The times., 1901-06-09
ATHLETICS IN GENERAL
Buffalo VIII Be the Scene of Many
Competitions.

From now on the Buffalo Exposition
and especially the Stadium. yiI have the
centre Of the stage in ali Itros Of amateur
sport from the junior contests FOR the
champsionship of the Amateur Athletic
Union. which viii be held next Thursday,
to the football same To be played about
October . by Wesleyan and Brown Uni
Versities.
Next Friday the national handicap
games OF the Amateur Athletic Union wili
be held. and June 10 the senior national
CHAMPIONSHIPS OF the Amateur Athletic
Union and this will be one of the
greatest meets of the whole season.
1t will have in it, besides the cracks
of last Tuesday intercollegiate meet,
all the stars from the big and little clubs,
and from associations and schools.
James E. Sullivan. Athletic Manager Of
the Pan-American Exposition, returned
on Thursday from Buffalo. where he at
tended a meeting of the sports commit
tee. II was decided to hold the entries
for the Amateur Athletic Union, senior,
junior, and national handicap meetings
open until last night. William H RoD-
ertson. the expert track builder has fin
ished his work on the track The track
is a quarter-mile cinder and without
doubt the best track ever seen in this
country. It is twenty-five feet wide with
corners nicely graded, and no doubt fast
time and records will be made during the
season. There's only one disadvantage
there is no 220-yard straightaway. Rob
ertson built a special 120-yard patch with
in the infield where the sprints Will be
held.
The ease with which Arthur Duffy, of
GEORGETOWN University, the champion
sprinter of the world, won the lO9-yard
dash at Buffalo last Tuesday, leads one
to believe that he is unbeatable lie VIII
be among the starters in several events
next week and no doubt he Will hold MS
own Holland is another Georgetown boy
who distinguished himself at the Stadluih
by finishing a close second in the quarter
mile. He. too, will try for honors next
week.
Other crack. college performers who will
compete with club athletes are: Rust
Clarke. Swain. and Lightner. Of Har-
ward: Clapp and Dupee, Of Yale; Sears
Callinger, and Gallagher, of Cornell;
Hare. Bushnell, and Dakin, of Pennsyl-
vauia: Brown, Rutgers, and Amherst
have made individual entries
The. regular outing and athletic contests
Of the shawnee Club viii be held at Don
nelIy-s Grove, College Point, on Saturday,
June Is. Many entries from crack ath-
letes have already been received. The
following events will be decided: 100
yard dash. 22O-yard dash; quarter-miie
run. one-mile run; obstacle race, and
ouarter-mile swimming race The FOL
lowing well-known citizens have acceptea
Invitations to act as officials: RollIn NJ
Morgan John L. Carol, Lawrence DEL
lnour Thomas Dunn, and others The
kames Will begin promptly at 2;5O p. m.
RULE To DISQUALIFY.
The Middle Atlantic Athletic Associa-
tion is composed of clubs which with
drew from the Amateur Athletic Union
and consists mostly of Baltimore organi-
cations. and which since their withdrawal
have been designated as Insurgents
This association VIII hold its annual open
games next Saturday at Baltimore and
numerous entries have been received
from nearby cities and the affair prom
ises to be a big one in every way. The
entries come from clubs in and out of the
association and a bombshel has Deeh
thrown in their midst in the shape SI an
announcement that President Hopfinson'
of the Atlantic division. A A u; hds re-
ceived a letter from Secretary Sullivan,
of the A A L, in which he states that
an athletes competing in the NJ. A A a
games Baltimore. June Is viii be dls-
qualified by the a. A. T. ana It's aliled
The pennsylvania University's new plan
10 have a system of graduate coacntS
next fall is well under way. The board OF
directors Of the Athletic Association have
submitted a list TO the football commit
Tee consisting of twelve names. from
which thu committee VIII select eight, the
number decided upon for the board OF
coaches. The names on the hst suDLhlt-
ted are as follows: I. T. Hare and yoRn
Gardiner. 1900; Edgar Church, l6S-, II =
Thayer. 1891; Louis De Pui VAN, l95'
Charles II. Schon, 1893; Mitchell Rosen-
gartcn. 1894: Charles NJ wharton, le92'
Samuel 4 Boyle. 1895. Samuel Goodman
jr lsgS. j. 3. CarnetJ ls9s, and n / L Oh
BY this time the University Of Pennsyl-
vania eight-oared crew, which VIII row at
Henley. is well under way steering for the
other side Of the big pond The crew took
its final spin Friday rowing against the
freshmen and won easily by four or i've
lengths. The first mile and half was
rowed in minutes Y seconds.
Immediately after the practice the crew
finished its preparations for the tTlp ana
packed up the POughkeepsie as wen as the
new shell America At the last moment
Coach Ward decided TO take along the
frst-named the old boat, which may be
used after all. for the men have done
some splendid work in the craft
BICYCLE CIRCUIT TEAMS.
Riders for the teams Of the American
Bicycle Company have received the wheels
which they selected TO ride this season.
Racing suits, too. have been given the
riders who in future should present
neat appearance at race meets
The following are the teams who Will
follow the entire grand circuit OF the Ma
tional Cycle Association: Columbia
team. Jimmy Michael and two foreigners,
TO be selected: Cleveland team, John Nell
son, Al NewhOuse. and LUcicn Gre
griot: Stearns and Crescent team, Bobby
Wa.thour John 7. Fisher. and George
1eauoer; Monarch and Barnes team,
Tom Cooper, Hardy Downing, and Ed
sIoard TaylOre; Rambler team. II. B Froe-
man, George Collett. and J. =. Jacobson,
Tribune and Featherstone team. Floyd
Mcfarland, owen S. Kimble, and Lester
Wilson.
Floyd Mcfarland. the California cyclist
and the most versatile rider in the game.
has issued a challenge to contest with
any man in tho world for race behind
motor cycles. The elongated Westerner's
challenge, unlike most offers TO race con-
fains a further clause that he is ready
90 wager $l,VJ on the result OF his ef-
fores.
Ten to twenty-five miles would suit him
best and he hopes for Linton. Nelson.
WalthOur or Stinson TO accept. p. T. Pow
ers is ready 10 offer purse for such d
race to take place on the new track in
Madison Square Garden. Mcfarland has
two very fast pacing tandems which he
bought while in Europe last summer.
A we'll known bicycle rider was lament
ing the small number Of good pacemaiI-
ers that are on the track this year
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