Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-11-14
Athletic News and Notes.

This afternoon the delegates from
Washington. Messrs. Beckett. Wiber and
Thacher, will leave our city to attend
the annual Amateur Athletic Union meet
ing at New York. This meeting. which
will be a very important one. will be
called at IL O'Clock tomorrow morning, In
the parlors OF the Aston House. Among
the numerous subjects to be discussed.
aside from the election OF officers. proba-
bly, three of the most important ones will
he amendments to the constitution. These
questions will relate to the collection in
advance of the so fee for sanctioning
meets to organizations which are not
A. A. L. members, the free sanctioning
of basket ball games. and the sanction
ing of meets. and other athletic events
without charge when given for charitable
purposes.
At this time James z. Sullivan will re-
tire from the presidency and VIII ne ten
dered the position OF secretary-treasurer.
and. as has been previously announced In
this column. Everett c. Browne or the
Chicago Athletic Association will be his
successor.
Athletics are picking up again. not only
in Washington, but in Baltimore, ana In
that city several meets are now being
planned, and two events have already
been pulled off. Last night very sue
cessful dual swimming contest was heid
i'm the Central Y. M. c. A. pool between
school. and Wednesday night the Balti-
more City College held closed meet.
The feature OF this meet was the Aus
tralian pursuit race, In which event the
winner is compelled to overlap every
other competitor In order to land the
nrize over twenty men started in this
race. Manager Semft of the Loyola Col
lege Athletic Association and Manager
A. B. Disney of the 9th Regiment A. A.
are now planning dual meet between
about November 81. Several other meets
are being planned, but no definite an
nouncement has been made.
Manager John e. NARROW has gotten
Together some good material for the Ad-
vent Club, and its track team should be
heard from during the coming season.
In himself Roy Wyrick, X. A. Toense,
]. w. Mitchell. Frank Davis and j. s.
Mansfield he has the nucleus ior a 1ast
and the Tremonts should be good one
Frank SchIosser, Georgetowns crack
basket ball player and all-around saith
Iete Is playing the game OF his life at
the West End institution this year. and
from the way he is going at present will
nrobably carry off all honors for the
greatest number of points scored by any
player on the team. Schlitz, as he
Il more Familiarity known, was captain of
the old I'd Regiment team which won
the South Atlantic A. A. L. champion
shin for the season of 1907-190S, and
has established a reputation for being
one of the squarest and cleanest men In
athletic circles i'm this section of the
country He is also eligible for the track
team. and will, in all probability. make
the relay team
To nf thn
partment Y. NJ. c. A, has had his
charges at work for the past few days.
and claims that this years team will be
as fast, IL not faster. than that OF last.
Mahoney and Blackston are good ones
and are sure Of places on the four. while
the most prominent for the other two
vacancies are EIiason. Hulfsh and Cor
man.
Manager Smith Of the Riverdale Ath-
letic Association claims to have a conner
in Knight, who Is showing up well In
the distance events.
Washington has several 'colored athletes
who could probably give the white ones
a tussle, among them being Wilkinson
of the NJ Street High School, who IL
really a star in the high jump. He has
a record OF over feet 10 inches. and
while Of course. he II not admitted In
the games which are pulled of In this
section of the country. he has been very
successful in several OF the northern
meets. and has always been an entrant in
the games OF the Boston Athletic Club.
Hugh Royce, the Y. N. c. A. hurdler
and Splinter 10 now taking boxing les
sons under Prof. Carter. Hugh says he
is getting along very nicely and might
make a few matches. Jack johnson or
Jim Jeffries please notice.
Another recent addition to the Y. NJ. c.
A. squad who looks promising is Henry
A. Cox. who reported for work Wednes-
day morning. "Coxy' Is training down
near the tidal basin while the weather Ii