The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-05-10
CROWD WILL HEAR
tom" BURKE'S TALK
Meeting Tomorrow Night
Open to All Interested
in Athletics.
PURPOSE HERE is
TO COACH ENTRANTS
Qualifications Are Well Known.
Route of Marathon APP
proved by Experts.

There is every indication of a crowded
house at the meeting scheduled for to-
morrow at Z o'clock on the tenth floor
of the Munsey building, when Tom
Burke viii be the guest of honor and
the spokesman.
Washington athletes appreciate to the
fullest the unusual opportunity afforded
them by Burke's visits. He has been
engaged primarily to coach the Mara
thCn entrants, but the meetings viii be
open to anyone interested in sports. The
Times primary object is to encourage
athletics and the Marathon is merely
means to that end.
at the meeting tomorrow evening will
also be a number of prominent trainers
and athletic promoters of Washington.
Informal Talk.
Burke will have no set address He
will give the first of a series of informal
talks about Marathon running. More
than that, he will answer all questions
and give instructions for each individual
case.
There is no doubt about Burke
being qualified for thi= undertaking.
He has had wide experience both as
an athlete and as a trainer. His re-
rnarkable string OF records at the
Olympic games at Athens, his victories
on American tracks, show that he is
qualified for the job. Added TO that Is
his work in recent years, which has
put him in the same class with Nike
Murphy and Jim Moakley as a scien-
tifc trainer.
Athletes spent yesterday evening
studying the route. 1t commends itself
& iY1rr f~f rfs,I-
ing and circuitous paths which afford
opportunities of getting of the course
and give an unfair advantage by op-
portunities for cutting" The route Is
straight and unmistakable.
To Photograph Turns.
To make doubly sure The Times viii
tomorrow send its photographer over
the route to take photographs of the
few crossroads that might cause con
fusion. as well as to take such pictures
as will afford an idea of the going at
various stretches along the course
Reports from Baltimore indicate that
Uncle Sans soldiers are the latest to
catch the Marathon fever Already
in training and some Of them are reel
ing off twelve miles a day with ease.
The National Guard Of WASHINGTON is
not far behind the Fort McHenry ag-
nothing in class. The Washington
Guardsmen are training daily under
Captain Edwards.
Baltimore now places the number of
its prospective starters at twenty-five
and there is every indication that
Wa gton will not be far behind that
numSNr.
Unattached Entrants.
Since the announcement that Burke
would be here to give advice to the
entrants a number OF inquiries have
been received from unattached athletes.
This is what Phe Times desires and it
was for these men who have the ad-
vantage of no other trainer that Burke
has been engaged.
The showing now promised from the
high schools is better than was at first
hoped for. Business and Technical will
have teams while Central and Western
viii enter at least two men each. East
ern IS the only high school that has not
yet taken action In the matter.
Five Washington men have formally
signed the entry blank. They are F. A.
Schirmer, Aloysius A. c.; NJ. J. Fraile.
y "a 9. A; J. 5: Rose, Mt. Pleasant
A C; q. 1. Washington. Mckinley
Manual Training school, and H. 1. Tai
bolt. Bloomingdale A c.
Baltimore Runners.
The Baltimore men who have signed
Tie 70 OdLC are as IOllOWS.
John ]. Callan, unattached; H c.
Elphinstore. Cross Country Club; WAL
ter z. Black, Filth Regiment A. A;
G. K. LandOn. unattached: Paul ].
Trinite, Fifth Regiment; ]. H. GeIgan,
Cross Country Club; william Eimpert,
Fifth Regiment A. A.
More class has been added to the race
by the positive announcement that four
OF Johns Hopkins Cniversity's best long
distance men VAL be in the hunt for
the handsome team trophy, and the
beautiful Individual medals that signify
honors won.
Last night the Fifth Regiment ath-
ietes We're taken to Patterson Park by
Coach Disney 10 continue their train
ing in the open air. for the walls of the
armory, where all hands nave been reel
fng of their three TO five miles each
night, have grown too close together
This morning these same Fifth Regi-
ment boys joined forces WITH the Cross
Country Club runners, and some forts
or fifty on the weekly training run that
has been instituted.
Intense interest and enthusiasm are
being shown by young athletes all over
the CITY and suburbs in the Marathon
Clubs, associations. and athletics or.
CARNATIONS all over the city are nakins
preparations 10 enter members Of theiI
trganizal ions and win for their rcspcct.
i've clubs the trophy and hcnors at.
tached for the first Mara thon ever held
IN Maryland On street corners. il
houses. and in the parks the same Trims
can be heard.