The Washington times., 1913-05-20
SAY CAUSE HERE IS
GAINING STRENGTH
Local Men Favoring Establish.
ment of Separate A. A. U.
Branch Welcome Breach.
By BRYAN MORSE.

Members of the various athletic clubs
in the District who are endeavorins to
have a separate branch of the Amateur
Athletic Union established here, regard
the action of the Baltimore A. A. U.
authorities in falling to regard the
plea OF the Washington entrants in the
championships to be held at Homewood
Field to have the hammer and the
discus throw put in the list of events
as a valuable asset to their cause.
II was pointed out by Jack Stowel.
of the Washington A. A, that there
these Kersberger, the old Harvard
guard and weight mtn, had an excellent
chance to establish new South At
lantic A. A. L. records for the two
events. cut off the list. The matter
was protested, it was understood, and
Baltimore interjected that interest in
the events was too slight to warrant
their retention on the program.
Despite this, the Baltimore men re-
tained the hop, step. and jump, WASH
ington men claiming that this event was
not attractive to them, and that all OF
the entries would be from Baltimore.
Washington has decided to withdraw
practically all of its entries. according
to Stowell.
AS several OF the Washington A. A.
athletes are registered with George
town, and now that the track season ID
closed at the university, decided to
return to the Washington A. A., and az
the A. A. U. has not yet seen fit to re-
instate them with their club, 1t has
been practically decided to withdraw all
Washington A. A. entries. oeVerai
others, too are out or suspension.
The failure to act in granting the sew
eral requests of the Washington club
appears to have lined up the strongest
A. A. L. factor in the city against the
parent body. Those asking for a sep
arate District of Columbia A. A. U.
are more than tickled at the apparent
breach now widening, and, apparently.
giving added strength to the Distric'
cause.
contingent is all too powerful for the
Washington interests. and at this time,
those in favor of the separate brapch
of the A. A. y. are expecting 10 n.,Rn maHe
or failure to act of the Baltimore con-
tingent.
In a letter to Jack Stowell. DR.: Bur-
dick. Of the A. A. u, in Baltimore,
says that there are too few entries IN
the hammer and discuss to warrant the
expense of medals. In view OF the
fact that II Is impossible to determine
the entries until the blanks are In, the
action Of the Baltimore men is causing
the Washington contingent to wonder
how the conclusion was arrived al.
In spite of this the retention OF the
hop. step and jump is the event which
nettles the Washington men not little
Just what action will be taken In the
matter is speculated by the washington
men. It is expected that save Tor an
Individual entry or two washington Will
be without representation in the meet
to be held Saturday.
The annual field and track games of
the washington high schools. postponed
from last Saturday, will be held AT
Cathedral School. providing rain does
not again interfere with the plans.
satteriee Field has been offered by the
Cathedral School and the boys VIII De
housed In tents during the progress OF
the meet in order to dress.
Conditions appear to be ideal, ana
the washington school boys are pleased
over the prospects of the better track
and satisfactory conditions. Cathedrai
School will be sent a vote Of thanks by
the faculty advisors.
On Thursday at Georgetown Field the
Eastern Western baseball game will be
played. Eastern has won three games
while Western with loss to Business.
is more than anxious to take fall out
OF Coach Hatch's team.
Brewer will pitch for the Western
team. while "Bif'' johnson, Eastern's
veteran, will serve them over for the
Capitol Hill school. In the event that
Eastern is defeated Western will stand
tied for the honor. with Business having
a look-in provided Central is defeated
in the last scheduled game OF the series.
should a tie result, the three teams
viii piay of for the title, and IL Is ex-
pected that the games will be resumed
been set for the Central-Business game.