Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-02-13
SPEEDY ATHLETES IN
BIC FEDERAL MEET
Pennsy and Carlisle to Send
Down Record Holders to
Compete.

When the last runner In the final relay
race on the evening program of the Fed
eral indoor games shall have crossed the
tape on the track in Convention Hall next
Saturday the curtain will fall on the
biggest set of track and field events
which Washington has seen. Five hun
dred and ffty-six individual athletes
from nearly 100 clubs, schools and col
leges of four states and the District OF
Columbia are entered in forty-nine events
including twenty relay races.
With a record which has stamped him
as the fastest American-born mile run
ner, w. c. PAUL, captain of the Jniver-
Sity of Pennsylvania team, Intercollegiate
champion and record holder, will make
an attempt In the Federal games to ere
ate new American record for the one
mile run. This attempt will be made In
special one-mile handicap rum In which
the number of entries will be limited to
six or seven men. The track will be ac-
curately measured with steel tape, and
every precGution taken to make the con-
ditions conform to the requirements OF
the Amateur Athletic Union rules govern
ing the making of a new record.
1t was in the intercollegiate champion
ships a Cambridge last year that PAUL
In the most remarkable race in the his
tory of college games, ran one mile In
All 4-5, not only setting up new figures
no native son had approached. With
the exception of the first 800 yards, Paul
made all the pace, running the first quar-
ter in OBJ %. going to half in 2.O3
reaching the three-quarter mark in 3.11
and finishing without any effort at sprint
ing In new record time. PAUL. also has
a record OF 1.56 for the half mile and
go for two miles. That he is just now
in prime condition is evident from the
fact that in the last relay of two-mile
race against Yale, in New York two
weeks ago, he ran the half mile in 2O1,
winning the race for Pennsylvania, and
again in Buffalo on February s. when he
ran the same distance three-fifths OF a
second faster in a similar race against
Cornell. which the Quakers won easily
The present indoor record is 4.19 40,
made In Madison Square Garden, New
York, by II. L. Trube of the New York
Athletic Club February IL, 1909.
Besides Paul. the University of Penn
sylvania will be represented by seven
teen other men, who have been entered
In all the open handicap events On the
Quaker team are Burdick and Lane in
the running high jump, the former with a
record OF six feet two inches and the
latter with mark of five feet eleven
inches, and Baker, formerly of Swarth-
more, a point winner for two years In
the intercollegiate half-mile champion-
ship and strong running mate to Paul.
Glenn Warner, coach of nationwide
fame, has entei ed in the Federal games
seven doughty Indian athletes from the
Carlisle School, four of whom will run on
one-mlle relay team. Leading the file of
redskins Will be Louis TeWanina member
of the marathon squad of the American
olympic team last year, and with q rec
ord well inside of ten minutes for the
two-mile run in which he Will compete
next Saturday night. With him in the
same event will be Fred Papparau, whose
nsures Tor the distance are but trif1e
slower. In the 50-yard novice, JO-yard
handicap and sSO-yard novice Warner has
entered Phillip Morris. Mosea Friday and
Richard Hillman. with Fred Schenandore
in the O-yard handicap, JO-yard hurdles
and 16-pound shot put, and Joseph Two
hearts in the 50-yard, 6OO-yard and 900
yard run handicaps. The relay team will
be picked from among all these men ex-
cept Tewanina. The Indians will arrive
early in the day and make their headquar-
ters at the Riggs House.
Richmond College, George Washington
University, st. Johns College of Annapo-
lis and the Maryland Agricultural College
are other collegiate institutions repre-
of clubs are the Washington and Balti-
more Y. NJ. c. AS, Washington Grove
Athletic Association, District National
Guard, Mercury, fremont, Advent. Ken
dali. Potomac, Riverdale and Rayliew
athletic clubs in the District. Maryland
Athletic. Cross Country, Mccullough.
Shawnee and Johns Hopkins athletic
clubs and the Fifth Regiment of Balti-
more. Every high and prep school in the
District except one is entered in the
eastern interscholastc championship
| events to be held in the afternoon, and
among the out-of-town schools are Mer-
cersburg Academy, Baltimore City Col
lege, Episcopal High, Tome Institute,
Woodbury. Forest School and Boys Latin
School of Baltimore. The relay race be-
| tween Mercersburg and Episcopal High
will be one of the big features of the
evening program. There will also be
seven or eight scholastic relays on the
afternoon program. The school winning
the greatest number of points in the in
dividual events will be awarded the Gus
tody of the Franklin trophy cup victory
for three years being necessary for the
permanent possession of the trophy.
Twenty-Five relay teams from the grade
| schools of the District have been classed
in races, and most of these boys are also
entered in five individual events In which
the points scored will count for posses
sion of the StinemetZ memorial trophy.
The program of scholastic events in the
Federal games is scheduled to start ct o:3l
o'clock. and the open handicap, college and
invitation events In the evening will begin
at o'clock. According to the schedule
arranged by the management the after
noon program will be completed at j
O'Clock. with the final event Of the even
ing finished at 1915 o'clock.