Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1926-03-15


The competition has been divided
| into classes. so that no one will hold
an underweieht nr size advantage.
! Certainly every boy in the club has a
! chance TO place in one of the events.
/ Pick ont the particular event at which
/ YOU are most adept. enter the meet
! aud start getting into condition to do
/ your best Even if YOU don't Win lou
will he great deal better off for hav-
ing tried.
/ Later on most of the younger boys
/ in the club are going to report for
some athletic team or another. Those
who compete in this meet will have
the advantage of having been in com
petition. The more times YOU are
actually under fire the better you'll he
able to handle yourself. So even if
you think YOU haven't chance to get
one Of the medals You are hardly a
! judge of your own ability. You may
be the making of fine athlete. The
competition won't he too keen. The
strain will not he hard-nothinc more
than the average boy goes through
every day he plays.
There will be lots of track advice in
the column from now on. Read il
every day. Many of the older athletes
are reading it. knowing we'll the ar
ticles are written by masters in their
line.
Some Of the members may he inter.
osted in this extract of letter from
one of their "hrothers':
Some other boys and were play
Ing ball on a lot. when man came
along and asked to play. We said
Sure. He asked me about some
players Of the Boston National League
team. ! knew some of them. Then
he asked me about Gautreau told
/ him all I knew. and then we found
out that we had been playing with
Walter Doc Gautreau, second base
man for the Braves. We were so
surprised that we could hardly speak
Yesterday / received a bat from him.
sent from the training camp at st.
! Petersburg, Fla.
Yours for better base hall.
''t:NERETT BF,RAN. --
"1305 Girard street
The PenrOse Juniors Of Arlington
! have orga niZed for the coming year.
| They have elected Joe Heishman man
aCer, George NcQuinn captain and
Nelson Head business manager.
Following is list of new appli,
cants for membership, Clyde H.
Shiiver. 1903 Fourteenth street
| Charles Mahaney,, 667 Morton street:
Horace Luckett. 1919 Rhode Island
avenue; Harry Goldhlatt. 212S q
street: Leonard Shaw. Landover. Md:
! Gordon Trathen. I.andovor. Md;
Charles \. Rowland. Lanham. Md.
Aeneas Collins. 1701 r street Law
renee V. Lutes. 915 Thayer avenue.
Silver Spring, Md; francis Tracy
1912 Fessenden street; Harry Tate.
q Sixteenth street northea st; Gilbert
Smith. 10 Jefferson avenue, Takoma
Park. Md: Alfred kirshba1m, 2719
Fourteenth street.
Richard Nelson. 222 Upshur street:
Eugene Jaeger. 217 Fifth street north
east; Paul James Clarke. 3025 Dunn
barton avenue; Mason G. Lipscomb,
| ir., 223 A street northeast; Francis
w. Fera. 1912 Girard street. Osborne
COchrane, 121 Tennessee avenue
northeast; Francis r. Martin, Gas F
! street northeast.
Frederick Hanold. go Y street
| northeast; Richard J. Boyland. 1906
| Crittenden street; Ernest Fountain.
| l4l1 Belmont street; John May. 1O1
| Fourteenth street northeast: Jere
| Mackessey, ITO U street northeast;
Richard McAuliff. I'LL Lamont street.
Barron Batchelder. 1908 Crittenden
street Samuel Shulman. 1910 New
| Hampshire avenue; John Hunks
| Pierce, 1918 Holley terrace; De Voc
Meade, Berwyn. Nd; Benson Taylor.
! 612 Raleigh place southeast; Charles
/ Nodligar. 607 Raleigh place south
east; Daniels Roberts, 1929 Green
| street southeast.