Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1900-04-07
PARTISAN FAIR SPORTS.
Elaborate Arrangements Made
For the Athletic Games.
PROGRAMME OF EVENTS GIVEN OUT

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and Amateurs Croquet VIII BE
Played on Sundays - Races Are
Scheduled For Automobiles - Cy-
cling Contests to Continue For a
Week.
Elaborate arrangements for the ath-
letic events of the Paris exposition Of
1900 have been completed by the COM
mission superieure, says the Chicago
Times Herald. Nations will be pitted
against nations. Games popular in one
country will vie for supremacy with
rival sports. Belgium will come to the
| French capital to show the English
ana the French and the Germans how
to play the game of football. France
in turn will try to demonstrate its su-
periority over Belgium in the game Of
hockey. And in foot races, hurdle
jumping and other athletic events the
teams from different nations will exert
! themselves to win honors and prizes
which have been offered by the Paris
| commission.
Beginning with July / the profess
sional tournaments for the worlds
championships will inaugurate the sea-
sons contests. Races will include dis
tances from 100 meters to 1,500, and
the prizes will range from 500 to So.
Two days later will come the big six
| hours run. and with it three legged
races and leapfrog contests. In addi-
ton there will be the long jump, weight
! throwing, the high jump and the 5000
meter run. Applications are due be-
| fore May 81
The amateur races will begin July IS
and continue for four days. Repre-
sentatives of the colleges and clubs of
the nations will compete for the
worlds championship in hurdles, foot
races, steeplechases, high and long
| jumps. pole vaulting, weight throwing,
quot pitching and other events which
| collegians especially have set their
| hearts upon winning Among the in
| teresting events will be the tug of war
and the international team race. 5000
meters, five men to team. For these
events application must be in before
July IA.
| With the month of September, while
the college teams in America are train
! ing for the fall fights on the gridiron,
| teams from foreign countries will be
playing Rugby and association football
on the Bots de Vincennes, in the neigh
borhood of the lake of Dumesnil. On
Sept. 10 the first match will be played
between the French and Swiss teams.
Then the Parisians will be matched in
turn against the Germans and the Bel
gians and finally against the English.
In each case the winning team will re-
ceive an art prize and each individual
souvenir. Applications must be recefv-
| ed by Aug. 10. The Rugby games will
! be played in October, and the applica-
lions are due Sept. 10. Hockey in turn
will attract its share of attention be-
| cause of the nations represented, and
| cricket will call forth the best talent
| from England, France, Holland and
| Belgium. The lawn tennis season will
| begin July 6.
| Bowling. which has become in Amer
| lea and other countries one of the most
! popular among modern games, has
| been arranged to take up the week be-
| ginning Aug. 10. The rules will be the
same as the last tournament of Mar
settles, with a change in the drawing.
| Baseball will be confined to an exhibit
| ton match between two American
| teams. Lacrosse matches will be play
ed July 20 and following days.
| Sunday sports are not to be entirely
| barred from the exposition, but the
| honor of appearing on that day will be
accorded only to the game of croquet.
! The international tournament in this
sport will begin June "a and will be
| played out during the following Sun
! days. There will be a championship
game in singles and one ball by points,
| and prizes will be given in the nature
! of souvenirs This will be one of the
| earliest athletic events, and applica-
tons must be in before May 81.
| Exhaustive rules for the gymnastic
| tournaments have been made. The in
| ternational championship contests will
take place July % and 80 There will
be barred from entrance all persons
| who have protested against decisions
and those not fully IS years old. The
| gross amount of the prizes is estimated
to be 10000 francs. In the exercises
will be fixed bars, the parallel bars, the
rings and vaults and the jumps and the
ropes.
| Unusual interest has been taken in
| the arrangements for the automobile
contests, and France herself is expect
ed to take a conspicuous part in the
| tournaments. The committee of the
Automobile Club of France is in charge
of the contests, and to this club entries
should be addressed. Runs will be
made in the different classes for vary
| ing distances. The automobile touring
carriages will race in the month of
May and cabs and delivery wagons in
the month of June. Contests of speed
| for all vehicles will be held in the
month of July, and the prizes will
range from 5000 to 1000 francs, in all
making a total of $4,000 francs. In Au-
gust doiturettes (small carriages) will