Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-06
OVER 600 ATHLETES
IN FEDERAL MEET
Program for Seventh Annual
Games to Be of Gigantic
Proportions.

teen colleges, fifty schools and twenty
five clubs, which will be represented by
about 600 athletes and more than seventy
relay teams, the program of the seventh
Federal indoor games in Convention
Hall the afternoon and evening Of Satur-
day, February 10, Will be Of gigantic
proportions and unequaled in number OF
events and number Of athletes by any set
Of games held in the south. The athletes
among the long list Of entries will come
GINA. New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massa-
chusetts and the District.
From the Carlisle Indian School will
come a doughty company of speedy red
skin runners and clever Jumpers under
the leadership Of Glenn Warner. famous
coach. From Pennsylvania Mike Murphy
will bring along the cream OF the Req
and Blue athletes, including Billy PAUL.,
intercollegiate champion and record hold
er and fastest American-born mile run
ner; Baker, formerly Of Swarthmore and
now a law school student at Pennsyl-
vania, who was an intercollegiate point
winner two years In the half mile; MINDS,
one Of the best Of college sprinters. and
three or four other first-class men. Am
herst will send down four of the best
men on her 1910 team; Virginia will have
dozen athletes. most Of them counted to
win points: there will be an even larger
bunch from Johns Hopkins. and prac-
Georgetown University squad will be
given q try-out in the various individual
events on the evening program. western
Maryland, Richmond College, st. John
College, Maryland Agricultural College,
Washington College and Catholic Uni
yersity are among the other higher in
situations OF learning whose representa-
tyes will be in competition.
There will be. greater number OF
schoolboys In the Federal games this
year than ever before. and the struggle
for the two point trophies among the
grade schools and the high and prep
schools Is bound to be close and uncer-
tain. With nearly half hundred gram
mar schools Of the District lighting for
points for the Stinemetz trophy, and as
making a desperate try for the Franklin
cup, there Will be big doings at Conven-
ton Hall in the afternoon.
Every high school in the District ex-
cept one will have boys in the individual
events. with midget or junior relay teams
for the evening. The Cathedral School.
washington School for Boys. Friends
Select School. Army and Navy Academy,
Georgetown props. University school
Rockville Academy. Episcopal High
cersburg Academy, Baltimore City Col
lege, Fork Union Academy and Friends
School of Baltimore are among the other
schools which have already entered
athletes, and practically each one of the
schools mentioned Will nave one or more
relay teams competing.
The Federal games will introduce two
innovations in conducting the scholastic
events this year. For the first time In
the history of local athletics there will be
a woman official on the floor. Miss Flora
sriv ~rfr ~ 10
sixth division Of public schools, will act
as marshal. Particular care will be taken
for the protection of the young ath-
1etes from the grade schools. One
big dressing room will be set aside for
their exclusive use, and a corps of man
charge to see that the boys dress quickly
and are not exposed to cold. There will
also be q number of old athletes In direct
charge Of the little fellows on the first
grade relay teams. one man having con-
troll Of each team. Each grade school
team will have its distinct uniform. with
the letter of each school on the front of
each shirt. And each school will also
have its special section Of seats for root
The number Of athletic clubs and Y. NJ.
C. A. teams to be represented In this
years games will be larger than hereto
fore, and will include every athletic or
ganization in the District, and teams from
Baltimore. Richmond and Philadelphia.
The United States Army will be repre-
scented by men from the garrison at Fort
Myer, and the Navy by some good ath-
letes from the battalion of marines quar-
tered in the barracks at the navy yard.
For the individual athlete scoring the
greatest number of points in the evening
events there Will be a big cup known as
the Presidents trophy. Points for this
cup will be counted five for firsts. three
for seconds and one for thirds. and there
will be an intense rivalry between the
college and club men.
The entries for all events in the Federal
games will close next Thursday night
at the Central Y. NJ. C. A., 1875 G street
Tickets for both afternoon and evening
events are on sale at Spaldings. in the
Colorado building, where the prizes e
also on exhibition.