The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-01-27
ATHLETES WORKING HARD
Local Students Preparing for the
Georgetown Meet.
Fast sprinters and Middle Distance
Runners TO Rnce in Washington,
versities to BE Represented - In
terest in the Class Contests.

A large number of entries from promi-
| nent athletes of the East have been re-
ceived by Messrs. Thompson and Barry,
who have general charge of the George
town University indoor meet WHICH will
take place in Convention Hall Saturday
evening. March 2. From all present in
dications, the meet will be greater sue
cess than the one held last year, both
In the point of numbers of the contestants
and the nigh quality of the sport The
fact that the meet occurs but two days
before inauguration is assurance enough
OF a large attendance.
Among the fast men who expect to
compete. and who have already forwarded
their entries, are Msxey Long the cham
pion quarter mile sprinter. Long is con-
sidered easily the best sprinter In the
country at his favorite distance. 40 yards.
He holds the world record for that dis
lance. Georgetown rooters have plenty
of confidence in Holland, whose p. form
ance in the international games last year
at Stamford Bridge and at the Paris Ex-
position stamped him as first-class run
ner. He has been beaten several times
on the cinder path by Long. but is ex-
pected to make a much better showing
against the redoubtable Maxey on the
board track. 1t is likely that the indoor
record will go If the two start in the
same race.
Long has also entered the sO-yard dash,
where ne will have the most dangerous
kind of an opponent in Duffy, of George
town. Captain Duffy has apparently en-
tirely recovered from the strained lga-
ment that brought MIN unexpected defeat
in the 10G-yard dash at the Paris ExposiE
tion games last summer. and Is in splen-
did condition. An event which promises
to bring together fast field Is the spe-
cial half-mile run. Among those entered
for it are Hall, captain OF the Brown
University track team, who at Paris last
summer broke the world record for the
SCO-metre. kiely, of Boston College, a
speedy middle distance runner. is entered
also, as is Moynihan, the captain of the
Holy Cross College track team.
W. E. Edwards, OF the Knickerbocker
Athletic Club of New York, is veteran
Splinter, who has given Long several hard
brushes for victory at various distances.
His entry for the sprints has beA re-
ceiyed. Theodore McGirr is an old George
town man and is entered in the mile run
Inc Tefdy races Tor cOllege teams prom
Use to be we'll contested events. Cornell
has promised to send a quartette of fast
quarter milers to represent her, and
Coach Foley may put team on the track
to oppose the lthacans. In the event of
Georgetown's entering a relay team race
will be arranged between Columbia and
Cornell
The class relay race between the four
classes of Georgetown University is ex-
citing the keenest interest among the stu
dents at that institution. Each class has
a relay team in training and each is re-
solved to score a victory.
Coach Foley Of Georgetown has likely
bunch of candidates under his direction
and expects 70 develop some sure point
winners from the new material. some of
which is very promising. Foley said a
day or so ago that Holland was showing
the best form he had yet displayed at the
present time and is looked TO run an ex-
ceptionally fast quarter at the indoor
meet. Minnahan. who made such a mete-
oric jump into prominence about a year
ago. and who established a great reputa-
ton by his fast work al the Paris EXPOSE |
ton games Is in first-elass condition and
will be a favorite in the sixty-yard dash. |
Riley, who Is better known as a football
player than as track athlete, Is rat
Ting good quarter miller and will be one
of the relay team.