The Washington times., 1904-12-31
PASTINE INDOOR
GAMES TONIGHT
Four Amateur Champion
ships Will Be Decided.
GEORGETOWN MEN ENTERED
Mulligan Scratch in QuarterM Mile, While
Seitz Will Have Seven Yards
in Sixty Yards.

NEW YORK. Dec. 31.-The first of the
big indoor athletic carnivals of the win
ter season will be held at Madison
Square Garden tonight, when the Pas
time Athletic Club gives what is termed
a revival of the Olympic games. In
many respects this meet will be more
than a gathering of local board track
performers, and interest in the games is
therefore greater.
Four of the Amateur Athletic Union
indoor championships viii be decided at
this set of games and the entry of two
OF the greatest of the Western field and
track stars viii give an intersectional
aspect TO the struggle for these honors-
Not in many years has an Eastern in
door meet had the entries OF two such
prominent Western athletes as Ralph
Rose and James D. Llghtbody. who
viii represent the Chicago Athletic AS
soeiation. Both are holders of the
Olympic world championships won in
St. Louis during the past summer and
Rose holds the worlds record for put
ting the 16-poUnd shot Opposed to this
pair of Western cracks VIII be the pick
of the Metropolitan performers. and the
struggle in the 1,o19-yard run and the
24-pound shot put promises to be the
most thrilling and hotIy contested of
the present indoor season.
AHandicap Races.
The handicap events have attracted a
large and representative entry. In the
sixty yard event Frank Rickert, New
York A. c., viii be on scratch and will
concede three yards to l. Robertson
Greater New York I A A. the national
Ie0-yard champion, and ". r. Knaial,
of Columbia University; seven yards to
Charles Seitz. of Georgetown Univer-
sity, and larger handicaps 10 other sprin-
Iers. The scratch man IN che 40 viii
be J. V. Mulhgan. the crack quarter
miller of Georgetown University H
Shristoffers, St George A c. viii be
given five yards; w. E. Finley, of the
New York A. c.. win have the twelve
yard mark; ]. Z. O'Connor,= Era SINUS
Hall High School. and N. J. Cregan
will receive twenty-three and twenty
four yards respectively. Charles Bacon,
the metropolitan half mile champion,
viii receive eight yards in the SS0-yard
run. from Christoffers, St. George a. c.,
who VIII toe the scratch. Paul Pilgrim,
New York A. c., viii receive ten yards.
In the two-mile event James ID. Light
body. Chicago A c.. winner OF the three
distance events at the Olympic games;
will occupy the honor mark and viii
give. Twenty-Five yards to 4. r Carr,
Xavier A. A.. seventy-five yards to
A; 130 yards to NJ Spring, PaStime a.
c.: 10 yards TO Mellor. Mohawk A. c.,
and larger handicapS to others. Alan
Won Sehrader, of Georgetown Prepare
tory School American InterseholaStc
champion, and Lot1s Mang, of the Mo-
hawk a. c.. have been given enc loot
each in the pole vault s s. Jones New
York A c.. American and Olympic
champion, will coneede hberal hanql-
caps to several good Jumpers, OF the
metropolitan district in the high jump.
Championship Events.
A thoroughly representative list OF
athletes viii compete in the four cham
pionship events. The most prominent ii
the so yards VIII be L. Robertson. Great
er N Y A A: Frenk Rickert and P j
Callahan, New York i. C. sprinters
william r. knakal, OF Columbia
Charles Seitz, of Georgetown University
and George Hail. Greater New Yorl
Irish A A In the 1,0o0-yard run James
D. Lightbody, Chicago A A, winner OF
the 3e0-meter. 1,g,Fg-meter, and 2,5e0-metel
steeplechase Olympic championships al
the Worlds Far; z. P. Carr, Haviel
a. A.; c. Bacon, half-nile metropolitan
champion; r. L. Sanford, Y NJ c. a
haf-miIe indoor champion; Paul Pill
grim, New York A c.; +. A. Rodgers
Mott Haven a. c.; II. Christoffers, and
others of lesser note will face tht
starter.
The weight events, throwing the 80
pound for height and putting the a
pound shot, have attracted the entries
OF ]. S. Mitchell, New YorkA- C, holder
of the record of ID feet 6sz inches. TO
throwing the SO for height; Richart
Sheldon. former American and English
t-putting champion: NJ. J. Sheridan
present shot-putting champion and hold
er of the worlds record of 135 feet 81
inches for throwing the discus; L. e
Feuerbach New York a. G.. Canadian
champion; II. Ccreil. New West Side a
C, and many others
Tup-of-War.
The international tug-of-war has ais
drawn unexpectedly well Teams vii
compete wearing the national colors 0
Norway, Ireland. Russia, England, Swe
den, and America. The dve-man team
have been selected. and entered from
the various fraternai orders and asso
Citations of their respective countries an
WIFI be well backed by their countrymel
when they appear. These contests ar
growing in favor, and are likely 10 b
a regular event at indoor athletic meets
The teams in the contest tonight will b
made up of six men and an anchor eacf
and the competition will be pulled O
cleats of wood at least four incbe
thick, six inches high, and twenty-tY
inches long, and at least six feet 81
s1ches apart