Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-02-16
ATHLETES WHO WILL
REPRESENT AMERICA
Speculation Rife About the
Makeup of the Team
That Will Go to Olympic
Games.

NEW YORK. February 15.-Speculation
is rife about the probable makeup of the
team that will go to London to represent
America next July in the Olympic sports.
Picking the men on past performances Is
but guess work at this stage, and like as
not the bright particular stars OF the
American teamare away back in the shad-
CIV now. Such was the experience Of Paul
Pilgrim at the Athens meet. He went
abroad as q second-rater and came home
a o-tine worlds champion.
Now there is many a youth in the met
ropolitan district today capable of re-
peating Pilgrims feat if given only half
chance. and many now in comparative
obscurity will almost surely land the COW
eted trip. OF course, every one has heard
of Fred Bellars, for he is the cross coun-
try champion. but at that Bellars is new
force in the athletic world. The brightest
part of his career lies ahead and not
behind the Jersey youth. Bellars need
not improve a whit to make the Olympic
team. He has only to repeat the races
he ran at Celtic Park last fall, when he
beat Bonhag DAILY, Carr, Haskins, Col
Inns, Joyce = and Cohn to secure a berth
on the London team.
Frank Sheehan of Boston, who won the
junior half-mile championship at James
town last summer, is also capable of max
ing the team quite easily. Sheehan is
consistent around 1.57 and his great race
in the Juniors proved that at his best
he is very close to two seconds faster
than that. He has only to take the trOu-
BILE to train faithfully in order to be one
Of the lucky ones. Celtic Park has like
ly candidate in r. Cloughan. the Ford
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that makes up a really great sprinter. save,
possibly, little more campaigning,
Cloughan will almost surely develop into
cOrker. He looked just about right to
| do things" last summer when ptomaine
poisoning almost killed him and effective
ly stopped his athletic work for the rest
of the year
George Ford and A. T. Bailey at Trav-
ers Island also look good to the experts.
Both of these lads took 440yard honors
outdoors last summer and have been rest
ing all winter with their eyes on the Lon
don trip. Ford and Bailey both found 81
seconds easy going last summer, and will
have the advantage OF long winter S
rest which counts some in hard cam
paign. Fifty seconds should find them
close up when the Olympic trials come
off In June.
Among the junior field men. Platt
Adams Of the n. Y. A. c. looks most
promising Adams entered athletics as a
second rate discus-thrower. Last summer
E,rne Hjertberg started him at jumping.
with the result that he Is now among the
twenty three foot broad jumpers, and
holds the hop step and jump champion
ship of America. Yet, like the others,
Adams has only begun his career. He
has just found out the proper branch in
which to show his worth. and between all
the jumping events he will surely land d
place on the London team.
Princeton has d likely Olympian in
George Whiteley, the Orange and Black
star half-rniler. AS a Schoolboy in 1908
Whitley ran as fast as 1.57 2-5. and his
showing in the intercollegiate crOss-coun-
try races last fall told the story of addi-
tional strength he has gained since then.
Princeton men not only hope but expect
to see Whiteley flash the Orange and
Black across the line first in the intercol-
legiate half-mile championship next
spring.
The latest to show promise Is Thad-
deus White. the young 23d Regiment run
ner Under Hjertberg's coaching White
has jumped from the novice class to that
of the near champions in a few weeks.
and even his rivals concede that he will
be a wonder in the mile next summer. AT
Boston recently White ran rings around
the best men in New England, and men
like J. p. Sullivan and Harvey conn as
well.
Frank Riley one of the best juniors on
the Irish American string. with record
of q 81 for the mile is a likely candidate
for the team. too. Because of his size
Riley has never shown up very well in
doors but on the cinders he can run with
the best of them. He has repeatedly run
the best men in the metropolitan district
to a standstill, and it will be no surprise
TO the experts if young Riley crowds some
/ of the old timers out in the Olympic trials
next June.