Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-02-23
GEORGETOWN'S BIG MEET.
Indications Point to Successfui
Gathering Next Saturday Night.

Gathering Next Saturday Night.
E,verythingsis progressing smoothly in the
matter of fixing aun the details OF George
towns great athletic meet next SATURDAY
night at Convention Hall The diherehl
committees are working energeucaHy 10
ward making the different detais rouhd up
smoothly and If indications count LOT any
thing the big hall will be packed 10 the
doors Many students and followers CT
athletes from outside cities intending 10
take in the inauguration ceremonies VIII
come here few days ahead to witness 'he
games, and the chances are that inns clds'
of patrons will number up in the thousands
The reserve seats now on sale are pelhs as
posed of rapidly, many being engaged ny
out side people.
There is not an embarrassing event on the
program but instead a majority are what
can be called features in the athletic world.
The regimental race has attracted collsld.
cradle notice, as there Will be thousanaS on
soldiers in this city by Saturday night. me
latest entry for this contest is Company b,
9th Regiment, Pennsylvania Volunteers
This team halls from Wilkesbarre and Is
said to be good one There are I'VE iesi-
mental teams now entered Tor inns race
In the Ss0-yard handicap, MaXey Long
will be on scratch he will have big held
to cut down; but if he shows the form ne
ran in last Saturday at the Boston 4>>hletic
Association games he mas very sooo
chance of breaking the world record
The fifty-yard dash will bring together a
larger number of noted athletes than mas
been represented at any indoor meet TINS
year. A. Kent of the Pastme Athietlc
Club, who is credited with thirtyyard in
door record Washington Deigado, VINO
sprang into prominence by defeating Duffy
| at the Knickerbocker Athletic CLUB games.
and T. w. Tewkesbury, eX-CnlVersity nl
PENNSYLVANIA man, who is now running In
that form which made him the lntercolle-
giate champion in the sprlnts Tor Two years,
will start. Georgetown Will De well repre-
scented by A Duffy, E. Minnahan and w.
In1In md Inf Hr "
dash at Boston Saturday. showed he Is
again in championship form, While Mlnna-
han and Holland, from their running on the
Georgetown indoor track, are expected to
do fast work. With this field a new world s
record should be made for this event.
Another interesting event is the race be-
tween Emerson Institute School, Frlends
Select School and the Boys Latin School of
Baltimore
The high jump will bring those two cham.
pions together who, in the spring games OF
the Y. NJ. c. A, last year. afforded the
people of Washington such an interesting
event Baxter, the ex-University of Penn
| sylvania man, was for two years the inter-
collegiate champion, and Jones last year
won the same title.
The two-mile special which was the most
exciting race of the indoor meet of last
year. will bring together the two Grant
brothers (Alex and Dick) and kanaly. who
ran such splendid and remarkable race al
| the Boston Athletic Association games last
Saturday. lr fr
The relay race between the high schools.
which has always proved one OF the most
interesting and exciting events OF the
Georgetown meet, promises to be even more
exciting than usual, as the teams mare
never been so evenly -patched.
Golfer Balls Lucky Escape.
According to letters received by Herbert
J. Tweedie, prominent New York golfer,
John Ball, I. former amateur golf cham
pion of Great Britain has had fortunate
escape from death III South AFRICA me
news comes to Tweedie through friends III
England who write that Ball, after long
siege of Sickness Joined his command in the
Imperial Yeomanry at kroonstadt, ana IN
a skirmish with the enemy on January Il
was struck in the neck by a rifle bullet.
Physicians attended the wounded man. but
found the bullet must have been spent
one, for 1t made only "a slight wound In a
vital spot. The escape seems all the more
fortunate when it is remembered that an
other English golf champion, Freddie
TAFT, was killed at Paardeburg in almost
the same way while leading charge
against the BOer riflemen. When Captain
Ball went to South Africa and relinquishei
his title of champion-Harold Hilton won it
he was presented with black charger
by the golfers of Liverpool. That he had
"close shave" Is gathered from the text
of Tweedie's letter When struck by the
bullet Captain Ball was hurled from his
horse by the shock. The latter, however,
is uninjured. and will undoubtedly return
with his master.
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