The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1907-06-02
ATHLETIC GAMES
AT EXPOSITION.
Worlds Amateur Championship
at jamestown Promise to Be
Great Success.
THE TRACK IN FINE SHAPE
THE TRACK IN FINE SHAPE
Martin Sheridan May Be Pitted
Against Kelly for All
Around Title.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.l

NORFOLK, VA, June John j.
Conlen, superintendent of the athletic
bureau at the Jamestown Exposition,
has been in New, York City for the past
two days comforting with the different
governing bodies OF the Eastern uni
versities regarding their representa-
ton in the jamestown College track
and field championships, which are to
be held at the exposition on Saturday,
June ED, and also with James Z. Sui
liyan, president of the Amateur Ath
letic Union, in reference to the ma
tional all-around championships, the
a. a. U. swimming and basketball
championships and the senior and ju-
Nor championships OF the Amateur
Athletic Union, which will be held at
the exposition on Friday and Satur-
day, September 9th and 7th.
According 70 a statement Mr.. Conlen
made to reporter this morning, the
exposition has every assurance of one
OF the most successful seasons of anna
teur sport in the history of athletic
competitions. The colleges throughout
the South will be represented at the
college championships, on June 22d, by
their entire track and field teams, and
all the Eastern universities, Including
Yale, Harvard, Princeton, Columbia
and Cornell, will enter their point win
ners at the Intercollegiate Champion
ships for the various events at the
exposition.
ireland is to have two representa-
tives in the all-around championship,
on July 4th. Martin Sheridan, the for
mer all-around champion, Is training
daily on the Pastime Athletic Clubs
grounds, and was highly pleased when
he learned that he. is to have two
worthy competitors for the champion
shin title. 1t is understood that kleiy,
who won the championship at o.
Louis in 1904, is sure to compete
arainst sheridan at the exposition on
July 4th. -
The South Atlantic Association or
tho Amateur Athletic Union hold their
track and field championships at the
exposition on Saturday. June totn.
over $50 entries have ALREADY pen Daei,
received by the Athletic Bureau from
the athletes of the South Atlantic ter
ritory for this meeting. together with
entries from every clubs relay team.
Interest In Swimming Events.
What will undoubtedly prove one Of
the best athletic competitions to be held
at the exposition will be the A. A: U.
ships, which will be decided July 25th,
26th and 9th.
Mr.. conlcn says it is the intention of
the exposition management to invite
Mnsn naa with the to entire he
swimming and water polo teams Of the
New York Athletic Club, the Chicago
Athletic Club, the Missouri Athletic
Club, the Chicago Y. NJ. c. A. team and
tho peerless Daniels entered In the
various swimming events, some new
records will very likely be hung up.
The swimming and water polo cham
pionshps are to be competed for In the
grand basin formed by the government
piers. There is depth of seventeen.
feet of water in tho basin, which is so
Yards wide and 450 yards long, This
basin will be the best body of water
in which q swimming or water polo
championship was ever decided.
The athletic running track and in
field at tho exposition, according to Mr..
Conlen, was finished nearly two weeks
ago 1t was built by sparrow" Rob-
ertson. tho man that built the tracks
at Buffalo and st, Louis, and Me-, Rob
ertson says the track at jamestown Is
the hest he has ever built.
= Taking 1t all in all, the superintend-
emit of the athletic bureau at the, OK