Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-08-19
ATHLETES TO MEET
ON NEW YORK TRACKS
Participants in the Olympic
Games Training for the
Big Events.

NEW YORK, August 1S-The athletic
fever in this region is now at its height
owing to the approach Of the contests for
| the national senior and junior champion
ships Every athletic club in or about the
greater city Is strainng all its energies and
training all its crack men or promising
youngsters to bring out what Is best in
them with the hope Of carrying away some
Of the honors.
At all the tracks the athletes are training
night and day. Most of them are entered
in the big sets of games that are to be held
before the championships because at these
contests they will get a line on their ad-
versaries.
The first of these meets of Importance is
the big athletic carnival today of the list
Regiment Of Irish Volunteers at Celtic Park.
Olympic Men Training.
Many Of the men who won laurels at the
Olympic in Greece are now training liter
ally in grease under the sun for the big
events. Martin Sheridan, the wonder dis
Gus thrower, will throw the iron against all
corners in a handicap. Harvey Cohn Of
the Irish Athletic Club will compete in the
one-mile run.
John Flanagan will be in the sixteen
pound hammer throw, along with Gillies
and Horr the giant from Syracuse, who
expects to show that all the hammer throw
ers are not trained on the New York police
force.
Joyce and Daily, the two fleet-footed Irish
men, and Nelson, the English. runner, will
be entered in the three-mile run, with In
teresting results, and Kelly, the western
100-yard dash and jumping wonder. will try
to shatter Arthur Duffey's record in the
sprint. There will also be 6OO-yard run
in the open events.
The Irish Volunteers alone will compete
in the closed events. The most picturesque
and thrilling feature will be the medal Of
honor race. Competitors will enact the
warlike horror Of carrying wounded COM
rades from a battle field under fire while
cealed marksmen. Their comrades rush
out to bear the wounded men inside the fir
ing line. Each Of the ten shoulders one
Of the wounded, and then follows a race
amid the din of ringing rifles.
Police Athletes.
The first field day and athletic carnival
Of the newly-formed Police Athletic Asso-
citation will be held at American League
Park Saturday, October 8. A committee has
been selected to arrange the details for
the sports. The meeting of the members
Of the association held recently at police
headquarters was presided over by Inspec-
tor w. Mclaughlin and was attended by
many Of the athletes IN the department.
To facilitate the arrangement of a pro-
gram Of events and perfection of prelmi-
nary plans, a committee of nine was select
ed and will hold meeting shortly to pre-
pare a report. On the suggestion Of Police
Commissioner Bingham, special event will
be included for members OF the department
in heavy marching order. Another feature
will be an intercity relay race between rep
resentatives of the New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Washington and Boston police
departments. It is probable that two events
on the program will also be open to police
athletes from these cities, while the usual
civil service relay race between the MEM
bers Of the police and fire departments,
will be included in the program.