Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-02-20
ALL THE CRACK
ATHLETES ARRIVE

Melvin w. Shepard, worlds champion
middle distance runner. arrived In Wash
ington at IL o'clock this morning from
Philadelphia to compete in two events
in the Federal Olympic games at Con-
Vention Hall tonight Immediately upon
arrival Shepard went to the Ebbitt House,
where the visiting athletes are quartered.
and met Harry Porter, the Olympic
champion high jumper, and Mike Driscoll
of New York, the American two-nile
champion. both of whom will also be in
the Federal games. At IL: 80 o'clock the
three athletes. accompanied by Repre-
sentative William Sulzer of New YORK,
went to the White House and had chat
with the President.
The Philadelphia contingent who will
be In the Federal games tonight, arrived
at noon. In the party were Referee Or
ton, Announcer Beam and Starter Mike
Murphy, with the teams from the Uni
versity of Pennsylvania. Brown Prep,
School, the Philadelphia Y. NJ. c. 4. and
coll got In in the early morning, and
Harry Hillman and Lawson Robertson ar
rived from New York at l o'clock this
afternoon. The Princeton team left IT,
gertown at IL o'clock and are due here
at 4:3O o'clock. The University of vir-
800 o'clock, and the Baltimore crowd
will be here at 5 o'clock. With the Oriole
athletes from Johns Hopkins and the
schools and clubs of the Monumental city
will come $50 rooters to help whoop things
up. All the local schools and colleges
will have big punches of: followers to help
along the noise; Princeton, Pennsylvania
Virginia and Johns Hopkins alumni will
be out In force. and ten Of the girls
schools and SeminarieS have reserved
blocks of seats.
Besides the stars Of the American
Olympic team there will be 452 other
athletes from fifty-six colleges, schools
and clubs Of New York. Pennsylvania,
New Jersey, Maryland. Virginia and the
District in competition in eighteen indi-
vidual events and twenty relay races
Harry Porter will go after new record
IN the running high jump. Melvin Shep
ard will try for new figues In the 600
meter handicap against a field Of forty
runners. Harry Hillman and Lawson
Robertson will try to set new mark for
the forty-yard three-legged race, and
there is certain to be new mark for
the southern pole vault, with Vein and
Bredemus OF Princeton. Parker of Penn
syivania, Sterret OF George Washington
and Martin of Virginia all vaulting over
eleven feet indoors
Among the relay races those between
Pennsylvania and Virginia. Johns Hopkins
and George Washington. Catholic Uni
versity and st. Johns College. the tri-
state military championship. the inter-
city championship, the Virginia scholas-
tic championship and the District Scho-
lastic championship will all be hard
fought from start to finish. The Prince
ton team will run a 2.40O-meter race
against local collegiate team composed
OF G. E. Smithson, E. F. Wenderoth, r.
NJ. Hildebrand and A. W. Samson and
the local Y. NJ. G.. A. will be In q hot
race with the Philadelphia Y. NJ C. A..
Baltimore Athletic Club and the McCul-
Tough Athletic Club Of Baltimore. All
the smaller local clubs will be In relay
races. and thare will be races for grade
schools and midgets. When the program
is about half completed there will be a
fifteen-minute exhibition Of stereopticon
pictures showing the various events in the
London olympic games.
The doors OF Convention Hall will be
open at 6:43 tonight and the first event
will start at half-past o'clock.