Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1907-08-13
ENGLISH SPRIN7ER
TO MEET AMERICAN
SULLIVAN AND DAY WILL RACE
AT SEATTLE
Men Scheduled to Run Three Races
and Their Backers Will Each
Put Up Thousand Doll
lars a Side

SEATTLE, Wash, Aug. 12.-B. R. Day.
champion Splinter of Great Britain, and
Joe Sullivan, who has not been out OF
high school very long, will meet on the
cinder path in about a month. The men
| have agreed to run three races in one
day-1OO yards, It's yards and 220 yards.
This agreement was reached in the office
of the sporting editor of the Times after
| long parley between Rufe Naylor or
Australia, manager of Day, and Mike
Butler of Chicago who is handling Sui
| Ivan.
| The Britishers wanted a race at 44O
yards, for that is Days favorite distance,
| but Sullivan is only boy and Butler did
not care to put too much upon him. But
! Ter wanted to run right away for Sulll-
van is in fine condition, but the British
| ers would not consent. They were three
weeks on the water coming over from
| Australia and Day had been out of train
| ing for week before lie boarded the ship,
so that he figures 1t will take him just
about a montu to get fit
Naylor is willing to bet the $1,000 now
in the hands o. the sporting editor of
the Times that Day wins two of the three
| races, and at thu he says he is conced-
ing Sullivan victory in the 10O-yard dash
Butler says he is prepared to bet up 10
$1,000 on young Sullivan, so .-dt when the
race is pulled off there will be tidy
stake for the runners.
Sullivan has been working out on the
track at The Meadows, and he says that
with a little rolling, the middle of the
track could be put in fine shape for
sprinting 1t is just barely possible that
the race will be pulled off there, but no
arrangements have yet been made to Sc
cure the track.
Sullivan Unknown
Nothing is known out here about Sui
Ivan. but the fact that Mike Butler is
willing to bet on him IS sufficient evil
dence that the boy has speed, for Butler
knows every sprinter in the country and
Just what he can do. The time and place
of the race will be determined upon later,
but in the meantime the two sprinters
will begin active training.
Running three races in one day is
something new for American sprlnters,
and Butler demurred at this at first, but
Naylor says that this is the way 1t is
done in Australia, and he would prefer
to have the thing over in one day rather
than string the three races over as many
days. The men will be given short rest
between the 100 and 175-yard dashes, and
a longer spell before going to he mark
for the 200 yards.
While Day does not claim to be rec
ord miller, he is willing to run any man
in the United States at that distance,
Tom Longboat or Champion Shrubb OF
England preferred. Mike Butler says
there is a Seattle boy whom he would
back against any man in the world at
the mile If he could get him to run
against a professional. He means Harry
Coe, who has made such reputation at
the University of Michigan
"If Harry Coe would tell me that ne
would run mile against any man IN the
world, amateur or professional" said But
Ter, IT would bet my clothes on him. In
my Judgment he is the best mile runner
in the world today, and he is one OF the
gamest boys that ever pulled on spiked
shoe"
AS Coe has another year in Michigan,
and as he is captain of the track team
next year, there is not much chance of
his .consenting to run against profess
sional.