The Washington times., 1902-01-26
Manager Thompson IS In
teresting Leading COL
lege Athletes.
PRINCETON'S RELAY TEAM.
Yale, Harvard, Pennsylvania,
Columbia, and Others
Will Be Here.
DUFFEY WILL RUN IN THE SPRINTS.
Local and Out-of-Town Prep schools
at Convention HHlI-A1ex Grant
and Orton VIII BE Seen Among the
Distance Runners.


Distance Runners.
Entries for the Georgetown University
indoor meet continue to pour in, and
everything points to the most successful
athletic carnival ever held south of New
York.
Graduate Manager Thompson and Man
ager Ryan are working hard arranging
all the details and have a large corps of
fellow students assisting them. Man
ager Thompson left the early part of the
week for trip through the North in the
interest of the coming games, and it is
TO be hoped that he will be able TO lnfu
ence the colleges which he intends to visit
10 have representatives here on Febru-
airy %.
He will go to Pennsylvania University,
Princeton. Yale, Columbia, Brown, Holy
Cross, Boston College, Cornell, Harvard,
etc. He expects also to call on the di-
rectors of the athletic clubs in the yar-
Gus cities and endeayor to persuade them
to send men down. On his return he
will stop of at Baltimore to see the man
ager of the Johns Hopkins University.
Altogether the Geoi getown anagement
expects to have at least 500 entries in
the different events.
Princcton's Relay Team.
Princeton has notified the Management
that it expects TO send down relay
team, ana Mr.. Thompson will do every
III
team also; if he is successful in this,
the public will be given a treat in the
form of a race between these two famous
university teams. This race, along with
Cornell VS.. Columbia, Georgetown VS..
Pennsylvania, and Johns Hopkins against
some fast team. will alone be worth the
price Of admission
The relay race is not the only event on
the programme wlick will cause the
greatest enthusiasm. The ffty-yard col
ieglaJe event will bring together the fast
est men N the collegiate world, and il
promises to be a record breaker, not only
in the number OF entries, but al-o in time.
Georgetown will enter three or four very
fast rEen in this event, including Arthur
Duffey. Billy" Holland, Charlie Sietz,
etc. All these men are now running in
record time and are fit to run tonight if
the occasion required. These men, along
with the relay team, will start in the B.
a. A. games which take place in Boston
on the sth proximo. Duffey will endeavoT
TO break the indoor record for the fifty
yards and all those who have seen him
run since his return think he will accom-
plish his purpose.
Preps school Teams.
All of the preparatory schools of Wash
ington are Waking advantage of the gen
erosity of the Georgetown management
in allowing them TO use the indoor track
and every afternoon from 2 until $3.50
o'clock the track is turned over to the
interscholastic aspirants Each school
has large number in training, and the
events between these youngsters should
prove most exciting.
The out-of-town ''preps" are still send
ing in entries. Most of the men entered
thus far are from New York.
The potato race for the championship
of the world will be another of the in
teresting events of the evening. Last
year Lucas, of Boston, won the event in
record time. Since then, however, he
was defeated by Arnold, New York run
ner, at the championship games held in
Buffalo.
AS Lucas is desirous of recapturing
and Arnold most anxious to retain his
hard earned laurels, the race will in all
probability, be another record-breaker
This event is mos; interesting from the
spectators point of view. which is one of
the reasons why the event is added to the
programme in all the large meets.
Grant the Crack Runner
the mile race will bring together the
fastest men in the country, including
the local runners and the Cornell cracks,
among whom are Young, who is Wash
ington boy; Grant, OF Pennsylvania; /;
Stuart of the same institution. who is
also an old Central High School boy, and
Others equally well known. Young
Orton, a brother of the famous runner,
is now attending Pennsylvania, and is
expected 10 take part in the long dis
taEee runs. This young man, it pre-
dicted by these who have seen him in
form, will surpass his famous brother,
1t Is hoped that the Georgetown manage
ment will succeed in having these men
start In the same race.
Jones and Baxter High Jumpers.
Among the high jumpers will be seen
the intercollegiate cracks. Last year it
was battle royal between Jones, OF
New York University, and Baxter. of
Pennsylvania. 1t is likely that these
men Will have another duel between
good.
The 5i0-yard dash will prove big fea-
ture of the evenings sport. Holland and
Rieley alone could furnish great race,
but besides these others from other col
leges will Journey to Washington in or
der to prove that Holland has not a mo-
nopoly on this distance. Ii will take a
very fast man TO defeat him, however.
He has only been defeated once during
the past year, and that was when Ma
loney, of Chicago, took his measure at
Buffalo last summer.
Gcorgetown's Relay Team.
The Georgetown relay team, which will
race the Holy Cross College team In Bos-
ton will probably be chosen from the fol-
lowing men: Holland, Rieley, C. Sietz,
Owens. Murphy. p Edmonson. All these
men are in fine condition and will make IL
very interesting for their opponents The
reason the Boston management pitted
these teams against one another is on &C
count Of the rivalry between the two col
leges, and as both institutions have a very
large following in and around Boston. II
Will probably be one of the biggest events
of the meet. The Georgetown men are all
running the distance in fast time: IL is
said that the four runners have equaled
the record in some Of their recent trials
on the indoor track in the university
building.
Duney in the Sprint Events.
Dufey is to start in the hfty-yard dash
at the Knickerbocker games February 3,
and expects to at least equal his record.