The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1905-01-22


San Francisco, and has sunk $4,000 in
a row of flats, says he
John Bender, whose prowess on the
gridiron and diamond at the University
of Nebraska is well known to every fol-
lower of Middle Western athletics, has
accepted the terms of the Little Rock
Baseball Club. and will break into the
professional ranks next spring
There seems to be little truth after
all in the reports that have beer going
the rounds about the serious condition
of Kid Mccoy. The erstwhile clever
boxer has been bobbing up at different
landed at Hot Springs, where he can
watch the ponies center.
The University of Chicago will hold
an indoor meet for the goods in the
gymnasium the first week in February,
and already fifty of the sprightly
lassies have entered
Yale, Pennsylvania. and Amherst
have already notified the Columbia
management that their relay teams will
participate in the indoor games to be
held under the auspices of the New
Garden in March Columbia is making
an effort to have an unusually large
number of relay races. The outlook is
that this meet viii be to indoor ath-
letics what the annual Pennsylvania
carnival is to outdoor runners.
BY far the most interesting bit of news
during the past week to local followers
Of amateur athletics was the story ex-
clusively published in The Times that
the National Guard Athletic Association
has decided to affiliate Itself with the
Amateur Athletic Union.
When this paper first agitated the
question of settling the chaotic condition
of affairs which existed in the amateur
athletic circles of this city for years
and which had brought down upon
Washington the name of being the
worst A. A. q city in the country, .
there were strong expressions Of disap-
prevail by the wise ones who claimed &c
have the interests of the governing body
at heart, and II was freely predicted
| that dire disaster would end the cam
paign-
What has been the result? This week
! the National Guard, the largest athletic
association in this city. numbering more
than FIVE hundred members, has sworr
allegiance to the Amateur Athletic
/ Union. and IN the future. instead o.
competing with outlaw clubs as an out
law organization, the local rnilitiamer
will be in good standing and their ath
Ietic entries will be received at any o.
the leading games or meets In any par
of the country
| Not only has the Guard decided to af
f1liate itself with the A. A u. but Cap
tain Edwards, who acted for the Guar
! in making the deal to enter the A. A. L.
has made application for membership T.
| the South Atlantic Division, which il
/ one of the strongest of the sectional or
PLANTATIONS. Membership will give tn
| National Guard a representative on tn
| A. 4 L. and will allow all members o
| the Guard to enter the. meet which tn
! division will give for team champion
ships.
| In the basketball the company team
Will be no longer restricted to the Ma
tionaI Guard League, but may go GU
| and meet all Corners. The indoor meet
| which are held annually. can now b
| made open events, or the management
! can add relay races or certain othe
races as an attraction in place of tn
professional wrestling matches and 9th
! er professional attractions, which hay
been given in connection with the game
| in the past.
The whole National Guard IS to b
| congratulated upon TIE move, for tn
| outlook now is that the association vii
| be a greater factor than ever before i
| amateur athletic circles.
/ Hermann so far has been Il poo
steerer for the American League, as tn
National League has scored heavily i
tire game of baseball politics.-Joe VIA
in the New York Sun.
! II Is TO be hoped that the tournament
TO be held at the Fencing Club on mex
Saturday will be an unqualified success:
The competition will be under the sane
ton of the Amateur Fencers' League c
America and will be the first undertak
ing Of the sort ever attempted by III
local club. Entries will be obtaine
| from fbe AIDING clubs of the East yyflic