The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-01-21
SPORTS REVIEW
FOR THE WEEK
Chief Event Will Be the Indoor
Track Meet on Saturday
Night.
MANY VISITORS BE PRESENT
Much Interest in New Bowling
Leagues-Bascball Fans Look
ing Forward.
MANY VISITORS BE PRESENT

Ciler among the sporting events
scheduled for the week is the indoor
track meet. which Is to be held Satur-
day night in the Horse Show Building
This meet wll. undoubtedly. be far
and away the most important sporting
event OF tho season. bringing together
as 1T will tho most splendid athletes
that tho colleges Of the South and
many OF the North can afford. Many
OF the competitors who will be here
are men Of recognized standing In the
sporting world. having won honors and
prizes, and broken records galore And
IT Is the hope, and even the expecta-
tloh or tho management, that new
records will be established and old
ones broken on Saturday night. wes-
ley w. Coe tho champion shot-putter
OF Michigan University. has sent a
telegram to Director Reilly, saying that
no wfl be here without fall. and con-
Veytng the information that here he
VIII try to break the record with the
battle-ground shot. record now held
by Ralph Rose, OF the same instltu-
ton.
This will be the first time in the
history OF college athletics that any
West, the land where athletes seem
to be born. like the poet-athleta
nascitur, non fit. Heffernan, OF
Georgetown. and Mcdonald. of Penn
sylvania, both men OF high standing,
and many others will be here to run.
race, jump, throw the hammer, or hurl
the shot. With such an aggregation
If only 1T were larger, and barring the
fact that the meet is to be held indoors
1t might bring to ones fancy the days
when all the athletes OF tho Hellcnes
met upon the felds of Olympia in their
contests and exhibitions
Then, however, intellectual excellence
was as much part of the great gamos
as physical prowess and endurance,
and the orator and the poet and the
declaimer had as much right to be
crowned with the laurel, and to enter
through breach IN the wall of his ma
tive city, as the man who had won a
record In running. wrestling. or throw
Ing the discus. To day. however. n
poet would be Kissed from the field.
and the only use for oratory is had
by the man who yells the announce
ments and the names of the yictors
through megaphone. 657s ai,t7FIa..s .
The track meet. will be great attrac-
ton to society and lovers OF clean coll
lege sports In Richmond and to many
out-of- town visitors. many of whom will
come down by special train from Balti-
moro and Washington. 1t Is expected
that there will be a much larger crowd
than was seen In the Horse Show Build
Ing last year, when such a meet was
seen for tho first time in this city, as
Its popularity was assured from the be-
ginning. All the institutions either have
alumni or friends here, or both, and all
these will turn out to cheer their favor
tes on to victory, or to sympathize with
hem in defeat. Society will be pres
,nt in full force. and the appanage OF
he affair will be brilliant in the extreme.
The management is very greatly sat
SIZED with the number of entries that
nave come in, and 1t is expected that
hero will be many more to swell the
list by tonight. Fully 300 athletes will
,e present, to compete in everything
rom mile dash to a running broad
ump.
interest in bowling is on the increase,
md the new leagues that have recently
,een formed at the Lake and Williamss
bowling alleys are attracting much at
ention.
The next game in the Greater Richmond
2owlng League will take place Tomorrow
light, when 1t Is expected that a fine
exhibition will be made by the amateur
,owlers Manager r. G.. Whitman. of the
AXE Bowling Alleys, has announced that
lercafter any one making a score of 100
will be entitled to roll in the seml-weekly
contest for prize to be given by the
These contests ore held
very Tuesday and Thursday nights.
The Young Peoples League will have
is next game on Friday night. This
oague has two teams. the Amateurs and
he Athletics. and they played their first
game last Friday night.
The next games of tho Richmond City
Bowling League will be rolled off tonight
n the Williams and Cooke Bowling Al
eys.
The local fans are once more turning
heir attention to baseball, and are pre-
pairing themselves to witness some fine
games here during the coming season.
The season will open UP in the last
lays OF March when the Montreal Club,
If the Eastern League, will be here for
heir early practice games.
They will be followed by the New York
Americans. who will be here at the first
II April. The regular State League sea-
son viii omen up on April 18th. when
here win be great parade with several
2ands OF music az last year
Tho nnSnatcs Will meet In hurphy's
Hotel on Wednesday,. February 9Th, at 2
o'clock, when officers will be electel'orda
schedule committee appointed. Mr.. Jake
Wells VIII be elected to succeed himself.
md II Is thought that he Will accept the
1onor, This men who have been signed
"ill meet here on March 9Th when n Y
sill begin their tryout for the team
Many good mon have been signed and
With the good ones OF last year. Manager
Bradley, owner, ana Captain Charlie
5haffer expect TO put out a pennant-
winning team.
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