Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-12-09
WARM ATHLETICS.
Georgetown Gym Meet Promises tt
Be the Goods,

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Be the Goods.
4 week from tonight the second annual
gymnasium contests and wrestling tour
nament of Georgetown University will
come of in Ryan gymnasium and by the
looks of things at present the games will
far outshine those Of last year, which
proved so successful. 1T will be the big
gest yet" said Prof. Maurice A. Joyce.
who is directing the event, when Ques-
toned last night. 1--WE are going to give
every athlete, gymnast and wrestler who
wishes to show his ability q chance to do
SO and by the looks Of the entries. there
Is a big bunch anxious to see what they
can do.
Beside the events which we have al
ready announced before, there will be two
interclass tug-of-wars and boxing
match. The first will be between the
classes of the college and prep schools, re-
spectively. while the exhibition boxing will
present have not just Sc ected the men.
but have received assurances from a num-
Der of young scrappers In the city and
shall decide on the two I wish before the
end of the week.
"Probably the most exciting event on
the program will be the tug-of-war be-
tween the twelve-men teams from the law
and medical schools. These two depart
ments of the university have not met in
an athletic battle for number Of years
and there Is a lot Of friendly rivalry be-
tween them. Since both teams vii! be
composed Of heavy men. the pulling is apt
to be close. expect to see q big crowd
of cohorts from both sections on hand for
the big doings.
"Next to this, Of course. will be the two
interclass scraps on the rope. and it Is a
safe bet that the teams that win the cups
will know they have done something.
There has been great deal Of interclass
rivalry around here this fall. and as the
championship honors so far are pretty
evenly divided, the men on the tug-of-war
teams will fight to the last in their eff
forts to bring glory to their name and
numerals.
TN the wrestling bouts most of the
entries are new men and I cannot predict
to see some close matches in this depart
ment and will certainly be surprised a.
the opposite proves true
1.-THE field events include the running
three jumps. Sch'osser Of the basket ball
team and Ed Fitzgerald. winner of last
years medal, loom up as probable win
ners in the first mentioned event, but
they may be surprised by Dougherty. q
new lad. who has been showing good
form In practice. Kerwin and O'Conor,
the latter the holder of the prize in the
gym meet, Will be close contestants In
the shot-put. A number Of others have
entered about whom I know little, but
1t Is good guess that some Of them will
be able to give the boys with the reps
a hard rub. The three jumps is a new
event in these parts. 1t IS an old Gaelic
pastime and within the past two or three
years has been introduced into Amer
lean meets with great success AS a
novelty it should both interest the spec
tators and bring about close competition
among the entrants.
THE track events are. of a necessity,
limited on account of the shortness Of
the course. We will run off a twenty
yard dash, potato race and a sack
race. but are doing SO more from a wish
to keep the program from being monoto-
nous than with view to deciding
supremacies.
what will, in all likelihood, be most
interesting to onlookers are the gymnastic
contests. We have a number of good
performers here and they should be able
to show the people a few tricks of the
trade. Such events as the running jump
from the flying rings are corkers for
holding an audience in suspense, and as
to do this stunt I expect to see a close
fight for the prize
1.-The medals for the winners Of each
event will be silver while the second man
is to be given a bronze one. Silver cups
will be given the winning teams in the
tug-of-war battles. The officials have not
been selected as yet and will probably
not be until Saturday. / want to get
competent men to attend to the running
off of the events. as l wish to see the
games go through without lag. 1 am
tions for the large crowd which we eX-
meet in attendance