Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-09-05
Athletic News and Notes.

Another meet and marathon for the
South Atlantic division. The Virginia
State Fair Association has decided to hold
an athletic meet Saturday, October 8,
the last day of the fair. in which will be
included tWenty-siX-mile marathon. 1t
is intended to make this meet the greatest
ever held in the south and every college.
school, club and association in the state
of Virginia and adjacent territory Is in
vited TO send teams to compete. This will
be under A. A. L. sanction.
The events will be divided into three
classes: intercollegiate, interscholastic
and open. Four prizes. consisting of gold.
silver and bronze medals from special
die will be awarded in each event. 4
| silver loving cup will also be awarded to
the team winning the highest number of
points in each of the three classes of
events, and other prizes may be arranged
| later.
| The program will be made up of all the
regular events and any others that may
be suggested by the teams participating.
provided a sufficient number of entries
| can be secured. Entry blanks and any
other Information may be obtained from
| the athletic department, Virginia state
l fair, Richmond, Va.
There will probably be more meets and
| marathons pulled off tomorrow all over
/ the country than on any other day of
/ the year. In New York alone there will
4 be several, the most important of which
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of the IrishAmerican A. c., at Celtic
Park.
| That's a classy bunch of entries for the
Grove games and should furnish some
good sport. The two-mle race should be
corker when Bobby Fleming and FL
phinstOne get together
1t will be east against the west in the
| half. Johnnie Jones is the Yale star,
who qualified in the intercollegiate. while
Leger, from Michigan, also qualified in
the same meet.
! Bob White, former District title holder
Tin the high jump, is with the District
Guardsmen, on their rife team at Seagirt,
SO will not be in tomorrow's games.
Manager Smith of the Riverdale Athle-
| tic Club claims he has a star in young
| Knight, who is entered in the two-mile
run tomorrow. 1t is said he has nego-
tiated this distance in 30. He will bear
watching
Why is it that Washington beats Balti-
more in everything but athletics? In the
Maryland Athletic Club. the Mount Wash
ington and the Baltimore Athletic clubs.
Baltimore has three of the most fully
equipped in the east How many of this
sort has Washington? Annually the city
pulls off the municipal games, open only
to Baltimore athletes, at which gold med
ais are given and record breaking entry
list is received. They will be held on the
ington pick up and attempt something
like this? Think it over.
Jess Mckeever is back in harness again
and will represent the Washington Grove
Association in future meets.
The Y. NJ. c. \. will not enter its dis
tanca men in the Grove games tomorrow.
as it will save them for the ten-mile
marathon which will be pulled off az )
O'Clock. Stecher is out to win, and on
past performances should do so.
American Athletic Union business is
fouriShing these days. Nineteen regis
trations were received in one day last
week That comes pretty near the record.
Manager Fortune of the Hibernian
games reports that entries are already
pouring in for his games on the I'D and
23d.
Louis Connors, the Wesleyan crack, is
in good shape now and will start in both
mile and tNo-mile in tomorroWs games.
He should make them all hustle TO beat
him.
1t is not generally known, but for two
years Roy Lester, who will appear in the
Grove games tomorrow, was the cham
pion high jumper of South America.