Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10
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VleERkE 5lnENr AND MANAGER
HUSTuNG GURLEY
ATHLETIC CLUB
Holds One South Atlantic and
Three District Cham
pionships.

The Gurley Athletic Club has just
passed the third anniversary of it's re-
organization, and It's splendid success has
been far beyond al! expectations. 1t has
forged to the front as one of Washing
tons strongest clubs, and, as its men
are all youngsters and liable to improve,
it bids fair to hold this enviable position
for some time to come
Relay Team.
The Gurley relay team is known all
over the south. 1t ran it's first race in
the federal games Of 1907 as a junior
team and easily won the Sunday school
championship of the District. 1t ended
that outdoor season by breaking the
track record at Washington Grove, Md,
when 1t defeated the strong local Y. NJ.
G. A. and the Maryland Swimming Club
of Baltimore. AS the Gurleys were a
junior team and were compelled to enter
Junior teams had entered the meet. this
record is all the more commendable. 1t
has not been broken to date.
Last year the team, composed of the
SAME four men Capt. Smithson, King.
Beall and Young. won three District of
Intermediate club championship Q.2OO
YARDS. the senior club championship Zone
mile) and the senior club championship
three miles,.
In the South Atlantic championship
meet the Gurley team, composed Of Capt.
Smithson. Dick, Hildebrand and Wende-
roth, capped the climax by winning that
event, which, as far as can be learned,
is the first time in several years it has
oeen won by a Washington team
In the individual events in this meet
the club also did well, scoring twenty
points and getting second place toward
the point trophy, which was won by the
strong Maryland Athletic Club.
This year, so far, the relay has run but
one race. The team Capt Hildebrand,
Smithson. King and Lepper) easily de-
feated the Bloomingdale Athletic Club in
a half-mile match race at the 9Th Regi-
ment games In Baltimore last month, the
time 0.4D being a new record for that
armory.
King Scores in American Cham
pionship.
King first came into prominence as a
broad jumper at the Washington Grove
with 20 feet l inch IA the Caledonian
games the next year he cleared 90 feet 8
inches, and at the Grove games a few
months later he increased his record to
Il feet inches. At the Grove games
doubt, the best broad Jumper ever de-
veloped in this locality, when he cleared
% feet 712 inches. The same day he ran
on a winning relay and came within half
an inch of the South Atlantic record in
the hop step and jump with distance
of 43 feet. The same week he went to
New York for the American champion
ships and got second place in the juniors,
losing by only half an inch. The next
day he entered on the field and landed
-, I'D p1o iy t1n nnin boS,
making Gurley the only club south Of
New York to score in either of these
meets.
Smithson, although one Of the youngest
athletes in Washington. has run some
games in 1907 he won the 1OO-yard dash
in 10 seconds; in the Middle States
nterschoastic championships at Phila-
delpha the same year he was defeated
by only six inches in the quarter mile
the time go So seconds) being a new rec
ord; and a few weeks later he won the
quarter for the Army and Navy cham
piOnship of the United States, at Nor
folk, Va. In the South Atlantic cham
pionships last June he forced Jack Car
penter, the Olympic star, to make a new
South Atlantic record in order to beat
him. The time was 80 % seconds
South Atlantic Champion for Mile
Run.
Hildehrand, this years captain, won hts
first open event at the mile at the Wash
ington Grove games in 1907. Following
that, he won events from 600 yards up to
and including the mile with marked reg
ularity. and in the South Atlantic meet
in June he defeated large field and won
his event in 4.44. Last Labor day at the
Grove he annexed both the mile and half
mile in excellent time, in addition to run
ming on the relay team.
Young did his first good work at the
Washington Grove meet in 1906, when he
won the high jump. got second in the
broad jump and third in the eO-yard
dash, novice. On Decoration day. 1907, at
the Central Y. NJ C. A. meet in Balti-
more. he cleared the bar at feet S
inches, and a few months later at the
Caledonian meet he broke the District
record for this event with a leap of 5
feet inches. He ended up that season
at the jamestown exposition by landing
third place in the junior national cham
pionships.
Lepper is consistent dash man. He