The star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1908-1909, 1908-09-09
EVENING STARS Sea Girt
to Newark Race Takes
Place Tomorrow.
ONLY COMPETITIVE EVENT
LIKE THIS EVER PLANNED
Jerseys .Nost Stout-Hearted
and Stlrdiast Sons Are to
Carry CDl0rs.
! SULLIVAN SAYS 1T WILL
/ MAKE ATHLETIC HISTORY
Example That Will Be EmuIafed
Throughout Country Will
Ee Set.

The greatest athletic event In New
Jersey annals starts tomorrow morn
ing. when 105 of the States greatest
athletes take part in THE EVENING
STAR relay race from Sea Girt to
Newark. The event is under the super
vision of the Amateur Athletic Union
Of the United States. James E. Sulli-
van. secretary of the A. A. u, snd
American commissioner to the Olympic
games at London. will be honorary
referee and will follow the leaders I'm !
the race in an automobile.
Surrounded by the scores of the
crack shots now contestng in the tour
nament of the New Jersey and New
York rifle association or the Sea Girt
ranges, Governor Fort will start the
first relay of seven athletes promptly
at $50 o'clock a. m. BY boarding
train n half-hour later the Governor
expects TO be in Newark in time to see
the finish OF the great race in front OF
! TaE EVENING STAR building.
He on Hand l,ariy.
The finish might be as early as z
o'clock. IL exceptionally good time ls
made. 1t will not be later than o'clock.
TO make sure of Witnessing the finish
the public should be in front of THE
EVENING STAT. building. 794 Broad
street. by 2:30 o'clock p. IN.
The prizes for which the race is being
run are ON exhibition in THE STAR
Office. The winning team will gain pos
session of ma gniticent bronze trophy,
mounted on a base of selected hard
wood This trophy may form a part
of the permanent collection of prizes
won by the individual club. Then each
of the fifteen members of the winning
team taking part in the race will be
given a gold medal. TO each member
of the second team will be given silver
medal, and to each member of every
team finishing the race will be awarded
a bronze medal
Honorary Referee Sullivan. who Is
admittedly the worlds most competent
expert on amateur athletic affairs, de-
clared today that this relay race would
be not only the greatest athletic event
the State of New Jersey had ever. but
that he had no recollection of any sim
liar event IN any state. The nearest
approach to it was the relay run from
II
the Y. NJ. c. A., but this was not a
competitive race. there being only the
one team, and the event being an ef~
fort to learn how quickly the journey
could be made by runners.
contest All the Way.
In The event tonorgow however,
there will be the keenest competition
between the heetest relay teams in the
state if not in the Union
That the seventy five mile run from
sea Girt 60 Newark is 10 be a gruelmg
one is shown by the fact that of the
500 athletes entered when the entries
closed. all but los dropped out, thus
bringing the contest down to the seven
teams deemed to be the best and NOSE
fit for the ordeal. The 105 men COM
posing the seven teams are considered
the finest athletes in the state, the
dropping out of the other entrants be-
ing deemed high compliment to the
prowess OF those remaining in the con-
test.
For weeks the public parks of New
ark and vicinity have been alive with
athletes training for the big race.
Scores and scores of finely built
youths, clad only in sweaters. muslin
trunks and light shoes. have been cir
cling the paths, even late at night, and
sometimes frightcnire timid couples. It
has taken weeks and weeks Of persist
ent hard training 20 fortlfy the wind
Of the athletes for the contest While
each relay is only i've miles. the teams
expect 70 make such high speed thsr
records viii hc smashed. and for thar
reason the training has been exceptions
ally thorough.
Runners Ina Fine Trim.
Several of the teams have been trains
ing secretly in boarded-up enclosures.
Each team. consisting of fifteen men.
has had as many more substitutes in
actual training. to make certain that
there will be no slip in the arrange-
ments. And each team has been train
ing persstently under the guidance OF
experienced coaches and conditioners.
They have been dieting just as faith
fully for weeks as do the football teams
of the large universities, so that to-
morrow when the race starts they
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