The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1901-04-07
AMONG AMATEUR ATHLETES
Local Interest i'm ''Pennsy's" Annual
Outdoor Relay Carnival.
Probable Entries From This City.
Infantry's Game with AlI-Wash-
inpton Tenm-Corcorans May Play
mt Atlantic City-GOidcn EnEIes.

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Infantry's Game With AII-Wash-
ington Tenm-COrcorans May Play
mt Atlantic City-Goiden Englcs.
| To the Athletic Association of the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania belongs the hon
or or having introduced relay races, that
most delightfully."- interesting and exciting
| form of contests.
First these contests took the form of
| indoor races and became a favorite from
the start, and now wherever they are
! held they are the great drawing card of
| the games Latterly the indoor relay of
| the winter was followed by the outdoor
relay. Gradually the distances for the
mile relay is being increased, and a mile
/ for each eff the quartette is spoken of for
! early introduction at Boston.
The annual outdoor relay carnival at
| Franklin Field. Pennsy's athletic home,
will be held April q. Already some thirty
colleges and sixty schools have entered.
Yale Harvard, Princeton, Pennsylvania,
Cornell, Columbia, and Chicago have en-
tered teams, while Georgetown and Mich
igan are expecting to send teams.
The two-mile race will be especially
exciting. all of the above colleges having
signifed their intention of entering for
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event last year.
Pennsy will have two teams. In the
one-mile relay the big team will have
three of last years team-Cook. Westney.
and Drumheller. The latter is a great
runner, as he proved on the occasion OF
the Georgetown University games. In
addition to these Tewksbury stands ready
for any event calling for speed and en-
durance. There will also be two-mile
relay race in which Stewart of this city
and Alex. Grant viii appear. The rest
Of the team will be selected from among
Bushnell, Standin, Brown, Klaer, Earn
shaw, and Israel.
1t will be especially attractive for the
local school teams, of whom the acknowl-
edged leader in this line of sport is the
Central High School. Emerson Institute
and the Friends Select School are favor
lite institutions of learning which are
growing in influence in the athletic line
daily. All three may be counted on to
send teams anxious to meet such cele-
brated entrants as Marston's, Penning-
ton, Drexel Institute, and Temple College.
ATHLETICS AT Y. ~ c. A.
After quite an extended season of
training the members of the athletic team
of the Young Mems Christian Association
ldhlnE Il rest anu the new WITH IoI
the outdoor meet to be held next month
will not be taken up until next week.
Word has been received here that the
games committee of the Johns Hopkins
Athletic Association has rendered de-
cision favorable to the Y. NJ C. A. of this
city in the controversy over the relay
race held in Baltimore last month, and in
which it was claimed that members of
both teams were guilty of fouling Ply
steal Directors Riderut and Beckett and
the members of the team are very much
pleased over the decision, not only be-
cause the team won the race, but because
it is held blameless and retains its good
name for clean craftsmanship.
After nearly a-month and a half the
final decision in the pole vault event
started at the Baltimore Athletic Club
games has been rendered, and Ravens |
burg, who was tied for honors. last week !
won out, clearing the bar at feet 10
inches. with an lS-inch handicap added
The candidates for places on the base
ball team are taking practice right along |
and selections will be made shortly. The |
work of the candidates is good and the |
indications are that the association will |
have a stronger team than last year.
CoRCoRAN CA0ET CORPS.
Since the Corcoran Cadet Corps defeat |
ed the Light Infantry basketball team /
for the second time last week Manager !
has worn broad smile and |
seems as much pleased as If he had land |
ed the pennant.
Captain Heffner is being complimented |
on all sides upon the splendid work of his
team this season, and especially against
the Infantry team.
The men are in good condition, and
their work is of high order. Their open
iG Xaf a effectiveness
is not approached by any other team In
the league.
1t is suggested as these players under
stand one another so well, and as result
put up such a fast team game, that for
the good of the sport the team be kept
together as 1t is and next season it should
have no trouble in winning the pennant,
which it has so long and earnestly striven
for.
The candidates for the baseball team
will meet Captain Edwards next week
and arrange for putting a team in the
field TO play local teams. The team will
not become member of the District
League.
1t is quite probable that the basketball
-eam will accept the invitation of enc of
he piers at Atlantic City to play a set
If games this summer with the cham
Dions of New Jersey.
LIGHT INFANTRY ATHLETICS.
Arrangements have been completed by
Manager Neumeyer for the basketball
game TO De played DN the W washington |
Light Infantry team and the All-Wash-
ngtons. as announced last week. April
A has been fixed upon as the date and
he Infantry Armory the place for the
contest, which promises to be of unusual
interest.
The Infantry now has a lead for the
League championship and the opposing
cam will be made up Of stars from
.ach OF the other League teams.
The lineup Will be as follows:
Washington Light Infantry Corps: LOTUS or
Burnett, right forward; Devin, left forward
Kendall or TAYLOR, centre; Lyseh Gates right
Jack; Shreeye (capt.). left back.
All Washington: Pearson Brick, OF Cor
'orans right forward; DAILY. Of Potomacs. left
onward; o. ilJgan, Of GibraltsrS centre; Boyd !
# Eastern Athletic. right back; McQuade (captD
4 VI. c. A, left back
The Infantry received its second shock |
his season last week at the hands of the
'orcoran Cadets through whom they have
suffered their only defeats this season
The team put up q strong game in the |
irst half. but lack of practice told on the |
players in the last half and they went to |
pieces and lost The players are natu-
ally sore over their second defeat but |
dive the Corcorans credit for putting up
very fine game.
Lotus and his goal throwing was MISC
d. 1t is question whether the result |
would have been changed by the substi-
ution of any players. although one of the
Members believes that Taylor would have III
trengthened the lineup
1t is proposed by the athletic commit
&c and physical instructors to enter the |