New Britain herald., 1917-01-15
FINE LIST CARDED FOR NAVAL GAMES
Capital City Indoor Classic
 Should 0utd0 Past Years

At a regular meeting of the Second Division Naval Militia held last week it was voted to hold their sixteenth annual athletic meet and inter col legiate relay carnival at the Broad street armory on Wednesday evening, February 1. and the following com mittee were named to handle the affair with power to appoint their assistance: General chairman, En- sign Frank H. Smith; entry, Ensign M M. Higgins; tickets, Quartermas- ter R. c. Palmer; printing, D. G. Chaffee; music and seating. Frank Garrity; publicity. John A. DeRidder. The committee does not hesitate to state that the coming meet will be the biggest and best in the history of the division. It is rather significant l that at the outset at the first meeting the rule was to secure the best that could be obtained.
 The Events.
 !, Chairman Higgins of the entry 1 committee stated the list of events will be as follows subject to slight change:
 75-yard dash. public schools; 75 yard dash, interscholastic: 75-yard dash, military: 75-yard dash, inter- collegiate; one-mile run, intercol- legiate: 1,000-yard run, military; 1 3OO-yard run, interscholastic; 75 yard hurdles, intercollegiates; tug of 1 war. military; obstacle race. open; 30O-yard run, intercollegiate; 1000 yard run, intercollegiate; wall scaling. open to the world; 1,000-yard run, interscholastic.
 Besides the above events their will l ho hriv syjp together some of the best colleges in the East, also a special relay for the Commercial Athletic league, the All Insurance relay. the Military relay. the Grammar school relay and tho h. ter City relay.
 The Colleges.
 A special feature of this years meet will be the large number of high class college athletes and the committee has secured the entry or the following colleges who will not only send their relay teams but the public will sec the best men con- nected with the college in the dashes, the hurdles or the distance runs. Those coming at this early date are as follows: Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, Williams, Amherst, New York university. Bowdoin Trinity and Yale with the biggest entry list ever made in a naval meet. Those to be heard from are such college teams as Wes- leyan Worcester Tech. M. ]. IT,, Rut- gers, Holy Cross, Catholic University of Washington. Mass. Aggies, Penn sylvania, and Boston college. When speaking of the entry list to the A. A. U officials in New York recently one of them stated that their are very few meets held indoorf fhave the chance to get so many of the col lege cracks together under one roo1.
 The High and Prep Schools. In the High and Prep school events the committee have decided to divide the events into two classes. In the High school events such we'll known school teams as Springfield, Holyoke, Pittstield, New Haven and Hartford High. In the Prep school events Will liston, Suffield and the Loomis h. stitute will clash for the honors. 1 The Military Events.
 The military events will include the wall scaling events as usual only that the event is open to any mili- tary company under the stars and stripes and will go down as the cham pionship of the United States. Troop B, the cleanup boys in the military events last year are out to secure an- other leg on the Frank E. Burns point trophy.
 Tho Officials.
 The list of officials to handle the meet will be made up of men who know the game and it is understood that on the night of the meet F. w.. Rubian, president of the Metropoli- tan association of the A. A. U. or George P. Hathew, chairman of regis tratior will attend. Fred Lewis, a former member of the division will have charge of the track and as there are many changes in the rule regard ing an indoor track without banks the division is fortunate in having MT. Lewis in charge.