| champion. There will be Bray of Williams,
the holder of the 1000 yards record and
| second man in the L. C. A. A. A; Alex.
| Grant of Pennsylvania, who won the event
| last year and who finished second in the in
| tercollegiate half after winning the two
| mile in good time; his brother Dick, the
| Harvard runner, and twice winner of this
event at the l. c. A. A. A.; Dessez of
Georgetown the southern champion: Stuart
| OF Pennsylvania, who, as a Washington
I schoolboy. always ran rings around his