The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-04-08
ATHLETICS AT PENNSY
Twenty Men Will Go to Paris TO
Try for International HOncrs.
The Team VIII Also Compete i'm the
English. Austrian. and German
Gnmes-Coach Ellis Ward Has sew
eraI Winning Crews-SchOoI Teams
the CentrnIs VIII Meet at Relays.


PHILADELPHIA, April with the
abandonment of indoor training by th'
track team this week, all the athletic
teams of the University Of Pennsylvania
are working out doors. The spring Of
1900 promises to be the most successmfu
athletic season in the history of the Uni
yersity. Crew, track, and baseball teams
are all much stronger than last year. and
for the first time cricket and lacrosse
have been taken up and there are be
tween forty and fifty candidates for each
of these teams.
The number of candidates for the track
team has increased to 160 and Mike
Murphy is pleased with the outlook for
the Intercollegiate Team, which he thinks
will be stronger this year than last.
Murphy is busy now developing men for
the three teams to represent Pennsylva-
MIA in the relay races on the 2Sth. The
two and four mile teams will be faster
than a year ago, and there will not be
much difference in the one mile team, al
though the loss OF Tewksbury will be no.
ticeable. In the long races Pennsylvania
will have some fast teams to run against,
Princeton, Yale, Columbia, and Cornell in
the two mile, and Cornell and Yale in the
four mile.
A larger team than was at first an
nounced will be taken TO London and
Paris. Pennsylvania is after the largest
number of points as well as the highest
number of firsts. and will therefore take
trim erp
increasing the number of the team to
twenty project is now on foot to send
the London and Paris team to the German
and Austrian championships, which take
place in Berlin and Vienna within ten
DAYS after the close of the Paris games.
Judging from the present strength Of the
team. Pennsylvania men believe that the
Red and Blue can win the four foreign
championships.
The dual meet with the University of
California will occur about ten days before
the Mott Haven games. The events Will
be the same as in the Yale-California meet
and Pennsylvania expects most of the con-
tests to be close.
Coach Ellis Ward is giving the crew men
an unusually large amount of long, hard
work, and is bringing all the crews around
fast Pennsylvania has but five Fights
on the water, as Ward did the wedding
act early in March, just before the men
left the machines for the water. He will
have about the same makeup in the Var
sity boat as last year. only three of the
old men being ineligible The second crew
is much faster than in 1899. and has beaten
the Varsity several times in practice.
Ward will not say what he expects the
freshmen to do, but it is evident from the
attention he is giving them that he thinks
well Of their prospects. The first race in
which the crews will appear will be in the
Decoration Day regatta on the SchuylEiil
Pennsylvania baseball team is expected
to give a good account Of itself during the
season just opened. Irwin has developed
a team of good feeders and hard hitters
from a lot of raw material, giving the
Ouakers one of the best mines they have had
in ten years. The team will take three trips,
one to the South, one to the East. and one
to the West. the latter after commence
meut in June Spring football practice
has begun in earnest and every afternoon
Coach Woodruff has fifteen candidates out
for an hour giving them work in the
gymnasium and a three-mile cross country
run. The football schedule for next fall
has been about completed. There are
games with Harvard. Cornell Brown, Chi
cago. Carlisle Indians. Lafayette. Lehigh.
Annapolis Naval Academy. Franklin and
Marshall Haverford, Columbia. Virginia.
Buckneli The most important dates are
as follows: Harvard. November 10; Cor
nell November %; Cagisle Indians, No
vember II; Chicago, November 8; Column
bia. October 90.
Pennsylvania men are looking forward
with much interest to the appearance OF
the Central and Western High Schools of
Washington in the relay races The work
of the Washington boys in 81 and '9S has
not been forgotten and the men often re
count the story of the Central Schools
overwhelming victories. Mike Murphy
even remembers the individual running Of
the boys and is expecting them 10 do the
same sort of work this year. In the class
with the Washington schools are Central
High of Philadelphia. the University Of
Philadelphia, the Newark. y. j.. High
School. and Montcfair, y. j.. High School.
or these the fastest are Central of Phila-
deIpbia and Montclair. The Quaker
School has much improved since last year
and this race should prove one of the
most exciting and interesting of the day.
Central School of Washington will have
only one man of last years team, w. ID.
Dear, who is also captain of the track
team Dear is the champion schoolnoy
sprinter of the District and fast at the
quarter. The other three boys will proba-
bly, be A. F. Curtiss, II. Williams, and W.
L. Stickney.