The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1907-11-10
YANKEES KINGS
IN MUSCLE WORLD
Athletes Expect to Clean Up
Everything at Olympic
Games in London.
SEVERAL RECORD HOLDERS
WELL REPRESENTED IN EVERY
BRANCH OF SPORT.
SEVERAL RECORD HOLDERS


New York. Nov. SHARING Unforeseen
accidents, America will furnish the victo-
rious athletic team at the next Olympic
games, which will be held in London next
August. With the acquisition OF several
worlds Tecord-hOlders TO its list and a
noticeable Improvement in all those who
competed at Athens last year. the Yankee
team Is almost certain to roll up an un-
precedented number of points.
The athletes who will leave these
shores for this meet viii be the greatest
in quality and quantity that have ever
competed in an athletic meet In the his
tory of sport. No other country on TIE
face of the earJn compares with theDi
In every branch of spOrt-from dashes
to the twenty-five mile Marathon race
aud from swimming TO weight-thI owing
the sturdy men of this country collective
ly outciasS those OF any other nation.
Nearly 200 of them will make the trip.
and of this number there is scarcely
man who has not shown championship
form at some meet. Nearly all the FORMER
Olympic champions will be among them
and with them will be as many more, who
during the past year have developed INTO
champions of the highest caliber.
And of all the athletic clubs from all
parts Of the world, no club Will DO more
literally represented than the Irish-Am
lean A c. of this city. So many cham
pions of various sorts compete in the col
ors of this club that the management OF
the club in order TO send its best men,
will be compelled to send more than half
its athletic members. To select the most
probable winners from this club is a task
of such proportions that even the expert
trainers and coaches employ ed by the cluh
will not attempt 70 do IL, and, rather thar
take a chancs of losing a point, fifty
wearers of the winged fist will be sent
abroad to strive for national club and IN
dividual honors.
Hammer Thowers a Clnch.
This AGGREGATION will be the largest
number of athletes ever sent to cham
pjonship meet by one club in the history
OF athletics. Among those who viii don
the colors of the Irish-Amertcans are men
who are conceded 10 be worlds cham
pions and others who stand out as the
equals Of many others.
Although the New York Athletic clue
will not send as many entries as thelr
rival the caliper of the men who will
Among its entries. as with those Of the
ish-American A. G. II has seXeri,i
worlds champions. Other New YORK
clubs including the Pastime A. g. the
Mobawk A C.. the Xavier A. c. and the
Mott Haven A. c. will increase the mum
Der from the city TO more than leo. Ana
while this number will represent Gotham
nearly as many more from other parts
striped shield. No section of the country
will be without a representative. The
north, the south. the east and the west
all bound together by patriotic inspirs-
ton, will strive nightly together TO de-
feat the other nations of the world.
Even at this early date many events
are conceded TO the Americans And with
such invincible men as Martin Sheridan,
Ralph Rose, Matt McGrath. John Daily.
Melvin Sheppard. George Bonhag, Paul
Pilgrim, Ray Ewry, Hahn, Kelly, Eaton,
Hillman, Smithson, Parsons, Daniels, Cox.
Prinstein and Flanagan representing as
there is every reason that the foreign
nations should fear the results
No Expense Spared.
Sheridan. besides being the greatest
discus thrOwer, is probably the greatest
aIl-around athlete In the world. and for
winner. He can throw all the weights.
jump. vault and run better than anv
other man in this country, and no one
here knows of anyone In any other land
who Is his equal Matt McGTath. the
worlds record holder for throwing tn
hammer, is conceded the greatest I'm this
event, and should McGrath fail through
accident. to do his best, John Flanagan
of the Irish-American club will. be on
hand to defeat the best of the other nl-
tions.
With HON Longboat. the Indian dis
lance runner, out john DAILY. the ma
tiOudi champion, is looked upon as cNf-
tain winner of the five-mle race. AS in
the case of McGrath, the man he must
most fear is his clubmate, George Boz
bag. While the latter Is not sonsidered
as good as Daily, he has demonstrated hiz
prowess as a walker, and he will attempt
to win the walking events.
At present there is no half-miler in n.
country the equal OF Melvin Sheppavd
and as America is considered to have the
best middle-distsnce runners in th
world, this Irish-American is sangUine -
victory.