Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-01-05
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LONGEST EVER GIVEN HERE
PROGRAM OF EVENTS FOR THE
80, COMING FEDERAL GAMES.

Two events-a 50-yard hurdle and
440-yard rlin-have been added to the pro-
gram of the federal indoor games to be
held in Convention Hall February Is.
Both these events will be for school boys
only and places won in them will count
in the point scoring for the Pennsylvania
alumni trophy, which will be awarded
the school scoring the greatest number
of points. These events were added
at the special request of a number of
boys of the local and Baltimore high
schools. and it is expected that they
the program The federal games are
the only rdoo- games in the south in
which there is hurdle race for school
boys alone, and as there are some
mighty good performers among this
years crop of TIMBER toppers the race
over the sticks is likely to be as excit-
ing and spectacular as any event on the
prog am
A quarter-mile run for school boys is on
the federal games program this year for
the first Time and it is believed will draw
an unusually strong list of entries. Cen
trail High School, Baltimore City College,
Georgetown Prep. the Woodbury. Forest
School, the Episcopal High School and
| the Central High School of Philadelphia
all have fast strings of runners al this
| distance. and it is not unlikely that the
deciding points in the fight for the trophy
cup may be won or lost in this event.
The addition of the J0-yard hurdle and
| the 440-yard run makes total of four
| teen events for individual competitors,
| which. with dozen relay races fo- all
sizes, ages and classes of school. college
and club athletes. will make up the long
est indoor program that has ever been
presented south of New York. But with
DR.. George w. Orton again as referee
at the head of an experienced list of
officials the events will be run off rapidly
and the program completed in the sched-
uled time of three hours.
Capt b. F. Brenton of the Johns Hop
kins University track team. who was
here for the George Washington cross
country run New Year day. said that
his institution will send practically its
entire track team to the federal games,
and that they expect to make an especial
ly creditable showing In the middle and
long distance events. They have a crack
ing good crowd of freshmen this year,
having fallen heir to the cream of the
Baltimore school boy athletes with Stol-
lenwerck Rurgan and CHASER as the par
ticular new stars.
There has been Only d slight let-up
during the holidays in the training of the
candidates for the various grade school
teams which will compete in the relay
race LOT the championship VI LIE LIS
trict and the Stinemetz t~ophy cup. Be
ginning tomorrow the young embryo
champions will start on a course of train
ing as rigid a they can make it. Regular
| courses will be measured on city streets
or convenient open lots, where the only
difficulty will be holding the youngsters
down to light and easy work. Many
mothers will be relieved Of the care of
getting the youngsters to bed early dur
ing the next six weeks, but they will be
introduced to the strange caprices of an
athletes training table appetite. Similar
experiences will fall to the lot of the
mothers of candidates for the teams
| which will compete for the Sunday school
championship.
Entry blanks for the federal games
were sent out yesterday and may be
had at the local sporting goods stores.