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sent them upon the track Dugan. who
plays short upon the Technical base ball
team and who does that well, is one of the
best shot-putters in the high schools of the
city. In the meet held by the Episcopal
High School, when he won the shot put
with such ease. Technical was ready to
back him thereafter against the field. Cook
of Central is also a fine Splinter, and In his
running reminds one very much of Nathan
Cartmell, the runner who formerly repre-
scented the Manual Training High School OF
Louisville, and later was upon the track
teams which represented the University OF
Pennsylvania so well at several meets OF
national Importance. Byrne of Technical
High School is a fine runner. and it will be
remembered that he won the half-miie
event at the Episcopal meet last week in
EOS 3-5. This is good work. The work In
all branches of athletics in going on in all
of the high schools of the city, and many
believe that the day is not far distant that
the athletes of these schools will have to be
reckoned with more closely in the large re-
lays of the country than they are now, for
the material which is constantly showing
UP at the schools shows evidence of fine
future for their representation.
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the past two years The Episcopal High
School has sent teams to these meets which
have won numerous trophies. Last spring
the school sent its team to the Jacob Tome
meet, where the men won number of
prizes and took a high place for team
work. Last winter the track team did
creditably at indoor meets in Washington.
Greater things are expected of the high
school athletic representatives in track ath-
letics in the near future. 1t is believed that
the good work already done and the patient,
painstaking training of the coaches will re-
suit in high degree of efficiency, both in
individual and team accomplishments. Much
of the credit for what has already been
done is due TO the untiring efforts of Mr..
Remington, who was a star on the Pennsyl-
vania team, and Mr.. r. M Fontaine, for
merly member of the track team of the
University of Virginia, and now an in
structor at the high school.
Base ball has been played at the Episcopal
High School ever since. the civil war There
is picture at the school of the team of
1867. and from 1872 there are records of the
teams and games Many players of wide
reputation have had training at the school,
among them being the four Greenway
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aggregate more than a hundred games,
winning about rs per cent.
For the last ten years foot ball has been,
If anything, more popular than base ball.
The team last season won two games, tied
one and lost three. The preceding year the
team won six and lost only one. Randolph
and Crawford of Virginia this year, Waters
of Virginia and Waters of Lehigh are all
alumni Of this school, One of the prin-
ciIal reasons for the success of the foot
ball teams has been the excellent coaching
, OF Mr.. A. r Hoxton. for two years a
player and two years coach of both base
ball and foot ball teams at the University
of Virginia.
The Episcopal High School deserves credit
for taking a firm stand against the GUS
tom of playing instructors on the athletic
teams. All base ball and foot ball teams,
as well as all other athletic teams of the
school, are composed exclusively of stu
dents. A firm adherence to this rule has
proved considerable handicap to the high
school in contests with teams of other in
situations where the playing of teachers is
still countenanced, but it is hoped that the
high schools and academies of Virginia will
soon be unanimous in condemnation of this
practice.
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An old Washington man who officiated
at the birth of the National Base Ball Club,
having been one of the original members,
talking to a representative of The Star con-
corning the momentous event, said: 1T
was about a couple of years before the be-
ginning of the civil war that a few young
sters. principally men who in one capacity
or other were employees of the United
States Senate. met together and made up
their minds that Washington ought to have
a base ball club. Several other cities in the
country were playing ball and already
their prowess as athletes and ball tossers
was attracting attention There were sew
ernl informal talks on the subject. The
BOYS got together in various places and dis
cussed base ball. The Senate was not in
session at the time and more than one
meeting was held in the famous marble
room. At last one day an organization
was accomplished.
Some one, think II was \. P. German,
wrote to Newark, n. j., where there was Il
good club in existence, and obtained little
book giving the rules for playing ball.
Among the organizers, some of whom are
living yet. were Mr.. German, who was
president of the club: a secretary, but who
he was 1 have forgotten; others were Alex
ander Dodge of Indiana, who was at tn 1t
time one of the assistant doorkeepers of
the Senate, and a. III. Raglan. another door
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jumping. The relay team composed of DAN
iel. Cough, Latane and Marbury. who ran
brilliantly in the recent meet, is one Of the
best in the state.
The Episcopal High School has always
been leader in athletics among secondary
schools, not only in Virginia. but in the
neighboring southern states. The distinc-
ton of being the first among the schools
and colleges of the south to permanently
establish track athletics. if not base ball
and foot ball, is confidently claimed by the
students and friends of the school. The
principal, DR.. l.. NJ. Blackford, borrowed
the idea of the field day from the large
schools of Great Britain, and since 1876
athletic day has been an annual event of
great Importance in the Virginia school.
The desire of the students of the high
school to lead the schools of the state in
another branch of athletics-the field and
track contests-which has but recently
found it's way in the south, is developing
in the plans for holding annual interscho-
lastic meets The field for this work has been
opened to a limited extent by the Univer-
sity of Virginia. but the meets there have
been confined to one class of competitors
and to the high school of the state. In
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THE SPRINT|
Big Yachts to Sail Across Atlantic for Eperor's Cup.
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all kinds of opposition to develop. and some
of the members freely stated that when the
offer from the emperor was presented form
ally that a big kick would be made TO its
being accepted by the New York Yacht
Club II the Atlantic Yacht Club was to
have anything to do with the holding OF
the race.
This information got to the ears of the
emperor and as 1t placed him In the posi-
ton of possibly having his offer turned
, down by the largest yacht club in America,
and as things were In such an unsettled
condition incident to the quarreling that
had been going on among the members OF
| the New York Yacht Club he decided to
withdraw his offer and wait for another
year before making the offer again, as his
| illness had interfered with his plans to a
great extent
Last summer party from the New
New York Yacht Club were at the Kiel re-
gatta and the race talked OF again by
the emperor. Allison Armour and c. l.. f.
Robinson of the New York Yacht Club
were present and suggested that the
easiest way out of the difficulty was
to give the cup to the Kaiserlicher
Yacht Club and have committee
on this side of the ocean look after the de-
tails of the race and then all American
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Motor Cycling
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1.-THE advantages and pleasures of motor
cycling are just beginning to be realized by
the great number of former wheel enthu-
siasts, who. having become somewhat tired
of the pedaling sport, have been looking
around for some new and exhilarating ex-
ercise,' said well-known local wheelman
today. ITO man who has never ridden a
motor, the first ride on one of the power
machines is an experience which kindles
the same enthusiasm which was formerly
experienced by the bicyclist in his first ride
on wheel
This Is true. too. of the old rider. for the
excitement and pleasure of driving motor
is much greater than that of bicycling
as that sport was more exhilarating than
walking or driving horse.
This cannot be explained in any other
way than that the sport is new. and gives
the rider much more speed than the foot
power machines. and SO go skimming along
the roads up hill and down.
He feels the same thrill that an engineer
experiences when by twist of the wrist he
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those represented In the contests this month.
With the representation from the leading
high schools of the District of Columbia
and Maryland the attendance will doubtless
be much larger than that of the first meet,
and the interest In the contests will
be proportionately greater.
Under the training of Mr.. w. P. Reming-
ton of the Theological Seminary, formerly
a member of the University of Pennsylva-
MIA track team. the capabilities of the high
school team have developed to a gratifying
degree. Among the men whose work has
shown up remarkably well are Latane, who
is a speedy 10O-yard runner; kearney, VINO
has a good record In the high hurdle events:
Marbury. who won close second in the
quarter-mile run at the high school meet
the 18th. and whose spectacular work as the
winner for his team in the relay race proved
a feature of the day; Kearney, who runs
well in the 220-yard races; Ansley, speedy
1O0-yard man; Wood. mile runner; Pen
dleton, who runs in the quarter-mile races
and Jones, who has good record for broad
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HIGH SCHOOL SPORTS

The high schools of Washington are doing
a great work toward the development of the
future crack college athletes who are to
lower the records in the relays and demon
strate their superiority upon the gridiron
and the base ball field. In the schools of
this city are to be found many boys who,
sooner or later. will be making the attempt
TO land upon the varsity team in base ball
and foot ball in the larger colleges Kohler
Of Technical High School is an excellent
pitcher, and his work in the game with
Business on Friday of this week showed he
was ~iirst-rate twirler for in this contest
he struck out eighteen men. He reminds
one greatly of Ralph Byram of Princeton.
who caused sixteen of the heavy hitters of
Georgetown University to fan out in one of
the contests played here between the Tig-
ers and the blue and gray earlier in the
season. If Kohler goes to college after he
graduates from Technical he would have
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sends his locomotive along at lightning
speed, and the control of his machine is SO
simple that he readily understands why it
skins along easily.
with a motor cycle a person can travel
further and faster than on the other We
hicles of conveyance. The horse carriages
require larger and better track, and
while 1t is reliable method of travel, must
yield to the motor when the question of
speed and distance are at stake
The motor cycle has the advantage over
other automobiles that a narrow strip of
road suffices for the former. The motor is
easily Kept in order, and can cover the ter
ritory that an automobile could not ap-
proach. 1t can maintain a speed from ten
to twenty miles an hour all day. and the
amount OF distance that one of the better
class motors can accomplish is remarka BILE
when viewed in comparison with the tray-
cling capability of pedal machine"
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A great impetus has been given to high
school athletic contests in Virginia, especial
" track and field events, by the prominent
work recently done in that line by the Epis-
copal High School of Virginia. situated near
Alexandria. The first interscholastic track
meet held at the high school Saturday. May
Z, mas resulted in wholesome stimulation
of interest in high grade athletics in the
leading schools and academies of the Old
Dominion. The marked success which at
tended this event has, perhaps, done more
than any other single occurrence to direct
renewed attention to field and track contests
among the Virginia institutions and to in
sure notable advance in work in this line
In the near future.
The plans of the school to make the May
meet an annual affair which will take first
rank among such events in the south have
been confirmed by the encourage cement of the
initial success. 1t is expected that the meet
next year will bring together the athletes
OF many schools of Virginia In addition to
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were no Enclosure and no one charged for
admission to the field.
1.-THE first ground used by the Nationals
was a common due east of the Capitol, and
later the victories and defeats were met on
another lot situated upon this side OF the
place where General Mcclellan reviewed the
Army of the Potomac In the early part of
the war. The club from the time 1t began
playing ball began to increase numerically,
and was soon able to assert itself as among
the leading clubs Of the day and kept IN
line with their athletic brothers in the lead
ing cities. After awhile they began play
ing on the White Lot. Then they had
uniform of blue flannel, a blue cap with
straight visor. and could also boast a nag
name The bats Of that day were of vari-
Gus woods. The players had them made
by a woodturner in this city to suit their
individual tastes; some were made OF will
of the members had a magnificent bat made
Of hickory wood. I would give a $1O Dill to-
day. said the old player, If l could have
that hickory wood bat
when we were playing on the White Lot
it was no uncommon thing for President
Lincoln to stroll down to the grounds and
watch the players. On one occasion he
came down to the lot accompanied by
gentleman who had with him new rine,
and he was anxious that the President
should witness tests of its abilities as
firearm. thick piece Of wood was selected
as a target, and the shooting was not 1or
away from where we were playing. :e-
member the incident from the fact that Ned
Iiibbs. one of our players, when the game
was over, went to the thick target and
cut out several of the rifle balls, intending
to keep them as souvenirs l have one Of
them now among my collection of curios.
This further reminds me that several CT
the old National men stopped playing base
ball soon after the war opened and began
lodging cannon balls. Some of them went
south, others of them fought for the Union
and some of them never saw their homes
again.
There were two other Washington clubs
that achieved a good reputation about the
time when the old original Nationals were
playing ball These were the Jeffersons and
the Potomacs. Some of the players 0IS-
played much ability and later joined other
clubs here and elsewhere"
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Special Dispatch to The Star.
NEW YORK, May 13.-If there be no
hitch in the arrangements Of the commit
tee, the International yacht race. the prize
for winning which is cup given by the
German emperor, will be started from
Sandy Hook lightship Tuesday afternoon at
2:15 o'clock. The race will end when the
winning yacht passes the Lizaro' the
southernmost point of England
A preparatory gun will be fired at
o'clock from the deck Of tug flying the
burgee of the Imperial Yacht Club OF Ger
many. under whose direction the race Will
be sailed off Sandy Hook. Ten minutes
later the BLUE Peter will be lowered ana
a red ball ho,sted, and at 2:15 another gun
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very little trouble in making the varsity
team of that college.
Then there is Camalier, the first baseman
or BUSINESS High School, who is a rafting
good player. He IS one of those valuable
men TO have on team who gets to first
one way or another. If the pitcher is
shooting them over like chain lightning he
generally waits and gets pass on four bad
ones, or, perchance. a good one will come
over and then he swats 1t good and hard
He is good runner OF the bases and once
safely arrived at first will be source of
constant worry to the pitcher who is try
Ing to keep tie record of stolen bases down
TO the lowest possible notch.
X
Lewis. who plays third base for Business
High School, is a good hitter and when once
on the bases will steal both second and
third If he is not closely watched. Oyster,
the captain and pitcher of Eastern High
School. is a good batter and base runner at
all times. While not in the box he generally
plays second base and can always be de-
pended upon to put up a good game of bali
for his team. He is good on stick work and
can usually get hit when one is needed by
his side.
Linthicum is another good pitcher who is
on the slab for Eastern High School when
oyster is net in the box. He has a good
wide curve and splendid drop, but in the
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some of the best high school PLAYERS upon
it. In the game which Central played Bust
ness on May the boys representing Bust
ness went down in defeat by a score of
6 to l. In this contest Central had Nc
Cathran in the box and he managed to
hold Business down to two hits, one being
a two-bagger by Bowles and the other a
scratch by Stuckett, the left fielder Nc
Cathan Is a good pitcher, who can always
be depended upon to be steady at all times,
even though the contest may be going
against his side.
X
Mcdonald. who plays first base for Gen.
trail High School, is star both in fielding
and at the bat. and for this reason is one
of the main supports of the team. Cum
ming ham. at shortstop. is all right, and the
way he handles liners which come his way
seems to remind one of the days when
Hughey Jennings was giving base ball fam
dom its first electric shock by his marvellous
way of scooplng EN- up at critical mo-
ments of the game. Then the track teams
of the schools are coming forward and par
ticipating in some of the relays. In the
great contests of the University of Pennsyl-
vania which were held upon Franklin Field
in Philadelphia on April % the Washington
high schools were well represented. Yester-
day the schools sent a delegation to the
Jacob Tome Institute spring meet at Port
Deposit, Nd, and the showing made was
d
exceptionally fine track team this year. and
the school believes that each runner who
carries her colors will make his mark in
the athletic world at no distant date.
In the meet which was held by the Epis-
copal High School at Alexandria, Va. Cen
trail made her mark. and in the contests
with the Tome Institute she went into them
with all kinds of confidence as to the result
In these contests nearly one hundred
schools were sent invitations to compete,
and sixty-two accepted and sent entries
and the meet was one of the biggest inter-
scholastic events of the year Kent of Cen
trail High School, who is the captain of the
team, and who won the championship cup
at the meet of the Episcopal High School
at Alexandria, can always be looked for
ward to do good work at all times. All the
high schools of this city have many good
men for the track, with the possible excep-
ton of Business, who while they have a
base ball team which is up to the average
the school generally presents, have no ath-
letes who they believe could properly repre-
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recent game when Eastern was defeated
by Western at University Field by a score of
IA to Z, he did not receive the support that
Western gave their twirler, Lynch Linthi-
cum has all kinds of speed and H. Richard
son, who was behind the bat for Eastern
seemed as though he could not handle the
pitchers delivery at ALL and in fact dropped
the ball several times on the third strike
Llnthlcum has as yet never played upon any
OF the church league teams. but 1t is more
than possible that he will be found In a
short time twirling for the Fourth Presbv-
terrain team, the champions of last year.
Morse of Western High School is one of
the best players to be found upon the high
school diamonds of the city. He is a fine
hitter. and during the contest with East
ern swatted the ball for four safe bingles.
Morse is also one of the best foot ball play
ers upon the high school teams of the city
and his fine run last year during the game
with Eastern, when he saved the day for
Western. will be long remembered by those
who witnessed the contest.
Church, who catches for Western Is also
fine player and good batsman He has
good throwing arm, and woe to the run
ner who attempts to steal a base when a
quick throw will retire him. Then there
Is the team representing Central High
School upon the base ball field, which has
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tic Yacht Club was the first to have the
idea of a race across the Atlantic occur to
him. 1t was suggested at a dinner given
at the club in 1903. The Atlantic Yacht
Club had given several races over ocean
courses varying in length from 30 to 500
miles, and as these had been highly sue
cessful Commander Tod made the sugges-
ton at dinner where many of the leading
yachtsmen of the country were gathered.
They all agreed that the idea capital
one and that they would enter yachts in
the race If one could be arranged. After
time Sir Thomas Upton, the Irish knight,
who has done so much to increase interest
in the yachting game during the past few
years was guest of Commander Tod at
small dinner party, and near the close of
the evening the idea was suggested to Sir
Thomas.
After time he said that he would be
willing to offer a trophy in the shape of
$500 challenge cup, but afterward agreed
to offer a 5000 cup. Others came forward
and the race became an assured thing.
After the races for the Americas cup had
been sailed the New York Yacht Club were
enter tanning the visitors at large reception.
which included among its guests Lord Ions
dale and Sir Thomas Upton. Lord Ions
dale was told of the status OF the arrange
ments for the race, and being a close
friend of Emperor William he Immediately
announced that he would attempt to have
the emperor enter the Meteor and to pro-
cure the entry of other yachts representing
people of the German empire. Lord Ions
dale instead of asking Emperor William to
do as he had suggested to the persons as
sembled a the New York Yacht Club ca
bled to the emperor, suggesting that he
offer cup for a great transatlantic yacht
race, and got a reply from the German
monarch stating that he would offer a
cup to the New York Yacht Club and made
the suggestion that committee of the
leading commodores of the American. Eng
fish, German and Austrian clubs take
charge of the race, and that it be made as
international as possible.
AS Sir Thomas Upton had been the first
to offer cup, there was hitch in the ar
rangements. and it became necessary to
procure the withdrawal of the offer made
by Sir Thomas before the offer of the Ger
man emperor could be accepted. Sir Thomas
promptly acoeded to the request and the
Atlantic Yacht Club, at whose house the
prize had been offered further complicated
matters by refusing absolutely to accede to
the request If they were not allowed to
share the project of the emperor with the
New York Yacht Club, and things looked
merry for two yacht races for awhile, but
after a time the older members of the club
came to the opinion that two races across
the Atlantic in one year would be ruinous to
the sport.
1t was finally agreed among the powers
In control of Yacht cluhS that hotl,
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1t was finally agreed among the powers
In control of the yacht clubs that both
would be allowed to participate, and when
the agreement was placed before the men,
bers of the New York Yacht Club there was