The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1909-11-04

VANCOUVER, B. c. Nov. "A bat
tie between giants with the worlds
athletic championship at stake, Mar
tin J. Sheridan, the defender and John
H. ellis, the six-foot four Vancouver
policeman, as challenger, is the scheme
that local lovers of the discus and ham,
mer have planned as the feature event
of an athletic meet to be held here in
August of next year. If the plans ma
terialize which the Vancouver enthu-
siasts have taken up, the meet will be
the biggest of the kind ever held on
the Pacific coast.
1t is proposed to have an all-Cana-
dian athletic meet take place in this
city in conjunction with the cOnven-
ton of police chiefs, when such men
as Sheridan and Jack ellis will COM
pete in the all-around events, and
John J. Flanagan and Duncan Gillis
crack erjack at the weight throwing
meet in their respective classes. Eff
forts are also to be made to get all
the other Canadian and American ath-
letic stars to take part. In view of the
record breaking trip east of the ellis
boys this summer, when they took the
measure of all the best Canadian men.
a meet such as is planned would, no
no doubt attract attention. Nearly
every other kind of sport which has
been attempted in Vancouver has been
carried to success and it is felt here
operate this scheme can be made to go,
too With the array of talent that can
be gathered in this city alone there is
sure to be great deal of interest ere
ated. The day has passed when Van
cOuver could not scrape up enough
athletes to make a meet of this kind
a success 1t has 10000 sport-loving
citizens
1t is proposed to issue invitations to
the leading amateur athletic associa-
tions of America to send representa-
tives, and the invitations will be made
urgent enough so that there would be
small doubt of ready acceptance.
Can ellis Best Sheridan.
That Jack ellis, the local copper"
could lower the coors CT the great
Sheridan is a belief daily gaining
ground among the sports who have
watched the records of the lengthy
policeman The comparative table
herewith presented, showing the best
performances of the two men, will fur
Their tend to justify the opinions of the
supporters of ellis, and on paper, at
least. demonstrates that he is we'll
worthy of chance to go up against
the worlds champion.
The marks as given here, that Sheri-
dan made. were all made in one after
noon. on that memorable day when he
totaled the splendid score of 1885
points out of a possible 1000. ellis,
records, on the other hand, were made
on different occasions, and in that the
same time it must be borne in mind
that while making these marks he was
also contesting in the regular list OF
events In Canada it is not customary
as across the line for the scoring to be
done by giving the competitor certain
number of marks out of a hundred for
each performance. no matter how II
stands with the records of the Other
contestants In this side of the line
only the first three men in each event
get any recognition when the cham
pionship is being decided.
ellis has never attempted the Amer
lean method of scoring, but as he mas
competed in the ordinary way in eight
or nine events in an afternoon, the
comparison is, on the whole, reason
ably fair one. The tables shown here
demonstrate that the Vancouver man |
does not suffer at all by the comparl-
son and ought to have good chance OF |
holding his own if the two great attn |
letes ever come together.
ellis Record Picked.
In eight out of the nine events ne |
has the world champion beaten, and
with proper and consistent training 1t
is reasonable to suppose that he can