The Washington herald., 1910-02-13

The eleventh annual games Of the Ma
tional Guard Athletic Association will be
held in the National Guard Armory Hall
March 81, 1910, the preliminaries being
held March %.
The closed games for the National
Guard Athletic Association, in which no
one will be allowed to compete who has
not been regularly enlisted In the Ma
tionaI Guard prior to February Is, 1910,
are as follows:
5O-yard dash. novice; 5O-yard dash. con-
ISOLATION, 5O-yard dash. championship. A.
a. n. G., D. c.; 22O-yerd hurdle. cham
pionship. A A n. c.. D. c.: 22O-yard
dash, championship, A. A. n. G.. d. c.;
<40-yard dash. championship. A. A. n. g..
D. c.; ss0-yard run. championship A a.
n. G., D. c.; one-mile run. championship.
A. A. n. G., D. c.; shot-put. 16-pound.
championship, A. A. n. G.. d. c.; potato
race; three-leg race, 50 yards; obstacle
race, teams Of two; company relay; wall
scaling. teams of four; equipment relay
race, teams OF four.
First. second, and third prizes for each
individual event and individual medals for
relay races and wall scaling will be
awarded.
AS usual, spike shoes are prohibited.
An interested and novel variance in the
equipment relay race. and one that should
afford no little amusement 10 both spec
tators and participants, will be the trans
ferring of equipment at the meeting of
tho team mates. The racer will start
equipped in heavy marching order and
run one and half laps: he will meet the
succeeding runner of his team, and there
will be a hurried transfer of the equip
ment from man to man. and the race win
continue. the equipment being transfer
red three times; and. by having the trans
fer occur at a point lap and a half from
the last transfer point any possible inter-
ference or fouling is believed 10 be OBJ
waited.
Obtain Use of Hall.
The difficulties regarding the use OF the
hall for practice have been Strengthened
out. and the mIlitiamei. are all invited to
use IL.
The events open for athletic clubs. col
leges. schools. the Y. NJ. c. A. and boys
from twelve years up are as follows:
5O-yard dash. novice; 50-yard dash. Dis
trict OF Columbia championship; 22O-yard
dash, District OF Columbia championship;
one-half mile run; one-mile run; relay
races
The South Atlantic Amateur Athletic
Union championship two-Inile run and the
pole vault has been awarded 10 this meet.
First, second. and third prizes for each
individual event and individual prizes for
relays. The track is sixteen laps to the
mile.
Coming. as this meet does, during the
Easter holidays, an opportunity is afford
ed-and one that has been seen and taken
advantage Otto the local athletes who
are now winning the lauTels in the collie
giate arenas OF sport. and who will be
home on their Eastertide vacations to en-
ter the games. Sterrett. OF Princeton;
Fleming, OF Cornell, Linthicum, OF
Michigan, and other well-knCwn collegiate
athletes have signifed their intentions of
entering the lists. These men, hard as
nails and trained 10 the minute. are ex-
pected. under the impetus given by the
sensation of again competing in their own
city and with the eyes OF old friends upon
them to go the limit in skill and endur-
snce, and this fact alone would insure a
keen interest in the events that some
times, at the meets, lag through lack OF
intense rivalry.
4 number Of the militiamen from the
Fifth Regiment. Maryland National
Guard. have entered, and an invitation
will be extended to one of the officers of
that regiment to act as one Of the Judges