Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-12-12
FEDERAL GAMES.
Promoters Already at Work on Big
Meet for February.

With thirty individual events and ff'@en
relay races on the two sections of ,ae
program. the seventh renewal of the
federal indoor games, to be held February
10, under the auspices of the Y. M. c.. A.,
will carry one of the heaviest lot of en-
tries Of any of the east, and already
promises to be the biggest affair of it's
kind conducted in the District. When the
schoolboy athletes face the starter in
the District grade school and eastern in
terscholastic championships in the after
noon, 1t will be the first time any
scholastic events have been held in the
afternoon in any games south of Phiia-
delphia
the federal games this year it was de-
cided, as a continuation of the athletic
work done on many Fairgrounds, to add
several events for the local grade school
boys, and to hold for the first time the
eastern interscholastic cha NIPPON hips,
open to all schools on the Atlantic ,...-t,
and as far west as Pittsburg and Buff
falo. Invitations We're sent to III. ee
hundred schools, and a number of &C
ceptances have already been received, in
Guiding those from Mercersburg and
Lawrenceville, whose athletes nave made
these schools among the most prominent
in the east. The schoolboys will compete
for championship banner and one years
possession of the Franklin cup, the trophy
to become the permanent possession of
the school winning it three times.
There are two novice and three junior
events on the scholastic program, and
tWo-mile run and standing broad jump
nave been added. relay race for first
grade boys will be one of the most in
tereyting features of the afternoon.
Every college. athletic club and Y. NJ.
c. A in the east has been invited to send
entries for the open handicap and invi-
tation events in the evening, and as
surances of entries have already been re-
ce.ved from Princeton, Pennsylvania.
Johns Hopkins. Virginia and Dickinson
College, most of the athletic clubs and
Y. Nj. G. As of Baltimore and Phila-
deiphia, besides local colleges and clubs.
Negotiations are already pending for half
a dozen college and club relays, and 1t
is probable that there will be at least
dozen OF these events run in the even
ing.
The list of events is as follows:
Grade schools-Fffty-yard dash; 300
yard rum 600-yard run. putting the eight
pound shot, standing broad jump, relay
race for first grade teams, championship
relay race for all grades.
Eastern interscholastic championships
call scratch)-5o-yard dash Gun.or), 90
yard dash fnovice), 50-yard dash (open),
J1-yard hurdle ,open). 3OO-yard run
Iunior, 36O-yard run (open) GOo-yard
run trovice), 6O0-yard run (open), 1000
yard run topen), two-mile run topen), run
ming HlSH jump SOpcHj, Twelve
pound shot (open). standing broad jump
topen).
Open handicap and invitation events
Fifty-yard dash (novice), 50-yard dash
(handicap) Jo-yard dash tinvitationD, 30
yard hurdle (handicap). 6o0-yard run
thandicap). SSO-yard run (novice), LOCO
yard run ihandicap) two-miie run (handi-
cap. sixteen-pound shot-put thandicap).
running high jump Handicap, three
standing hops tscratch).
Entry blanks for all events may be had
from C. T.. Beckett or w. G. Stuart, man.
ayers 1136 G street northwest.