Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-12-25
ATHLETIC NEWS AND NOTES.


start the indoor campaign at Convention
Hail February 4. Manager Keats has a
| very attractive program arranged which
will cover nearly every class and age o.
athlete. Although no definite arrange
ments have been made, 1t is understood
that several out-of-town college and ath-
| letic club stars will be among the en-
trants. The list of events Is as follows:
Fifty-yard dash, scholastic; 5O-yard dash,
novice; 50-yard dash, open handicap; 80
yard hurdles, scholastic: 5O-yard hurdles,
open handicap; 1,OOO-yard run, open han
dicap; 6UO-yard run, novice: SsO-yard run.
open handicap; 44O-yard run, open handi-
cap: 440-yard run, schoIa site: One-mile
! run. open handicap; two-mile run, open
handicap; running high jump. open handi-
pound shotput. open handicap. Relay
race will be arranged to suit the con-
| testants Blanks may be obtained from
any Of the sporting goods houses.
Entries closed yesterday for the Balti-
more Cross Country Clubs annual ten
mile marathon, which will be held in the
Monumental city January .. at 2;N
o'clock. This run has all of the earmarks
of very classy affair. in which most
Of our local and Baltimore cracks have
entered. The most important entries from
Washington are Louis Conner and RIP"
Stecker from the Washington Grove Ath-
letic Association. Reports are to the ef-
feet that both Of these men are in tip
top condition and are out after. the
bacon" Stecker and Elphinstone, cap
tain Of the Cross Country Club, have al
ways been great rivals. and the race be-
tween these two should prove to be a
hummer. 1t will be remembered that in
their last race these men killed each
other off and both were compelled to drop
out before the finish. In addition to
team
trophies will be offered, the first and sec
ond to the two teams of six men making
the two lowest scores and the third to
the club having the greatest number OF
runners to finish.
President Ban Johnson Of the American
League with his long term hasn't any ny
fremont Athletic Club ''Stokesy' has
just been reelected for another year and
can't lose his job. He has had it for
about five years. and it Is understood that
the club members are planning to make n sh 1t
way, has the nucleus for fast relay
team for the coming season. In Capt:
Mahoney, ''Shag' Rawlings, Eddie
Swing and Stokes the red and white quar-
gerous opponent to most OF the local CLUB
teams.
It is understood that the 9Th Regiment
Athletic Association of Baltimore is seri-
ously thinking of holding q closed ath-
letic meet for guardsmen, In additi0n 10
it's joint open meet with the Johns HOP
kins University. This meet. which will
be similar to the one held by our own
militia, should prove to be very popular
to the local guardsmen. as 1t would give
them a chance Of competing against their
decided to hold these games. February
will be the month in which they will be
pulled OF. This will give the boys ample
time to get in condition
Among the college boys of local athletic
note who have returned for the holidays
are Baker from Cornell. Theile from
Technical, Dick from Michigan, Thomp-
SON from Princeton and Mccarthy from
Wesleyan. Jack Fields of Yale was ex-
pected back. but he has accepted an in
vitation to a house party which will last
through the holidays and will not be
home.
Capt Earl Smithson of the Washington
Grove Athletic Association will leave
Washington tomorrow for short pleas
ure trip to New York He will return
diately call out the candidates for the
''Groveites" track team. Among those
who will report fore work are Smfthson.
King. Adams, Connors. Curren. Young,
Hildebrand. stecker. Robertson. Rath.
bone and several others not so well
known. From the material on hand it
looks as IL the Washington Grove AS
ISOLATION will have the strongest team
since its organization.
Shorty" Hall, the former Gurley Ath-
letic Club athlete, expects to get back In
harness this year. He has been training
hard recently at the Arcade skating rink,
and reports show that he is getting III
good shape. and will probably be heard
from before the season is over.
The Phunney Phellows of Riverdale
are waking UP to the fact that the ath-
Herbert Smith Is now hustling around
soaring up a team. 1t is understood that
several experienced men will join their
ranks, and these men with those on its
Manager Keats Of the George Wash
ington University A. A. is the lrst mana
recently adopted by the South Atlantic
Branch Association Of the A. A. L. for
sanctioned meets under its control. This
blank, which was prepared by the official
Handicapped. should be a big aid toward
getting the athletes fair handcaps. The
new blank. which is nearly twice the size
OF that formerly used. makes an athlete
give his records from the date Of his
birth until the present time. There Is one
item in particular which will probably
dO away Will xO Cuu VI tFOuUlS, dIIO lIidt
Is the one In which athletes are compelled
to put their record in closed games as
well as in open ones. Heretofore ath-
letes have been made to give their records
in open events only. and consequently
men were able to make fine records in
CLOSED collegiate and scholastic meets
and yet their entry blank would show
them to be novices. A great deal Of COM
plant has been made about the handi-
caps in the past and it is hoped and ex-
pected that the adoption OF the new form
will be an efficient remedy.
Capt Johnnie Fleming Of the Hatchet-
ties Is doing some hustling these days
trying to get men out for the Buff and
Blue track team. Several good men have
signified their intention Of coming out
when the call is issued and it looks as if
the track team will be stronger than that
of last year The recent interclass meet
gave a good line on several new men and
II is expected that several new faces will
be seen when the starters pistol sends
the men from their marks at the start
of the 1911 season. Capt. Fleming will
make no mistake II he goes after Cox,
who ran such fine race ON the Sigma
Phi Epsilon fraternity team, in the inter-
fraternity race in the recent interclass
games.
Children in France.
From the Century.
With the birth of offspring there comes
m the French father and mother NOT