El Paso daily herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1881-1901, 1900-03-14
INTERNATIONAL
CONTESTS
In Athletics To Be Held In
Buffalo During The
EXPOSITION NEXT YEAR

EXPOSITION NEXT YEAR
Preparations Being Made On Grand
Scale For Contests For Sporting
Championships OF All Kinds In
Wiling Professionals And ANA
teurs From All Over the Globe.
Special Correspondence of the HERALD.
BUFFALO, N. Y, March 9.-One OF
the important features of the Pan
American Exposition, to be held at
Buffalo during the summer of 1901,
race course, which, though not as
spacious, will compare in a general
way with the great Coils cum of Rome.
The drawings for this structure show
that the enclosure will not only be
enormous in size, but it will slsO be
INTELLECTUALLY imposing. At the
entrance there will be an ornamental
building over 300 feet in length, sur
mounted by two towers OF imposing
height and the entrance opening out
on the arena will be over so feet in
width. When this entrance is passed
The grandeur of the building will be
manifest, for the oval in the center
will be skirted by a quarter mile track
and beyond that tiers of seats capable
of sccom mod ating %, 000people willrise.
Ii was decided some time ago that
great psgeants and reviews could be
held in this enclosure, and when the
suggestion was made that the world g
greatest athletes and sportsmen be
brought together in grand sport car
niyal, the suggestion was seized upon
and voted good.
Recent developments in cycling cir
Giles make possible the holding of the
worlds championship in that branch
of sport, for chairman A. G. Batchelder
of the National Cycle Association is
greatly in favor of bringing the meet
congress of the International Cyclists
association held at Paris on February
26th, il was decided to retire the l.. A.
w. from the association and to admit
the n. Q. A. in its stead.
This saction will insure the Rtten-
dance of the crack racing men of Anne
rios, France, England, Belgium, Hol-
land and Italy, if the proper steps are
taken 20 secure them for 1901; the fast
men OF this country now making ready
10 start for France to ride the worlds
championships of 1900 at the Paris
Fair.
= MIR. Batchelder has communicated
with officials OF Pau American Expo
sition regarding the matter. saying
that he or mis- representative would
sail for France in April and that the
exposition could be thus represented if
desired.
There is also possibility that the
trap shooting champions Gip5 may be
settled at the exposition, Harry
D. KirkOver, the famous wing shot of
Firedonia is on record as saying that
the grand American handicap can be
secured for Buffalo for the coming
year, and that the Duponta or some
other leading esta blishment could be
the worlds championships over the
traps.
a number of sporting editors of
the United States and Canada, have
given opinions regarding the proposed
carnival and those will be found of
particular interest to men interested
In she various branches of sport treat
ed upon.
W. Horace Lerch, of the Buffalo Ex-
press, wrote in part as follows:
ST would suggest that the Amateur
Athletic union be appealed to fori as
sissnce in formulating program, which
in my opinion, should be made to in
clnde the chief national sport of all the
countries interested and participating
in the exposition; care being taken to
keep the program as simple as possible,
and not TO burden the card with too
much of a good thing.
sit also seems desirable that Buffalo,
the home OF the bicycle, should make
every effort to secure for her exposition
the worlds cham pfonsbip Cycle races,
which will in 1900 be held at Paris.
This will be the more easily arranged,
/ believe, as the National Cycling as
sooia ton and the League of American
Wheelmen, which have been fighting
for the control of the sport OF America,
are due TO settle their differences this
winter.
IF the Paris exposition sees fit to
take hold of q championship boxing
match, and makes a success of 1t, that
also is departure which the commit
zoe on sports at the Buffalo exposition
might do well to take"
THE idea is a grand one,'' wrote
Sam Assur of the Cincinnati CONNER
eial Tribune, land in my belief
great opportunity to decide champion
field sports. II the crack athletes of
she old world can be induced to come
10 this country to compete with Amer
lean athl IT is would prove maguet
OF great attraction. Worlds cham
pionships at running (all distances),
jumping, walking, shot-putting, ham,
NOR throwing, hurdling and In fact all
conceivable field sports could be de-
cided. Naturally professional and
amateur athletes would have to be
separated in the games, and this could
easily be done oy those On the sport
committee applying to the Amateur
Athletic Union, which by the way,
should be asked to cooperate with the
committee. Officials of this organizs-
ton, if Interested, would be able to
-,ander valuable assistance and do much