The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1907-11-03
More Additions to Large Number of Tenpin Organizations
WILL HAVE
TWO RELAY TEAMS
One and Two Mile Squads
Are at Work.

The Gurley Athletic Club will have
both one and a two mile relay team
for the indoor season this year.
The question has been gone over
thoroughly for the past six weeks at
the club meetings, and the makeup Of
the teams practically decided. Since
Smithson, OF Central. has been ac-
quired. this cluL has probably the
strongest bunch Ct athletes in the city,
numbering in its membership the Dis
trict broad jump champion. and also
the champion high jumper Of this
town
King. who formerly went to Central.
won the broad jump at the Washing
ton Grove meet, with leap Of twenty
one feet five inches, while Tongue, his
teammate has a record Of FIVE feet nine
inches in the high jump. The latter
got third in the junior championships
at jamestown. in this event
Smithson Valuable Man.
when c. Z. smithson joined the Cur
ley club. however, it got the best quar-
ter-miler iE the South, who was just
the man needed TO give a well-balanced
team He has made an enviable rec
ord by his gritty running, going the
100 and 90 in fast time, as well as TAX
ing a crack at longer distances than
the quarter.
He has more than justified the pre-
dictions Of Bill Foley, who first saw the
material in him. Last spring the
curIy-headed fier was sent 10 Phila-
delphia. TO compete in the Middle States
scholastic championships, that being
T. Fze
pany. Central men attending Pennsyl-
vania expected MIN 10 go his quarter
! in about 50 seconds, but were agreeably
surprised when their protege finished
right at the heels of Black. OF MERGERS
/ burg. whom he forced 10 break the rec
ord in order to win, Black came home
| in 50 % seconds.
The other members Of the Gurleys
are uniformly strong runners with
| some experience at the game. The nile
team will be headed by Smithson, sup
| ported by Brame, Lloyd KING. ana
/ Tongue Such a team should nave no
/ trouble anneXing any junior races tnls
winter and will take on some strong
I senior teams II IL cannot get matches
/ in its class At the Homecoming Meet
: lin Baltimore, two weeks ago, IL ran
away from its opponents in great shape.
Two-Mile Team.
| The two-mfle team will have Hide
! brand. who won the mile in such good
| shape at the washington Grove meet;
/ BeaIe, FaIconer. and MacFarland, all
good men, and possibly Tongue, who
runs a good half mile. as well as a
quarter. Smithson viii also try for
/ this team. ana VIII run on il II the
! mile relay does not have a match the
/ same evering. He can run half mile
as fast as he can so two furlOngs-
An effort viii also be made 10 get WIZ
/ Tick. captain Of the Central High
/ School squad, To run with the club IN
( meets where Central is not represented
4 With me lasJ-named athlete in camp.
the tEO-mile team viii be as fast AZ
I they come IN this part Of the country.
/ II is to be hoped the other clubs in
1 the South Atlantic division of the A. A.
I Z will 90 against the Gurleys' two
mile team When the Columbia Ath-
/ letic Club put out its great two-mile
I relay team two winters ago. many OF
! the other clubs side-stepped. and the
! c. A athletes were only able TO get
: two races at their distance during the
! entire indoor and outdoor season. and
/ one OF those was forfeited by its Op-
pOnents.