New-York tribune., 1900-05-25
ATHLETICS.
A F. DUFFY. THE sPRINTER. DISQUALIFIED
BY INTERCOLLEGIATE ASSOCIATION.

If A. F. Duffy, of Georgetown University COM
petes at the intercollegiate championships at
Columbia Field to-day and tomorrow he will do
under protest 1t is the general opinion among
the college athletic authorities congregated in
this city that Mr.. Duffy will not be allowed to COM
pete at all. Duffy is the most remarkable sprinter
in this country to-day. and while he Will be missed
from the sprnts, his absence will make the dashes
the interesting and uncertain. even II no rec
ords broken.
A meettng Of the Executive Committee of the
intercollegiate Athletic Association was held at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel last night Duffy was dis
qualified officially by the committee on evidence
is said presented by Princeton. The Georgetown
representatives took exception to the ruling, ana
appealed last night the Faculty Committee as
follows: Professors Pepper. of pennsylvania
Richards, of Yale; Fine, of Princeton; .HollS OF OF
abis to compete under protest if the Faculty Com
mittee does not render decision IN time +, -.
follows No one shall represent any college col. os3 or
university ora at the yst seeond or third
pace in any open field or track contest until he
@ h m have
annual examination In fui year W4ea of the
association gave dinner last night to William IN b.
Curtis Th9 has s s pre silver loving
cup, President Mason making the presentation
INTERCOLLEGIATE TRACK ASSOCIATION.
The twenty-ffth annual games of the Inter
this afternoon and tomorrow, at Columbia Field
formerly Manhattan Field, which has been put
in yelnigh perfect condition for the dashes. the
longer distance runs and for the field contests
The games this year will possess unusual interest
for partisans of field athletics generally, and eS-
pecially for college men. for the reason that the
struggle for leading places is unusually close For
the last two seasons the University of Pennsylvania
has been readily conceded before the games to be
practically of first place, but this year, while
the Quakers will stand good chance of coming
at the top of the heap. they are nothing like
winners by any means-Harvard, Yale and
Princeton all expressing fairly confident hopes, and
Princeton being especially sanguine of landing for
the first time in her history, in hrst place at the
intercollegiate games. An estimate given this week
in the Yale News which is the daily organ of the
winner of first place, Yale second. Harvard third
and Princeton fourth. Men, however, who have fol-
lowed closely the records made this season by the
athletes, believe that Princeton will make strong
bid for the first place and will probably land any
way in second place.
The preliminary heats of the leading contests will
be held this afternoon, and the final struggles to-
morrow. large turnout is expected. and there will
be cheering delegations from the various colleges
w. w. Long is Columbia S main reliance for point
winning in the intercollegiate championships. He
holds the intercollegiate record for the quarter and
is expected to capture that contest for the local
university. He may be placed In the 220-yard
also. Columbia has entered a number of other
men, but the probabilities that only the fol-
Lowing will represent her: II. S. Johnson, in the
220-yard dash w. H. Powers, in the hurdles; o. NJ
Bishop, in the SS0-yard race; G. Wells, in the ham,
mer and ]. b. Smith. jr. in the pole vault. While
some of them will probably qualify for to-morrow's
final heats, it is generally believed that they
will net Columbia more than three or four points.