Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1907-12-15
"THEoDoRE" TO DEPART.
He Was the Rubber of Georgetown
Athletes for Twelve Years.

Georgetown is about to suffer a serious
loss to her athletic department. Not the
loss of the base ball diamond or the boat
house or the running track Theodore
is about to graduate from the ranks of a
college rubber to the fold of the big New
York Athletic Club.
Theodore Woodward-but hardly any
one knows him by any name but ."Theo-
dore'' or "The"-familiar to every George
town athlete since 1895. and that was
twelve years ago. when Theodore was
hardly installed in his first pair of col
lege long trousers-has at last yielded
to the call of fame and mammon and
will soon bid goodbye to the old college
on the heights.
1t was in the championship days of
Bernie Wefers that The" applied for a
was taken on, Bill Foley, the trainer
was then in charge of the boys and the
little black fellow spent many an admir-
Ing hour perched on the fence which in
closed the track watching the fleet fell
lows at their running starts and sprints
When he had been taught to rub he
proved valuable acquisition to the de-
partment and later the men declared that
but for him they could not keep in the
perfect shape required of athletes who
competed with the best in the country.
Besides Wefers, Theodore rubbed Arthur
Duffey, later to become a worlds cham
pion; Billy Holland. Minahan and Joe
Reilly. who became American champions;
Doc Owens. Mulligan DeSas, Edmonston
Charley Mccarthy. Herman, Lynch
Charley Seitz. Sullivan, O'Boyle and many
other famous track men of the Blue
and Gray, to say nothing of the foot
ball. base ball teams and crews in, the
past twelve years.
Perhaps his greatest achievement be-
sides aiding materially in the development
of such champions as Wefers. Duffey,
Reilly. Holland. Minahan and Seitz, was
the accompanying of the American team
and his own charges to the Paris EXPOSE
ton. England and Belgium in 1869 Here
he was ON hand to care for Duffey in his
great race FOR the Prince of Nassau cup
in London. for the races in Paris ir
hich Duffey continued his victories, as
nd his teammates. Holland and Nina
han, and the other Americans. MaXey
Long. Kranzlein and Tewksbury. On the
trip through Belgium, Theodore, attired
in glorious suit of loud plaids and ii
tall silk hat, was the subject for scores
of curious eyes.
That year Theodore accompanied the
Georgetown relay team. composed of
Herman, Mullgan. DeSais and Holland, to
the B. A. A. games at Boston, where the
Blue and Gray again waved triumphant
over the Harvard Crimson, Duffey win
ming the hundred and Holland the quar-
ter-mile.
Not many years later Duffey made
the worlds record for the hundred in
3-5 at Mott Haven and his teammate.
Holland. won the 440 in the intercoll,gi-
ates for Georgetown. For the next two
Yeas Georgetown defeated the relay
teams of Penn and Princeton, and in
1904 the Blue and Gray team. consisting
of Mccarthy, Edmonston, Mulligan and
Reilly, made a worlds record for relay
teams at st. Louis.
OF late years Georgetown champions
have been few and far between. and
'',Theodore' longs for the Old-tine fame
and excitement OF the cinder path, so in
a few days no will leave the scene of
his early achievements and seek new
fields.