Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-09-04
ATHLETIC NEWS AND NOTES.

At the annual meeting of the South
Atlantic Association of the A. A. L..
which will be held at Baltimore the latter
part of this month. several changes in the
personnel of the officers. will likely occur.
DR.. d. f. W'iber will not run again for
the presidency despite the efforts of his
friends, as he does not feel able TO spare
the necessary time from his business.
Prof. C. Edward Beckett will retire from
the registration committee and Mike"
Stuart will probably succeed him as the
Washington member. although the chair
manship Is scheduled to go TO Joseph j.
Rettaliata, the present secretary-treas-
urer who in turn will probably be sue
ceeded by ex-President Theodore e.
Straus. AS TO who will be the next
executive in case DR.. Wiber declines re-
election, il is an open question. Several
names have been mentioned, but SO far
none of them have been shown any
marked preference.
big Bill'' Thrall, who up until recently
was doing great stunts in the pole vault
and broad jump events, Is now in the
telephone business at Portland, Ore. He
has practically given up the running
game.
The entries for the Washington Grove
Athletic Associations annual meet show
IndI tDlS year VIII NC lio tAttp-
ton to the rule, and that tomorrow's
games will he all that can be desired in
the nature of home meet. The alb
sence of the big college and athletic
club stars from a distance makes the
games unusually popular among the ath
letes of the South Atlantic Association,
and the meet is strictly a South Atlantic
affair." no entries having been received
except from Baltimore and local men. A
large crowd is looked for tomorrow, and
MAJ al1-dav nicnicS arranged
so as TO take in the meet. For the infor-
nation of those who might care to take
the trip. special attention is called to the
fact that the only train which will arrive
al the Grove in time for the meet leaves
the terminal station at $40 am.
Mr. George W. Ehler OF Baltimore, at
present a member of the registration COM
mittee of the South Atlantic Branch As
ISOLATION, A. A. L.. who was slated to
succeed Prof. Beckett as chairman of
that committee for the ensuing year. has
been offered and has accepted the posi-
ton of professor of physical culture at
the University of Wisconsin and will
leave in a few days TO take up his new
work. This is an unusually important
position, as he will have twenty subordi-
mates His many friends state that he is
just the man for the job At present he
is the head Of the Public Athletic League
of Baltimore, which league he did a great
deal toward organizing. Previously he
was one of the officers Of the Public
Athletic League of Chicago, one of the
largest organizations of its kind in the
world. Prof. Ehler has been a good man
for the South Atlantic Association and his
loss will be severely felt in A. A. L. cir
cleS.
The Washington Grove relay team has
just sustained a big loss from which IL
will take quite a time to recover, Bowen,
one of the fastest men on the relay team
having left town to accept a flattering
offer of a position in Princeton. Ohio.
Although a new man on the team, he
was one of the fastest, having record of
81 20 seconds to his credit for the quar-
ter. In the only race in which he has
run under the Grove colors. this years
South Atlantic championships. he ran the
best race for his team, making up several
yards which had been lost and giving
Smithson, the last runner, a good lead.
He has the best wishes of his many
friends.
President Wiber has recently written to
Official Handicapped Joseph T. England
asking him for a list of the ten best
athletes in the South Atlantic Association
from which he will select the names of