The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-01-20
ENTERS
FEDERAL GAMES
Expects to Start in Mile
Handicap With Other
Stars.
CUP OFFERED SCHOOLGIRLS
Institution Winning Most Points Will
Receive Trophy Offered by
Pennsylvania Alumni.

Melvin w. Shepard, Americas great
est living middle distance runner, hold
CT of a string OF records and champ
iOuships, is the latest addition 70 the
long list OF champion athletes who are
expected 70 compete in the Federal inter
collegiate and interscholastic tracE =ld
field games al Convention Hall on the
evening of Saturday, February %
Manager Foley received Shepard's en-
Try last night for the open handicap one
mile run. the star 10 ron under the
colors of the Irish-Ame-i Athletic
Club, of New York. In tho race against
him, il is expected that there will be
Jones or Haskins, Of Pennsylvania, the
former the intercollegiate cross-coun-
try champion, ard the latter the inter
collegiate One-milc champion, Louis
Connor, also Of Pennsylvania, and the
former iuterscholastic and former
Southern \. a. T., one and three-mile
champion Harry Coates, of the New
ark. n. j., Y. n. e. A. a very fast
miller; Il. W. Grimth. of Johns Hopkins.
the Southern intercollegiate champion.
and a score Of lesser lights.
Shepard's Record.
No other American mIddle-distance
runner within the last generation has
created such sensation IN athletic cir
Giles as has Melvin Shepard within the
past three years. IL was while a stu
dent at the Brown Prep School, IN
Philadelphia, that Shepard developed his
prowess in all distances from a quarter
mile 10 two miles. In the Middle States
interscholastic championships, in 1904
Shepard In one Afternoon ran the half
mile in 1,55. the mile in 4.3l, and two
miles in 9.57. He is now the national
champion both indoors and outdoors in
the half-mile and oue-mile runs hav-
ing only last September won the half
mile event i'm 1894, just So Of a second
outside the worlds record figures set
up by Charlie Fitzpatrick in 1898. Shep-
ard is just beginning 10 round into form
after q months rest, ard expects 20
he in top notch condition for the Fed
eral games.
Trophy for Boys.
a silver trophy cup has been offered
by the University OF Pennsylvania
Alumni Association Of the District for
the school scoring the greatest number
of points in events open only TO school
boys This cup viii be given outright
70 the winning school points to count
five for frsts. three for seconds, and
one for thirds. Places won in the re-
lay races viii not count in the scor-
ing for the cup. II is the purpose Of the
Pennsylvania alumni TO award such a
cup each year in the Federal games
Two additional entries were received
yesterday for the relay race for the
junior club championship honOrs. One
was from the Olympia Athletic Club
and the other from the Gales Night
School Athletic Association. The OIym-
pia team, headed by Captain Owens,
viii be composed Of boys who ran on
the Webster school teams in former
years, while the Gales night school
quartet viii consist OF four gritty
youngsters who work down town dur
ing the day and do all their studying
and training at night
Entry blanks for the games may be
had al any of the sporting goods stores.