Los Angeles herald., 1907-12-01
GOOD CHANCE
TO WIN GAMES
AMERICANS HAVE MATERIAL TIC
TAKE oLYMPlcs
New York Club Shows Long List Of
Champions Who Will Go
to England for
Games

Barring unforeseen accidents. America
will furnish the victorious athletic team
at the next Olympic games, which will be
held in London next August. With the ac-
uuisition of several worlds record holders
to its list and noticeable Improvement
in all those who competed at Athens last
year, the Yankee tam is almost certain
10 roll up an unprecedented number of
POINTS.
The athletes who will leave these shores
for this meet will. be the greatest in quail
isy and quantity that have ever competed
in an athletic meet r the history of sport
Nc other country on the face of the earth
compares with them. In every branch of
sport-fron1 the dashes to the twenty-five
nile Marathon race and from swimming
to weight throwing-tne sturdy men of
this country collectively outclass those of
any other nation.
Nearly two hundred Of them will make
the trip and of this number there is
scarcely q man who has not shown cham
p;onship 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.
Many Champion Athletes
And of all the athletic clubs from all
PARTS of the world, no Cub will be more
literally represented than the Irish-Ameri-
can A. c. of New ork. So many cham
rions 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 task
OF such proportions that even the experts
trainers and coaches emp.oyed by the cluD
will not attempt to do 1t, and, rather than
take chance CT losing point fifty
wearers of the winged fist will be sent
abroad to strive for national club and in
dividual honors.
This aggre CATION will be the largest
number of athletes ever sent to a cham
pionship meet by any one club in the
history of athletics. Among those who
will don the co.ors of the Irish Americans
are men who are conceded to be worlds
champions and others who stand out as
the equals of many others
Although the New York Athletic club
will not send as many entries as its rival.
the caliber of the men who will. represent
1t will be nearly as high. Among its en-
tries, as with those of the Arish- American
A c., it has severa. worlds champions
Other New York clubs including the Pas
time A. c., the Mohawk A. c.. the zsvie-
A G. and the Mott Haven A c., will in
crease the number from the city to more
than hundred.
Men from All Sections
And while this number will represent
Gotham. nearly as many more from other
parts of the country will wear the starred
and striped shield. No section OF the
country will be without representative.
The north the south. the east and the
west. all bound together by patriotic in
spiration, will. strive nightly together to
defeat the Other nations of the world.
Even at this early date many events are
conceded to Americans. And with such
invincible men as -Iartin Sheridan, Ralph
Rose. Matt McGrath. John DAILY, Melvin
Sheppard George Bonhag. Paul Pilgrim,
Raw Ewry, Hahn Kelly, Eaton, Hilman.
Smithson, Huff Ellers, Shehan, BeIars'
C'Connell Parsons, Daniels Coe, Prin-
stein and Flanagan representing us there
is every reason that the foreign nations
should fear the results.
Sheridan, besides being the greatest dis
Gus thrower is probably the greatest al
around athlete in the world. and for this
emblem he Is looked upon as a sure win
ner. he can throw all the weights, jump.
vault and run better than any other man
in this country; and no one here knows
Of anyone in any other land who is his
equal. Matt McGrath. the worlds record
holder FOR throwing the naHIner, Il coh-
ceded the greatest in 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 nations.
John DAILY the national champion, is
looked upon as certain winner of the
five-mile race. AS in the case of McGrath
the man he must most fear is his club
mate George Bonhag. While the latter Is
nc o0Od DAILY no has
demonstrated his prowess as a walker
and he will attempt to win the walking
events.