The Washington herald. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1906-1939, 1910-02-19
ANNUAL MEET TO-DAY
Federal Games to Be Held in
Convention Hall.
CREAM OF TALENT ENTERED
More Than 600 Sprinters, Runners.
HnrdIers, and Jumpers ia Compete
for Handsome Prises-PauIl VIII
Try 10 Make a New Worlds Rec
ord in the One-miIe Run.

With GA athletes. representing ninety
schools, colleges. and clubs Of FIVE States
and the District, the seventh renewal of
The Federal indoor games win be held In
Convention Hail this afternoon and to-
might.
Mors than 800 Of the best schoolboy
athletes in this section OF the country will
he IN competition in the afternoon IN
ltwenty-nine everts for the Eastern Inter
scholastic championships and the Frank
lin Trophy Cup. and the grade school
championship of the District, with the
Stinemetz Memorial Cup as the winners
trophy. Beginning at o'clock in the
evening the star runners. Jumpers, and
weight men of the University Of Pennsyl-
wanna, Virginia. the Carlisle Indians
Johns Hopkins. Wesleyan, and half
dozen other colleges, with the best men
i'm the clubs and Y. NJ. c. AS Of Phiia-
ldeIphia, Baltimore. Richmond. and the
District win be in hard. close competition
in thirty-three events. There will be
twenty-three relay races on the pro
gramme. ten of them among schOolboy
teams in the afternoon.
PnuI1 10 Try Tor hecoFNs
The feature event Of the games viii be
a special one-mile run handicap, in which
". c. PAUL, OF Pennsylvania. intercol-
aegiate champion and record holder and
fastest American-born distance runner,
will make an attempt 20 create a new
indoor record for the distance. With a
record OF 4171-5 for the one mile. S:Zi
Tor two miles, and 80 for the half mile.
PAUL is the fastest living amateur az any
one Of these distances. Just now ne IS IN
ltiptop condition, and with half dozen
of the fastest milers in washington. Bal
Simore. end Philadelphia, strung along
IRON 50 to 40 yards, the champion win
gbe pulled along at a merry clip all the
way
There will be host Of rafting races
on both the afternoon and evening pro-
grammes. including three for midgets'
seven for grade school teams. ten for
0unior and second teams, and the big
races between the Carlisle Indians and
wesleyan University, the Baltimore and
washington Y. NJ. c. AS. and the Nc
Cullogh Athletic Club, Maryland Agricul-
4ural College, Richmond College. and st.
Johns College, Mercersberg and the
Episcopal High School. and Washington
Grove and the st. PauTs Athletic Asso-
citation, with a dozen other mighty closely
matched club teams.
south Atlantic Championship.
Among the thirty-two individual events
there viii be two for the championship
of the South Atlantic Association. the
E4O-yaTd run, and 1s-pound sh0tput-
All preparations at Convention Hall VIII
be completed before noon tp-dayS Special
attention has been given TO the condition
of the track for both the spirits and the
course for the relay races and middle and
Jong distance runs. and every possible in
,centive viii be given for setting up cred
stable marks. The doors OF the hall for
the afternoon events will DO opened at
! 30 O. clock, with the first event starting
gust an hour later; In the evening the
hall will be open at O'Clock, with the
d1rst call for the first event at 7:4o o'clock.